January Book Report

January 2023

I finished 11 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

"I've begun to suspect that fidelity is less a problem you solve than a chronic condition you manage with willpower and strategy--a decision to skip drinks, to tell the body no, or not again, or definitely only twice more." --Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give 

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 5 were books I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• none counted toward the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge 
•  1 was from my Classics Club List 
• 2 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• 1 counted toward the 2023 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 
• none were from my Readers' Advisory Reading List 
• 3 were from the mystery series I am trying to make progress on this year

 Here are the books I finished in January 2023: 

1. The Man that Got Away by Lynne Truss (4-stars)
2. Nolo's Quick LLC by Anthony Mancuso (4-stars)
3. Spiderweb by Penelope Lively (3-stars)
4. Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun (3-stars)
5. The Virginian by Owen Wister (4-stars)
6. White Colander Crime by Victoria Hamilton (4-stars)
7. The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey (4-stars)
8. Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva (audiobook, 4-stars)
9. Driving Force by Dick Francis (4-stars)
10. How to Read a Novel by John Sutherland (3-stars)
11. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant (3-stars)

The UnReadShelf blog has a theme challenge of sorts this year. The theme for January was "comfort" which none of my completed books really matched. I thought the Penelope Lively would but it didn't. February's theme is "courage."