February 2020 In Review:

Good Morning my loves,

It's the end of the month and it's time to account for our recent accomplishments and failures. How did you do this month?? I did pretty well actually. First I ended up being able to read 5 audiobooks before Scribd limited me again, but that's ok because I finally was able to gain access to Hoopla from my previous library card (it had expired I know *shock*) and they had so many more good books on audio that I just had to gobble up.

I felt so motivated to read this month and enjoy myself so let's look at what happened when that worked out:

Book Hauls:
 I had a few pre-orders come in, however, I'm going to do a quarter haul ( January to March)  since it's not a lot of books.

Reviews on the Blog This Month:
I'll be honest I wasn't as prepared as I should have been for the past two months, lots of reading but no motivation to write reviews, so no reviews. Sorry.

Read So Far This Year: 3

Books Read This Month: 21

Yearly Goal: 225   

Monthly Goal:   13

 Balance: 201

Key:
Blue means the book added during the month. Red= DNF (Did Not Finish) Black= Original Titles at the beginning of the month.

Mocha Girl Reads Book Club:

• We're Going To Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union UNREAD I don't own it and wasn't able to borrow it in time. 

Nora Roberts/ JD Robb Challenge:

• Black Rose ✓
• Red Lily ✓

Brenda Jackson: NONE THIS MONTH.
20 Books To Read in 2020:

• Hate To Want You (Forbidden Hearts #1) Alisha Rai

Perpetual Author Challenge:

• "Second Time Sweeter" Beverly Jenkins ✓
• Beverly Jenkins
• Christine Feehan

Finish It Series:

• Night Huntress by Yasmine Galenorn  ✓
• Demon Mistress by Yasmine Galenorn
• Bone Magic by Yasmine Galenorn 
• Harvest Hunting by Yasmine Galenorn 
• Courting Darkness by Yasmine Galenorn
• Shaded Vision by Yasmine Galenorn 
• Shadow of Night (All Souls Book 2)
• The Book of Life (All Souls Book 3)

Freshman Series Challenge: INCOMPLETE

• Freshman Dorm (Freshman 1) 

Men Made In America Challenge: INCOMPLETE

• Call It Destiny (Alabama) by Jayne Ann Krentz 
• Borrowed Dreams (Alaska) by Debbie Macomber

ARC:

• Awaken The Dragon by A.C. Arthur INCOMPLETE
• Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
• The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
• Temporary Wife Temptation by Jayci Lee

Black Out Challenge:

• Tears of the Tiger Sharon M. Draper INCOMPLETE
• Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
• American Street by Ibi Zoboi
• Second Time Sweeter by Beverly Jenkins

Erotica Books:

• Under His Kilt by Melissa Blue ✓
• Honor Bound by Joey W Hill (RE-READ

Non-Fiction Books: INCOMPLETE

1. Religious Book

Book Reviews To Look Forward to Next Month:

Everything I read this month.  I had an amazing reading month and can't wait to share my thoughts on the books.

TV Shows Binged:

All three seasons of The Good Place. Wow what a show. I loved it, it took me a few episodes to get into it, but once I did???!!!

checkout the preview:

What'd you read this month?? Share in the comments down below and let's discuss. Good luck with your goals next month!!

January 2020 In Review

I've never been this happy to see the back of a month the way I'm happy for January to go. Sweet Gods this month was like 90 days in a month, the amount of foolishness that kicked off. I can't deal.

For those not aware of RWA imploding starting in December right before Christmas and then falling apart in the new year. There is so much foolishness that started this and it's ridiculous that people are willing to let their racists feelings matter more than the feelings of Black and other authors of Color. Then of course the press got the information wrong like always.  

Then let's talk about Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan having to leave the royal family due to all the racism aimed at them. 

Then tons of personal things as well and January can kick jagged rocks in flip flops. 

I got only three books read this month because I ended up watching tons of tv to deal with the foolishness in my life.

I literally marathoned Sabrina Chilling Adventures in two days. I have been re-watching GRIMM because Nick and Adalind are so cute together and this was one of the best endings to a series I have seen in a long time.

Book Hauls:

• Stacking The Shelves ( First Edition of 2020)

Reviews on the Blog This Month:

• Audiobook Review: Connections In Death ( In Death #48) by J.D. Robb
• Audiobook Review: Vendetta In Death ( In Death #49) by J. D. Robb

Books Read This Month: 3
Yearly Goal: 225   Monthly Count: 13   Balance: 222

• Re-Read: Velvet Ties by Susie Charles (ebook)
• Connections In Death by J. D Robb ( audiobook)
• Vendetta In Death by J. D Robb (audiobook) 

That's it. Scribd limited my audiobooks for the month and as I'm having more difficulty with my vision I wasn't able to read on the kindle as much this month so no real reading went on.

Book Reviews To Look Forward to Next Month:

It's Black History Month so I will be featuring some of my favorite romance writers and their works. And the Black Romance Author Feature will make it's return 

How'd you do?? Did you have a better reading month?? Share what you read in the comments down below and good luck in February with your reading goals. 

February To Be Read

My goal this year is 225 books, if I break that down it comes out to 19 books per month, with 5 books a week. Totally doable in my books, so as the proverb says, you can eat an elephant one bite at a time, so here are my first few bites:

Last month I really just focused on setting up my planners, my vision board and my new year. I barely read anything. Plus, Scribd limited what I could listen to just 2 TWO books. I'm still salty about it.  It's a new month and I'm willing to forgive them because I'm only paying $8.99 a month and getting access to so much, but I'm still side eyeing them.

Key:
Blue means the book added during the month. Red= DNF (Did Not Finish) Black= Original Titles at the beginning of the month.

Read So Far this Year: 3

TBR Pile 

225

TBR Balance:
223

Mocha Girl Reads Book Club:

• We're Going To Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union 

Nora Roberts/ JD Robb Challenge:

• Black Rose ✓
• Red Lily ✓

Brenda Jackson:

• .
• .

Perpetual Author Challenge:

• "Second Time Sweeter" Beverly Jenkins
• Beverly Jenkins
• Christine Feehan
• .

Finish It Series:

• Night Huntress by Yasmine Galenorn  ✓
• Demon Mistress by Yasmine Galenorn
• Bone Magic by Yasmine Galenorn 
• Harvest Hunting by Yasmine Galenorn 
• Shadow of Night (All Souls Book 2)
• The Book of Life (All Souls Book 3)

Freshman Series Challenge:

• Freshman Dorm (Freshman 1) 

Men Made In America Challenge:

• Call It Destiny (Alabama) by Jayne Ann Krentz 
• Borrowed Dreams (Alaska) by Debbie Macomber

ARC:

• Awaken The Dragon by A.C. Arthur
• A Cowboy To Remember by Rebekah Weatherspoon
• .

Black Out Challenge:

• Tears of the Tiger Sharon Draper
• .

Erotica Books:

• Under His Kilt by Melissa Blue ✓
• .
• .

Non Fiction Books:

1. Religious Book

What are you going to be reading my loves?? Share in the comments down below if you have read any of these and as always

Happy Reading