9 Books I Read In December | GRWM + Book Chats
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•A Demon's Guide To Wooing A Witch* // go.magik.ly/ml/1zguy/
•The Kingdom Of Sweets* // go.magik.ly/ml/1zgut/
•This Spells Love* // go.magik.ly/ml/1zgus/
•Merry Little Meet Cute* // go.magik.ly/ml/1zgur/
•One Day In December* // go.magik.ly/ml/1zguq/
•A Winter In New York* // go.magik.ly/ml/1zguo/
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•Mr. Fixer Upper* // go.magik.ly/ml/1zgum/
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#readingwrapup - Навчання та стиль
I did a year where I didn’t buy any new books unless it was a used copy of something that’s hard to find & I ended up reading 45 books on my TBR pile. It was great! I actually really enjoyed it & felt very accomplished after.
I also read nine books in Decemter.
Iron Flame, Legends and Lattes, The Poppy War, Cherry Red Summer, Galatea, Wrong Place Wrong Time, Spinning Silver, A court of Mist and Fury and Defiant.
My Highlight was The Poppy War. It was a reread but a great one. And I also loved Defiant since it is the last Book in the Skyward Flight series.
So many good books! The Poppy War is my favorite trilogy!!!
I think miscommunication has to be my least favorite aspect of romance or books in general. I’m so happy you include book content in your videos. 📚
I have read 120 books in 2023. I have read plenty of your recommendations! I love these videos and I’m excited to hear more about what you have read!
Just wanted to say I love your book review videos so much! We have incredibly opposite taste in books, but you so clearly love what you’re reading and love talking about it that it’s a true joy to have these videos on in the background. Thank you for doing them!
It’s so incredibly impressive how much you read. I’m absolutely terrible at reading books so I completely applaud your passion! Books are incredible tools for the mind and soul. Also just wanted to say: Your new kitty is absolutely adorable and I love the name Wanda! ☺️ Also, she’s a tortie girl like my late beauty Leg (who I lost a couple months ago) and they are just the sweetest most cheekiest crazy little creatures ever! 😊🐈
awh sorry for your loss!
Sooo so sorry to hear about ur kiki passing. I lost one back in June’(23) and my longtime love Jack, an orange and white spotted tabby I adopted from a manager back in 2013, he passed in June of ‘21. It was fate he was put on my path, and I had over 8 years of sweet puuurz, leg rubs, “boops”, and naps w/him. He saw me through some very rough times. I’m sure you felt the same about ur baby. They really are just wonderfully magical beings that allow us into their hearts and lives-we just stand in awwwwe of their existence 😻😻 Well, that’s how I feel anyway ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Throne of Glass is my favorite series ever! ❤️🔥 I am enjoying watching your updates on it. 💖
📚📚🖤 I started reading heavily in January and I am loving it! Thanks for the wonderful recommendations!
I love your book videos! They're some of my favorite videos that you do. 🥰
And this look came out so pretty!! 💜✨💚✨ Lethal Cosmetics is definitely on my list of single shadow brands to try in 2024!
I am also trying to do a bit of a book buying ban so I can read more books I already own. I don’t keep every book I read, just favorites, so it will be a nice way to make more space. I do have a BOTM credit too because I skipped January and I’m going to try to skip and use the library until I have more shelf space. I have some pre-orders still coming in, but otherwise I really want to chip away at my physical TBR. I think last year I DNFed 5 books and I was so happy I still managed to read more than 100 🎉
My goal for this year is 75 to keep it safe and if I get close before the end of the year I can bump it up to 100 📚
My best book of the year was hands down Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett and I can’t wait for the sequel to come out! I’m currently reading Lovelight Farms because it’s so hard for me to get my Christmas reads done actually around the holidays 😅
I highly recommend checking out the Witch City Mystery books if you haven’t read them before. There is a cat on every cover 😊
Just started the Shadow to Bone series excited to read it. Love reading it is hard to find time between work and school.
I’m finally reading fourth wing!
I love hearing honest reviews on books. Me and my friends did "A Year In Books" PowerPoints last weekend. My theme was like Spotify wrapped. We presented to each other and it was a blast. I tend to stay in Romantasy genre but I dabble into fluffy romance books sometimes. So excited that you are reading the TOG series, you read so fast so I know you'll finish before me but I loved the first two!
I read “A Holly Jolly Ever After”. There is still some spice, but I feel like there is a little more storyline in this one. I wouldn’t rush out to read it, but you may like this one a little more than the first.
good to know!!
My favorite non Brando Sando books was the Dangerous Damsels series by India Holton. It's so cute and super funny! My husband and I have been making our way through the Mistborn and Wax and Wayne series since July and loving talking about it. At one point I was a few books ahead of him and then a ton of books came in to my Libby app and now he's a book ahead of me 😂
I really dislike the “miscommunication trope”. I’d love a video on your physical tbr!
my next vlog i show it a bit & pick out my january tbr😁
📚my favourite romance books this year were Julie Caplin’s romantic escape series, I totally binged on them. I have a huge list for this year, mostly fantasy and Fairyland books, and of course some romance mixed inbetween. Love these videos, thanks🥰!
