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September 1, 2024ੈ✩‧₊˚ 2024 in review ·˚ ༘₊· ➳
spoiler: it was a complete failure! 😁
goals 🍓🍰💌🧸
❖ read 50 books (35/50)
❖ read 10 contemporary literary fiction books (3/10)
❖ read 3 memoirs (0/3)
❖ read 2 classics (1/2)
❖ at least half the books i read are by authors of color, excluding rereads (i lost count)
❖ get my feedback ratio on netgalley to at least 50% (0.20?? idfk)
series to finish:
❖ once upon a broken heart (2/3)
❖ addicted calloway (9/10)
❖ harry potter (4/7)
❖ six of crows (1/2)
❖ the hunger games (1/4)
❖ beartown (1/3)
❖ legendborn (1/2)
❖ divine rivals (1/2)
series to start:
❖ foul lady fortune (0/3)
❖the poppy war (3/3)
❖ king of scars (0/2)
❖ magnolia parks (0/5)
❖ throne of glass (0/7)
❖ six crimson cranes (0/2)
❖ an ember in the ashes (0/4)
❖ a magic steeped in poison (0/2)
❖ raybearer (0/2)
❖ one dark window (1/2)
❖ acotar (0/4)
❖ percy jackson (0/6)
been meaning to get to for so long:
❖beach read
❖ pwmov
❖ happy place
❖ the invisible life of addie la rue
❖ malibu rising
❖ carrie soto
❖everything i never told you
❖ little fires everywhere
❖ a man called ove
❖ emma
❖ know my name
❖on earth we’re briefly gorgeous
hope to reread:
❖ shades of magic
❖ practice makes perfect
❖ the ex hex
❖ anxious people
❖ the folk of the air… again (3rd read)
anticipated releases:
❖i hope this doesn’t find you
❖ the grandest game
❖the prisoner’s throne
❖the reappearance of rachel price
❖ nothing like the movies
❖destroy the day
❖dishonestly yours
❖ spectacular
❖ a song to drown rivers
+ a lot more i’ll add them later 😭
key:
💌 - reread
💘 - new fav
🪐 - arc
🪷 - dnf
🫂 - buddy read
january:
❖ the wicked king (5✰) 💌
❖ on earth we’re briefly gorgeous (4✰)
❖ the queen of nothing (5✰) 💌
❖ the love remedy (2✰) 🪐🪷
❖ the door to door bookstore (4.5✰) 💘
❖ dishonestly yours (4✰) 🪐
❖ thieves gambit (3.5✰)
total: 7
favorite(s): the door to door bookstore
least favorite(s): the love remedy
february:
❖ a novel love story (2✰) 🪐
❖ the luis ortega survival club (3.5✰)
❖ the exception to the rule (4✰)
❖ i hope this doesn’t find you (4.5✰) 💘
❖ the poppy war (4✰) 🫂
❖ beach read (4✰)
❖ the metamorphosis (4✰)
total: 7
favorite(s): i hope this doesn't find you
least favorite(s): a novel love story
march:
❖ destroy the day (4✰) 🫂
❖ the dragon republic (5✰) 💘
❖ the drowning faith (4✰)
❖ betting on you (3✰)
❖ not in love (3✰) 🪐
❖ the ex vows (soft dnf)
total:
favorite(s):
least favorite(s):
this is very ambitious i probably won’t accomplish any of these things
spoiler: it was a complete failure! 😁
goals 🍓🍰💌🧸
❖ read 50 books (35/50)
❖ read 10 contemporary literary fiction books (3/10)
❖ read 3 memoirs (0/3)
❖ read 2 classics (1/2)
❖ at least half the books i read are by authors of color, excluding rereads (i lost count)
❖ get my feedback ratio on netgalley to at least 50% (0.20?? idfk)
series to finish:
❖ once upon a broken heart (2/3)
❖ addicted calloway (9/10)
❖ harry potter (4/7)
❖ six of crows (1/2)
❖ the hunger games (1/4)
❖ beartown (1/3)
❖ legendborn (1/2)
❖ divine rivals (1/2)
series to start:
❖ foul lady fortune (0/3)
❖
❖ king of scars (0/2)
❖ magnolia parks (0/5)
❖ throne of glass (0/7)
❖ six crimson cranes (0/2)
❖ an ember in the ashes (0/4)
❖ a magic steeped in poison (0/2)
❖ raybearer (0/2)
❖ one dark window (1/2)
❖ acotar (0/4)
❖ percy jackson (0/6)
been meaning to get to for so long:
❖
❖ pwmov
❖ happy place
❖ the invisible life of addie la rue
❖ malibu rising
❖ carrie soto
❖
❖ little fires everywhere
❖ a man called ove
❖ emma
❖ know my name
❖
hope to reread:
❖ shades of magic
❖ practice makes perfect
❖ the ex hex
❖ anxious people
❖ the folk of the air… again (3rd read)
anticipated releases:
❖
❖ the grandest game
❖
❖
❖ nothing like the movies
❖
❖
❖ spectacular
❖ a song to drown rivers
+ a lot more i’ll add them later 😭
key:
💌 - reread
💘 - new fav
🪐 - arc
🪷 - dnf
🫂 - buddy read
january:
❖ the wicked king (5✰) 💌
❖ on earth we’re briefly gorgeous (4✰)
❖ the queen of nothing (5✰) 💌
❖ the love remedy (2✰) 🪐🪷
❖ the door to door bookstore (4.5✰) 💘
❖ dishonestly yours (4✰) 🪐
❖ thieves gambit (3.5✰)
total: 7
favorite(s): the door to door bookstore
least favorite(s): the love remedy
february:
❖ a novel love story (2✰) 🪐
❖ the luis ortega survival club (3.5✰)
❖ the exception to the rule (4✰)
❖ i hope this doesn’t find you (4.5✰) 💘
❖ the poppy war (4✰) 🫂
❖ beach read (4✰)
❖ the metamorphosis (4✰)
total: 7
favorite(s): i hope this doesn't find you
least favorite(s): a novel love story
march:
❖ destroy the day (4✰) 🫂
❖ the dragon republic (5✰) 💘
❖ the drowning faith (4✰)
❖ betting on you (3✰)
❖ not in love (3✰) 🪐
❖ the ex vows (soft dnf)
total:
favorite(s):
least favorite(s):
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December 31, 2024my 2024 reading tracker ⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡
this is my first year doing this which is super exciting!!! i can’t wait to start reading again this year ~ i wish everyone a fantastic year of reading, and i hope everyone achieves all their goals!! 💌
(i will be updating this frequently so i apologize if it appears on your feed often 🥹🙏🏻)
goals:
☑ read 50 books (118/50)
☑ write reviews for every single book (starting from city of lost souls)
☑ read more e-books
☑ buddy read with 3 people (13/3)
stand-alones to start:
☑ better than the movies
☑ the do-over
☑ betting on you
☐ the bane chronicles
☐ tales from the shadowhunter academy
☐ ghost of the shadow market
series to start/finish:
☑ crescent city (3/3)
☑ a court of thorns and roses (5/5)
☐ throne of glass (7/8)
☑ letters of enchantment (2/2)
☑ the empyrean (2/2)
☑ caraval (4/4)
☑ once upon a broken heart (3/3)
☑ the powerless trilogy (3/3)
☑ the mortal instruments (6/6)
☐ the eldest curses (1/2)
☐ the dark artifices (1/3)
☑ the last hours (3/3)
☐ the legendborn cycle (1/2)
☐ arc of a scythe (3/4)
☑ one of us is lying (3/3)
☐ rage, resist, retaliate (2/3)
key:
📖 - physical book
💻 - e-book
🎧 - audiobook
📱- e-arc
🫂 - buddy read
❌ - dnf
* not counted towards book count
monthly reading wrap-ups:
january 🎇:
no. of books read: 0
february 💋:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ house of sky and breath 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a court of thorns and roses 💻
no. of books read: 2
march 🌸:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a court of mist and fury 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a court of wings and ruin 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a court of frost and starlight 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a court of silver flames 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ house of flame and shadow 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ chain of thorns 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the red scrolls of magic 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ city of lost souls (3.75 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ city of heavenly fire (5 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ i hope this doesn’t find you (5 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 10
april 🌷:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the assassins blade (4.5 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ throne of glass (4.75 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ crown of midnight (4 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heir of fire (3.75 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ queen of shadows (3 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ practice makes perfect (5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ this time it’s real (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ when in rome (5 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 8
may 🌼:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a good girl’s guide to murder (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the seven year slip (5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ better than the movies (5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ better than the prom (5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ divine rivals (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ ruthless vows (3 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 6
