Hello! Once again, I’m combining December and January’s wrap up, because it just felt silly to write a separate one for December and then January.  I want to start fresh and stay on track next month, and honestly, if I wrote them separately, I probably wouldn’t get January’s wrap-up up until the middle of February…So, here we are!

BOOKS READ

December

– Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

– The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

– The Angel of Forest Hill by Cindy Woodsmall \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

– What Light by Jay Asher \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

– The Christmas Shoppe by Melody Carlson \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️

January

– The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

– A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

– Replica by Lauren Oliver \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

STANDOUT BOOK OF THE MONTH

December

The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury

January 

It’s a tie between A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Replica by Lauren Oliver.  They’re both such different books from each other, and I thoroughly loved both of them SO much!

BOOKS REVIEWED

Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Angel of Forest Hill by Cindy Woodsmall \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

What Light by Jay Asher \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness \\ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

BOOK HAUL

Between Christmas, review copies, a contest (I won a SIGNED & PERSONALIZED copy of Wayfarer!! 😍), and honestly, just pure lack of self-control on my part, I have acquired quite a few books these past two months! 🙊

*Thank you to B&H Publishing for Detours by Tony Evans, Blogging for Books for Holding up the Universe by Jennifer Niven, and to Sullivan Entertainment for The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Conner McNees!*

e-books recieved

Intermission by Serena Chase (Thanks to Candent Gate LLC and Netgalley!)

A Thousand Salt Kisses Later by Josie Demuth (Thank you to Wise Ink and Netgalley!)

She Reads Truth by Raechel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams (Thank you to B&H Publishing and Netgalley!)

The Angel of Forest Hill by Cindy Woodsmall (Thank you to Netgalley, Blogging for Books, and WaterBrook & Multnomah!)

Ebo by L. Lombard (Thank you to the publisher!)

The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins (Thanks to JellyBooks!)

MISCELLANEOUS

I finished up my Countdown to Christmas series.

I shared with you all my reading & blogging goals for 2017 as well as my top ten books of 2016!

That wraps up December and January!  My goal for February is to really stay on track with my blogging, because I have been really lacking lately.  Let me know if you have any goals for February!

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