Hey guys! This month has just flown by and I cannot believe that we're already on the verge of February. It feels like we were just going through the holiday season and approaching Christmas. If this month is any indication of how the rest of 2018 is going to go, this year is really going to fly. And if I can continue to have reading months like this one, I'm going to have a really good reading year.
I have managed to read a total of 9 books this month and, according to Goodreads, I am 6 books ahead of my goal for the year of 40. Since my update from last week, I have read and finished The Cruel Prince by Holly Black and Victoria by Daisy Goodwin that I mentioned in my last post. And almost immediately after finishing listening to Victoria, I started listening to Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming. I'll describe that one momentarily.
As for favorites from this month, I have three favorites and two honorable mentions. The first honorable mention is Victoria. I love history and this book beautifully captured Queen Victoria's early time as queen from what little I know of her life. I would love to see Daisy Goodwin put together another book picking up where this one left off.
The other honorable mention is The Cruel Prince. This was my very first Holly Black book and I enjoyed it quite a bit and cannot wait to see what happens to the characters in book two. Holly set it up nicely for the second book and cannot wait to see what happens next.
My third favorite book was Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore. This was the first physical book that I read this month and it was a fantastic start to my reading year. It was beautifully written and I am so glad that I started off with this book.
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C Dao was just a fantastic book and it had to be in the top three. It was going to be my most favorite read but that was before I got my hands on the book in the number one spot. But I adored this telling of the Evil Queen and how she got into the position she was in when the story we're familiar with begins. And the setting seemed like the perfect place. She wove in traditions nicely as well.
Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming was something I knew that I may like since I love him as an actor since this is a memoir from his life. What made it even better was that he narrated it. I had no clue about his life and we had gotten onto the subject of him at work one day not too long ago. We had been watching one of the Spy Kids movies and couldn't remember if it was the one with Alan Cumming in it. So when I saw it in the sale Audible just had, I knew I had to have it since that day made me want to learn more about him. This man went through so much as a kid and I wanted to hug him the whole time we were in the "then" portions of the book. There were times I wanted to hug him during the "now" portions as well. I had such a hard time putting my phone down to stop listening to his book. I believe he has a couple of other books that he's written and narrated and I may just end up picking those up soon. I want to know even more about this man. It is so worth the read (or listen since hearing him tell the story made it even more real). I do want to put a trigger warning for abuse, so if that's something that you can't handle, you might not necessarily pick this up.
What were your favorite books this month? I want to hear all about them below in the comments.
Your kindred bookmate,
Cassie
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