june ☀️:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ book lovers (3 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ icebreaker (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ good girl, bad blood (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ lady midnight (3.25 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ as good as dead (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the do-over (4.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the right move (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ caraval (4.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ powerless (5 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ powerful (5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the housemaid (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the serpent and the wings of night (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ wildfire (4.25 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 13
july 🏖️:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ legendary (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ betting on you (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ finale (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ today tonight tomorrow (3.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ twisted love (3.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ reckless (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ only a monster (3 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ once upon a broken heart (3.75 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ fourth wing (5 ⭐️) 📖🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the ballad of never after (4.5 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ kill joy (4 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 11
august 🌺:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ every summer after (4.75 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a curse for true love (3.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ defy the night (3.25 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ twisted games (3.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the inheritance games (3.5 ⭐️) 💻🫂
no. of books read: 5
september 🍂:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ one of us is back (3.5 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ mile high (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 12 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 13 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 14 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ empire of storms (4.5 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ tower of dawn (4.75 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 15 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ death note, vol. 1: boredom 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ daydream (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 16 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ death note, vol. 2: confluence 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ twisted hate (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 17 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ death note, vol. 3: hard run 💻
no. of books read: 15
october 🎃:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the prison healer (3.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ run (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 18 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ death note, vol. 4: love 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the awakening (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ belladonna (3.25 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the housemaid’s secret (4.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ ruthless fae (4.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 19 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ death note, vol. 5: whiteout 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 20 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 21 (♾️ ⭐️) ����
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the reckoning (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the dead romantics (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartstopper: volume one (4.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartstopper: volume two (4.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartstopper: volume three (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartstopper: volume four (4.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartstopper: volume five (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartless hunter (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ astor hill (2.75 ⭐️) 📱
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ dark fae (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ on wings of blood (3.25 ⭐️) 📱
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nocticadia (4.5 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ phobia (1 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the predator (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ never lie (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ carmilla (2.25 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 28
november 🍁:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ so many somethings (3.5 ⭐️) 📱
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ savage fae (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ iron flame (3.75 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ twisted lies (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ gothikana (3 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ phantasma (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ wildblood (1 ⭐️) 📱🫂❌*
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ mortal end (3.5 ⭐️) 📱
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ one dark window (2 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ not in my book (1 ⭐️) 📱🎧❌*
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ caught up (4.25 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 9
december ☃️:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the mistletoe motive (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the christmas orphans club (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ vicious fae (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ binding 13 (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ one day in december (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ swift and saddled (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the book of azrael (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ keeping 13 (4.25 ⭐) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ spectacular (2.75 ⭐) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ broken fae (3 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ merriment and mayhem (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 11
end-of-the-year reading wrap-up:
total number of books read: 118
my top 10 books of 2024:
1. acotar (the entire series as a whole)
2. fourth wing
3. powerless (and powerful)
4. better than the movies
5. divine rivals
6. the seven year slip
7. the christmas orphans club
8. nocticadia
9. tower of dawn
10. city of heavenly fire
wow, what a year of reading ~ i honestly can’t believe i managed to read over 100 books this year, especially after not reading a single book for the past 4-5 years 🥹 this was only possible because i was on a gap year and unemployed, but now that i’m a 9-5 girlie, 2025 will definitely be a lot busier. i fear this year might be my best reading year and no other year will top it, but it is what it is! 🥲
P.S. i had a hard time ranking my top 10 reads of the year 😵💫 not all of them are books that i rated 5 stars, but they’re the ones that i cant stop thinking about/impacted me the most this year.
