Fabulous Book Fiend

Tuesday, 5 January 2021

My Reading Year 2020

I've enjoyed making these posts the past couple of years and so why not do it again this year? I feel like there won't be as many travel highlights but hey ho! I'm also going to be discussing this on my channel so make sure not to miss that!

January

I read 30 books this month

I did a couple of fabulous buddy reads this month.

I participated in Bout of books which was key to the amount of books that I read.

I also took part in the Get S**t done readathon this month and completed all the challenges

This was my favourite...

February

I read 19 books this month.

I ended up reading lots and lots of long books though which is quite out of character for me and also doesn't really fit with it being the shortest month.

I Reread 3 books this month.

This was my favourite...

March

I read 36 books this month.

I read a lot of poetry this month just like last year

I was deep into my Paige Toon Rereadathon this month

I reread 4 books

These were my favourites...

April

I read 27 books this month.

I also read more ebooks this month thanks to a lot of April releases and Netgalley

I reread 5 books this month.

I took part in the social distance book fest which was SO much fun!

This was my favourite...

May

I read 26 books this month.

I participated in Bout of Books again this month

I didn't read a whole lot outside of the Bout of Books readthon!

This was my favourite...

June

I read 22 books this month.

I reread 2 books this month

I read a lot of YA this month

These were my favourites...

July

I read 28 books this month.

I took part in The Reading Rush

I read so many favourite books this month!

These were my favourites...

August

I read 24 books this month.

I read a lot of nonfiction this month

I did the Bout of Books readathon and mainly read audiobooks

This was my favourite...

September

I read 15 books this month (less than this month last year)

I caught up on the Lisa Jewell books I had unread.
We did a lot of road trips this month so audiobooks were key again

I reread 1 book

These were my favourites...

October

I read 23 books this month.

I read way more eBooks this month than I normally do

I reread 1 book

Book vs movie videos took charge this month

This was my favourite...

November

I read 21 books this month.

I did nonfiction November and read 10 nonfiction books

I took part in the Gilmore Girls Readathon

I feel like I stuck well to my TBR this month

This was my favourite...

December

I met my Goodreads Goal!

I read 17 books this month.

I took part in the romance takeover readathon.

I participated in Vlogmas, posting a video every day up until xmas eve!

These were my favourite...

All in all I read 291 books this year and I simply made it through the year so I'm pretty chuffed with that!

Monday, 4 January 2021

January TBR: My January & February Release Reading Recommendations (New Books!)

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December 2020 Reading Wrap Up

Well I went into December with high hopes that I could hit 300 books before the year was out and the first and last week of the month were great reading weeks for me. Those weeks in between though? Not so much... Oh well I ended the year on 291 books and that's not too shabby if you ask me.

I think part of the hinderance was that I was doing vlogmas and that took up a lot of my time but it was also a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed the live shows that I did and I will definitely be doing more live shows on my channel so look out for those soon!

As always I will break my wrap up down into ebooks, physical books and audiobooks and leave links to any reviews I have already posted.

eBooks

My Review

Physical Books

Audiobooks

My Review

Some of This Month's Other Videos

Sunday, 3 January 2021

Top 10 Favourite & Least Favourite Films of 2020

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Bout of Books 30 Sign Up and TBR

It's that time of year again, it's time for the first Bout of Books Readathon of the year. This is for sure my favourite one because it allows me to get a great kickstart on my reading...

Here's all the info from their site:

The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 4th and runs through Sunday, January 10th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 30 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.

For Bout of Books 30, no daily challenges will be hosted on our blog. Instead, we’ll have reading-in-place times!

Reading-in-place times, or reading sprints, happen daily on Twitter. If you don’t have Twitter, make note of these times and report your reading progress on your platform of choice.

All reading-in-place times last 30 minutes.

Daily Reading-in-Place Times

📚 10 a.m Eastern | 7 a.m. Pacific

📚 4 p.m. Eastern | 1 p.m. Pacific

📚 10:30 p.m. Eastern | 7:30 p.m. Pacific

Twitter Chats

(chats last approximately one hour)

TZC = Time Zone Conversi

Monday: 9 p.m. Eastern | 6 p.m. Pacific

Saturday: 11 a.m. Eastern | 8 a.m. Pacific

I'm also an expert this year so make sure you're following all my socials for sprints and general encouragement!

TBR

I always like to make these readathons 7 in 7 weeks so I will aim to read 7 books. If you've already seen my January TBR these books will all be familiar!

Ebooks

Audiobooks

And a couple of others just in case I get through these...

Friday, 1 January 2021

January 2021 TBR

Well it's a new year, feels full of possibilities doesn't it? And there are soooo many 2021 release that I want to read so let's get to them!

As always this TBR will feature January releases, February release and then some other books I want to get to including library books and book to movie adaptations.