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Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts At Midnight to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
February 2026 Wrap Up
February went by too quickly! I completely reorganized my workspace this month and it took up a whole week and a half, which is basically almost half the month! I still have little bits and pieces to clean up but at least I can actually use the space now. It made a short month feel even shorter, but I did manage to read a lot of good books anyway.
My February 2026 TBR Intentions
Yeah, I didn’t do so well reading from my TBR in February because of the mental load of reorganizing, but I did end up reading a lot of good books and even got one single nonfiction in!
The Women Are Not Fine by Hope Reese
The Glass Château by Stephen P. Kiernan
The Hummingbird by Stephen P. Kiernan
Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer, MD
This Is What It Sounds Like by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King, and The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth were just pure enjoyment for me this month. It was the storytelling – both books were different to each other, but it was just the way the stories were told. I felt completely immersed and felt all the feelings.
The Hummingbird by Stephen P. Kiernan also made a huge impact on me. It’s a reread, but it’s been a while and I’d forgotten everything except the impression it made on me the first time. It hit me harder this time around and I’ll probably talk about it more in a review soon.
And of course, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown makes the list because I love everything she puts out and this is no different. I finished the book in a single sitting, and I’ve restarted the book again because I want to savor it this time around.
March 2026 TBR Intentions
I’m keeping this month’s list short because the Sherlock Holmes collection is massive at 72 hours, or 1796 pages, and two of the other books on the list are nonfiction that require more attention.
Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Glass Château by Stephen P. Kiernan
The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer, MD
This Is What It Sounds Like by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas
How was your month in February? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful March with lots of great books!
Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts At Midnight to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
January 2026 Wrap Up
I had a great reading month in that I felt like I had a good balance between reading from my TBR and for bookclubs and buddy reads, and reading whatever I felt like in the moment. I binge read a bunch of romances that I’ve been sorely missing and it was so healing to my heart!
I think I also did pretty well with keeping up with my book reviews and replying comments. I haven’t finished writing all the reviews or replying all the comments, but I’m trying my best not to let them accumulate too much. It does feel a little challenging at times and I’m hoping this is not a new year’s thing that tapers off, but rather something that I’ll get better with in time!
My January 2026 TBR Intentions
I didn’t do too badly, I think. I’m also trying not to worry too much about reading from the TBR as long as my bookclub commitments get read! I’m keeping it chill. 😂
Firekeeper’s Daughter surprised me because for some reason I thought it was historical fantasy but it turned out to be contemporary fiction, and a really important story at that. I loved how nuanced it was and the story it told about Indigenous culture. It focuses on the current lives of Indigenous people, but it also shows how Indigenous history shapes what’s happening now. It doesn’t shy away from the difficult topics either and I think that’s important.
Everything Is Tuberculosis is another notable book for me this month because I learned a lot about how tuberculosis shaped history, and also a lot of infuriating things about how race, class, and money influence how cures are distributed in the world. I’m not surprised necessarily, just pissed off, but overall glad I read the book.
I’m also really just happy about all the romances I’m bingeing on. I feel like they are just what I need to balance out some difficult reads with some books that make me happy and lift my mood. I need some of that especially with all that’s happening in real life.
February 2026 TBR Intentions
I’m not as concerned with reading from the TBR anymore, but it’s nice to have some books in mind for what’s next. Plus, I do still have bookclub reads and buddy reads that I need to read and some nonfiction I really want to get to.
The Women Are Not Fine by Hope Reese
The Glass Château by Stephen P. Kiernan
The Hummingbird by Stephen P. Kiernan
Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer, MD
This Is What It Sounds Like by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas
How was your month in January? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful February with lots of great books!
Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
December 2025 Wrap Up
Happy 2026, everyone!!
I had a busy, but good, December and I feel very happy and hopeful for the new year. I do feel like I’m constantly playing catch-up with my blog posts and book reviews though, and I am truly sorry for neglecting my blog and all of you who have been very patient with me.
My intention is to catch up with all my reviews for December, and I really want to participate in the Top Ten Tuesdays and Sunday Posts more regularly this year. I also really love the End of Year Book Surveys and booktag memes, and I’ll try to do them throughout this rest of this month.
