
November 2021 wrap up
Hello bookworms!! It’s time for the November 2021 wrap up.
I don’t know about you, but when I started writing this back in early December, I felt stuck in this weird “How the hell is it almost 2022? I’m still writing 2020 on things”, but also being “Geez, can we just skip to 2022 already because I am so done with 2021.” Which was a really weird place to be. Because December so far had been 18 minutes long, but also 4 months long. ,I really needed some down time. Which THANKFULLY, I got over the last couple of days. (You can probably tell from all my extra blog posts that have been dropping.)
And with that in mind, let’s look at what I did in November!!
November 2021 wrap up
Look, I don’t really know what happened or how it happened, but somehow I read 16 books in November. My reading this year is so inconsistent it’s outrageous. However, after being 1 book behind my Goodreads schedule at the end of October, I was 6 books in front by the end of November. Which was excellent news!!
SYMBOLS
Symbol |
Key |
Symbol |
Key |
Symbol |
Key |
โ๏ธ | fantasy | โฑ | contemporary | ๐ | sci-fi |
๐ฐ | historical fiction | โค๏ธ | romance | ๐ | crime / mystery |
๐คก | thriller | ๐ | classic | ๐ | dark academia |
๐บ | paranormal | ๐ | urban fantasy | ๐ | smut |
๐ชด | non-fiction | ๐ฅธ | humour | ๐ | biography / memoir |
๐ค | BIPOC author | ๐ฃ | own voices | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | queer rep |
๐ง | mental health rep | โฟ๏ธ | disability rep | ๐ | body positivity |
๐ | dark themes | ๐ฎ | nerd references | ๐ | sports references |
๐งธ | middle grade | ๐งโโ๏ธ | young adult | ๐ฉโ๐ฆณ | new adult / adult |
๐ | hardcover | ๐ | paperback | ๐ฑ | ebook |
๐ฅ | graphic novel | ๐ง | audiobook | ๐ | gift |
๐ | backlist title | โฐ | ARC / review copy | ๐จ | Aussie author / #loveozya |
๐ | signed / personalised copy | ๐ช | multiple copy | โ | read |
๐ฏโโ๏ธ | buddy read | ๐ | reread | ๐ซ | DNF |
Emoji table for reference
the books
Book |
Author |
Series |
Year of publication / Symbols |
Rating |
Cover |
War | Laura Thalassa | The Four Horsemen #2 |
2019 โ๏ธ โค๏ธ ๐บ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Famine | Laura Thalassa | The Four Horsemen #3 |
2020 โ๏ธ โค๏ธ ๐บ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Fence: Disarmed | Sarah Rees Brennan | Fence novels #2 |
2021 โฑ โค๏ธ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Signs of Love: Winter | Anyta Sunday | Signs of Love #0.5 |
2021 โฑ โค๏ธ ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Signs of Love: Spring | Anyta Sunday | Signs of Love #0.6 |
2021 โฑ โค๏ธ ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Of Princes and Promises | Sandhya Menon | St Rosetta’s Academy #2 |
2021 ๐ ๐งโโ๏ธ ๐ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Silenced | Crystal North | Catalina University #1 |
2021 โค๏ธ ๐บ ๐ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
The Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood | ย |
2021 โฑ โค๏ธ ๐ฎ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Ice Planet Barbarians | Ruby Dixon | Ice Planet Barbarians #1 |
2015 ๐ โค๏ธ ๐ ๐ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Barbarian Alien | Ruby Dixon | Ice Planet Barbarians #2 |
2015 ๐ โค๏ธ ๐ ๐ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Take Me to the River | Kaci Rose | ย |
2021 โฑ โค๏ธ ๐ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Accidentally Engaged | Farah Heron | ย |
2021 โฑ โค๏ธ ๐ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
You Deserve Each Other | Sarah Hogle | ย |
2020 โฑ โค๏ธ ๐ |
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ | ![]() |
Lore Olympus Vol 1 | Rachel Smythe | Lore Olympus #1 |
2021 โค๏ธ ๐ ๐ง |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight | Janet Evanovich | Stephanie Plum #28 |
2021 ๐ ๐บ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
Aurora Burning | Amie Kaufman / Jay Kristoff | The Aurora Cycle #2 |
2020 ๐ ๐ง โฟ๏ธ |
โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ โญ๏ธ | ![]() |
the faves
The winners for November were a lot of contemporary romances. If you’ve seen my Top 5 books of 2021 post, then you already know that You Deserve Each Other was my favourite book of the year.
However, I REALLY enjoyed reading Accidentally Engaged and The Love Hypothesis. In fact, if I was still doing half ratings, both books would have been 4.5 stars. They were witty, funny, poignant, and the romances were adorable. I’d highly recommend both of them.
November was a weird month. We started to come out of lockdown in that last weekend of October, but I didn’t really go back into the office properly until mid-late November. So, I spent most of it still at home. I did start venturing out for things around mid-month though. And I got my 6-month booster vaccine at the end of November too.
gaming
In November it was basically just a continuation of all the things I played in October. More Sims, more Spiritfarer, and more Cozy Grove.
I downloaded Disco Elysium on the Switch, but one of my friends wants me to stream it when I play, so I haven’t started it yet… In fact, now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I uninstalled Streamlabs on my laptop, so I might need to check that soon!
