Monthly Wrap-Up: October 2021

Apparently posting the previous month’s wrap-up halfway through the month is a thing with me now. All I can say is that we’re hitting fall crunch time. Between Halloween, our anniversary, Thanksgiving, two kid birthdays and all the winter holidays? Everything from October til January is a bit rushed. I’ve also been using having the house (mostly) to myself during the day to get some cleaning done while the kids are gone. My husband’s still working from home most of the time, but since he stays in his office cave, it’s almost like being home alone again! My little introvert self is happy, but I’m also trying to catch up on a lot of belated decluttering that I should’ve done, uh, last year. I’ve been so tired at the end of the day that not a lot of reading is getting done.

Due to the Halloween craziness, I just missed fully completing the Cannonball Bingo, though I did get most of the squares marked off! There’s another fall bingo that I have barely even glanced at, but I am hoping to do one for December. For Goodreads, at the start of the month I was at 242 books out of my goal of 250 books. It’s looking like I’ll meet my goal this month!

BOOKS READ IN OCTOBER

STATS

BOOKS READ: 28

REVIEWS: 16

SOURCE: 17 ARCS, 3 from Kindle Unlimited, 4 Purchased, 4 Library, 0 Freebie

REVIEWS

[1 Oct] The Inn on Sweetbriar Lane by Jeannie Chin ★★★★
[1 Oct] Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ★★★★
[1 Oct] The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 2: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2021 by Jonathan Strahan ★★★★
[2 Oct] The Shaadi Set-Up by Lillie Vale ★★★★
[5 Oct] Luminous by Mara Rutherford ★★★
[9 Oct] Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper ★★★★
[11 Oct] Hot as Hades by Alisha Rai ★★★
[12 Oct] Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis ★★★★
[14 Oct] Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw ★★★★
[17 Oct] Her Wolf in the Wild by Rien Gray ★★★★
[18 Oct] All Systems Red by Martha Wells ★★★★★
[18 Oct] The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner ★★★★★
[19 Oct] Rogue Christmas Operation by Juno Rushdan ★★★★
[21 Oct] In the Bedroom of Medusa by Magen Cubed ★★★★
[24 Oct] Meet Me in Madrid by Verity Lowell ★★★
[24 Oct] Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce ★★★
[26 Oct] Donut Fall in Love by Jackie Lau ★★★★
[27 Oct] Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson ★★★★
[29 Oct] Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade ★★★★★

PLANNED FOR NOVEMBER

Look, it’s already halfway through the month. I’m still behind on ARCs, so mostly I’m just hoping to catch up a bit before the end of the year so I can do some more holiday reading!

That’s my month! What’s yours looking like?