I’m making new year resolutions for better time management and I’m going to do better in 2026!
My December 2025 TBR Intentions
I was trying to take it easy in December so I only had four books on my TBR intentions, and I cannot believe that I completely forgot to read one of them! I forgot I had it on my list! Oh well, I’ll read it this year. 😅
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
Notable Books This Month
The Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal were really good! I didn’t expect them to be alternate history because the title made me think sci-fi, not history, but it made a whole lot of sense and I really like the stories that she told with each of the individual books.
Stoner was also another standout, and it’s interesting that it is because the MC is such an ordinary, unremarkable character, who’s just wanting to live a simple life. I love that we follow him throughout his life and see him through his ups and downs; the challenges that he faces, the good times he enjoys, his occasional bursts of brilliance, his passion about certain issues and then his passivity on other issues. It’s just such great writing.
January 2026 TBR Intentions
Other than BOTM obligations for January, I’m also wanting to get to some of the books on my TBR that I didn’t manage to get to last year.
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
The Women Are Not Fine by Hope Reese
The Glass Château by Stephen P. Kiernan
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
The Will of the Many by James Islington
The Strength of the Few by James Islington
How was your month in December? How was your year in 2025? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful 2026 with lots of great books!
Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
November 2025 Wrap Up
I actually didn’t realize it was a new month already! I mean, I realized it was December but I completely forgot what that means and that I had stuff to get done. I missed the deadline for a couple of books I was supposed to finish in November as well because I wasn’t connecting the fact that time was actually passing. I’m still playing catch up!
Adding to that, my husband recently changed webhosts for our websites, which caused issues with my blog that was a pain to fix, and there might be some I haven’t even realized yet! I think one of the biggest issue is the broken links on my page that I didn’t even realize until recently, because I haven’t been present on the blog! Please forgive me if you came across any issues on my blog, or come across any more issues. I’m still fixing stuff and catching up on things from being unwell last month.
I’ll say one thing; one of the things I’d been catching up on is crocheting Christmas gifts in time for Christmas. And while I feel the pressure of trying to finish as soon as I can, I also get to listen to a lot of audiobooks while crocheting, so that’s a win!
My November 2025 TBR Intentions
I did pretty good with 6 out of 9, I think! I truly intended to read the other 3 as well, but I lost track of the time with due dates and deadlines. Oh well.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Christine by Stephen King
Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Falling by T.J. Newman
Books Read in November 2025
Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Christine by Stephen King
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
Falling by T.J. Newman
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi
Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi
Constituent Service by John Scalzi
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Notable Books This Month
I have to say the John Scalzi books were my favorites this month! I’d heard a lot about John Scalzi but haven’t read any of his works. These titles just happened to be available on Audible Plus, and they were short and I was curious and now I feel like I want to read more John Scalzi!
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer was also really good. I made the mistake of listening to it to sleep when I had about two hours more to go on the audiobook. Things got real at that point and I was so worked up and upset I couldn’t sleep.
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia was another surprise. I didn’t think I’d enjoy it as much as I did and I was very pleasantly surprised!
There were a lot of other great books as well, of course, with some of my favorite authors like Stephen King and T. Kingfisher, but none of them were surprises because I knew they’d be good, so they’re not noteworthy compared to these other ones this month.
December 2025 TBR Intentions
I’m going to take it easy this December with reading obligations. I do have a couple of books I’d like to read before the end of the year, and also a couple of BOTMs for bookclubs, but otherwise I’ll read whatever I please! I’m leaning towards easy, light-hearted romance, possibly even Christmas-themed!
Emma by Jane Austen
Stoner by John Williams
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
How was your month in November? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful December with lots of great books!
Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
October 2025 Wrap Up
I’m late with my wrap up this month. I having some health issues and dealing with some adverse side effects so I haven’t been as active both physically and mentally recently. I’ve left a lot of tasks undone too, and I have so many book reviews to catch up on. I’m recovering though and definitely hopeful that next month will be better.
My October 2025 TBR Intentions
I did pretty good on my October TBR intentions, but there were a couple of books I didn’t get to that I still want to eventually. I did manage to read three Stephen King books, which I’m very happy about because that means I’m making progress with my Stephen King Constant Reader Challenge! I’d been slow-moving with the challenge but Halloween season often comes with lots of SK buddy reads and I’m not complaining.