thank you so much for following along on my 2024 reading journey, and see you in 2025 💖
last updated: 31/12/2024
this is my first year doing this which is super exciting!!! i can’t wait to start reading again this year ~ i wish everyone a fantastic year of reading, and i hope everyone achieves all their goals!! 💌
(i will be updating this frequently so i apologize if it appears on your feed often 🥹🙏🏻)
goals:
☑ read 50 books (118/50)
☑ write reviews for every single book (starting from city of lost souls)
☑ read more e-books
☑ buddy read with 3 people (13/3)
stand-alones to start:
☑ better than the movies
☑ the do-over
☑ betting on you
☐ the bane chronicles
☐ tales from the shadowhunter academy
☐ ghost of the shadow market
series to start/finish:
☑ crescent city (3/3)
☑ a court of thorns and roses (5/5)
☐ throne of glass (7/8)
☑ letters of enchantment (2/2)
☑ the empyrean (2/2)
☑ caraval (4/4)
☑ once upon a broken heart (3/3)
☑ the powerless trilogy (3/3)
☑ the mortal instruments (6/6)
☐ the eldest curses (1/2)
☐ the dark artifices (1/3)
☑ the last hours (3/3)
☐ the legendborn cycle (1/2)
☐ arc of a scythe (3/4)
☑ one of us is lying (3/3)
☐ rage, resist, retaliate (2/3)
key:
📖 - physical book
💻 - e-book
🎧 - audiobook
📱- e-arc
🫂 - buddy read
❌ - dnf
* not counted towards book count
monthly reading wrap-ups:
january 🎇:
no. of books read: 0
february 💋:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ house of sky and breath 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a court of thorns and roses 💻
no. of books read: 2
march 🌸:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a court of mist and fury 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a court of wings and ruin 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a court of frost and starlight 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a court of silver flames 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ house of flame and shadow 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ chain of thorns 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the red scrolls of magic 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ city of lost souls (3.75 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ city of heavenly fire (5 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ i hope this doesn’t find you (5 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 10
april 🌷:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the assassins blade (4.5 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ throne of glass (4.75 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ crown of midnight (4 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heir of fire (3.75 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ queen of shadows (3 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ practice makes perfect (5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ this time it’s real (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ when in rome (5 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 8
may 🌼:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a good girl’s guide to murder (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the seven year slip (5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ better than the movies (5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ better than the prom (5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ divine rivals (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ ruthless vows (3 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 6
june ☀️:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ book lovers (3 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ icebreaker (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ good girl, bad blood (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ lady midnight (3.25 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ as good as dead (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the do-over (4.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the right move (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ caraval (4.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ powerless (5 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ powerful (5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the housemaid (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the serpent and the wings of night (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ wildfire (4.25 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 13
july 🏖️:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ legendary (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ betting on you (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ finale (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ today tonight tomorrow (3.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ twisted love (3.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ reckless (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ only a monster (3 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ once upon a broken heart (3.75 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ fourth wing (5 ⭐️) 📖🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the ballad of never after (4.5 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ kill joy (4 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 11
august 🌺:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ every summer after (4.75 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ a curse for true love (3.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ defy the night (3.25 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ twisted games (3.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the inheritance games (3.5 ⭐️) 💻🫂
no. of books read: 5
september 🍂:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ one of us is back (3.5 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ mile high (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 12 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 13 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 14 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ empire of storms (4.5 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ tower of dawn (4.75 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 15 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ death note, vol. 1: boredom 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ daydream (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 16 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ death note, vol. 2: confluence 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ twisted hate (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 17 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ death note, vol. 3: hard run 💻
no. of books read: 15
october 🎃:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the prison healer (3.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ run (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 18 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ death note, vol. 4: love 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the awakening (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ belladonna (3.25 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the housemaid’s secret (4.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ ruthless fae (4.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 19 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ death note, vol. 5: whiteout 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 20 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nana, vol. 21 (♾️ ⭐️) ����
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the reckoning (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the dead romantics (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartstopper: volume one (4.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartstopper: volume two (4.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartstopper: volume three (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartstopper: volume four (4.5 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartstopper: volume five (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ heartless hunter (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ astor hill (2.75 ⭐️) 📱
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ dark fae (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ on wings of blood (3.25 ⭐️) 📱
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ nocticadia (4.5 ⭐️) 💻🫂
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ phobia (1 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the predator (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ never lie (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ carmilla (2.25 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 28
november 🍁:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ so many somethings (3.5 ⭐️) 📱
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ savage fae (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ iron flame (3.75 ⭐️) 📖
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ twisted lies (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ gothikana (3 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ phantasma (3.25 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ wildblood (1 ⭐️) 📱🫂❌*
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ mortal end (3.5 ⭐️) 📱
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ one dark window (2 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ not in my book (1 ⭐️) 📱🎧❌*
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ caught up (4.25 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 9
december ☃️:
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the mistletoe motive (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the christmas orphans club (4.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ vicious fae (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ binding 13 (4 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ one day in december (2.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ swift and saddled (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ the book of azrael (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ keeping 13 (4.25 ⭐) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ spectacular (2.75 ⭐) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ broken fae (3 ⭐️) 💻
ᡣ𐭩.ᐟ merriment and mayhem (3.75 ⭐️) 💻
no. of books read: 11
end-of-the-year reading wrap-up:
total number of books read: 118
my top 10 books of 2024:
1. acotar (the entire series as a whole)
2. fourth wing
3. powerless (and powerful)
4. better than the movies
5. divine rivals
6. the seven year slip
7. the christmas orphans club
8. nocticadia
9. tower of dawn
10. city of heavenly fire
wow, what a year of reading ~ i honestly can’t believe i managed to read over 100 books this year, especially after not reading a single book for the past 4-5 years 🥹 this was only possible because i was on a gap year and unemployed, but now that i’m a 9-5 girlie, 2025 will definitely be a lot busier. i fear this year might be my best reading year and no other year will top it, but it is what it is! 🥲
P.S. i had a hard time ranking my top 10 reads of the year 😵💫 not all of them are books that i rated 5 stars, but they’re the ones that i cant stop thinking about/impacted me the most this year.
thank you so much for following along on my 2024 reading journey, and see you in 2025 💖
last updated: 31/12/2024
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July 30, 2024༺❤︎༻2024༺❤︎༻
this is my first year doing this and i’m super excited about it! good luck to everyone with all of your 2024 reading goals!! ily all sm<3
❥ 𝓰𝓸𝓪𝓵𝓼:
➛ read 50 books (31/50)
➛ start annotating
➛ read lots of series
➛ do some buddy reads
➛ discover new authors
➛ reread favorites
➛ apply for more arcs
➛ try to dnf
➛ be more harsh with ratings
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°
❥ 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼:
➛ magnolia parks (4/5)
➛ mindfuck (5/5)
➛ shatter me (0/9)
➛ caraval (0/3)
➛ once upon a broken heart (0/3)
➛ powerless trilogy (0/3)
➛ a good girls guide to murder (0/3)
➛ hockey gods (0/5)
➛ sterling falls (0/4)
➛ boys of tommen (4/5)
➛ l.o.r.d.s. (1/3)
➛ souls trilogy (0/3)
➛ monsters and muses (0/7)
➛ darkverse (0/5)
➛ devils night (0/6)
➛ never after series (0/5)
➛ madison kate (0/5)
➛ the four horseman (0/4)
➛ fallen men (0/7)
➛ belladonna (0/3)
➛ witsec (4/4)
➛ zodiac academy (0/10)
➛ parallel (0/4)
➛ grip trilogy (0/3)
➛ elements of cadence (0/2)
❥ 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓮/𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓱:
➛ the naturals (1/4)
➛ addicted/calloway sisters (9/10)
➛ knockemout (1/3)
➛ letters of enchantment (1/2)
➛ skyland (1/2)
➛ sugarlake (1/4)
❥ 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓼:
➛ all of mariana zapata’s books
➛ all of freida mcfadden’s books
➛ that sik luv
➛ den of vipers
➛ until i get you
➛ skin of a sinner
➛ ghosted
➛ the two of us
➛birthday girl
➛punk 57
❥ 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓻𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓼:
➛ the made series
➛ stay with me trilogy
➛ acotar
➛ hoops trilogy
➛ cat and mouse duet
➛ say you swear
➛ a love letter to whiskey
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°
❥ 𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝔂𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓶:
∞ my heart beats for it…cut me and i’ll bleed this book.
