Hey all, Sam here.
I’ve been doing….okay with my monthly TBRs, reading about one third to one half of the books I put on each list. Certainly that could be better, but it also could be worse, so I guess I’ll just accept what I’ve been able to accomplish and keep hoping for improvement.
Thankfully some of the books I didn’t manage to read in January or February are either upcoming releases that are still a couple months away or they are books that I already own, so I can always just add them to an upcoming TBR and still try and get them read this year. I’m actually just barely behind or just barely on track for my reading goal for the year so far, which is making me feel terrible. I’m really missing those months and years where I would just binge my way through so many books while also having a rather productive blogging schedule and still somehow also having time to write on my own stories. I don’t know how to get myself back to a routine like that and honestly that makes me feel even worse. These past few years have just made me feel worse and worse about life and myself, and it is awful.
Sorry to dump that all on a book/geek blog post, but I have to be honest about where I am and what I’m feeling. It’s not an excuse for my regular and frequent disappearances from the blog, but it is the reality of things in my life right now, so I might as well be honest about it.
Anyway, let’s get around to talking about books. Here’s what I’m hoping to read next month.
Witch of the Shadow Wood by Tori Anne Martin (March 10), Wayward Souls by Susan J Morris (March 17), Queen of the Night Sky by Amalie Howard (March 17), and Aicha by Soraya Bouzazzaoui (March 24)
First up, I have my NetGalley hopeful reads for the month. Two of these are sequels to books I’ve read previously, so I believe you can check out my reviews for Strange Beasts by Susan J Morris and The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard at the included links. But I’m really looking forward to all four of these books, so I’m really hoping I’ll be able to read them in March.
I’m not going to make promises to get their reviews up on time for their respective releases, but I’m certainly hoping to actually start writing up and releasing reviews from my past few months of reads soon. I keep falling into these depressed burnout slumps and since those make me feel very unproductive, it leads to even more depression and burnout feelings, making it a rather unhelpful cycle.
Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers, The Wolf and the Crown of Blood by Elizabeth May, Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett, and Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz
Every single one of these four books I picked up at a recent bookstore trip, and I’m very excited to read each of them because they seem fun, cozy, or absolutely steamy. Honestly if it wasn’t for the fact that I was trying to complete more of my February TBR, I might have started reading Sir Cameron almost as soon as I purchased it.
The Faerie Morgana by Louisa Morgan, The Violet Raven by E.E. Star, The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde, and A Tempest of Ravens by E.A. Bard.
I’m trying to stay consistent with 12 books on each month’s TBR, because in the average good reading month, I know I can achieve that. That being said, these are all books I’ve owned for a little while and I’m really hoping to get around to them before the next books in their respective series are released later this year/early next year. These are all books that sounded interesting to me, and that I picked up with the desire to read them soon, and yet here we are months later and I still haven’t managed to do much of anything with them.
All right, well that is all for my list of books I’m hoping to read next month. I guess I’ll be back in a couple days with my February Wrap-Up post. After that I hope I can get some review posts up. I have a mini stay-cation coming up, so perhaps I can actually get some blog writing accomplished. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope to be back soon with more geeky content.
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