January 2021 Wrap Up

Hi all!

My name is Chiara and I am a Bookworm.

I hope that your January has gone well. My January has gotten slightly better as the days have gone on. I don’t think I’ve said on the blog before, but last October I started with a very bad cough. We thought it may be Covid, so I got a test … which came back negative. The cough persisted and I was back at work and it was getting worse even to the extent that I was throwing up because I couldn’t stop coughing (this is not the way I meant to start this) but I saw my doctor and even managed to get an in-person appointment. My asthma was getting worse. I’ve been diagnosed with asthma as long as I could remember but even as a child I only had to take them when I had a cold because my version was so mild and I haven’t had inhalers in six or seven years. But I was suddenly very dependant on them and they still weren’t easing things for me and even resulted in an A&E trip for me. Roll on a few months and after many different inhalers and a few bad reactions, I think me and my Docs may have finally found a balance. It’s not perfect but I’m not dependant on my blue inhaler all day every day.

That went a little weird their but I hop I ended it on a positive. I’m still only working four days at work but we’ll see how it goes. Which is another thing. Somehow my job has become essential. I work at a fast food restaurant, something I would never think would be essential and, if I’m honest we are one of the biggest draws for people to come out of their houses. I couldn’t believe it when they said we were staying open, admittedly only for drive through and uber. I’ve had a customer tell me that my place of employment is as essential as a supermarket. Not it’s not!

But maybe I should digress and head towards the bookish part of the round up.

I didn’t mean for this post to turn into a rant … honest.

I haven’t yet set up a reading tracker for 2021 (I need to do that soon!) so we’ll have to stick the stats that I can work out for myself.

I have read a total of five books this month (three e-books, 1 audiobook and 1 paperback) to a total of 1637 pages, and I still have one more book on the go that I am hoping to finish before 31st January hits midnight. That averages (with a little bit of maths) to 327.4 pages per book, which I am incredibly happy about.

The books I read are:

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The Umbrella Academy Vol 1: The Apocalypse Suite

by Gerard Way (Writer), Gabriel Bá (Artist), Dave Stewart (Colourist)

Goodreads | Waterstones

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

Goodreads | Waterstones

The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgerthaler

Goodreads

Mr Right Across the Street by Kathryn Freeman

Goodreads | Waterstones

Villa of Sun and Secrets by Jennifer Bohnet

Goodreads | Waterstones | Review

Villa of Sun and Secrets in the first book of 2021 that I have reviewed I have spent most of January just catching up on 2020s final reads. Here is a very quick list of them…

The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

Her Turn by Allison Jones

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I’m also in the middle of one book as well, which I’m hoping to finish before Sunday evening, making it also a January read, but I’m making no promises!

A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

Goodreads | Waterstones

I’ve also bought a few books this month, and I haven’t done a catch up from all my Christmas book haul so I’m going to save them for all one post next month.

I hope you have enjoyed my round up, excuse the rant.

What have you been up to this month? Read anything I should know about?

Until next time …

HAPPY READING!