✩✩✩✩✩ this book owns my mind, heart, and soul...pls inject this into my veins.
✩✩✩✩ i loved it, but it’s missing that spark.
✩✩✩ didn’t love it, didn’t hate it, here’s 3 stars.
✩✩ there was potential, but…just- no. immediately forgotten.
✩ why was this written.
⁀➷ 𝓳𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂
total books read: 2
reviews/ratings:
⤷ magnolia parks review 4.25/5 ★’s
⤷ daisy haites review ∞/5 ★’s
favorite: daisy haites
⁀➷ 𝓯𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂
total books read: 3
reviews/ratings:
⤷ magnolia parks: the long way home review 4/5 ★’s
⤷ daisy haites: the great undoing review ∞ x ∞ ★’s
⤷ birthday girl review 4/5 ★’s
favorite: daisy haites: the great undoing
⁀➷ 𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱
total books read: 13
reviews/ratings:
⤷ iron flame review 1/5 ★’s
⤷ never lie review 4/5 ★’s
⤷ don't stop review 1/5 ★’s
⤷ stuffed review 1/5 ★’s
⤷ double stuffed review 1/5 ★’s
⤷ mindf*ck series: the risk review 5/5 ★’s
⤷ mindf*ck series: sidetracked review 4.25/5 ★’s
⤷ mindf*ck series: scarlet angel review 5/5 ★’s
⤷ mindf*ck series: all the lies review 4.5/5 ★’s
⤷ mindf*ck series: paint it all red review 5/5 ★’s
⤷ find me review 3/5 ★’s
⤷ save me review 2/5 ★’s
⤷ love me review 1/5 ★’s
favorite: the mindf*ck series
⁀➷ 𝓪𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓵
total books read: 5
reviews/ratings:
⤷ free me review 1/5 ★’s
⤷ punk 57 review 2/5 ★’s
⤷ brain on fire: my month of madness review 5/5 ★’s
⤷ the poppy war review 3.75/5 ★’s
⤷ the ritual review and rating to come
favorite: brain on fire: my month of madness
⁀➷ 𝓶𝓪𝔂
total books read: 3
reviews/ratings:
⤷ it ends with us review 5/5 ★’s
⤷ the inmate review 2.5/5 ★’s
⤷ the teacher review 1/5 ★’s
favorite: it ends with us
⁀➷ 𝓳𝓾𝓷𝓮
total books read: 2
reviews/ratings:
⤷ binding 13 review ∞ x ∞ ★’s
⤷ keeping 13 review ∞ 𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 ★’s
favorite: i can't choose
⁀➷ 𝓳𝓾𝓵𝔂
total books read: 2
reviews/ratings:
⤷ saving 6 review ∞knives shoved into my heart ★’s
⤷ redeeming 6 review and rating to come
favorite: i can't choose
⁀➷ 𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓾𝓼𝓽
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⁀➷ 𝓼𝓮𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻
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⁀➷ 𝓸𝓬𝓽𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓻
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⁀➷ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻
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⁀➷ 𝓭𝓮𝓬𝓮𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻
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°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°
❥ 𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔂𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓻𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀
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this is my first year doing this and i’m super excited about it! good luck to everyone with all of your 2024 reading goals!! ily all sm<3
❥ 𝓰𝓸𝓪𝓵𝓼:
➛ read 50 books (31/50)
➛ start annotating
➛ read lots of series
➛ do some buddy reads
➛ discover new authors
➛ reread favorites
➛ apply for more arcs
➛ try to dnf
➛ be more harsh with ratings
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°
❥ 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼:
➛ magnolia parks (4/5)
➛ mindfuck (5/5)
➛ shatter me (0/9)
➛ caraval (0/3)
➛ once upon a broken heart (0/3)
➛ powerless trilogy (0/3)
➛ a good girls guide to murder (0/3)
➛ hockey gods (0/5)
➛ sterling falls (0/4)
➛ boys of tommen (4/5)
➛ l.o.r.d.s. (1/3)
➛ souls trilogy (0/3)
➛ monsters and muses (0/7)
➛ darkverse (0/5)
➛ devils night (0/6)
➛ never after series (0/5)
➛ madison kate (0/5)
➛ the four horseman (0/4)
➛ fallen men (0/7)
➛ belladonna (0/3)
➛ witsec (4/4)
➛ zodiac academy (0/10)
➛ parallel (0/4)
➛ grip trilogy (0/3)
➛ elements of cadence (0/2)
❥ 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓮/𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓱:
➛ the naturals (1/4)
➛ addicted/calloway sisters (9/10)
➛ knockemout (1/3)
➛ letters of enchantment (1/2)
➛ skyland (1/2)
➛ sugarlake (1/4)
❥ 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓼:
➛ all of mariana zapata’s books
➛ all of freida mcfadden’s books
➛ that sik luv
➛ den of vipers
➛ until i get you
➛ skin of a sinner
➛ ghosted
➛ the two of us
➛
➛
❥ 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓻𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓼:
➛ the made series
➛ stay with me trilogy
➛ acotar
➛ hoops trilogy
➛ cat and mouse duet
➛ say you swear
➛ a love letter to whiskey
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°
❥ 𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝔂𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓶:
∞ my heart beats for it…cut me and i’ll bleed this book.
✩✩✩✩✩ this book owns my mind, heart, and soul...pls inject this into my veins.
✩✩✩✩ i loved it, but it’s missing that spark.
✩✩✩ didn’t love it, didn’t hate it, here’s 3 stars.
✩✩ there was potential, but…just- no. immediately forgotten.
✩ why was this written.