The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
A Sorceress Comes To Call by T. Kingfisher
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
Falling by T.J. Newman
Books Read in October 2025
A Sorceress Comes To Call by T. Kingfisher
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Carrie by Stephen King
Duma Key by Stephen King
The Running Man by Stephen King
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Notable Books This Month
I am still so obsessed with the Dungeon Crawler Carl series! I finally finished them to the most recently released, but I am anxiously anticipating the next books and I love that I’m still so passionate about them. I don’t usually do well with long-running series because I lose interest or they start to get repetitive, but I don’t feel that way about this series and I truly hope it stays that way until the end.
A Sorceress Comes to Call was also a standout. T. Kingfisher is one of my automatic-read authors, and this book has become one of my favorites by her. I also have Hemlock & Silver on my TBR, and I’m excited to read that next.
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened was an interesting surprise. It’s my in-person bookclub’s BOTM, and my first book by the author. I expected something humorous, yes, but I was surprised by Lawson’s brand of humor. I listened to this on audio with the author narrating, and I love how audacious and unapologetic she is. She finds humor in some serious shit too, which I find a little disconcerting, but I can’t help but love her.
November 2025 TBR Intentions
I signed up for quite a few spooky reads during Halloween season and I’m still paying the price. I also have some classics I’m doing for The Classics Club challenge.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Christine by Stephen King
Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Falling by T.J. Newman
How was your month in October? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful November with lots of great books!
Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
September 2025 Wrap Up
This was a busy month for me and I didn’t read a lot of variety, but I did spend time on trying to finish a couple of series, which is good in and of itself, but they’re not completely done yet!
My September 2025 TBR Intentions
My September TBR intentions has been woefully neglected this month. I’ll be migrating them forward into October and hope I have better luck getting to them!
Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dragons of Summer Flame by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Obviously, the Dungeon Crawler Carl series has very much taken over my brain at the moment! I am loving all of them so far, and I’m almost done with Book 5. I have about 4 hours left of it as of this writing. I mean to continue with the rest of the books and finish the series in October, but I think I’ll have to take a break and read some other books first because of library due dates and reading deadlines.
However, I must say that I loved all the books I read this month!
The Dragonlance series were amazing also! I didn’t finish it because I realized there was a book in between Dragons of Spring Dawning and Dragons of Summer Flame, and I have not acquired that book yet. I also loved Stanley Tucci’s Taste, because I love him in general and I love how he talks about food and how food has shaped some of the relationships in his life.
Most notably, I was very surprised by how much I loved What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. I have never read his books, and I didn’t realize who the author was when I picked up this book, but I am very inspired by this book and I’m very curious to read his other books.
October 2025 TBR Intentions
I want to read the rest of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and hopefully finish some of the books I meant to read last month.
The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
A Sorceress Comes To Call by T. Kingfisher
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
Falling by T.J. Newman
How was your month in September? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful October with lots of great books!
Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
August 2025 Wrap Up
I spent the first half of August mood reading, and the second half reading from the TBR, so I satisfied both sides of the reader inside me! I realized that it’s important to leave room for mood reading, and it’s okay to let go of some of the books I previously committed to if I’m not feeling it.
My August 2025 TBR Intentions
Six out of eight ain’t bad! I’ve lost interest in the last Children of Time book, unfortunately. I’m not sure if I’ll ever come back to it. I am still very interested in reading The Power of Myth, but every time I pick it up I end up putting it down after a few passages because I want to savor and contemplate everything. I want to study every last bit of it! I might end up having to make up a study schedule for it or something!
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
My favorite books in August were obviously The Hunger Games trilogy. They are my all-time favorites and always get better the more I reread them. Dragons of Autumn Twilight is also a reread and from one of my favorite series, and The Long Walk is another reread from a favorite author.
So in the interest of fairness, I should talk about the new reads that I loved this month; most notably A Man Called Ove and Blood Over Bright Haven. These two were amazing and they make me so happy that the authors have other books that have gotten great reviews as well. I’m so looking forward to reading more from them!
