January 2023 Bookish Bingo 🎊

[brireads]

No Bingo for me this month. But that’s okay! I still hit my goal at 10 books!

[joyblue]

Bingo!

[gretchbetch]

I am LOVING the Moose Springs series! (Mistletoe and Mr. Right)

[gretchbetch]

I wanted to start out the New Year a little stronger, but I also moved states and started a new job, so I’m giving myself a pass

[vvena]

[sciencebookworm]

[kaydeeyaleni]

Bingo!
First in a series: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Property is inherited: A Man Called Ove
Multilingual protagonist: Firekeeper’s Daughter
Body positive theme: The Other Black Girl
Picked up for the cover: Circe

[emilyhiggins]

• omens bite (borrowed from library)
• Suddenly you (mistaken identity)
• Book lovers (small town)
• The magnolia inn (inherits property)
• Educated (book club)
• Under one roof (first in a series)
• Stuck with you (protagonist in stem)
• Light lark (debut book)
• Act your age, Eve Brown (body positive theme)
• Royal heir (one person on cover)
• Below zero (free book)
• The house in the cerulean sea (new to you author)
• The American Roomate experiment (picked for cover)
• Book of night (fictional setting)
• American duchess (American history)
• #awestruck (punctuation)
• Spare (nonfiction)
• Hex you (meant to read in 2022)
• Finlay Donovan strikes back (published in January)
• Terms and conditions (multilingual protagonist)
• Love on the brain (first book read in 2023)
• King of wrath (gold or silver on cover)
• Sweet temptation (new to you author)
  
  

[rundooksyrun]

[briarrose1021]

LOL. I will freely admit that I bought this book and its sequel just because of their covers. They were too good to pass up.
I also have The Wizard’s Butler in my TBR, and I’m looking forward to reading it. I hadn’t heard of the other two, but I have now added them to my TBR. lol

[kitaabpremi86]

[808bookdr]

Finally got a couple this month!

[beebeeleelee]

Favorites:
The Stormlight Archives Series of books (Words of Radiance, Oathbringer, Rhythm of War - the .5 books were ok, but not favorites), The Martian (lived up to the hype), The Kite Runner (Also lived up to the hype and made me cry like, a lot)

Really good:
What I’ve read of the Lady Astronaut Series so far (The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky) - I, for sure, would take Milltown too.
The Radium Girls - I feel like as a nation we’ve learned no lessons from this horrible tragedy and still let corporations run by horrible people get away with horrible things. That being said, the book was great.
I’ve now enjoyed a handful of books by Jess Lourey who is an author with several books available through Kindle Unlimited. They are usually pretty freaking dark, but she does a great job of keeping up my interest.

Disappointments:
A Master of Djinn - I was kind of excited about this one, I had just recently watched the genie episode of the X-Files and was in the mood for a similar story. This one didn’t fulfill what I was looking for.
John Dies at the End - Ugh, man. This one just begs you to pick it up and read the bizarre tale. It is a bizarre tale but one that I did not enjoy.

[abookishbutterfly]

Favorite of the month: The Cabin at the End of the World

[caf2011]

[kwkich]

[satay12]

[yaindulgences]

First - Just one day
J - Jasmine Zumideh Needs A Win
New - Reader I Murdered Him
2022 - 99 boyfriends of Micah summers
January - 6 times We Almost Kissed and The One Time We Did

First row

[bookchik15]

[gretchbetch]

Thanks for the great reviews; I love the way you set up your favorites vs the disappointments!