Highlights From Books Completed This Month
📚 The Little Spacecraft That Could by Joyce Lapin – Children’s Nonfiction – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚 The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict – Historical Fiction – ⭐⭐⭐
Average Rating: 3.75⭐s
Books Read but Not Completed This Month
📚 The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk – Contemporary Mystery
📚 Christmas in Oklahoma by Linda Rosser – Nonfiction; Marked as DNF on 1/7 due to disappointment with the quality of the stories and overall loss of interest.
Goals Follow-Up
No formal goals were posted this month.
Other Highlights
Top Posts: Looking Back & Ahead | WWW Wednesday 22.1 | Twinning Book Cover Challenge
Music of the Month: The Jazz Hop Cafe and Cory Asbury
Movies Watched: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) ⭐⭐⭐⭐; Skyline: the Space Elevator Documentary (2015) ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5; Hubble (2010) ⭐⭐⭐.5; A New Year’s Resolution (2021) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛰Followed along with the Webb Telescope
🧶 Made some progress on the blanket I am knitting to donate (update post here), although at this point I do not think I am going to finish in time for the official blanket drive.
🎹 I got a (digital) piano!
⛸ My favorite American figure skater performed to one of my favorite piano pieces and won the national title (and a spot on the Olympic team).
My other favorite programs from this year’s national championships include Ilia Malinin’s free skate, Gracie Gold’s short program, and Karen Chen’s free skate.
📑 Started another semester of grad school. I discussed the classes I am taking in this post.
Although there is not as much to report this time, I’m thankful for this in-between month. It’s been a mostly decent time of orienting for the new year. COVID has unfortunately had more of an impact on my job this month than in recent months, but we’re keeping on as best we can.
What were the highlights of January for you?
Until the next chapter,
Jana
Reviews From the Stacks 
The skating was just so fun! 🙂 I read the most joyful book on FaceTime with my grands yesterday and we laughed and had so much fun. It might be my best read all month! (Lost Words by Robert MacFarlane)
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That sounds wonderful!
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Couldn’t access the skating in the UK. You seem to have had a Good month. Getting a new computer and seeing the start of the fruit trees going in are the highlights of last month.
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I didn’t realize the videos were location restricted – sorry! Sounds like there were good things in your month as well.
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