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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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    2025 reading challenges I will complete

    Hello friends!! Welcome to me rambling a post about which 2025 reading challenges I will participate in. I mean, I will complete!! Ok, so like, 2024 was not the raging success that I thought it would be. But I’m going to put it down to the very non-confident way that I phrased the post. Let’s be honest, “2024 reading challenges…

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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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    Top 5 bookish content creators

    Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 bookish content creators!! Yes, we have finally hit our random month of odd topics for the year. Sometimes when I plan out the quarterly topics I go through my longlist of possible topics and pick out ones that kind of work together. Like in August we did…

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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…

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    2024 reading challenges I’m… doing?

    Hello friends!! Welcome to me attempting to figure out what 2024 reading challenges I’m going to be… doing. I say “figuring out” because sometimes (ok, most of the time), I write my blog posts as a stream of consciousness and then I rarely go back and edit them. And now you know my creative process. Surprise! And I thought it…

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    February 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to the February 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to intuit what I feel like reading for the next… 29 days. Because it’s a leap year! Surprisingly, I actually read quite a few books in my January 2024 TBR. Which I may or may not recount in a monthly wrap up… Another type of post…

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    January 2024 TBR

    Hello friends!! Welcome to the first TBR that I have done in over a year, the January 2024 TBR. Yes, it’s finally happened. I have cracked under the weight of my extensive TBR (now sitting at a whopping 545 physical books) and will be putting actual TBRs into place each month. Until I either forget about them, or run off…

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    2022 challenge sign up

    Good morning bookworms!! Welcome to the 2022 challenge sign up post!! You know, the one where I normally sign up for too many things to achieve and have forgotten all about them by the time we hit April. But this year, I’m planning something different. Because I’ve actually been planning it, and thinking about it, for a while now. Instead…

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    Top 5 bookish resolutions for 2022

    Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday — with a brand new year of torture fun!! This week’s topic is top 5 bookish resolutions for 2022!! Yes, it’s a brand new year, and by gosh, we’re going to make the best of it!! I now need a nap from all of this optimism. It’s very tiring. But, before that, let’s…