⁀➷ 𝓳𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂
total books read: 2
reviews/ratings:
⤷ magnolia parks review 4.25/5 ★’s
⤷ daisy haites review ∞/5 ★’s
favorite: daisy haites
⁀➷ 𝓯𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂
total books read: 3
reviews/ratings:
⤷ magnolia parks: the long way home review 4/5 ★’s
⤷ daisy haites: the great undoing review ∞ x ∞ ★’s
⤷ birthday girl review 4/5 ★’s
favorite: daisy haites: the great undoing
⁀➷ 𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱
total books read: 13
reviews/ratings:
⤷ iron flame review 1/5 ★’s
⤷ never lie review 4/5 ★’s
⤷ don't stop review 1/5 ★’s
⤷ stuffed review 1/5 ★’s
⤷ double stuffed review 1/5 ★’s
⤷ mindf*ck series: the risk review 5/5 ★’s
⤷ mindf*ck series: sidetracked review 4.25/5 ★’s
⤷ mindf*ck series: scarlet angel review 5/5 ★’s
⤷ mindf*ck series: all the lies review 4.5/5 ★’s
⤷ mindf*ck series: paint it all red review 5/5 ★’s
⤷ find me review 3/5 ★’s
⤷ save me review 2/5 ★’s
⤷ love me review 1/5 ★’s
favorite: the mindf*ck series
⁀➷ 𝓪𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓵
total books read: 5
reviews/ratings:
⤷ free me review 1/5 ★’s
⤷ punk 57 review 2/5 ★’s
⤷ brain on fire: my month of madness review 5/5 ★’s
⤷ the poppy war review 3.75/5 ★’s
⤷ the ritual review and rating to come
favorite: brain on fire: my month of madness
⁀➷ 𝓶𝓪𝔂
total books read: 3
reviews/ratings:
⤷ it ends with us review 5/5 ★’s
⤷ the inmate review 2.5/5 ★’s
⤷ the teacher review 1/5 ★’s
favorite: it ends with us
⁀➷ 𝓳𝓾𝓷𝓮
total books read: 2
reviews/ratings:
⤷ binding 13 review ∞ x ∞ ★’s
⤷ keeping 13 review ∞ 𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 ★’s
favorite: i can't choose
⁀➷ 𝓳𝓾𝓵𝔂
total books read: 2
reviews/ratings:
⤷ saving 6 review ∞
⤷ redeeming 6 review and rating to come
favorite: i can't choose
⁀➷ 𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓾𝓼𝓽
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⁀➷ 𝓸𝓬𝓽𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓻
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⁀➷ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻
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January 2, 2025 my 2024 on goodreads <333
╰┈➤ this is my first time doing one of these so if there's anything i'm missing help me out plz plz. love you all ♡
ʚɞ key ʚɞ
🫧- read online
📖 - physical book
🧸 - buddy read
🚫 - dnf
🍓 - reread
💌 - favourite (monthly)
🥀 - least fav (monthly)
💃 - book club
💐 - arcs
🎧- audiobook
🌺 - loved
ʚɞ 2024 reading goals ʚɞ
⟡read 35 books (106/35) ✔️
⟡ reread and tab/annotate my favourite books (2/5)
⟡read new different genres ✔️
⟡read new authors ✔️
⟡do a buddy read (plz dm me i really wanna do one!!) ✔️
⟡ finish the millions of series i started and never finished
⟡read more ann liang books (4/4) ✔️
⟡read 20 arcs (25/20) ✔️
ʚɞ series to finish ʚɞ
⟡ kings of sin (2/4)
⟡ boys of tommen (4/5)
⟡ouabh trilogy (3/3) ✔️
⟡royal elite (7/7) ✔️
⟡windy city series (3/3) ✔️
⟡off campus (5/5) ✔️
ʚɞ rereads ʚɞ
⟡binding 13 ✔️
⟡ keeping 13
⟡ the spanish love deception
⟡ out on a limb
⟡the deal ✔️
⟡ perfectly imperfect (2/8)
ʚɞ january ʚɞ
➵ runaway love - ★★☆☆☆.75 📖💔
➵ better than the movies - ★★★★★ 📖🌺
➵ ruthless vows - ★★★☆☆.75 🫧
➵ a good girl’s guide to murder - ★★☆☆☆.5 📖💔🥀
➵ love, theoretically - ★★★★★ 🫧🌺💌💃
➵ this time it’s real - ★★★☆☆.75 📖🌺🧸💃
➵ if you could see the sun - ★★★★☆ 📖🌺
ʚɞ february ʚɞ
➵ switched - ★★☆☆☆.75 🫧💐🎧
➵ shatter me - ★★★★★ 🫧🧸🌺🍓
➵ the homecoming war - ★★★☆☆.75 🫧🧸🌺
➵ a song to drown rivers - ★★★★★ 🫧💐🌺🧸
➵ I hope this doesn’t find you - ★★★★★🫧💌🌺🧸
➵ 8 days for salvation - ★☆☆☆☆ 🫧🧸💔🥀
➵ caught up - ★★★★★ 📖🧸🌺
➵ mortgage of convenience ★☆☆☆☆.75 🫧💐🧸💔
➵ one last shot - ★★★☆☆.75 🫧💐🌺
➵ maya’s laws of love -★☆☆☆☆ 🫧💐💔🚫
➵ loving romeo -★★★☆☆ 🫧🌺
ꕤ total books read: 11 books <3
ꕤ fav: I hope this doesn’t find you | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: 8 days for salvation | ★☆☆☆☆
ʚɞ march ʚɞ
➵ the favor - ★★☆☆☆ 🫧🧸💃💔🚫
➵ attached at the hip - ★★☆☆☆.5 🫧💐
➵ fake it ‘til you make it - ★★★★☆ 🫧💐🌺💌
➵ the typo - ★★☆☆☆ 🫧💐🚫🥀