I also gave One Day in December two stars! It felt so ridiculous that they just kept lying to Sarah for years about something so inconsequential.
I WAS SO ANNOYED lmao
Yes! Like it was so unnecessary to lie to begin with. I was so disappointed in that book.
Last year I tried to read One Day in December, and I DNFed it in like 20 pages. A good friend wouldn’t do that. Based on some of the books you like I would highly suggest you read A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy next December.
it was sooo bad you didn’t miss out at all haha
i have to agree with your statement about Christmas books, sometimes they are just straight up bad! 😂 i only read one christmas book this holiday season because i just wasn't really feeling it. i read the santa suit by mary kay andrews. it was just okay. i gave it 2.5 stars. it was just kind of boring and very cheesy. just not my vibe, thank god it was only like 200 pages!
Chaol is kale, like the vegetable lol. I used this video of SJM saying how to pronounce each name: ua-cam.com/video/FI12PWlV_94/v-deo.htmlsi=GOhwt2_BY9BwYJEf 📚
I"m so excited we're reading the Throne of Glass Series at the same time! I got the entire box hard cover series as a Christmas gift, and I am currently on Crown of Midnight too. I started with Assassins Blade first after u said u did and reading multiple Reddit posts about which book to start with first lol. And I think starting with Assassins Blade isn't spoilery at all from my experience so far, I like the backstory it gave to set up Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight. I fully intend to read Acotar after I finish Throne of Glass, cannot wait! I'm on a book ban as well and not picking up anymore til I finish the series too!
Totallyyyy!! Just finished crown of midnight last night! & so far I really feel like starting with assassins blade has just aided to my enjoyment of it!
@@battybean good then if it’s not spoilery after u finished it then I’m glad I read it first too!
With spicy scenes though its not spice, its the build-up, the tension, the passion, the longing, the anxiety, the will they- wont they. But I agree, I've read some too where its like -omg again...
...., give it a rest.-
Yes! Totally!! Like the spicy scenes don’t mean anything for me if I’m not connected to the relationship
Have you decided yet on if you'll be doing the tandem read for the TOG series? I'm currently doing the tandem read!
I plan to!
I was definitely slacking with reading in 2023.. I want to read at least 25 books this year 🖤
you’ve got this!!
Those books sound like a hallmark movie...lol
christmas books are either adorable or cringy hallmark no in between haha
Where/when do you announce books of the month? Would love to try to follow along with you!
I’m not sure what you mean! I just read for fun based on my mood. I don’t have a book club or anything like that. I also subscribe to the “book of the month” subscription if that’s what you’re referring to. I do usually post what I’m currently reading on my IG stories as well!
@battybean ah okay! I misinterpreted what you meant by book of the month. I thought it meant you had started a book club 😆 I was like "I could always use a 3rd book club to join" so I got curious. Thanks for replying!
I read The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score and finished on New Year's Eve. I absolutely loved it! I'd say it's the first true romance novel I've read in a very long time as I don't even remember the name of the book or Author of the first I'd ever ready (I remember the plot, but no one seems to know it). I am currently reading Underlord (book 6 of the Cradle series) by Will Wight, but will be going back and reading Mr. Fixer Upper after I've finished the one I'm on. I also have Lucy's 3 books from the Knockemout series in my Kindle Unlimited TBR list as well. And while it may not be December anymore, I'm going to look into getting A Cat Cafe Christmas because cats.
loooove the knockemout series so much🥹
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I absolutely loved A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch, it was so so cute! The Kingdom of Sweets was also my BOTM pick last month, and I did finish it, but man was it hard to get through- the pacing was pretty atrocious and the plot was kind of all over the place.
I’m glad I’m not alone in feeling that way😂
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If you wanna save $ by not buying books, use your local library!! I read 60 books last year without buying any bc of my library.
I use Libby sometimes! I do a balance. And it’s not about saving money, I just don’t want to buy too many books and not be able to read them. So this is the time to catch up for a bit!
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I only read 5 books this month, slacked a little. I read Sword of Kaigen, Godkiller, Such Sharp Teeth, The Last Final Girl and Ledge. Godkiller is now a favorite, i loved it I cant wait for the sequel. I didnt really enjoy The Last Final Girl, I didnt like the way it was written and the characters were very one dimensional. Chaol is pronounced Kale. I googled and found a clip of the author pronouncing everyones names because I was not happy with any possible pronunciations my brain was coming up with and I could not continue reading until I knew the truth.
😂😂 I was close!
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I tried reading "Merry little meet cute" last Christmas time, but had to DNF it. I just found it so boring, which is ridiculous giving the premise.
You didn’t miss much😂😂
So Christmas books seam just to be as bad as Christmas movies 🙈🤦🏻♀️
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