Monthly Recap. January

Goodbye, January! 🥳  January was a month filled with plans (so many to-do lists), but then something happened (you can read all about it below). I do have some very bad luck -- I've been wondering about who has jinxed me when I was born?! Anyway, I really hope February will be a better month and something good comes this way.

What I've been up since in January:

🌻 I tested positive for Covid -- I'm part of that lucky bunch that caught it without leaving home because I live with people who were not working from home and had to deal with irresponsible co-workers who go to work with symptoms (coughing and fever doesn't always have to be the first symptoms). Ps. We have a good health care system, so that person could have missed working days. As a matter of fact, you received your full-salary while you are in quarantine.

🌻 Remember me telling you about my first international conference of the year? I presented my paper, but I did it while experiencing some Covid symptoms. It was not easy...

🌻 Due to getting sick, all my plans for January were put on hold. I'm dying to share with you all the books coming out in 2021 that I can't wait to read.

🌻 Which also means I'm still very much broke. If you wish to help this PhD student to keep working on her thesis through these dark times, you can do it by using her Scrib referral link. Not having to spend one hundred euros on academic anthology does help a lot.

🌻 I received my teaching certificate! 🥳 Now waiting for an opportunity to give it good use.

🌻 I read five books this month. I'm hoping to finish another book before the day ends.

 

• I joined Top Ten Tuesday and shared 13 amazing middle grade adventures that I can't wait to read.
  

• I read and reviewed my first ever physical ARC, Cast in Firelight by Dana Swift. Regarding the world-building, please, take my opinion with a grain of salt. Also, please, read own-voices reviews to be sure that there is nothing wrong regarding representation.

 

I bought Winter by Marissa Meyer back in December (it was a Christmas present). Due to Covid and Brexit, the book only arrived at my mailbox this month. I already read it, loved it, and will without a doubt mention The Lunar Chronicles on my thesis.

 

How was your January? Were you also jinxed when you were born?

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