Hello, my fellow Spirals!
Can you guys believe that we are already into February of 2022?! I can’t at all. Time is flying by so damn fast. But let’s talking about books now to distract ourselves.
This month has been a really good reading month for me. If you have read my previous blog posts, you know that I set a reading goal of 50 this year so that I don’t put pressure on myself to read more books and take my time with them. Apparently that doesn’t stop me from flying through books at all😂 But then again, I am back to being stressed this month since my final year project has started and reading has always been my way of coping with it. So that explains why I ended up reading so much.
Now let’s get into it!
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Books I Read
- Home (Marilynne Robinson) – No Rating
- Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie) – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- The Hungry Tide (Amitav Ghosh) – ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌟
- Sourdough (Robin Sloan) – ⭐⭐⭐🌗
- Uglies (Scott Westerfeld) – ⭐⭐⭐🌗
- The Ones We Keep (Bobbie Jean Huff) – ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌗
- Loveless (Alice Oseman) – ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌗
Favorite Book of the Month
I think it has to be The Hungry Tide. I didn’t expect to love this book when I picked it up or when I was reading it at the start. But then it ended up surprising me so much. The lush details of the mangroves, the rivers, the animals, the people and their culture is sooo good. I am from India and I had no idea about the Sunderbans except reading about it in my Geography textbooks as a student.
Least Favorite Book of the Month
Probably Home by Marilynne Robinson. This book wasn’t particularly bad or anything but I really couldn’t connect with it at all. It talks a lot about Christianity and the church, none of which I am familiar with. The writing was also so hard for me to follow. I felt like I failed to understand what the book was actually trying to convey. That’s why I didn’t feel comfortable giving it a rating.
Statistics
#Books Read: 7
#Pages Read: 2,954
Average Rating: 4.08
Most Read Genre: Young Adult & Literary Fiction
Comment down below about how your reading month was and which was your favorite book.
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11 replies on “January Wrap Up | 2022”
Ooh I love Agatha Christie books but I somehow haven’t read Murder on the Orient Express even though it’s one of her most famous! I’m really glad that you enjoyed it and will definitely be pushing it further up my list 📚❤️ X x x
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I have read only And There Then Were None by her so I can’t say much about her books in general yet. While I didn’t like Murder on Orient as much as ATTWN, I still quite enjoyed it so I’m glad about that!
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Some nice reads there, well done! I had a good month last month and have already finished a few that came over into this month or were shorter. I have quite a lot of work on though so that’s cutting into my reading time!
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It’s okay if you don’t get to read as much due to work as long as you enjoy what you read!
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Lovely review! I found Murder on the….to be Christie’s best work.
Hungry Tide by Gosh is phenomenal!
So glad that you’re reading such books.
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Thank you so much!
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Omg you read uglies!! What are your thoughts on it? Are you planning to continue the series?
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I actually don’t think I’ll be continuing 😅 I had already the first book when I was like 13 yrs old (I’m 21 now) and I definitely enjoyed then but couldn’t get the next books in series. I randomly picked it up again wanting to know what happens in the rest of the series but unfortunately it’s a little too YA for me yk? The writing seems a lil too juvenile for me now. So I think I’ll just look up the book summaries OR watch the upcoming movies instead!
But I wanna know, have you read it and if yes then did you like it?
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Aah i see. Yeah, I suppose you might find it juvenile. I hope you enjoy the movies though (wait, there are gonna be movies for that series?!)
And yeah, I’ve read the series and it’s one of my favs! I loved everything about it. I mean, it does get slow at several parts but overall I think it’s a genius series, plus the audiobooks were so well narrated!!
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I read an article or something months ago that Joey King will be starring in the new Uglies movie? Even I was so fascinated by the book when I read it a decade ago. It’s a shame I couldn’t enjoy it the same the second time
But I would still strongly recommend to any teenagers out there because the concept as a whole is very thought provoking. It gets you thinking about what we consider as “perfect” or “beautiful” and how society has a predefined set of notions about it.
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Ooh, I’m definitely gonna check out the movie if it comes then!
And yes, exactly! And then the concept that’s portrayed in the later books regarding people being special and stuff was also though provoking. Glad we agree!
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