How is the first month of 2019 over so quickly? Wasn’t it news years just yesterday?! Maybe that’s just me though… Anyway, on with the wrap up!
Books I Read
📚 A Gathering of Shadows – what a cracking start to the year with a VE Schwab.
📚 Legendary – because when I unwrapped it at Christmas we all knew it wasn’t going to stay unread very long.
📚 Northanger Abbey – just finished this a few days before the month ended and it was brilliant 😍
The Best Posts I Wrote
✍️ 2019 Releases I’m Excited For – the list has probably grown considerably since I wrote it but I still really enjoyed looking at the great year of books ahead!
✍️ Best Books I Read in 2018 – then I had a little look back at the great books just read.
✍️ Legendary Review – all my opinions jotted down for this excellent novel that I was dying to read!
✍️ An Interview with Author Rick Lenz – my first author interview on my blog! Was very exciting to try interviewing someone!
Best Blog Posts I Read
🧦 A Review of the Wicked King – was great to see what this blogger thought of this novel, and so close to its release!
🧦 Saturday Spotlight: Enchantee – I am so excited for this novel and very pleased this blogger chose to feature it, although it has made my need to read it even more pressing!!
🧦 Sunshine Bloggers Award – not only was I very honoured to be tagged but this bloggers answers are great!
🧦 On The Come Up Review – I wish I could have the finesse this blogger shows in this review, and when can I read the book 😍
Things I Did
🍕 New Year’s – pizza, board games and old friends? Oh yes the perfect way to welcome in 2019.
🍕 A 6 mile walk and Pub Lunch – we all walked down the river to the next village over and had a pub lunch, which was amazing. My friend’s from London have taken to calling my house their country residence!
🍕 Top Golf – I went to Top Golf with some mates, where you wack golf balls into rings and get points based on if you hit them. It’s sort of like a Wii game in real life!
🍕 Watched jam lava spill over my boyfriend’s father – my boyfriend’s uncle bakes these amazing cakes and it was his four year old son’s birthday. He asked for a dinosaur volcano cake which meant jam lava sprayed out the top of the chocolate volcano and sadly covered a few party guests.
Let’s Compare Notes
How was January for you? Did you do anything exciting? Did you write a wrap up? Feel free to drop a link or opinion in the comments section!
Books, Life and Other Oddities 
Are you going to read Finale when it comes out?
I did write a wrap-up for January: http://www.brookereviewsnsweeps.com/2019/01/january-2019-monthly-wrap-up/
I guess the highlight for January for me would be finishing the first draft of my book! My New Year’s was way less exciting than you… I left work at 11 PM and then went home in time to see the ball drop. Woo. But the year’s been pretty good so far.
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Oh yeah definitely! Thanks, I’ll check it out! Well done! That’s so difficult!! Wow you work really late- what do you do? Do you get paid more for working New Year’s? We actually missed midnight we were so busy with games so I wouldn’t worry too much about it 😂
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January was a great month of reading for me. I always feel like January is the bst reading month as everything is like shiny and new. I’m hoping my productive reading continues. Here was my link… https://neverjudgeabookbyitscover.co.uk/2019/02/january-wrap-up-and-february-plans.html 🙂
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Ah that’s good! I sort of like that aspect but also find it quite stressful as I’ve usually got exams (but not this year!!) Ooh I hope so too, thanks for the link!
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I need to finish the Shades of Magic trilogy! 📚
Pizza is the perfect New Years food. Then again, I think it’s the perfect everything food, ha ha. 🍕
I hope February treats you well. 👍✨
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Ah me too!! Oh yeah, pizza is just the perfect food really. You too!
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why th =e heck havent i read legendary yet?!
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Haha hopefully soon! Did you enjoy Caravel?
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yes!! but didnt love it.
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