After a rather slow November, December was a pretty successful month for me, both on the reading and listening front. While I didn’t meet my yearly goal of 300 books, I still read 225 overall – which considering grad school and not having all the time in isolation (or as I termed it COVID-cation) that I had in 2020 was still pretty good!

Top Reads/Listens for December were:

• The Forest of Vanishing Stars – Kristin Harmel – I’d previously read about the Bielski Brothers during WW2, so this was an interesting take on a similar story
• The Unhoneymooners – Christina Lauren – I’m pretty sure i’m one of the few people that until now had never read CL)
• Written in the Stars – Alexandria Bellefleur – i’m loving all the f/f romances that are being traditionally published right now
• Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness – David Casarett – this was a total random pick-up from the library, because I was looking for a book with the word hotel in the title and the second book in the series (one of my early 2022 reads) met that requirement, but I had to read this one first.
• The Dry/Force of Nature – Jane Harper – I rarely go direct from one book in a series to the next, but I did this with Jane Harper’s Aaron Falk series – I can only hope that she is planning on writing more about him in the future.

What great books did you read in December?