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January 2022 TBR

Hello everyone, and may I offer you a 3-week late welcome to 2022! ;) How are we doing with those New Year's Resolutions? Any reading/writing goals?

I didn't make any writing goals (still trying to figure out where I'm going with that, TBH), but I did decide to make reading a priority this year and to post it online to try and hold myself accountable. This is my TBR for January (but more like all of Winter 2022, as I am HIGHLY unlikely to finish all of these before the end of the month).

I'm also going to be reading Beyond Her Calling by Kellyn Roth (review to come!!!), and I'm thinking about rereading Tiger's Quest by Colleen Houck (I reread Tiger's Curse last winter and it was SUCH a lovely form of nostalgia to revisit one of my all-time teenage favorites). To finish all these might take me till March or so, but that's okay. I'm excited for all of them. (Update: I did finish Winter's Child in the first two weeks of the month, so I'm doing all right so far!).

Have you created/tackled your TBR for this year? Any book in particular you're looking forward to? Would love to chat with you in the comment section. :) 

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