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....
🌈 Happy Pride Month!! 🌈 I’m so happy it’s Pride Month oh my GOSH it’s one of my most favorite reading times of the year I absolutely love reading queer books. I’ve set a really ambitious TBR, classic, because I just want to read so much queer rep. But first - I did read six books in May!! It was such an awesome month for reading. I hosted the first Books with Pals steam and we yapped about Babel (and tons more) for sooooo long truly we could not stop talking about books....
Wow, okay, I’ve got to be honest, April flew by and I can’t believe I just had to write my May TBR..? But I’m back to my nonsense and have a way-too-big list of hopeful reads this month. I couldn’t stop myself. But before that - April reads! I had a somewhat ambitious TBR for April including one book club book and two Books with Pals books. And they were not short....