Tilda Read in January 2025: The Stats

Matilda Pinto
Feb 4, 2025
2 min read

Three books on a bed. The books are Circus of Wonders, Yellowface and Far From the Madding Crowd. The bed has a blue and yellow pattern on it.

A strong start to the year for me. I'm on track to reach my goal of 50 books this year, and I read my one book in French for this month. In January I managed to read lots of different genres. I also had a real variety of ratings, everything from 1 star to 5 stars.

I had a great month for shopping as well - one trip to Waterstones with my husband and my mum, where I picked up Yellowface by R. F. Kuang, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Boreum.

Then a trip to Cambridge with my bestie, where I got Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden in an Oxfam bookshop, and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa. from Heffers, which was like being in a dream and I cannot wait to get back there!

I also started using Libby where you can borrow e-books from your local library. I've used this to get the last social media apps off my phone and make the swap to reading e-books instead. So now I'm reading two books at once; one physical book and one e-book.

Anyway here's the stats:

Total: 6 books

Pages Read: 2,154 pages

Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal - 5 stars

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang - 4 stars

Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - 4 stars

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney - 3 stars

The Changeling by Victor Lavalle - 2 stars

Le Rayon Vert by Jules Verne - 1 star

Historical Fiction: 1

Romance: 2

Horror: 1