January 2021 Haul!

I'm going to ease my way back into the posting schedule so I don't have much of a schedule right now. So let's start with a book haul. January wasn't a very busy month in the book department and most of them I got today! I'm going to try to go in order of the books I got in chronological order. 

Book of the Month

Since this month we were able to get the book of the year book I was able to get two books. I opted to get a free credit instead of one of the books of the year. I ended up picking two of the month's choices! I got both The Survivors by Jane Harper and The Dating Plan by Sara Desai.

I picked this one up because I thought it would be interesting, it's a new to me author, and I'm really in the whole thriller genre right now. I just think it's going to be really good. 

The Dating Plan just sounded like a cute little book to read and something that would require no effort. I actually picked up this book this month too and it was such a fun read. I'll talk more about my thoughts about this one tomorrow in my monthly wrap up.

Walmart Spur of the Shop

So we've all been there when we are at the grocery store and your like I'm just going to go see what they have here today down the book aisle. Most of the time I actually just look and fight the urge to buy something new but I was feeling like I needed something to feel better and buying things makes me feel better. Probably shouldn't but it does and we are just going to ignore that for now. To be fair I think I could have fought the urge to buy something new if I didn't see the huge Nora Roberts selection they actually had and found a book that I'm really excited to pick up. Roberts has a HUGE backlog and I've done really good at reading her new stuff but I really like a lot of her backlist stuff too and this one sounds amazing. I picked up Montana Sky by Nora Roberts. It was originally published back in 1996, I was two when this originally came out. But anyways this book is so floppy and a fun paperback and to be honest I've missed these floppy books. It's not your typical mass-market book either, it's more of a floppy reprint. Anyways the book sounds amazing and I've been dying to pick it up!

Books-A-Million Shopping Spree

Finally my last haul of the month. I picked up 5 books! I honestly am so proud of myself to wait so long before spending my Christmas money. I had a lot of books that I was looking forward to this month and I want to pick up more new releases this year so I feel like I kind of hit a middle ground with this shopping spree. I got the 3 releases that I wanted this month PLUS 1 that isn't supposed to release until February but they had it out already. So let's start with the book that was on sale. Books-a-Million now sales used books and I LOVE IT! I just wish they would put them all in their own section instead of mixing them all in with the other books. Anyways I got the hardcover edition of Come Sundown by Nora Roberts. I have no clue what it's about but it gives me the vibes that her summer releases feel and I'm here for it. It came out back in 2017 and I remember my mom reading it but we don't have that copy anymore so when I saw this one on sale for $10 I had to snatch it up! 

I actually picked up another book by Nora Roberts however it's under her other name, JD Robb! This is the book that I'm shocked they even had out. This is the Faithless in Death! This is the book that I thought wasn't coming out until next month, I even had it down on the schedule for February 9th and even on Goodreads, it says that so I don't know why it's out but I wasn't questioning it. I love this series. I'm actually rereading the whole series and my goal is to read at least 1 a month and so far we have been doing so well with that goal. I can't wait to get to this one! I really want to get one signed by her and I might have to give in and order one with her signature instead of getting one signed in person. 

So now let's get into the three new releases that I had on my January calendar. That I got to pick up today! I had heard amazing things about these first two books. I've been looking forward to reading The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe. It's a young adult book that follows the daughter of a con artist during a bank robber! It sounds amazing and I think it would be interesting to see how this one plays out. I haven't read anything by Sharpe before and I haven't been in the young adult world for a little while so I'm ready to jump back into it really soon.

This next one is the other one that I heard a lot of things about since it came out and that's Shipped by Angie Hockman. I think it will be really interesting and I've been wanting to see what happens in this book. I used to go on cruises a lot before COVID and I just think it will be interesting and it's right up my alley so we are going to have to give this one a try.

Finally my last book I got today I'm a little curious about and I think it's going to be really interesting but sound a lot like a hallmark movie I watched the other day. This one is The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon. I really haven't heard much about this book since it came out but I've been dying to read it for forever and I can't wait to pick it up.