DECEMBER 2021 WRAP-UP

Another great reading month to end the year!
In 2022, I plan to focus almost exclusively on my TBRs, and I started to do that a bit in December, with some very enjoyable titles.

Lots of things on the blog as well:

• The recap of my Hercule Poirot Project
• The recap of the Books in Translation Challenge
• I joined a new to me meme: Friday Face Off, focusing on book covers
• And for 2022, I posted my TBR for the Japanese Literature Challenge (January-March)
• And my TRB for Bout of Books (January 3-9)

And I have tried writing at least a few words after most of the books I read – definitely a trend I want to follow in 2022!

📚 Here is what I read in December:

15 books:
8 in print 
=  with 1,217 pages, a daily average of 39 pages/day
7 in audio
= 40H13, a daily average of 1H17

5 in literary fiction:

1. Oscar et la dame rose, by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt – reread to prepare a French student for the IB exam
2. Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges – for The Classics Club
3. Les Mystères de Paris, Tome 2, by Eugène Sue – audio for The Classics Club
4. Les Mystères de Paris, Tome 3, by Eugène Sue – audio for The Classics Club
5. Une Rose seule, by Muriel Barbery – audio

4 in mystery:

1. L’Ombre chinoise (Inspecteur Maigret #13), by Georges Simenon – read with a French student – for The Classics Club
2. Regarder le Noir, by various authors – audio
3. Sauve-la, by Sylvain Forge – audio
4. The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie – video/text for The Classics Club

3 in children books:

1. The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess, by Tom Gauld
2. Watercress, by Andrea Wang
3. The Beatryce Prophecy, by Kate DiCamillo

2 in historical fiction:

1. Katherine’s Wish, by Linda Lappin – for review for France Book Tours
   You can request this book until tonight!
2. The Samurai’s Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama

1 in scifi:

1. Noor, by Nnedi Okorafor

MY FAVORITE BOOKS THIS PAST MONTH

READING CHALLENGES & RECAP

Classics Club: 97/137 (from November 2020-until November 2025)
Japanese Literature Challenge: 12 books
#20BooksofSummer21: 37/20 books
Total of books read in 2021 = 165/120 (137.5%)

Number of books added to my TBR this past month = 33

OTHER BOOKS  REVIEWED THIS PAST MONTH

I posted notes on each story of this collection.
Just click on the cover and scroll down to access all the posts

GIVEAWAYS

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MOST POPULAR BOOK REVIEW THIS PAST MONTH

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MOST POPULAR POST THIS PAST MONTH
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Six degrees of separation: from New England to Paris

BOOK BLOG THAT BROUGHT ME MOST TRAFFIC THIS PAST MONTH

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Check here (video!)
the books I plan to read in January!

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How was YOUR month of December?

Nicole at Feed Your Fiction Addiction
has created a Month In Review meme
where you can link your monthly recap posts
Thanks Nicole!