➵ this woven kingdom - ★★★☆☆.75 🫧🧸🌺
➵ prime time romance - ★★★☆☆ 🫧💐
ꕤ total books read: 6 books <3
ꕤ fav: fake it ‘til you make it | ★★★★☆
ꕤ least fav: the typo | ★★☆☆☆
ʚɞ april ʚɞ
➵ first base - ★★☆☆☆.75 💐🥀
➵ the dead guy next door - ★★★☆☆.75 🫧
➵ powerless - ★★★★★ 🧸🌺💌
➵ corpse in the closet - ★★★☆☆ 💐
ꕤ total books read: 4 books <3
ꕤ fav: powerless | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: first base | ★★☆☆☆.75
ʚɞ may ʚɞ
➵ wild about you - ★★★☆☆.80 💐
➵ funny story - ★★★★★ 🌺🫧💌
➵ unhinged - ★☆☆☆☆ 🫧🧸💔🥀
➵ binding 13 - ★★★★★ 🌺🍓📖
➵ say you swear - ★★★☆☆ 📖
ꕤ total books read: 5 books <3
ꕤ fav: funny story (& b13) | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: unhinged | ★☆☆☆☆
ʚɞ june ʚɞ
➵ fake - ★★★★☆ 🌺🫧
➵ that prince is mine - ★★☆☆☆.50 💐💔
➵ cross the line - ★★★★☆.25 💐🌺
➵ rootbound - ★★☆☆☆ 📖💔
➵ highly suspicious and unfairly cute - ★★★★☆ 📖🌺
➵ wicked serve - ★★★☆☆.50 💐
➵ before I saw you - ★★★★☆.50 📖🌺
➵ bromance book club - ★★★★☆.75 🫧🌺
➵ ghosted - ★★★★★ 🫧🌺💌
➵ the deal - ★★★★★ 📖🌺🍓💌
➵ fangirl down - ★★☆☆☆.50 📖💔🧸
➵ painted scars -★★★★☆.50 🍓🌺
➵ broken whispers - ★★★★★ 🌺🍓
➵ the mistake - ★★★★☆.55 📖🌺
➵ foul lady fortune - ★★★☆☆ 📖
ꕤ total books read: 15 books <3
ꕤ fav: ghosted & the deal | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: rootbound | ★★☆☆☆
ʚɞ july ʚɞ
➵ only when it’s us - ★★★☆☆.25 🫧
➵ king of pride - ★★★★☆ 📖
➵ scarred - ★★★☆☆ 📖
➵ lilah - ★★★☆☆.75 🌺
➵ deviant king - ★★★☆☆ 🫧
➵ steel princess - ★☆☆☆☆ 💔
➵ twisted kingdom - ★★★☆☆.25 💔
➵ black knight - ★☆☆☆☆ 💔
➵ reckless - ★★★★☆ 📖🧸
➵ a photo finish - ★★★☆☆.50 💐
➵ vicious prince - ★☆☆☆☆ 💔
➵ ruthless empire - ★★★★☆ 🌺💌
➵ royal elite epilogue - ★★★☆☆ 🌺
➵ rule of a kingdom - ★★★☆☆ 🌺
➵ reign of a king - ★★★☆☆.50 🌺
➵ rise of a queen - ★★★☆☆ 🌺
ꕤ total books read: 16 books <3
ꕤ fav: ruthless empire | ★★★★☆
ꕤ least fav: black knight | ★☆☆☆☆
ʚɞ august ʚɞ
➵ all the lies - ★★☆☆☆.50 💔
➵ just my luck - ★★★★☆ 🌺
➵ face off - ★★★★★ 🌺
➵ a legend in the baking - ★★☆☆☆.50 💐
➵ the score - ★★★☆☆.75 🌺
➵ all I need - ★★★★☆.50 🌺
➵ love unwritten - ★★★☆☆.75 📖
➵ look what you made me do - ★★☆☆☆ 💐
➵ just for the summer - ★★★★☆.25 🌺📖
ꕤ total books read: 9 books <3
ꕤ fav: face off | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: look what you made me do | ★★☆☆☆
ʚɞ september ʚɞ
➵ wildcat - ★★★☆☆ 🫧
➵ collide - ★★★☆☆ 🫧
➵ the naturals - ★★★★☆ 📖🌺
ꕤ total books read: 3 books <3
ꕤ fav: the naturals | ★★★★☆
ꕤ least fav: collide | ★★★☆☆
ʚɞ october ʚɞ
➵ desserts for stressed people - ★★★★☆ 🌺
➵ not in my book - ★★★☆☆.75 💐
➵ temptation trails - ★★★☆☆.75 🌺
➵ wild love - ★☆☆☆☆ 💔
➵ the do over - ★☆☆☆☆.50 💔💐
➵ bingsu for two - ★★★★☆.25 🌺💌
➵ pack up the moon - ★★★☆☆ 🧸💃🫧
➵ beyond the bases - ★★★☆☆ 🫧
➵ sing if you can’t dance - ★★★★☆ 📖
➵ home office romance - ★★★☆☆ 💐
➵ fragile sanctuary - ★★★☆☆ 🧸
ꕤ total books read: 11 books <3
ꕤ fav: bingsu for two | ★★★★☆.25
ꕤ least fav: wild love | ★☆☆☆☆
ʚɞ november ʚɞ
➵ unsteady - ★★★☆☆.50 💔🫧
➵ if this was a movie - ★★★★☆ 🌺
➵ hello stranger - ★★★★☆.50 📖🌺
➵ accidentally amy - ★★★☆☆.50 💐
➵ the makeup girl - ★★★☆☆ 💐🎧
➵ my roommate is a vampire - ★★★★☆.50 🌺
➵ a curse for true love - ★★★☆☆.50 🧸📖
➵ i am not jessica chen - ★★★★★ 🌺💐
➵ my killer vacation - ★★★☆☆ 🫧
➵ ghosted - ★★★★★ 🫧🌺💌🍓💃
➵ dirty like me - ★★★★☆ 🫧🌺
➵ spiral - ★★★★☆.50 🌺💐
➵ wild eyes - ★★★★★ 🌺📖
ꕤ total books read: 13 books <3
ꕤ fav: I am not jessica chen | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: the makeup girl | ★★★☆☆
ʚɞ december ʚɞ
➵ acotar - ★★★★☆ 🌺📖
➵ unloved - ★★★★☆.25 🌺💐
➵ my december darling - ★★★★☆ 🌺🫧
➵ the goal - ★★★☆☆ 🌺📖
➵ i hope this doesn’t find you - ★★★★★ 🌺🍓💌
➵ the legacy - ★★★★☆ 📖
ꕤ total books read: 6 books <3
ꕤ fav: I hope this doesn’t find you | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: the goal | ★★★☆☆
❀˖° end of year wrap up °˖❀
total books read ☼ :
all time fav ♥︎ :
five star reads ✮ :
✮ better than the movies
✮ love, theoretically
✮ a song to drown rivers
✮ I hope this doesn’t find you
✮ caught up
✮ powerless
✮ funny story
✮ binding 13
✮ ghosted
✮ the deal
✮ broken whispers
✮ face off
