It really is funny how life ebbs and flows. This month I listened to SIX audiobooks, but only read four print books, and one of those was a graphic novel! Times and seasons indeed.

My favorite this month:

It was so much fun to listen to! As for the rest:

Non-Fiction:

Walking with Sam
Soil (audiobook)

Adult Fiction:

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (audiobook)
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Wolfsong

Graphic Novel:

School Trip

YA Fiction:

Harvest House (audiobook)
Rubi Ramos’s Recipe for Success (audiobook)
The Night in Question (audiobook)

What was your favorite this month?

It’s been a good reading month: a lot of variety, and a good balance between audio and in-print reading. And some really good books, too! It was hard to pick my favorite. But I think Ihave to go with:

The characters were delightful, there was some weight to it, and it was a solid, fun romance. Perfect for summertime..

As for the rest:

Adult fiction:

Vicious
The Lonely Hearts Book Club (audiobook)
The Seven Year Slip
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (audiobook)

Young Adult:

Ander & Santi Were Here (audiobook)
Forget Me Not (audiobook)
Don’t Call Me a Hurricane

Non-Fiction

The Longest Way Home

Graphic Novel

A First Time for Everything

What was your favorite this month?

My reaading habis have changed a LOT. I read 11 books this month, and the majority (most of them!) were audiobooks. I don’t know what has changed that I can plow through them so fast, but I’m not sure I care. Reading is reading no matter what form! That said, my fabvoire this month was one I actually read.

What do you do when it’s only March and you know you’ve read at least three books that will make your top 10 for the year?

As for the rest:

YA:

The Black Flamingo (audiobook)
Pet (audiobook)

Middle Grade:

Amari and the Night Brothers
Amari and the Great Game

Adult Fiction:

Daisy Jones and the Six (audiobook)
Nora Goes Off Script (audiobook)

Graphic Novel:

The Moth Keeper

Non-Fiction

The Sum of Us (audiobook)
B.F. F. (audiobook)
Poverty, by America (audiobook)

What was your favorite this month?

It’s been a good reading month. It feels so good to be able to say that. My favorite:

It’s hard to be a good Emily Henry book. As for the rest:

Adult Fiction:

The Inheritance of Orquidia Divina (audiobook)

Non-Fiction:

Lost & Found (audiobook)

Middle Reader:

Figure it Out, Henri Weldon
Freewater

Young Adult:

Blood Debts (audiobook)
The Stolen Heir
The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School

Graphic Novel:

Lost in Taiwan
The Faint of Heart
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

What was your favorite this month?

What do you do, if the first book you finished this year is not just your favorite of the month, but you know will be on your top 10 of the year? it’s a high standard to live up to.

Even so, this will absolutely be one of my favorites of the year:

As for the rest:

Adult Fiction:

Now Is Not the Time to Panic (audiobook)
Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone (audiobook)
The Flatshare

Young Auldt:

Saint
Seraphina (reread)
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute (audiobook)

Non-Fiction

My Hygge Home (audiobook)
Spare (audiobook)

What was your favorite this month?

As per usual, I’ll round up the whole year tomorrow. As for December… It was another graphic novel-heavy month, but I didn’t mind. I was buy at work,a nd having a graphic novel to come home to was perfect. That said, my favorite wasn’t one

Nettle & Bone

I picked it up because it made a friend’s best-of list this year, and I was not disappointed.

As for the rest:

Non-fiction:

Beyond the Wand (audiobook)

Young Adult:

Lightlark (audiobook)
The Shepherd’s Crown (reread)

Graphic Novels:

Captain America: The Ghost Army
Clementine
Victory for Ukraine
Magical Boy
Unretouchable
Ducks
The Wolf Suit
Fibbed
A Tale as Tall as Jacob
The Doors to Nowhere
Just Roll With it
Cat’s Cradle
The Greatest Thing
Messy Roots
AlteZachen
Adora and the Distance
Numb to This
The Golden Hour
Enemies
The Woman in the Woods
Miss Quinces
Smaller Sister
Wingbearer
PlayLike a Girl
Victory. Stand!
Tiny Dancer
Slip

Stay tuned tomorrow for my best-of-the-year!

I was sitting here, writing reviews when I realized what day it was! I’ve been so busy with work and reading for the Cybils, that everything has just gotten away from me. I’m impressed that any of my Christmas shopping has gotten done. Seriously.

My favorite this month:

Surrender (audiobook)

Really one of the best celebrity memoirs I’ve read in a long time. As for the rest:

Graphic Novels:

Little Monarchs
The Real Riley Mayes
Apple Crush
Bunnicula
M is for Monster
Piece by Piece
Himawari House
Invisible
Anne of West Philly
Two-Headed Chicken
Batman, Robin, and Howard
Hollow
Welcome to St. Hell
Crumbs
Constantine: Distorted Illusions
If Anything Happens, I Love You
A-Okay
The Flamingo
Living with Viola
Button Pusher

Middle Grade:

The Way I Say It

YA:

Greywarren
Whiteout

Non-Fiction:

Susan, Linda, Nina, & Cokie

What was your favorite this month?

I now, second verse, same as the first: I’m just not reading. That’s going to have to change: I’m on the round one panel for Graphinc Novels in this year’s Cybils. So, while I’ still having problems really sinking my teeth into a book, graphic novels seem up my alley, and I’ve not done round one there before. Should be fun!

I did read some charming books this month, though. My favorite:

Insightful, engaging, and just so good.

As for the rest:

Graphic novels:

Garlic and the Vampire
Garlic and the Witch

YA:

I Shall Wear Midnight (old review)
Asar on Fire (audiobook)
Heat Wave

Adult Fiction:

The Thursday Murder Club

What was your favorite this month?

It’s been a month. That’s really the best I can say. I did have a favorite this month, out of the few that I read:

Tamsyn Muir is brilliant. Period.

Middle Grade:

The Marvelous Land of Snergs

Graphic Novels:

Isla to Island

Adult Fiction

Bookish People (audiobook)

YA:

The Agathas
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

Maybe someday I’ll stop lamenting my “lack of reading” and just accept that this is how much i read now. Someday.

What was your favorite this month?

I read a few things. I don’t know why I didn’t read more. no rime? just not in the mood? I don’t know. Maybe I just need to accept that I don’t read as much as I used to anymore and move on. At least I’m still reading, right? My favorite this month was an old favorite, a comfort read:

As for the rest:

YA:

A Hat Full of Sky (old review)

Graphic Novel:

Realm of the Blue Mist

Non-fiction:

Mother Brain
Radical Love (audiobook)

Adult Fiction:

Counterfeit (audiobook)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (audiobook)

What was your favorite this month?