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    August 2026 reading wrap up

    August got slightly out of hand. I read 17 books for the MS Readathon, from cosy fantasy and traumatised college boys to gargoyle romance and a bittersweet classic. And somehow, an accidental theme emerged.

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    July 2026 reading wrap up

    July's reading was gloriously chaotic: nine books spanning romance, romantasy, paranormal politics and Arthurian emotional devastation. There were redemption arcs, questionable decisions, excellent pining and several occasions when fictional characters made me cry.

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    June 2026 reading wrap up

    June was a much stronger reading month, even if my Goodreads challenge still insists I'm behind. From discovering two new favourite authors to neighbours-to-lovers chaos involving silly string, here are the six romances I read, the books that surprised me, and the one that made me laugh the most.

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    May 2026 reading wrap up

    May was a slower reading month, with just four books finished and my yearly reading goal starting to slip away. From sports romances that didn't quite live up to expectations to the addictive fantasy of Half City, here's everything I read — and why cliffhangers should probably come with a warning.

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    June 2025 TBR

    My reading plans for June included a mix of anticipated releases, backlist titles, and a healthy dose of optimism. Here's what I hoped to read during the month.

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    May 2025 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to my May 2025 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. Except we are having a different plan for my May 2025 TBR. A very different plan. So, please bare with me while I explain. April was rough. A month of…

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    April 2025 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to my April 2025 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. Wow, ok. March was an interersting reading month. I did complete my Nevermoor reread and it was SO GOOD! I also read the new Ali Hazelwood book, Deep End, and…

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    March 2025 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to my March 2025 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. So… can I just say, I was doing SO WELL in my February reading!! Like, I hadn’t strayed from the TBR once, and I was smashing through books!! It looked…

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    February 2025 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to my February 2025 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. Uhh, ok. “New year, new me” didn’t quite go as planned. In fact, it was more like “Old me, still me… maybe worse?!” I read a grand total of TWO…

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    January 2025 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to my January 2025 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. It’s a new year, and therefore a new me! Only joking. I will continue to be my usual mood reading pest. However, I would like to be *slightly* more accountable…

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    December 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to my December 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. Uhh, so, I kind of want to (for accountability and comedic reason) discuss what happened to my reading in November. But I also kind of don’t want to (because it’s…

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    November 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to my November 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. I don’t know about anyone else. But now that we only have two months left of the year, I am starting to panic hardcore about my 2024 reading challenges. Like,…

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    October 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to my October 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. My September TBR was… a 50% completion rate. That’s a pass, right?! But, I also read the most amount of books I’ve ever read in a month, AND I hit…

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    September 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to the September 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the month of September. Ok, so for my August 2o24 TBR I decided to go easy on myself. Mainly because there’s been a bunch of books that I have started this year that…

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    August 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to the August 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the month of August. I am pretty sure that I failed miserably from my July 2024 TBR post. I finished ONE book, and started ONE other. Of which I’m currently about a quarter…

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    July 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to the July 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to intuit what I feel like reading for the month of July. If you cast your mind back to my June TBR post, I drafted it with the assistance of ChatGPT. And… I absolutely failed. I read a grand total of one book out of the…

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    June 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to the June 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to intuit what I feel like reading for the month of June. Or rather, ChatGPT will, because I decided to try something new and different. So, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT to do other things in my life, and today I was like “why don’t I…

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    May 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to the May 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to intuit what I feel like reading for the month of May. Ok… so, I still haven’t posted my quarterly wrap up yet, which I was planning to do in April. Or, like, any of the other posts I was planning on doing. But it’s fine.…

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    April 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to the April 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to intuit what I feel like reading for the month of April. AJDNFBDJFSKNAJKBCH… How in the world is it almost April already?? Honestly I think this year just needs to calm down. Also, this means that I really need to write up my quarterly check ins…

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    March 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to the March 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to intuit what I feel like reading for the month of March. Which is only slightly hampered by the fact that I read exactly one book from my February 2024 TBR, and started one other… In saying that, I read 15 books in February — and…