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Hello! 2025 has been a crazy year – in terms of reading it’s been my best year ever. I’ve read the most books I’ve ever read (or at least since I’ve been tracking it), I may have bought the most books I’ve ever bought also but I did a great job at reading both new books and ones from my physical TBR and my average rating is sitting at about 3.75 which I’m really happy with! But outside of…

Hello! I’ve been resisting choosing this TBR list since about August and now I’m knee deep in planning things for the new year (my monthly TBRs might be getting unreasonable again 😂). For 2025 I used my TBR jar (with my physical TBR, not prompts) to make my annual TBR and it was so much fun, then it continued to be fun throughout the year as I knocked 25+ books (including some sequels) off my…

Hello! I appreciate it’s only November, but my book journal is almost completely full and we’re close enough to the end of the year that I thought it was as good a time as any to do a flip through of my journal! Giving some insights into what I liked, what I’d change and anything I plan to differently in my 2026 journal. I love my journal so much and I’m so excited to start creating my one for…

Hello! This week marks 10 whole years since my husband and I started dating and three years since we got married. I wanted to theme some of my content this week around the Wedding Library – the collection of books we received as gifts. We asked our guests to gift us a copy of their favourite book, so we have a little library of our favourite peoples favourite books and, in an endeavour to read…

Hello! How we’re so close to the end of the year is absolutely baffling – two months left? That’s insane. I swear time just keeps going faster and faster! October was another pretty good reading month for me – not as good as the 11 books I managed to read in September (though that was probably thanks to the novellas I listened to as audiobooks) but I managed to finish 7 books, which helped me…

Hello! I wanted to write ‘it’s been a monumental week’ to open but it’s not that deep… but I am excited! My annual reading goal for this year was 60 books and I’ve done it! Was it a 2 star book that I previously DNFed that I forced myself to finish? Yes, but we’re not dwelling on that bit. It took just over 9 months, so my immediate thought was to see if I can read 100 by the end of the year…

Hello! Another month has flown by and this time I managed to spend the majority of it reading, apparently! I read 11 books in September (eleven!!) and whilst I lucked out that most of the books on my monthly TBR were quite short and I read a few novellas in the month, I’m still really proud of myself! Most of these were read, at least in part, as audiobooks because ya girl has been sleepy and…

Hello! Making my TBR each month is my absolute favourite – I’m not a mood reader and I hate making decisions so knowing exactly what I’ve got coming up next is my ideal. I already find my physical TBR overwhelming, having to consider and choose between all 437 of my books?? Absolutely not. I’ve decided to read an extra of my 25 in 2025 books this month – usually I only pick two out of my little…

Hello! I’ve been very lax on posting recently because I feel like I’m running on empty – this summer was super busy and I had plans almost every weekend and my neurodivergent butt didn’t allow herself any time to recover. What I find mildly interesting is the impact it has had on my reading – in spending so much time driving to social events, work stuff and nights away to see friends and family…

Hello! Another month and I managed to stave off a reading slump – I got really close, to the point where my husband has to tell me to DNF a book (we’ll get to it), but I managed to finish 5 books which is my monthly goal for the year. I like setting my annual goal to be a multiple of 12 so I can easily set myself monthly goals that are round numbers and 5 is my number for this year! And…

Hello! Another month has come and gone and I think I keep missing it because how are we now at the end of August?? But we are coming up to my favourite month of the year! Is it because it’s back to school time and I always associate this time of year with new pencil cases and fresh starts? Yes. Is it also because it’s the start of the ‘ber’ months and the trees will start turning and it’ll get…

Hello! I recently made both a TikTok and a YouTube video looking at the reading challenges I have in my book journal and where I’m at with each of them. I consider these challenges to be ‘passive’ reading challenges – as I’m not actively trying to read the alphabet, but it’s incredibly satisfying to colour in the letters and see how much I can achieve without trying! I also thought it would be…