D&D campaigns seem to be a bit on the fritz at the moment. We were due to start another campaign in December, but it’s likely that will pause until January. And our regular Tuesday night game moved to Wednesday and we had to skip a couple of nights because some of the team already had plans that weren’t changeable. (It was me โ we had movie tickets booked for premieres.)
tv and movies
Continuing the MCU (+ other Marvel based movies) rewatch I’ve been doing with my friends, in November we watched Venom, which was a rewatch for me. I really pushed for this one ahead of the older Spider-Man films because I knew I’d be seeing Venom 2 at cinemas before Spider-Man: No Way Home.
We had two cinema dates in November:
- Eternals
- No Time to Die
Other things I watched:
- Descendants: The Royal Wedding
- Baby Sitters Club season 2
- New Amsterdam season 4 eps 1-10
- Dynasty season 3
- Gordon Ramsayโs Kitchen Nightmares season 1 (UK)
- The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
- Whatโs Your Number?
- Red Notice
- Bombshell
- Jungle Cruise
- Hidden Figures
- First Daughter
- What a Girl Wants (rewatch)
- Can You Keep a Secret (rewatch)
- Pride and Prejudice (2005) (rewatch)
- Jane Eyre (rewatch)
- All Too Well short film
I have to say, I was really disappointed with Eternals. The only other MCU movies I can remember being THAT disheartened by after watching were Thor: The Dark World, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. I’m not sure if it was because I felt like they were trying to do way too much and introduce way too many characters, or if it fell flat for other reasons. But, it certainly didn’t hit the bar I was expecting it too.
November was a pretty sad blogging month. Top 5 Tuesday topics were mostly about tropes, so that was fun. Topics were top 5:
- tropes I can’t get enough of
- tropes I dislike
- bad tropes done well
- books I haven’t read yet in 2021, and
- *freebie* โ but I did recent reads because I needed something easy ๐
Apart from this and the normal haul and wrap-up posts, November was a pretty quiet blogging month!!
Did I catch up on my October blog hopping?! You bet I did!! I then even blog hopped in November!! Here are some of my fave posts of yours!!
Recommendation lists:
- Marie @ Drizzle and Hurricane books wrote a list of her most anticipated YA books for 2022, AND her most anticipated contemporary romance books for 2022.
- Kat @ Bibliosmile listed 22 YA Robin Hood retellings (and I am here for this!!)
- Nyx @ Drizzle and Hurricane books told us about 10 YA (and 2 bonus adult) fiction books about celebrities
- Vera and Sabrina @ Wordy and Whimsical gave us book recommendations based on Taylor’s Red album (Taylor’s version)
- Jayati @ It’s Just a Coffee Addicted Bibliophile made a list of 20 debut novels from 2021 that need to be on your TBR (if you haven’t already read them)
Discussion posts:
- Tracy @ Truffles Literary Wonders gave us 10 positive affirmations for bookworms (and I adore this post so much)
- Sam @ Fictionally Sam talked about why the kindle app is better than the e-reader (and I whole heartedly agree with everything in this post)
- Malka @ Paper Procrastinators discussed choosing ratings for books, and shared lessons learnt after a year as an affiliate for bookshop.org
- Charvi @ Not Just Fiction talked about why trying to profit from reading might not be a good idea
Reviews:
- CG @ Paperfury reviewed Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone ๐จ (and you all know how much I love that book)
- Marie @ Drizzle and Hurricane books reviewed A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey
- Kal @ Reader Voracious reviewed All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody
- Meaghan @ Hail and Well Read reviewed Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
- Charvi @ Not Just Fiction gave us 4 reasons to read The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
- Sam @ Fictionally Sam reviewed Crave by Tracy Wolff
- Marie @ Drizzle and Hurricane books reviewed If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich ๐จ
How was your November?


10 Comments
Kristina
Oh wow, 16books! Congrats! happy to hear they were mostly enjoyeable too- I still need to read the love hypothesis & you deserve each other.
I played maybe the first hour of spirit farer.. but erhm- I was playing with a “friend” that im not on speaking terms with- soo xd But I have also being on the Sims train lately too!
meeghan
I highly recommend starting over and playing as a single player for it if you have the game. Spiritfarer is so good!!
And I hope you love The Love Hypothesis and You Deserve Each Other!! ๐
Kristina
He had the game- what I saw in the beginning left me kinda eh..
meeghan
Oh no!! Itโs kind of like Stardew valley x side quests for Zelda. But also itโs got this beautiful message of moving on and celebrating life. And thereโs no fighting, which is another reason that I love it. ๐
Kristina
My problem, especially with farming sims too- is the slooow beginnings ๐ just let me plaaaay!!
meeghan
Yeah… because this one has an ending it’s pretty slow paced throughout. But, good quests!!
Here-Be-Dragons
16 book?! Amazing! ๐คฉ The Eternals sounds like such a let down from what Iโve heard, which is so disappointing.
I enjoyed the Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf! (But I havenโt played the game yet so take that as you will haha ๐ )
meeghan
Ha, I haven’t read the books or played the games. But I did watch my husband play the games. It’s funny the different portrayals of the characters in the game vs the show. I like Triss so much better in the game, but I’m a bit ambivalent about her in the show…
Reading At Teatime
You just reminded me that I haven’t watched the second series of The Babysitters Club yet! Need to get round to watching that!
meeghan
Itโs so sweet. I love how they take each book and just make it slightly more modern ๐ฅฐ