December is always a busy reading month as I try to complete as many reading challenges as possible. And in this month I managed to get to a couple of books that I have been meaning to read all year. With my parents being ill for most of the month and their dog also being really sick (who I looked after for part of the month), this was definitely a low-key kind of month for me. So lots of reading was done!
Books I Read
- Wolf Moon
- Private Scandals
- Lords of the Sith
- The Christmas Book Hunt
- Affogato (BrewBiz #1)
- X Marks the Spot
- Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2)
- The Last Murder at the End of the World
- River East, River West
- Issued to the Bride: One Navy SEAL (Brides of Chance Creek #1)
- Beautiful Bastard
- The Living Mountain (The Grampian Quartet #4)
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
- Master & Apprentice
- The Snow Ball
- The Christmas Stocking and Other Stories
- The Little Bookshop on the Seine (The Little Paris Collection #1)
- The Robin: A Biography
- Horrorstör
- Dead of Winter
- Christmas on Firefly Hill
- Fantasy’s Othering Fetish
- Issued to the Bride: One Sergeant for Christmas (Brides of Chance Creek #6)
- Midwinter Murder (The Agatha Christie Collection #1)
- Jane Eyre
- Lovers Leap
- The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor #1)
- A Christmas Carol (The Christmas Books #1)
- A Shameful Revenge and Other Stories
- Just Stab Me Now
- Open Book
- Mangos and Mistletoe
- A Maigret Christmas: And Other Stories
- Playing the Ace (Secret Service #2)
- What You Are Looking For is in the Library
- Vengeance in Death (In Death #6)
- Food for the Dead
- The Christmasaurus (The Christmasaurus #1)
- The Battle of Life (The Christmas Books #4)
- That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human (Mead Mishaps #3)
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Fathoms: The World in the Whale
- A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea #1)
- Rebeeca
- Lacuna
Favourite Book of the Month
This was a fairly easy decision to make. I am easily won over by a nature book with beautiful prose and reflections on history and humanity. I listed to The Living Mountain on audiobook but I definitely want to get a hard copy of it.
Least Favourite Book of the Month
The trouble with reading to certain prompts of a reading challenge is that, while you may find enjoyable books you would never have picked up anyway, you also can find some really dreadful books. I was torn between two choices for this category but X Marks the Spot wins out over Lovers Leap for the simple fact that it managed to take a protagonist that was reasonably likeable at the start of the book and make her absolutely dreadful by the end, as well as completely stupid. She should have died on the flipping island.
Reading Updates
I managed to finish a few reading challenges this month due to my picks of books (even if they didn’t always work out). I read one ARC, five books off my December TBR, 18 books I already owned, 2 books from my 2024 TBR but only 7 books by authors of colour.
Normally I would do my 2024 wrap up here but I think I’m going to do it as a separate post.
How did your December go?
