Halfway Through January 2025 And What I'd Read

Once again, I am trying to track my reading for the year. Check back in six months to see if I'm still successful! Hahaha! One thing to note is that, while I'm always reading, I'm not always reading interesting or different books. When life gets stressful, I fall down the JD Robb/Nora Roberts rabbit hole and who wants to see months of "In Death" books again?!!?

All that is to say, while I'm starting off strong with my 2025 reading, there are absolutely no guarantees that it will continue. You've been warned... Also, for those of you who are new around here, I break my reading up into two monthly posts as I read a lot and I feel like one long post of 20-30 books is overwhelming. So this is what I'd read up until January 15th. (And I've finished three more books since then.)

 This was my first read of 2025. To be honest, I started it at about 11:00pm on December 31 but I'm counting it all as January 1. I was completely sucked into this book, especially the second part where it was all emails, and I couldn't put it down. I would have rated it 5 stars on Goodreads but I rarely rate romantic comedies 5 stars. Don't ask me why...

This was a cute little book about a woman who builds up a community around her in a small town in England, plus it's about books, and there's romance. What's not to like? It was super fun to read.

I was looking for random books, available now, to load onto my Kobo for the holidays. I read the first one in this series, The Hot Flash Club, and this was the follow up. It was fun but light.

This was a novella from a Colleen Hoover series and I wish I hasn't read it. This is the worst book I've read in awhile. The writing was bad. The story was bad. It was just bad.

Kate Quinn did it again! I've completely loved all of her books (except maybe The Huntress) and this was another really great book! I learned about something I hadn't before, I enjoyed the story lines, I just really loved this book!

This was just a fun, light book. I've read a lot of them in January :) Regency romance and characters I enjoyed make for a good January read.

This was another "available now" book I'd downloaded for the holidays, but then I didn't get to it. While I didn't love the plot a ton, this book did make me want to visit Nantucket for a few days. Maybe one of those days I'll get there.

 

 This was my book club book for January. I didn't love it, like other people in my book club did, but I think that's because I didn't understand it. I think this is a book everyone should read, instead of Huck Finn, but that doesn't mean I liked it. I just think it's an important book to read, if that makes sense. But don't pick this up if you're looking to be entertained, or for a light read.

So that's what I've read, thus far, in January. One of the books I've finished since Thursday night was another 5 star read so I think I'll have some more good recommendations in another few weeks.

Also, I'm always looking for new suggestions of books to read, so share something good you've read lately below.