Welcome one, welcome all! We are here for the January wrap up that I promised you would come hot on the heels of my spectacularly late December wrap-up. And sometimes I do come through on my promises. January was a good reading month! And with it, I have decided to revamp my look here at Upside-Down Books and make everything a little more polished. Let’s hope nothing glitches whilst I fiddle with coding (because surely something will go awry). I have also not forgotten about my promises of an end of year wrap-up (especially as I didn’t do one of those last year). So there will be charts aplenty to come of what I got up to in 2020!
I managed to read a whopping seven books in January which feels like a great accomplishment. I was mostly ploughing through review copies because I’m definitely behind on those, and it was really satisfying to get a bunch of those done! I also enjoyed all the books I read, so huzzah for a good reading month!
What I read
GAME CHANGER
neal shusterman
MERCURIAL
naomi hughes
NOVEMBER 9
colleen hoover
IN CONTROL
jane monckton-smith
A HEAP O’ LIVIN’
edgar a. guest
On the blog
On Youtube
Statistics
Genres read
Pages read
Total: 3090
Goodreads Goal: 7/65 ~ 11%
So January was interesting! I spent most of the month away from my computer so not that much blogging (or any sort of content making) happened. Which was tragic. I really missed this! But we’re back now! I have a brand new, fancy sit/stand desk to help manage the snarky back situation which is super exciting, and super helpful too.
January was also spent mostly working with the exception of a small getaway that the family managed to squeeze in! Naturally, thanks to COVID, there aren’t that many places one can go but we did a little holiday down to the wine region in our state and that was lovely. It was a great time to put my feet up and get a bunch of reading in.
I also had great news that I’ve landed an internship at a wonderful local publishing house which I’m very excited about! This is a dream come true so I can’t wait to see what the future holds. I hinted in my previous wrap-up that some changes to content schedules may happen, and they will. With the internship on my hands (as well as work and uni and life in general) I will be cutting back how much content I’m putting out to avoid StReSs. I feel like blogging is always a bit hit and miss for me these days anyway so heck, who’s that worried anyway?!
The plan is to get book reviews done as well as wrap-ups, hauls and monthly releases (if I can manage the latter, that post is actually hugely time consuming to research!). I won’t be attempting any extra recommendation lists or top ten tuesdays, but I will when things eventually calm down again! It’s a big year for uni for me, writing my thesis and all, so we will see what the tide brings in.
The only other news is that as I write this (the very beginning of February), WA is going into a full lockdown thanks to a small outbreak of COVID. Hopefully by the time this is up the situation is no worse and normal life will resume, but once again, we will see what happens. That does mean I’m doing some work from home, but hopefully will have time to do more reading! Let’s have a look at what films I saw last month:
A KNIGHT’S TALE
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
THE NICE GUYS
MULAN
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