My Writer's Journey

This is the Mid Year Freak Out Book Tag, created by Ely @ Earl Grey Books and Chami @ Read Like Wildfire. With little further explanation, let’s answer the questions: QUESTIONS: Best book you’ve read so far in 2026. This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying #1) by Ilona Andrews. This was really entertaining and I could not put this book down. I can’t wait for the next book in this…

For three years now I have been following and participating (in a low key way) in “The Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do”. Now in 2026 the huge reading challenge is here again for its third round: Note: All prompt descriptions in this post are from the Challenge webpage I recommend Qwordy’s extremely interesting Youtube Channel and this year I will again pick up the bingo prompts that…

2026 Bingo Prompts For the original challenge post, click here. Only normal mode this time! Note: If no book is mentioned after a prompt, this means that I’m still deciding which book to read for it. If “TBR” appears, this means that I chose this book, but I haven’t read it yet. Row 1 A novella – TBR: Platform Decay by Martha Wells. 80’s or 90’s – Read: Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E.…

Made by Leticia Toraci on Canva This was a very interesting challenge that I managed to almost complete last year, with the exception of only two prompts. I could find good books in genres I don’t read often enough, like Poetry, Thriller, Biography and LitFic. You can read my 2025 planned TBR here. (I still plan to read the books I initially planned to read, but didn’t, in another…

Made by Leticia Toraci on Canva Book Bingo Reading Challenge Prompts: Only normal mode this time! You can substitute 2 squares if you consider them too difficult to find a book for. Row 1 A novella80’s or 90’s – Read a book first published in the 80’s or 90’s.500+ pagesSpring or Autumn – Cover or setting reminds you of Spring or Autumn.Summer or Winter – Cover or setting reminds you of…

Picture by TheOtherKev on Pixabay Poetry Perigee Moon: Poems from a Pagan Summer by Clarabelle FieldsBeautiful and inspiring poems! Mystery The Secret History by Donna Tartt.At the same time contemporary dark academia and a classic, it had amazing characters, plot and writing. I have only one word for it: Monumental. The Adventuress (Lady Emily Ashton Mysteries #10) by Tasha Alexander.As…

Picture by  akitada31 on Pixabay. Two authors appeared as favorites among my science fiction books in 2025, and these were Sylvain Neuvel and Adrian Tchaikovsky. Sci-fi by Sylvain Neuvel I read the Take Them to the Stars trilogy by Sylvain Neuvel in the beginning of 2025 and really enjoyed it. I read the Themis Files trilogy in 2024 and it was a very entertaining read, so I plan on continuing…

2025 was a year when a lot of my favorite fantasy books had a vast potential for being read a second time, since their detailed worlds will be better grasped only then. Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin #1) & Dark Triumph (His Fair Assassin #2) by Robin LaFevers.These were very entertaining! This YA trilogy has very interesting stories of young women assassins in their way to empowerment in an…

I read 17 of the 25 books planned for this challenge! Most of the unread books from this year will be included in a five star prediction challenge for 2026.A lot of my 5 star predictions came true, but four books stayed at four stars. Two of the books were three stars and one even surprised me by being so completely boring that I set it aside. 5 Star Reads by Adrian Tchaikovsky All books I…

I started a lot of reading challenges this year, so many that I didn’t really manage to finish reading the TBR list of most of them. I plan to continue my incomplete challenges next year though, so I can make a complete wrap-up for most of them. 2025 Book Bingo Challenge (Hard Mode): Almost completed. This was a big challenge with a TBR of more than 25 books, where I read most of the prompts.…

Cover of Jane Austen’s Bookshelf. Source:Goodreads A couple of days ago I was taking a look at the various new achievements Goodreads has added to their yearly reading challenge and I came across a very interesting book list for the “Her Story” Achievement. While browsing this book list I was immediately interested in the book Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the…

On https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy At this point I have the impression that April would not be the same month without the r/fantasy Book Bingo Challenge I always participate in a very low key way by planning a TBR and keeping those books very much in my radar even if I don’t post my TBR or results on reddit. The challenge itself is from April 1st 2025 – March 31st 2026, but I often will read…

Made in Canva by Leticia Toraci Since 2022 I have done a mostly offline Reading Challenge where I have to read 5 of my physical books before (or after) buying a new physical book. I started this challenge when I realized I had more than 50 unread fiction books on my shelves! I really wanted to read those and decide if I wanted to keep or donate any of them to make more space available in my…

This year I’ll be repeating a Reading Challenge I did last year, where I plan to prioritize 25 books I predict will be 5 stars for me.This list will not only include books by my already established favorite authors, but also books by authors I’ve read one five or four star book the years before, and which have a high probability of another five stars in their backlist. Some books are yet to be…

Made with Canva by Leticia Toraci The rules for this challenge are simple, you just read one book published in that year for every year from 2000 to 2025. To make things easier I’ll add the condition that, if you find a book edition published in that year, that book works for the challenge too. It doesn’t have to be necessarily the first edition, but if you choose to make this challenge harder…