Sliding into 2023...and Color-Coding and Stars

Yes, slid right into 2023 with nine books read...and, today, as we begin Day 3 of Ice Days!  For the most part, I have enjoyed what I read.  That is the beauty of books clubs and challenges:  the books I read are not the books I would necessarily have ever self-chose; then, I get enough into them, an investment of time by that point, that I determine just to finish (see books with fewer stars!).

So Far...in '23 - Color-Coding

This I started on the last book in January as a visual way to see which books I read in what months.  Blue for January...cold in Arkansas!  Pink for February...love month has arrived!

1. The Red Palace by June Hur (Independence County Library)*****
2. The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (ebook)****
3. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (Paper Chase Book Club and 12 Books/12 Friends)*****
4. Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (IC Library/The Girlfriend Bookclub)****
5. The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (IC Library/12 Books/12 Friends)*****
6. Bookends by Zibby Owens (ebook/Friends and Fiction/January)**
7. A Wish for Winter by Viola Shipman****
8. Bookish People by Susan Coll (Lyon College/January)***
9. Where Shadows Meet/Anathema by Colleen Coble (Lifeverse)*****

****** = Five Stars

1. The Red Palace by June Hur (Independence County Library)
2. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (Paper Chase Book Club and 12 Books/12 Friends)
3. The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (IC Library/12 Books/12 Friends)
4. Where Shadows Meet/Anathema by Colleen Coble (Lifeverse)

**** = Four Stars

1. The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (ebook)
2. Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (IC Library/The Girlfriend Bookclub)
3. A Wish for Winter by Viola Shipman

*** = Three Stars

1. Bookish People by Susan Coll (Lyon College/January)

** = Two Stars

1. Bookends by Zibby Owens (ebook/Friends and Fiction/January)