Hi friends! Time to start wrapping up the 117 days that was January (at least parts of it felt that way!) and plan for February.

First, let's talk Book Club:

• For our Book Club read of Lies of Locke Lamora, we are going to have a wrap up discussion this Saturday, January 31 at 8 PM EST (New York City time) on Discord. If you are interested, swing on by. Pop in, pop out, whatever. I can also see about recording it for anyone who misses it, but can't guarantee that at this point given this will be my first attempt at setting one of these up on Discord, and would need to make sure participants are cool with that.

• For the February read of Project Hail Mary, discussion channels are all set up on the Discord server, so head on over once you get reading! We had some amazing discussion for LoLL, and the format seemed to work really well. Remember if you want to order any of our book club books, you can click them on one of my bookshelves here on Bindery and order through Amazon or Bookshop, or you can check out my bookshop.org affiliate page (link on the main page here).

Next, let's talk Monthly Challenges:

• For our January "Find the Time" challenge, we've done our time audits, came up with a plan to read more, picked a book, and now we're implementing our plan. I'll be putting a post up in Discord for folks to chat about issues or how it went!

• If you want to be eligible for the monthly $25 bookshop.org gift card prize for January, you need to comment on this post or the Discord post with your overall impressions from your time audit, what you read in January, and what your plan was to incorporate more reading in your life!

• For February, the challenge is "read every day." I'm going to run that in StoryGrapgh. It does not matter how much you read or listen, as long as you log a minute of listening or a page of reading each day, that counts! I am going to run it out of StoryGrapgh, and you can sign up here! As with the January challenge, participants will be entered for a random drawing for a $25 bookshop.org gift card at the end of the month. All the details will be on the page through the link.

Hope everyone has a great week!