✮ I am not jessica chen
✮ wild eyes
buddy reads ツ :
➵ love, theoretically (with skye <3) 💌💃
➵ this time it’s real (with imene and georgia) 🌺💃
➵ shatter me (with roro <3) 🧸🍓
➵ the homecoming war (with skye <3) 🧸🌺
➵ a song to drown rivers (with repstqrz <3) 🌺🧸
➵ I hope this doesn’t find you (with fadhee <3) 🫧🌺🧸
➵ 8 days for salvation (with kenzy and maram) 🫧🧸💔
➵ caught up (with paula <3) 📖🧸🌺
➵ mortgage of convenience (with fadhee & mariam) 💐🧸
➵ the favor (with imene and georgia) 🧸💃🚫
➵ this woven kingdom (with kangna <3)🧸🌺
➵ powerless (with annabear <3) 🧸🌺
➵ unhinged (with fadhee and aksh <3) 🫧🧸💔
➵ fangirl down (with julia <3) 🧸📖💔
➵ reckless (with raya <3) 🌺🧸📖
➵ pack up the moon (with georgia and imene <3) 🧸💃🫧
➵ fragile sanctuary (with imene <3) 🧸🫧
➵ a curse for true love (with ellie <3) 🧸🌺
fav series ᥫ᭡ : powerless trilogy
fav standalone ʚɞ : i hope this doesn’t find you
fav 2024 release ೀ : funny story
new fav author 𖠋 : ann liang <3
i will probably be updating these regularly, dont mind me. have a nice day my lovelies ˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚
╰┈➤ this is my first time doing one of these so if there's anything i'm missing help me out plz plz. love you all ♡
ʚɞ key ʚɞ
🫧- read online
📖 - physical book
🧸 - buddy read
🚫 - dnf
🍓 - reread
💌 - favourite (monthly)
🥀 - least fav (monthly)
💃 - book club
💐 - arcs
🎧- audiobook
🌺 - loved
ʚɞ 2024 reading goals ʚɞ
⟡
⟡ reread and tab/annotate my favourite books (2/5)
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⟡ finish the millions of series i started and never finished
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ʚɞ series to finish ʚɞ
⟡ kings of sin (2/4)
⟡ boys of tommen (4/5)
⟡
⟡
⟡
⟡
ʚɞ rereads ʚɞ
⟡
⟡ keeping 13
⟡ the spanish love deception
⟡ out on a limb
⟡
⟡ perfectly imperfect (2/8)
ʚɞ january ʚɞ
➵ runaway love - ★★☆☆☆.75 📖💔
➵ better than the movies - ★★★★★ 📖🌺
➵ ruthless vows - ★★★☆☆.75 🫧
➵ a good girl’s guide to murder - ★★☆☆☆.5 📖💔🥀
➵ love, theoretically - ★★★★★ 🫧🌺💌💃
➵ this time it’s real - ★★★☆☆.75 📖🌺🧸💃
➵ if you could see the sun - ★★★★☆ 📖🌺
ʚɞ february ʚɞ
➵ switched - ★★☆☆☆.75 🫧💐🎧
➵ shatter me - ★★★★★ 🫧🧸🌺🍓
➵ the homecoming war - ★★★☆☆.75 🫧🧸🌺
➵ a song to drown rivers - ★★★★★ 🫧💐🌺🧸
➵ I hope this doesn’t find you - ★★★★★🫧💌🌺🧸
➵ 8 days for salvation - ★☆☆☆☆ 🫧🧸💔🥀
➵ caught up - ★★★★★ 📖🧸🌺
➵ mortgage of convenience ★☆☆☆☆.75 🫧💐🧸💔
➵ one last shot - ★★★☆☆.75 🫧💐🌺
➵ maya’s laws of love -★☆☆☆☆ 🫧💐💔🚫
➵ loving romeo -★★★☆☆ 🫧🌺
ꕤ total books read: 11 books <3
ꕤ fav: I hope this doesn’t find you | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: 8 days for salvation | ★☆☆☆☆
ʚɞ march ʚɞ
➵ the favor - ★★☆☆☆ 🫧🧸💃💔🚫
➵ attached at the hip - ★★☆☆☆.5 🫧💐
➵ fake it ‘til you make it - ★★★★☆ 🫧💐🌺💌
➵ the typo - ★★☆☆☆ 🫧💐🚫🥀
➵ this woven kingdom - ★★★☆☆.75 🫧🧸🌺
➵ prime time romance - ★★★☆☆ 🫧💐
ꕤ total books read: 6 books <3
ꕤ fav: fake it ‘til you make it | ★★★★☆
ꕤ least fav: the typo | ★★☆☆☆
ʚɞ april ʚɞ
➵ first base - ★★☆☆☆.75 💐🥀
➵ the dead guy next door - ★★★☆☆.75 🫧
➵ powerless - ★★★★★ 🧸🌺💌
➵ corpse in the closet - ★★★☆☆ 💐
ꕤ total books read: 4 books <3
ꕤ fav: powerless | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: first base | ★★☆☆☆.75
ʚɞ may ʚɞ
➵ wild about you - ★★★☆☆.80 💐
➵ funny story - ★★★★★ 🌺🫧💌
➵ unhinged - ★☆☆☆☆ 🫧🧸💔🥀
➵ binding 13 - ★★★★★ 🌺🍓📖
➵ say you swear - ★★★☆☆ 📖
ꕤ total books read: 5 books <3
ꕤ fav: funny story (& b13) | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: unhinged | ★☆☆☆☆
ʚɞ june ʚɞ
➵ fake - ★★★★☆ 🌺🫧
➵ that prince is mine - ★★☆☆☆.50 💐💔
➵ cross the line - ★★★★☆.25 💐🌺
➵ rootbound - ★★☆☆☆ 📖💔
➵ highly suspicious and unfairly cute - ★★★★☆ 📖🌺
➵ wicked serve - ★★★☆☆.50 💐
➵ before I saw you - ★★★★☆.50 📖🌺
➵ bromance book club - ★★★★☆.75 🫧🌺
➵ ghosted - ★★★★★ 🫧🌺💌
➵ the deal - ★★★★★ 📖🌺🍓💌
➵ fangirl down - ★★☆☆☆.50 📖💔🧸
➵ painted scars -★★★★☆.50 🍓🌺
➵ broken whispers - ★★★★★ 🌺🍓
➵ the mistake - ★★★★☆.55 📖🌺
➵ foul lady fortune - ★★★☆☆ 📖
ꕤ total books read: 15 books <3
ꕤ fav: ghosted & the deal | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: rootbound | ★★☆☆☆
ʚɞ july ʚɞ
