Hi everyone! I’m back! After a few weeks of hiatus I’m excited to finally be doing my monthly wrap-up for the final month of 2020. I’ll get into details about me and my hiatus in the What About Me section at the end. This wrap-up in itself is spectacularly late but alas, I do my best. But for now, let’s look at the awesome reading that I got up to last month!

I really enjoyed the books that I got around to reading in December. I set myself a challenge for my TBR to try and read the remaining 10 books I received at Christmas 2019. I often get lots of books for Christmas and one of my yearly goals was to finish Christmas and birthday books (so you can look forward to this type of reading challenge again in May for my birthday this year). Ten books was super ambitious but I had high hopes. Initially, I thought I’d be having a quiet month for work (anticipating maybe three days of work each week) but I ended up working full time and rapidly lost reading time. But nonetheless, I thoroughly enjoyed all 8 books (yep, I know, amazing) that I managed to get to!

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A Breath of Snow and Ashes
by Diana Gabaldon

Genre: Historical Fiction
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Published: September 2005
Publisher: Delta
Pages: 993 [paperback]

Will I continue the series? YES

Review to come

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Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys

Genre: Historical Fiction
Author: Ruta Sepetys
Published: March 2011
Publisher: Speak
Pages: 352 [paperback]

Review to come

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Chasing the Shadows
by Maria V Snyder

Genre: Young Adult, Sci-Fi
Author: Maria V Snyder
Published: November 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 439 [paperback]

Will I continue the series? YES

Review to come

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The Toll
by Neal Shusterman

Genre: Young Adult, Sci-Fi [dystopian]
Author: Neal Shusterman
Published: November 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 625 [paperback]

Review to come

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Lioness Rampant
by Tamora Pierce

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Author: Tamora Pierce
Published: November 1988
Publisher: Atheneum
Pages: 362 [paperback]

Review to come

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Words on Fire
by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Genre: Historical Fiction
Author: Jennifer A. Nielsen
Published: October 2019
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pages: 336 [hardback]

Review to come

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The Penguin Lessons
by Tom Michell

Genre: Non-fiction
Author: Tom Michell
Published: December 2015
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 240 [paperback]

Review to come

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Eragon
by Christopher Paolini

Genre: Fantasy
Author: Christopher Paolini
Published: June 2002
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 503 [paperback]

Will I continue the series? Yes

Review to come

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Genres Read

Pages Read

Total: 3850

Goodreads Reading Challenge

107%, or, 64/60 books

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December was a funny ol’ month. I had a BIG exam at the very beginning of the month and am still waiting on results to come out to know how I went. And then it was an epic Christmas rush which was both fun and stressful. I watched an inordinate amount of Christmas movies (stuck to my self-made movie schedule, go me) and did some very festive baking.

I then got banned from sitting at my computer which, if you follow my posts, you’ll know about. And that caused a massive backlog for blogging and other things (the sheer number of book reviews that have not been done is stressful). But I shall plod on and catch up.

I won’t talk too much about the future as my January wrap-up will hopefully follow hot on the heels of this wrap-up but I am going to be very busy this year and am revising schedules accordingly. Nothing over on my Instagram will change, but my YouTube will likely go down to one video (instead of two) per week and I’m still a little undecided how to manage blogging. Currently thinking I will simplify it to reviews and wrap-ups/hauls whilst I’m pushed for time. But we will see how that goes!

Movies I watched in December:

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Tick!  December done! 

What was your favourite book that you read in December? 

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~~ Kirstie ~~

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