2014: January wrap-up

Wow, 2014 started with a bang on the blogging front, with 8 books, and 6 of them were awesome!
If the weather had been less dreadful, I may have spent less time indoors, but life having been reduced to a dull black and white for weeks, with so many days too cold for me to dare go out, nothing else remains than devouring more books…

Here is what I read in January:

8 books, with 1893 pages, that is, 61 pages/day.

Among those, 1 was an audiobook: 9:58 hours, that is, an average of 19 mn/day.

1 fiction:

We, by Michael Landweber – upcoming review

2 historical fiction:

Isabella Braveheart of France, by Colin Falconer
Anvil of God, by J. Boyce Gleason

4 non-fiction:

Marie Antoinette’s Head, by Will Bashor
God Matters, by Peter Vardy – upcoming review
Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light, by David Downie – audiobook, upcoming review
Heads Above Water, by Stephanie Dagg – upcoming review, at the end of February

1 historical mystery:

The Kabbalist, by Yoram Katz – upcoming review

My favorites this month:

***

Reading Challenges recap

Audiobook: 1/12
Boo ks on France: 5/24
Eboo k challenge: 1/25
Histori cal fiction: 3/25
Japanese literature: 0/2 – starts in June
New au thors challenge: 8/50
My Kind of Mysteries: 1/20
TBR challenge: 0/12
What’s in a Name: 1/5
Where Are You Reading?: 11/50 – to be finished in 2014
Australian Literature Month: 0/1

Total of books read in 2014 = 8

Number of books added to my TBR in January= 29

***

Blog recap

6 of the 8 books read this month were received for review
18 readers signed up for my Books on France Challenge, will you join too?
I organized 6 giveaways this month. All the winners have been notified, I will soon post the list of the latest ones .
France Book Tours completed 26 book tours, and there are 9 scheduled. If you are interested in reviewing books on your blog for France Book Tours, just fill in this short questionnaire. You can find all kinds of genre: historical fiction, romance, mystery, LGBT, nonfiction, etc.