February Wrap Up + March TBR // NASCAR and UNO

Life wise, I had a bit of a hiccup in the mental health department with ACT’s happening and the 20 million classes I have to do, but it did get better, because I FINALLY FOUND THE WHICHWOOD PAPERBACK. THE JOURNEY IS OVER T_T

Book wise (and you know… everything else wise), it’s a pretty short month duh, so of course I had the thought that maybe I wouldn’t read as much. And with everything happening, I just knew I wasn’t going to be in the mood. But, I read quite a few 5 star reads so… #yay. AND I SAW BLACK PANTHER IN THE DRIVE-IN. GUYS. GUYS. O.O YES.

I couldn’t to a T5W this month because I realized I haven’t read enough LGBT+ books that were romantic and I didn’t have any answers for the topics. I’ve been trying to read more LGBT+ books though, any recommendations? I bought a few this month actually, but I’d love to know your favorites 🙂 .

I made this month even more stressful because I kept thinking it was March and I have all of these ARC’s I had to read before March… ugh. I guess one highlight was I got my first auto-approval on Netgalley!! Which is odd, as I don’t use Netgalley as much anymore (I’m more on Edelweiss) But that was an unexpected happy moment 😀 .

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I’m going to be using my rep indicators in my wrap up.  This idea was Romie’s @RomieWeDeserveLove so credit for the idea for these markers goes there!

 = books with lgbt+ representation
 = representation of people of colour
 =  disability rep
  = mental illness rep
 = was on my monthly tbr

 = physical book

📝 = ARC

 

• Frostblood { Frostblood #1 } – Elly Blake ✰✰✰ + review  
• Let’s Talk About Love – Claire Kann ✰✰✰✰✰ + review   
• Stalking Jack the Ripper { Stalking Jack the Ripper #1 } – Kerri Maniscalco ✰✰✰ + review 
• Honor Among Thieves { the Honors #1 } – Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre ✰✰✰✰ + review   📝 
• Unseemly Science { The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire #2 } – Rod Duncan ✰✰✰✰ + review 
• From Lukov, With Love – Mariana Zapata ✰✰✰✰ 
• Olivia Twist – Lori Langdon ✰✰✰✰ + review 📝 
• The Prince and the Dressmaker – ✰✰✰✰ + review   
• Sky in the Deep – Adrienne Young ✰✰✰✰ RTC 03/22 📝 
• Akata Witch { Akata Witch #1 } – Nnedi Okorafor ✰✰✰✰ RTC 03/15  
• The Final Six -Alexandra Monir ✰✰ + review  📝 
• The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo ✰✰✰✰✰ + RTC closer to release date   📝 
• Inkmistress { Of Fire and Stars 0.5 } – Audrey Coulthurst ✰✰✰ + RTC  📝 

Furthermore { Furthermore #1 } – Tahereh Mafi || When My Heart Joins the Thousand – A.J. Stieger

Crown of Midnight { Throne of Glass #3 } – Sarah J. Maas || Language of Thorns { Grisha Verse #0.5, #2.5, #2.6 } – Leigh Bardugo

The Bullet Cather’s Daughter { The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire #1 } – Rod Duncan || Big Water – Andrea Curtis

Best this month: Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann or The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (I can’t choose you should go read them both and tell me your decision I’d love to know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

I started a new recommendation series? (Can I call it a series?) One for Black History Month and another for Valentine’s Day.

I got to do an award or two!

A Valentine’s Day tag had to be done for the purpose of getting in the… mood? Another tag because I was tagged and I tell you guys how I choose my books 🙂 .

I was feeling passionate and got into my current favorite things (including an animal feud that’s going strong).

And little old me joined another challenge #helpme

Okay, this is a weird question, but I have to know: what constitutes as a book haul? Is it books you receive or books you buy yourself? Or both?? O.o

My remodeling of the blog is still in progress (if you haven’t noticed, that’s a thing I’m doing). It’s one of those things I feel will never end because I have so many ideas and such 😀 . Feedback would be appreciated, but I won’t ask for it… because nerves (did I technically ask for it?? LOOK I’M NOT ALL THE WAY HERE RIGHT NOW I’M TIRED).

 

 

 

 

• Dread Nation {Dread Nation #1 } – Justina Ireland
• Devils Unto Dust – Emma Berquist
• The Diminished { Untitled Duology #1 } – Kaitlyn Sage Patterson
• Ash Princess { Ash Princess Trilogy #1 } – Laura Sebastion
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen*
• Monsters of Men { Chaos Walking #3 } – Patrick Ness
• The Heart Forger { The Bone Witch #2 } – Rin Chupeco
• Genesis { Project Nemesis #2 } – Brendan Reichs
• Circe – Madeline Miller

I have a lot of ARC’s to read before April  (I broke the request button… again… I’ll never learn) and the heavy testing is done for now… so I think March will be semi decent unless Monsters of Men murder me. I just need to take it easy, don’t overwork my mind.

*I know I keep putting P&P on my monthly TBR’s but I’m thinking I’m either going to audio book which I finally bucked up and bought  😀 it or just read little pieces.

I do want to start yet another segment here on the bloggy blog. Don’t know exactly when it’s going to debut, but I’ve been adding a lot to it already and I have so many ideas! AND SOMETHING AMAZING IS GOING TO HAPPEN TOO. I GOT AN AUTHOR INTERVIEW! Oh my goodness, I never would have thought that I’d get the nerve to do an author interview… it still blows my mind. So, I ask you, wish me luck…