It’s been a month. Not a bad one, and at least it’s short (and a perfect rectangle; I do like it when February looks like that). I was thinking at the beginning of the month that while I’ve read books I like, I have yet to read one I loved, and then I listened to this one:

It’s important, yes, but it’s also interesting and entertaining. Highly recommend, especially on audio.

As for the rest:

Middle Grade:

Dragon Girl and the Awakened Flames

Adult Fiction:

The Wedding Date (audiobook)
The Favorites
Our Sister’s Keeper
The Fundamentals of Being a Good Girl (audiobook)

Graphic Novel:

Offside
Coming Out Perfect
Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

Young Adult:

A Prince Among Pirates

What was your favorite this month?

I saw somewhere that it feels very derivative to read with all that *gestures widely*. That said, I did read some books this month. This was my favorite:

It was a beautiful book, and I can’t wait for it to come out.

As for the rest:

Adult fiction:

Thistlemarch
Heated Rivalry
Canon
Fever Beach (audiobook)
Annie Knows Everything
Spark of the Everflame
Red City (audiobook)
Fishbone Cinderella

Non-Fiction:

Separation of Church and Hate

There’s so much to say and yet no idea how to say it. Be kind, friends.

And we come to the end of another month, another year. It’s a good thing I don’t make goals; I don’t want to feel like I didn’t do them. I did have a favorite this month, coming in as the last book I read this year:

Such an excellent book.

As for the rest:

Non-Fiction:

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (audiobook)
Bread of Angels (audiobook)

Adult Fiction:

We Burned So Bright
Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter
This Book Made Me Think of You
Christmas Fling (audiobook)
American Fantasy
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 6 (unreviewed)
On a Night Like This (audiobook)

Middle Grade:

Queso, Just in Time

YA:

All the Crooked Saints (audiobook)

Stay tuned tomorrow for my year in review!

I have NO idea where this month went. Or why Christmas is only 3 weeks away. This does not compute with my brain. I’m still stuck somewhere back in August or September, I think.

That said, my favorite book this month is about a VERY November story:

It was a fascinating book.

As for the rest:

Adult Fiction:

Every Step She Takes (audiobook)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion, Vol 2 and 3
First-Time Caller
Good Spirits
The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion, Vol 4 and 5

Graphic Novels:

Two Tribes

Non-Fiction:

Inspired

Middle Grade:

Red River Rose

Young Adult:

The Scorpio Races (audiobook)

What was your favorite this month?

How is it already November? I honestly have NO idea where the month went. Zero. It was still September at the beginning of the month, and now it’s practically Thanksgiving. I’ve got whiplash.

That said, it was an excellent reading month.

My favorite this month:

It was just a delightful romp with a huge heart. I adored it.

As for the rest:

Adult fiction:

Last Night at the Lobster
The Bookshop Below
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Soul Searching (audiobook)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, volume 1 (audiobook)
Wolf Worm

Graphic Novels:

Angelica and the Bear Prince

What was your favorite this month?

Someone tell me where September went, because I have no idea.

My favorite this month:

If only because I watched the entire 1995 Pride and Prejudice immediately after finishing this book. It’s an excellent work of literary scholarship.

As for the rest:

Adult Fiction:

The Kiss Curse
Discontent (audiobook)
Rose in Chains (DNF) (audiobook)
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
The Everlasting
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping (audiobook)

YA:

Hekate
Guardians of Dreamdark: Windwitch
Joy to the Girls

Graphic Novel:

Dream On
Winging It

Non-Fiction:

Paper Girl

Now if I can only get time to slow down a little bit.

And there went summer. It’s hard to believe that it’s nearly September, honestly. It was a good reading month, but I think it’s a rule that when I read a T. Kingfisher book, it’s automatically my favorite of the month.

Can you blame me? That said, it was a really good reading month.

As for the rest:

Graphic Novel

The Raven Boys

Middle Grade

Graciela in the Abyss (audio)
The Library of Unruly Treasures (audio)
Hurricane Heist

Adult Fiction

It’s a Love Story
There Is No Anti-memetics Division
Queen Demon

Non-Fiction

Replaceable You
While the Earth Holds Its Breath

What was your favorite this month?

July was a lot of driving and vacationing, which means a lot of audiobooks. It’s fitting that my favorite was one of them:

The narrators were great, and the book was so much fun. 10/10 would absolutely recommend. As for the rest:

Adult Fiction:

Love is a War Song
Brigands & Breadknives
Slipstream
Problematic Summer Romance (audiobook)
System Collapse (reread) (audiobook)
Into the Riverlands
Exiles
Wild and Wrangled (audiobook)
The Knight and the Moth (audiobook)

Young Adult:

In the Serpent’s Wake
Sisters in the Wind
Witchkiller

Non-fiction:

America’s Best Idea (audiobook)

Graphic Novel

All-Star Superman (audiobook)

Middle Grade

The House with No Keys

Obviously, vacations are good for reading. What was your favorite this month?

I find it interesting, at the end of the month when I do these things, what exactly I read (I did finish another 3 audiobooks, but I haven’t written reviews for those, so they’ll be in next month’s round-up). It kind of surprised me that my entire reading was adult fiction this month. I had no idea! My favorite is no surprise, though:

And the rest:

Adult Fiction:

Faithbreaker
Food Person (audiobook)
Great Black Hope (audiobook)
Alchemy of Secrets
Sounds Like Love
Of Monsters and Mainframes

Graphic Novels:

It Rhymes With Takei

I need to read some middle-grade books this coming month to balance things out.

I was talking to a co-worker the other day, and we both realized that it was nearly June. Where HAS this year gone? How is it nearly half over? In the immortal words of Remember Monday, what the hell just happened? It was definitely a crazy month.

My favorite is different for me, but I found myself challenged and informed by this one. It’s definitely one that made me think about how I approach the Bible, and I value what she had to say.

As for the rest:

Adult Fiction:

Great Big Beautiful Life (audiobook)
Songs for Other People’s Weddings
The Enchanted Greenhouse
A Harvest of Hearts
Overdue

Middle Grade:

Return to Sender (audiobook)

Non-Fiction:

The Wager
The Way Around

Young Adult:

Blue Lily, Lily Blue (reread, audiobook)
The Raven King (reread, audiobook

And onward to June!