September 2025 TBR Intentions
My aim is to finish the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman this month, hopefully. I do have a couple of September BOTMs and a few other books that have September deadlines I should focus on though. I also hope to finish S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst if possible, but I’m perfectly happy to take it slow so we’ll see how it goes.
Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dragons of Summer Flame by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
A Sorceress Comes To Call by T. Kingfisher
Falling by T.J. Newman
S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst
How was your month in August? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful September with lots of great books!
Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
July 2025 Wrap Up
July went by in a whirlwind. I feel like I got a lot of things done, but I also feel like there’s still so much to do! And of course, my coping mechanism is reading for escapism, so the good news is that I got a lot of reading done this month. The bad news is that now I’ve got even more book reviews to catch up on, in addition to the ones I’m already behind on! 😅
My July 2025 TBR Intentions
I made my July TBR list based off a friendly team reading competition in my online bookclub for thick books, plus also books that had July deadlines. My team didn’t win unfortunately, but we had lots of fun! I also actually did pick up The Brothers Karamazov but in the last minute realized that my copy was the abridged version and it was too late to put a hold for the unabridged one. I wouldn’t have gotten it in time so I just let it go.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Revival by Stephen King
Notable Books This Month
Purple Hibiscus, and Atmosphere were the standouts for me this month. They both packed an emotional punch and made me feel all the feelings! I love books that make me feel, and these two did that the most for me. However, I cannot exclude The Count of Monte Cristo because it is one of my all-time favorite books that make me feel but it’s a reread and I’ve talked about it a lot already so I thought I’d let other books have a chance.
Also, I cannot not mention Sunrise on the Reaping, but I thought it’s a series and people who loved The Hunger Games don’t need convincing, and people who don’t love THG probably wouldn’t care for another book in the series. But I have to mention it because I need the world to know I personally loved it too!
August 2025 TBR Intentions
Every book on this list are books I have to read for August BOTMs or buddy reads with August deadlines. The Hunger Games series are rereads but I’m in the mood because I want to revisit after reading Sunrise on the Reaping. I’m probably going to end up reading other books based off my mood as well, but these are the priorities.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline Martin
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
How was your month in July? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful August with lots of great books!
Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
May and June 2025 Wrap Up
Hello my friends, I have been so very absent on the blog to the point that this month’s wrap up is actually a combination of May and June. I have posted some book reviews but only because I have a compulsive need to keep track of the books I read and record my thoughts about them. Even so, I’m far behind on keeping up to date on writing the reviews, and I haven’t replied to any comments in the last couple of months. I am so sorry!
A lot of things have happened that have kept me busy, but only two worth mentioning right now;
First, we lost one of our beloved cats, Loki, very unexpectedly earlier this month. One day, he was fine and perfectly happy as usual, the next day he started having seizures and vomiting. We took him to the vet in the afternoon, but he wasn’t getting better, and we ended up having to go back later that night to put him to sleep.
It was a horrible day.
He was the most vocal and active of our cats, and it’s very noticeable that he’s gone now. We miss him every day, and it still hurts to think of him. The worst thing was how sudden it was. He was only nine years old and had no signs of any health problems. I don’t know why this happened. We’ve been cuddling our other two cats, Button and Pepper, a lot more than usual lately, and they’ve been more receptive to it as well. They notice he’s gone too and have been more affectionate with us.
The second thing is a happier thing, although it has me nervous. I’m going back to school for an Accounting certificate this fall. I had been busy with paperwork and applications, and recently just got my acceptance letter! I am very excited and nervous at the same time. It’s been a long while since I’ve been in school but I also love learning new things and once upon a time, my biggest aspiration was to be a “professional student”.
I still have a lot of things to organize and prepare for going back to school but there’s a couple of months to go. Being so absent from the blog these last couple of months, I do worry that I might not be able to keep up with the blog once school starts, but I like fixed schedules and routines and I’m expecting things to settle down once I adjust to the student lifestyle once again.
Now on to the book updates;
My May 2025 TBR Intentions
I did manage to finish all the books on my TBR intentions in May. Yay! The ones on the list were the priorities and I wanted to leave space for mood reads, and I got some in.
