December 2021 TBR

I can't believe it's December! This year went so quickly... bought an acreage, had our second baby, bought a farm dog, and I changed jobs at the beginning of 2021! So much change and so many positive things! I do miss the two weeks on and two weeks off schedule at my old job during COVID-19 - but I wouldn't change my new job for that old schedule.

While working on my Read in November 2021 post I realized that it doesn't make sense for me to say HAPPY [Insert Month] when I'm posting it at the beginning of the next month! This is what I get for only getting a couple of hours of sleep a night these last 8 months, things don't come to me as quickly.

I'm going to start putting the books I plan on reading at the beginning of each month and then keep my end-of-the-month book review.

Title: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander Book 9)

Author: Diana Gabaldon

Published: November 23, 2021

Pages: 960

I am so excited to start reading this book. I have been reading this series since college and it was the last series my grandma and I read together before she passed. This series has a lot of emotional comforts and I'm just so amped and scared shitless to start his 960-page adventure!

Book Blurb:

Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.

It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible.

Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep....

Title: The Death of Jane Lawrence

Author: Caitlin Starling

Published: October 5, 2021

Pages: 366

This sounds like a post-war Jekyll & Hyde story and I am pumped to start it! What originally attracted me to this book was the cover, I think it is absolutely stunning. I'm hoping I'll be able to get to this one after Outlander (I fear it'll take me the whole month to read).

Book Blurb:

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town.

Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man—one who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him. By morning, Augustine is himself again...

Title: The Troop

Author: Nick Cutter

Published: February 25, 2014

Pages: 529

This has been on my TBR for a very long time. I bought it when I was getting out of my horror/thriller stage of books. But I'm back in this genre and this is the first one on my list!

Book Blurb:

Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip—a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite—shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry—Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. A horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the infected…or one another.

Title: In A Holidaze

Author: Christina Lauren

Published: October 6, 2020

Pages: 307

I am part of an online book club on Facebook called The Literary Coven and this is the December pick. This book club started in November with Survive The Night.

Book Blurb:

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.

But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world—the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. Show me what will make me happy....