February Reading Wrap-Up Video

As promised, here is the video, my very first in a hopefully long career of bookish videos. Note: This is my very first video ever filmed and edited, so it might not be the greatest. Also, it took me two days to edit it because my program kept crashing and losing all my hard work.

Have you read any of these books? If you have, tell me what you thought!

If you have some video filming or editing suggestions, tips, or tricks, I would love to hear about them!

Thanks for reading and watching!

January Wrap Up, February TBR

Books read in January (physical copies)

January was a great month. I read a lot of good books, keeping up a pretty good reading pace, and even got to use my rarely used Kindle. I swear, if I was allowed to bring it to work it would get more use out of it, especially since it's so hard to get books over here. While I didn't read nearly as fast as the first part of December, I kept up a decent and consistent pace, even though I didn't get many books read during the first part of the month. I read a total of six books, plus a short story and a novella on the Kindle.

Unfortunately for my budget, I also bought a lot of books this month. It was mostly paperbacks for Urban Fantasy series that I wanted to catch up on, but some hardcovers snuck in there as well. And since I've been spending so much money on books, I've decided that I need to go on a diet. I'm not going to quit altogether, because there are a lot of books coming out this year that I want to get, but I'm going to cut down as much as I can. Because I have four and a half shelves of books that I still need to read, so I honestly don't need any more.

February TBR, Minus One

For the month of January, I have seven books that I want to read. It's kind of a lot, but I have two books I'm borrowing and I ended up not reading most of my TBR for January, so it's kind of carrying over to February. So this month I'm going to try to read the following:

• The Little Lady Agency, by Hester Brown - This one is on loan from my Mom. We have an agreement, for every one of my books she reads I have to read one of hers.
• The Summoning, by Kelley Armstrong - Still on loan from my co-worker. I'm kind of struggling to get into this one.
• Hollow City, by Ransom Riggs - The sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children.
• The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak - Carryover from January. I ended up going the reading club because they meet in the middle of the day, when I'm sleeping, but I still want to read it before I see the movie.
• Late Eclipses, by Seanan McGuire - Urban Fantasy, book four, about faeries, need I saw more?
• Opal, by Jennifer L. Armentrout - Sequel to Obsidian and Onyx.
• Control, by Lydia Kang - Not pictured because it hasn't arrived yet. I will be reading this with a readalong on GoodReads with the BookTube community.

Have you read any of these? If you have, tell me what you think in the comments.

Thanks for reading!

December Reading Wrap-Up, January TBR

On the first of each month, I'm going to post a little wrap up of everything I read the last month, and list out what I hope to read for the coming month.

Some of the Dec2013 books I read

December was a good month for my reading. At least, the first half was. I read six books in the first twelve days, which may be a personal record of some kind. The second half of the month wasn't quite as good, because I got stuck on a sequel that wasn't quite as good at the first one. And I lost a lot of reading time because of that. Eventually I skipped it and moved on, and I finally finished the month off with just one more book, bringing the total up to seven.

I bought a lot of books in December. And when I say a lot of books, I mean a lot. I wasn't keeping count of how many I bought, but I went to the English bookstore in Seoul at least three times, and got a bag full each time. And one trip I went to two bookstores. So my pile of books to read kind of grew a lot more than I wanted. But, I have a good feeling about this coming year. It's going to be a good year.

Jan2014 TBR

Now, normally I don't have any particular order for what I read. All my books sit together on the shelf and I pick out what strikes my fancy, much like at a library. But since I have so many books I have to read this year, I decided that I need a little bit more structure. Obviously it won't be too ridged, because I don't read like that. But it will at least be something like "I have to read something from this stack of books this month instead of just anything."

So for January I'm going to try to read the following:

• The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak - I'm joining a book club at the local library, and this is what they're starting this month.
• Onyx, by Jennifer L. Armentrout - Because I just finished the first book and I'm really excited to see what happens.
• Scarlet, by Marissa Meyer - I'm a little nervous about this one, because I don't know how much of the previous book, Cinder, I remember.
• The Dream Thieves, by Maggie Stiefvater - Because I really should have read this sooner.
• The Summoning, by Kelley Armstrong - I don't own this book, I'm just borrowing it from a co-worker, so I kind of have to read it as soon as I can.