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Monthly Wrap Up | December 2025

Posted January 5, 2026 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 1 Comment

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. 😅

  1. Emma by Jane Austen
  2. Stoner by John Williams
  3. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
  4. My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Books Read in December 2025

  1. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
  2. The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
  3. The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
  4. The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal
  5. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
  6. Emma by Jane Austen
  7. Stoner by John Williams
  8. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
  9. Starter Villain by John Scalzi
  10. 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.

  1. Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
  2. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
  3. The Women Are Not Fine by Hope Reese
  4. The Glass Château by Stephen P. Kiernan
  5. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
  6. The Will of the Many by James Islington
  7. 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!

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2026 Reading Challenges

Posted December 29, 2025 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 3 Comments

These are all the reading challenges I’m participating in for 2026. Click on the links to find out more!

The 52 Book Club’s 2026 Reading Challenge
The 52 Book Club’s annual reading challenge is made up of 52 unique prompts. The goal is to match one book to each prompt, for a total of fifty-two books over the course of the year. Prompts are related to everything from specific titles, to cover designs, authors, genres, settings, themes, characters, etc. (Think of it like a giant bookish scavenger hunt!) We encourage participants to try books outside of their regular reading comfort zones and push themselves to read more, read differently, and get creative with it!

The Classics Club
The Classic Club is a community of Classics Lovers who are taking on the challenge of reading at least 50 classics in 5 years. It started when a blogger wanted to see more people discussing classic literature, and it has now grown to a huge community of classic readers and bloggers. I started this on Dec 1, 2023, and hope to finish my 50 classics by Dec 1, 2028.

The Stephen King Constant Reader Challenge
This is an informal challenge I have taken up for myself. I am a fan of the author but have not read many of his works yet, so this challenge is for me to read his full catalog, including rereads and any new books he releases while I’m completing the challenge. There is no time limit for this challenge. It is complete when I finish them.

2026 Nonfiction Reader Challenge
Hosted by Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out, it’s a nonfiction reading challenge for 2026. I signed up for it in 2024 and completed it but didn’t sign up in 2025 because I was feeling overwhelmed. I ended up really missing the challenge so I decided to sign up again for 2026!


I am also still looking for a couple more challenges for reading more bipoc books/authors, and for finishing series I’ve already started. If I don’t find any, I’ll probably just do them anyway, just more informally.

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