Thank you again to Sam @ Taking on a World of Words for hosting this weekly meme. I’m pretty sure you all know the drill by now, but in case you don’t and you want to join, here are the three questions we always answer:

1. What are you currently reading?
2. What did you recently finish reading?
3. What do you think you will read next?

I’m also a day late but I wanted to sayyyyyyy:

• The Ancestor – Danielle Trussoni

As of the moment I am drafting up this post, I am on only one book right now. How is this even possible when I typically juggle at least two books at a time? Well, that’s because I finished two books before I started writing this post. Now I’m trying to figure out which books to replace it with that aren’t on my possibility pile for the Astrology Readathon. Since that starts in March, I’m trying to make sure I don’t accidentally read anything I want to read early, so I can still count it towards the readathon.

I should be finishing this book tonight though if I play my cards right. Last I checked, I have less than 100 pages left, and I’m 90-something percent complete, so that will be another book down for February. I’m pretty proud of the progress I’ve been making so far toward my overall reading goal. I still feel like I haven’t been reading as much due to the energy I’ve been putting into my new job, but it’s a good payoff seeing as I’m still so truly happy with this new career path. So, while I haven’t had much time to dedicate to my reading passion, I’m still very much involved in books and the community.

• Murder at Archly Manor – Sara Rosett
• The Bones of Ruin – Sarah Raughley
• Murder at the Mayfair Hotel – C.J. Archer
• Girls of Paper and Fire – Natasha Ngan
• A Phoenix First Must Burn – Patrice Caldwell
• The Dragonet Prophecy – Tui T. Sutherland
• dayliGht – Roya Marsh

I didn’t finish all of these books in this past week. These are all the books I’ve finished for the month of February so far. Since it’s been ten million years since I posted a WWW Wednesday, I figured I could at least recap what I’ve read for the month. If you want to know what I read for the month of January, check out my Goodreads page, or you can ask me and I’ll list them out for you. So far all of these books were audiobooks, and I’m not mad about it. Most of the books I consume are in audiobook format, and now that I’m consistently using Storygraph to actually track which formats I’m using the most, I should be able to get a better idea of just how many books I listen to in the year. I also can’t wait to review my monthly stats using Storygraph.

I’ve also gone back to using a reading journal so I can have a visual trophy to look at and use to keep track of my reading habits. It’s very minimal right now, and that’s okay since I know that I’m not very artistic at the moment. I’m just glad that I’ve been consistent with it so far, and I’m looking forward to building that habit so it becomes second nature to use.

• Death in D Minor – Alexia Gordon
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches – Sangu Mandanna
• Our Shadows Have Claws – Yamile Saied Mendez & Amparo Ortiz
• The Half Life of Valery K – Natasha Pulley
• Siren Queen – Nghi Vo
• What’s Coming to Me – Francesca Padilla

I’m not going to talk about the fact that I literally come home with books every time I leave the library after work. Now that I work there, there’s absolutely no excuse for me not to come home with books. However. It’s becoming a bit of an obsession now. I have over 40 books checked out, not including the audiobooks from Hoopla and Libby, and I’m going to have to start returning them eventually. Not only do two of these books have holds on them, but one of them is an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) that I will HAVE to return on time if I don’t want to lose ILL privileges. So yeah, I listed these next books in order of priority because of when I have to return them by. Hopefully I can finish this current read so I can move on to the ones I need to read.

Do y’all like weekly posts like this? Recapping the books that you are reading and stuff? I know I’ve been on and off doing them for a while now, and I also see people do similar things on Bookstagram, but I was curious if people like reading them. I know for me, it’s cool to see what my friends have read or what they plan on reading, and it gives me more books to add to my TBR. I don’t always read the posts though when they happen, but that’s mostly because I don’t end up getting to them on time. Spending a few minutes a day going through posts should be a good destressor for me though, so I’ll have to schedule that in my day.

See y’all tomorrow!