Monthly Reads

Oh hey - it’s March! This year is truly rushing by but I’m extra excited to be entering March aka “new Hunger Games month”. Wait I’m getting ahead of myself… February was an awesome month generally but kind of a weird reading month for me? I read a lot of books I really loved, including two from The Hunger Games series, another Kiley Reid book (so good) and a very spicy queer romance ARC from Meryl Wilsner (who also wrote Cleat Cute, a sapphic soccer romance I loved)....

Hey readers, it’s February already, can you believe it! January was such a lovely reading month for me. I started the month reading The Poppy War in Texas (which I finished after I got home, I’m not that fast) and ended the month reading Written in the Waters a memoir by National Geographic writer Tara Roberts. Both books made me cry, but I’m a softie so I guess that’s not a huge surprise....

Ahh, happy new year and welcome to another year of reading with me!! 2024 was such an incredible year, I still can’t believe I brought y’all along on my reading journey for the entire year. I spent the last three quarters of the year reading at least a few pages (or minutes) every single day (I’m currently on a 288 day reading streak the day I’m posting this). I’m so proud of myself for doing so much reading but not losing any joy in it!...

What an incredible year of reading it’s been - and holy crap how cool is it that I can share a year-long recap for the second year in a row!?! 2024 was a phenomenal year of reading, thank you for joining me! Below is the presentation I made and shared on Stream to take you through some of my favorite or standout reads of the year (and some statistics). I’m so excited to continue reading with y’all in 2025!...

It’s the last month of 2024 and I’m torn on how to feel about that. Year ends are always so mixed for me because I both hate change and also need variety in my life. So on the one hand, I am so excited for a chance to embrace and create some change in my life. New habits, new goals, and new direction. But, on the other hand, that scares me!...

Happy November, readers! October was such an incredible reading month for me because I basically all of my reading time was spent in Spain. My partner and I travelled to Madrid, a small town just outside of Madrid, and then to Malaga Spain. And while there I read at least a little bit every day - a lot of that reading I did outside! On our travel day to Malaga, I read an entire book start to finish on the train....

Oh my gosh I forgot how incredible the cold months are for reading but AHHH I am so excited about my upcoming reads! Despite some travel and a whole lot of anxiety (hello TwitchCon was amazing but so draining haha) I actually got a lot of reading done in September! I even brought one book with me on my travels and did a little audiobook listening on days where I just didn’t have enough energy to read a physical book....

Summer is coming to a close but I’ve still got one or two warm weather reads before I fully settle in for the cooler weather reading season. I’m already getting so excited for scary books, dark academia, all the good fall vibes. But before we get to that, let’s talk about August! August was my best reading month of the year so far. Partly because of some beach reading time, and a little bit of time stuck in bed because of a neck spasm....

Oh it’s suddenly the end of summer? How did this happen?? I’m so grateful I got to spend time this past month reading at the beach. I absolutely devoured The Seven Year Slip during my long beach reading, and I also made tons of progress on the Petal Pages Summer Book Bingo! I’m looking forward to some really incredible reads in August and I have an ambitious goal to fully fill out the bingo board....

Ahh, summertime is one of my most favorite reading times of the year and I have SO MANY phenomenal books in store this season! I read some really incredible books in June and I want to say a massive thank you to the folks who offered up recommendations. I posted on Twitter a while ago asking for books to add to my Pride Month reading list and some of my absolute favorites of the month (like Homebody and Refusing Compulsory Sexuality) were recommendations from that....