January 2017 Monthly Wrap-Up: Posts, Discoveries, Challenge Updates, and more!

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Well the first month of 2017 has officially come to a wrap and so far it has been a pretty good month! I celebrated my blogs first month anniversary today! I've read some great reads, made progress towards some challenges, caught up on a couple shows, had some fav shows return, and getting more of a handle on this blogging thing aswell as being active on social media! It's been fun! Okay so this is my first monthly wrap up post and I am not exactly sure how I want to do this. It may change a bit over a few months as I get a groove on things and figure out how it works for me. Right now I am thinking I am just gonna share my recent changes or updates, posts this month, What I have read, Challenge updates, and some recent bookish news that made me happy!! So here we go!


Recent Changes/Updates:
  • Name Change. When first starting out just a bit over a month ago I went by Amanda Margaret Writes. It's just what I first came up with but it just didn't feel right and I didn't like using my name so I switched it to Hearts Reading. I like it much better.
  • New Feature. I started a new feature called Bookish Playlist. I really love making playlist to books on Spotify and I though hey why not share them on here! I only have one post so far but hopefully will share more very soon!

January's Posts:

My January 2017 Read's:
Click titles below to go to my reviews!


2017 Reading Challenge's Update's:


2017 Monthly Motif:
January 2017 Motif-Diversify your reading! Kick the reading year off right and shake things up. Read a book with a character (or written by an author) of a race, religion, or sexual orientation other than your own.

2017 Retellings:
I read 4 books towards this challenge this month. They were all apart of a series but represented a different fairytale each. I enjoyed it immensely and highly recommend! It is the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. The four fairytales represented are Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Repunzel, and Snow White.


2017 Beat the Backlist:
The four books I read for the fairytale retellings will also qualify for this challenge as they have been on my TBR for a long time. I have had a friend who had been begging me for months to check them out. I am so glad I finally did!




2017 Flights of Fantasy:
Again my 4 books also qualify for this challenge! These 4 books were the best choices this month! Helped me knock out some on every challenge and I enjoyed them immensely!


January 2017 Bookish News, Events, or Things I Geeked Out Over!!
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events tv series was released on Netflix!!! I have only had the time to catch 2 episodes so far, but I am immensely enjoying it! I watch it with my 7 and 5 year old who are also loving it. I loved these books so much as a kid. It's great to share the show now with my kids. Once we have watched the whole season I will be doing a review on here. Have you seen the show yet? What do you think?
  • Shadowhunters Season 2 premiered. I still of course think the books are way better but I can't lie. I am really getting into this show. I love Katherine as Clary, and Magnus and Alec are just beautiful! The changes don't bother me to much and I am really looking forward to seeing Sebastian come in and the direction they will take the show! Do you watch Shadowhunters on Freeform? What do you think?
  • The Lunar Chronicles coloring book came out!!! I was so happy about this. I had just very recently became addicted to this series so when I saw this it was a bust buy! I am almost done with my first coloring and I will share it! I also am thinking of doing a giveaway for this soon. I am thinking two copies, one on here and one on my twitter. I will have more details coming within the next week.
  • Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth came out. When I heard the Divergent Author was coming out with a new book I just knew I had to get my hands on it! Divergent will always be one of my favorite series and I can't wait to see what Veronica comes up with in her new book!
  • Wire and Nerve by Marissa Meyer came out. This actually was just released today on January 31st! I should have my copy in the mail soon. I am so excited to see Iko from the Lunar Chronicles again. I just adore this world and the characters!
  • A Court of Wings and Ruin the 3rd book in The Court of Thrones and Roses series by Sarah J Maas had it's cover reveal! Click here to see it. I am dying to get my hands on this book. ACOTAR is one of the most intriguing and beautiful paranormal romances ever. I can't get enough of it! I even got a quote from book 2 as a tattoo. I really like the cover of this one, it fits the others nice. I am glad they went with the color green too. It's beautiful.  What do you think

Amanda Margaret

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