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (The Wayfarers #4) by Becky Chambers
Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
My June TBR intentions were chosen because my online bookclub was having a friendly competitive read-off event, where the team that got the most points for books read would win. There were exponentially higher points for books over 1000 pages and 1500 pages, so I made my list with that in mind, although some books were chosen because they were BOTMs, and/or had end-of-June deadlines. I also did end up reading a lot more than expected because I was trying to distract myself from Loki’s passing.
For May, the notable books were Perdido Street Station, Rose Madder, and The Ghost Bride. For June, the notable books were Les Misérables, Gone with the Wind, Scarlett, and Oz: The Complete Collection. I won’t go too much into detail about the books here because these are two months’ worth of books and I’m somewhat rushing this post as well.
In brief, Perdido Street Station is a little wordy but the world-building is incredible, and the story is haunting and heartbreaking and lives in my head rent-free. Rose Madder is a Stephen King book and everyone knows I’m a fan. It’s not gory horror, but it’s psychological horror and that really gets me. The Ghost Bride is a reread and written by a Malaysian author about the early 1900s’ in Malaya. It’s so reminiscent about my life, family, and culture in Malaysia, and I love that it incorporates our folklore into such a vivid fantasy story.
I listened to Les Misérables on audio and absolutely loved the experience of it. It is a little long-winded but I enjoyed it still! The whole story infuriates me but it’s told so well that I can’t help but love it, and I feel like this is one of those books where I’ll come back to and get more out of every time I reread.
Gone with the Wind, and Scarlett, are two of my favorite books that I’ve read over and over again. My experience and thoughts about them have changed over the years, but this last read was very nostalgic and I appreciate them for the works that they are.
Oz: The Complete Collection is the collection of books 1 through 14 of the Oz books. I have never read them, not even the first book, and I had no idea there was so much to the stories! Reading them as an adult, I’ve fallen in love with the stories and the characters, and it makes me wish I had read them as a child. They are just so magical and imaginative, they were so fun to read!
July 2025 TBR Intentions
My online bookclub is continuing the competitive read-off event in July, so I’m planning to continue with the big books, plus also July’s BOTMs and other buddy reads with July deadlines.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
How was the last couple of months for you? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful July with lots of great books!
Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
April 2025 Wrap Up
I’m posting April’s wrap up a little late, it turned into quite a hectic month for me and I have so much to catch up on with the blog! I didn’t finish as many books as I wanted either; I overcommitted to too many buddy reads in the last few months and I have learned my lesson! I’m making good progress in finishing the ones I’ve committed to though, and I’m a lot more careful about signing up for more. I’m also missing a lot of books I want to read that aren’t buddy reads, so I’m excited to make space for them as well. Still, I love buddy reads and I can’t give them up completely. If only everyone else wanted to read the books I want to read at the same time I want to read them! 😂
My April 2025 TBR Intentions
Five out of six of my TBR intentions aren’t bad. And the only reason I didn’t get to Stoner is because the library hold is still 3 weeks out at the time of this writing. I’m probably going to defer it to later since I already missed the deadline for the buddy read, but I’m still very much interested in reading it eventually.
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
The Terror was weird and a little trippy, but I was surprised by how invested I got into the characters and what happens to them. It’s a fictionalized account of real events, but I’m not very familiar with the history of the expedition so it was interesting trying to figure out what was real and what was made up.
I watched the adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere with Keri Washington and Reese Witherspoon and loved it, and it was nice to read the book and see that the show stayed quite true to the story. I got a lot out of the book, some of the nuances of the rich and privileged’s thinking processes were quite jarring to see on the page, but so incredibly well-written.
Sunshine was a reread. This is the third time I’m reading it and I’m still loving it! There were definitely some things I didn’t notice the first couple of times that I noticed now. The relationship stuff were… questionable, in that I’m curious as to the kind of relationship Rae actually has with the people in her life, but the story was amazing nevertheless.
May 2025 TBR Intentions
These are some of the books I’m planning to read in May. I read fewer books in April than usual and I’m definitely hoping to read more than five in May, but these are the priorities and after that, I’ll see where my mood takes me!
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (The Wayfarers #4) by Becky Chambers
Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Every Tool’s a Hammer by Adam Savage
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
Rose Madder by Stephen King
How was your month in April? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful May with lots of great books!
