Sunday Mews: January Wrap Up and February TBR List Poll

I am linking up to the Sunday Post hosted by the wonderful Kim of Caffeinated Book Reviewer, where participants recap our week, talk about what we are reading, share any new books that have come our way, and whatever else we want to talk about. I am also linking to Stacking the Shelves hosted by the great Team Tynga's Reviews and Marlene of Reading Reality a meme in which participants share what new books came their way recently. I am linking up to Nicole of Feed Your Addiction's Monthly Wrap-Up Post, where any book bloggers who write monthly wrap-up posts can link up and visit other bloggers to see what they have been reading.  

New to My Shelves: 

I did not have much luck during my last visit to Barnes and Noble, but the gift cards I received for Christmas were burning a hole in my pocket. I ended up ordering three books that were lingering on my wish list:

Moriarity by Annelie Wendeberg

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liz Mundy

Goodnight From London by Jennifer Robson

And I could not pass up a recent Amazon sale for Goodreads award winners, picking up copies of:

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Roa

Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'Brien

Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy Book 1) by Tade Thompson

What I Am Reading: This winter/spring I am participating in a read-along of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. I am behind, I am afraid, but will be catching up shortly. I am also reading  a domestic thriller, Annie Ward's Beautiful Bad, which I just started.

What I Am Watching: I was able to finish watching the available episodes of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix. It's a definite twist on the teenage witch from my younger years, but I quite like the new, darker version. I also caught the third season of the science fiction show, The Travelers. Movie wise, I watched Albion: The Enchanted Stallion, which felt like it should have been based on a children's book. I was hoping Mouse would have been more interested in it because it seemed like the type of movie she would enjoy, but her attention was elsewhere for most of it. It was not anything fancy, if a little silly. It still made me tear up at the end.  Just Add Magic has a new season out, and so Mouse and I got started on that one this past week. It is a show we both enjoy.

Off the Blog: January found Mouse and I sick for a good part of the month. We both ended up missing a few days of school/work as a result, and are still fighting the lingering cough and congestion. Girl Scout Cookie Season is now officially underway, and Mouse is preparing for next month's Greatest Showman auditions. My mom's hip replacement surgery went without a hitch, and she is doing well. Our Christmas tree is still up. At least it is bare, I suppose. Nina appreciates that we have left it up. She gets her daily exercise in climbing up to the top and down again frequently.

Here is what I finished reading in January:

• This Side of Murder (Verity Kent, #1) by Anna Lee Huber
• April Fools' Fiasco (A to Z Mysteries, #9) by Ron Roy 
• The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
• Judy Moody Girl Detective (Judy Moody, #9) by Megan McDonald

I was hoping to finish my January TBR poll winner in January, but it did not quite work out that way. I was not online much, especially the second half of the month hence why I did not post much. I hope to be more present in February. I have missed catching up on your news and seeing what you all are reading.

This Past January's In Reading Mews:

• 2018: A Year in Review
• Sunday Mews: Happy New Year! (December Wrap Up & January TBR List Poll!)
• January's TBR List Poll Winner
• Waiting to Read Wednesday: The Night Tiger/Daughter of Moloka'i/Inside Out & Back Again

Tell me what you have been up to! What are you reading, listening to and watching? How was your January? Do you have anything planned for this month?

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Thank you for helping me decide what book from my TBR collection I should read next:

My TBR List is a meme hosted by the awesome Michelle at Because Reading. It’s a fun way to choose a book from your TBR pile to read. The 1st Sunday of every month, I will list 3 books I am considering reading and take a poll as to which you think I should read. I will read the winner that month, and my review will follow (unfortunately, not likely in the same month, but eventually--that's all I can promise). 

I was thinking the other day that I have not kept up with my desire to read more science fiction as of late, and these three titles have been calling to me in particular. I hope you will help me decide which one I should read next.

Nightchaser (Endeavor, #1) by Amanda Bouchet

Tess Bailey: the galaxy's Most Wanted. Captain Tess Bailey is in deep trouble. She and her crew are on the run, pursued by a tyrant who'll take them dead or alive. Tess's best hope is a tall, dark, and much-too-appealing stranger, Shade Ganavan, who says he can help her. But his motivations are far from clear...

Shade Ganavan: arrogance, charm...and that special something that makes you want to kick him. With the dreaded Dark Watch closing in, what Tess and Shade don't know about each other might get them killed...unless they can set aside their differences and learn to trust each other before it's too late. [Goodreads Summary]

Stars Uncharted by S.K. Dunstall

A ragtag band of explorers are looking to make the biggest score in the galaxy in the brand-new science fiction adventure novel from the national bestselling author of Linesman.

Three people who are not who they claim to be:

Nika Rik Terri, body modder extraordinaire, has devoted her life to redesigning people's bodies right down to the molecular level. Give her a living body and a genemod machine, and she will turn out a work of art.

Josune Arriola is crew on the famous explorer ship the Hassim, whose memory banks contain records of unexplored worlds worth a fortune. But Josune and the rest of the crew are united in their single-minded pursuit of the most famous lost planet of all.

Hammond Roystan, the captain of the rival explorer ship, The Road, has many secrets. Some believe one of them is the key to finding the lost world.

Josune's captain sends her to infiltrate Roystan's ship, promising to follow. But when the Hassim exits nullspace close to Roystan's ship, it's out of control, the crew are dead, and unknown Company operatives are trying to take over. Narrowly escaping and wounded, Roystan and Josune come to Nika for treatment--and with problems of her own, she flees with them after the next Company attack.

Now they're in a race to find the lost world...and stay alive long enough to claim the biggest prize in the galaxy. [Goodreads Summary]

Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse, #1) by Jim C. Hines

When the Krakau came to Earth, they planned to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species.

This would have worked out better for all involved if they hadn’t arrived after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know—your standard apocalypse.

The Krakau’s first impulse was to turn their ships around and go home. After all, it’s hard to establish diplomatic relations with mindless savages who eat your diplomats.

Their second impulse was to try to fix us.

A century later, human beings might not be what they once were, but at least they’re no longer trying to eat everyone. Mostly.

Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos is surprisingly bright (for a human). As a Lieutenant on the Earth Mercenary Corps Ship Pufferfish, she’s in charge of the Shipboard Hygiene and Sanitation team. When a bioweapon attack by an alien race wipes out the Krakau command crew and reverts the rest of the humans to their feral state, only Mops and her team are left with their minds intact.

Escaping the attacking aliens—not to mention her shambling crewmates—is only the beginning. Sure, Mops and her assortment of space janitors and plumbers can clean the ship, but flying the damn thing is another matter. As they struggle to keep the Pufferfish functioning and find a cure for their crew, they stumble onto a conspiracy that could threaten the entire alliance.

A conspiracy born from the truth of what happened on Earth all those years ago… [Goodreads Summary]

Thank you for voting! I hope you all have a wonderful week! Happy Reading!

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