➵ only when it’s us - ★★★☆☆.25 🫧
➵ king of pride - ★★★★☆ 📖
➵ scarred - ★★★☆☆ 📖
➵ lilah - ★★★☆☆.75 🌺
➵ deviant king - ★★★☆☆ 🫧
➵ steel princess - ★☆☆☆☆ 💔
➵ twisted kingdom - ★★★☆☆.25 💔
➵ black knight - ★☆☆☆☆ 💔
➵ reckless - ★★★★☆ 📖🧸
➵ a photo finish - ★★★☆☆.50 💐
➵ vicious prince - ★☆☆☆☆ 💔
➵ ruthless empire - ★★★★☆ 🌺💌
➵ royal elite epilogue - ★★★☆☆ 🌺
➵ rule of a kingdom - ★★★☆☆ 🌺
➵ reign of a king - ★★★☆☆.50 🌺
➵ rise of a queen - ★★★☆☆ 🌺
ꕤ total books read: 16 books <3
ꕤ fav: ruthless empire | ★★★★☆
ꕤ least fav: black knight | ★☆☆☆☆
ʚɞ august ʚɞ
➵ all the lies - ★★☆☆☆.50 💔
➵ just my luck - ★★★★☆ 🌺
➵ face off - ★★★★★ 🌺
➵ a legend in the baking - ★★☆☆☆.50 💐
➵ the score - ★★★☆☆.75 🌺
➵ all I need - ★★★★☆.50 🌺
➵ love unwritten - ★★★☆☆.75 📖
➵ look what you made me do - ★★☆☆☆ 💐
➵ just for the summer - ★★★★☆.25 🌺📖
ꕤ total books read: 9 books <3
ꕤ fav: face off | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: look what you made me do | ★★☆☆☆
ʚɞ september ʚɞ
➵ wildcat - ★★★☆☆ 🫧
➵ collide - ★★★☆☆ 🫧
➵ the naturals - ★★★★☆ 📖🌺
ꕤ total books read: 3 books <3
ꕤ fav: the naturals | ★★★★☆
ꕤ least fav: collide | ★★★☆☆
ʚɞ october ʚɞ
➵ desserts for stressed people - ★★★★☆ 🌺
➵ not in my book - ★★★☆☆.75 💐
➵ temptation trails - ★★★☆☆.75 🌺
➵ wild love - ★☆☆☆☆ 💔
➵ the do over - ★☆☆☆☆.50 💔💐
➵ bingsu for two - ★★★★☆.25 🌺💌
➵ pack up the moon - ★★★☆☆ 🧸💃🫧
➵ beyond the bases - ★★★☆☆ 🫧
➵ sing if you can’t dance - ★★★★☆ 📖
➵ home office romance - ★★★☆☆ 💐
➵ fragile sanctuary - ★★★☆☆ 🧸
ꕤ total books read: 11 books <3
ꕤ fav: bingsu for two | ★★★★☆.25
ꕤ least fav: wild love | ★☆☆☆☆
ʚɞ november ʚɞ
➵ unsteady - ★★★☆☆.50 💔🫧
➵ if this was a movie - ★★★★☆ 🌺
➵ hello stranger - ★★★★☆.50 📖🌺
➵ accidentally amy - ★★★☆☆.50 💐
➵ the makeup girl - ★★★☆☆ 💐🎧
➵ my roommate is a vampire - ★★★★☆.50 🌺
➵ a curse for true love - ★★★☆☆.50 🧸📖
➵ i am not jessica chen - ★★★★★ 🌺💐
➵ my killer vacation - ★★★☆☆ 🫧
➵ ghosted - ★★★★★ 🫧🌺💌🍓💃
➵ dirty like me - ★★★★☆ 🫧🌺
➵ spiral - ★★★★☆.50 🌺💐
➵ wild eyes - ★★★★★ 🌺📖
ꕤ total books read: 13 books <3
ꕤ fav: I am not jessica chen | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: the makeup girl | ★★★☆☆
ʚɞ december ʚɞ
➵ acotar - ★★★★☆ 🌺📖
➵ unloved - ★★★★☆.25 🌺💐
➵ my december darling - ★★★★☆ 🌺🫧
➵ the goal - ★★★☆☆ 🌺📖
➵ i hope this doesn’t find you - ★★★★★ 🌺🍓💌
➵ the legacy - ★★★★☆ 📖
ꕤ total books read: 6 books <3
ꕤ fav: I hope this doesn’t find you | ★★★★★
ꕤ least fav: the goal | ★★★☆☆
❀˖° end of year wrap up °˖❀
total books read ☼ :
all time fav ♥︎ :
five star reads ✮ :
✮ better than the movies
✮ love, theoretically
✮ a song to drown rivers
✮ I hope this doesn’t find you
✮ caught up
✮ powerless
✮ funny story
✮ binding 13
✮ ghosted
✮ the deal
✮ broken whispers
✮ face off
✮ I am not jessica chen
✮ wild eyes
buddy reads ツ :
➵ love, theoretically (with skye <3) 💌💃
➵ this time it’s real (with imene and georgia) 🌺💃
➵ shatter me (with roro <3) 🧸🍓
➵ the homecoming war (with skye <3) 🧸🌺
➵ a song to drown rivers (with repstqrz <3) 🌺🧸
➵ I hope this doesn’t find you (with fadhee <3) 🫧🌺🧸
➵ 8 days for salvation (with kenzy and maram) 🫧🧸💔
➵ caught up (with paula <3) 📖🧸🌺
➵ mortgage of convenience (with fadhee & mariam) 💐🧸
➵ the favor (with imene and georgia) 🧸💃🚫
➵ this woven kingdom (with kangna <3)🧸🌺
➵ powerless (with annabear <3) 🧸🌺
➵ unhinged (with fadhee and aksh <3) 🫧🧸💔
➵ fangirl down (with julia <3) 🧸📖💔
➵ reckless (with raya <3) 🌺🧸📖
➵ pack up the moon (with georgia and imene <3) 🧸💃🫧
➵ fragile sanctuary (with imene <3) 🧸🫧
➵ a curse for true love (with ellie <3) 🧸🌺
fav series ᥫ᭡ : powerless trilogy
fav standalone ʚɞ : i hope this doesn’t find you
fav 2024 release ೀ : funny story
new fav author 𖠋 : ann liang <3
i will probably be updating these regularly, dont mind me. have a nice day my lovelies ˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚
Shelved as 'yearly-wrap-ups'
January 2, 2025˖ ࣪ ⟡˚ 2024 in review ˚⟡ ࣪ ˖ | completed
⋆ goals:
- read 100 books [124/100] ✓
- read more books on my kindle ✓
- write longer reviews ✓
⋆ series i want to start/finish:
- a court of thorns and roses 🧝🏻♀️ [5/5] ✓
- throne of glass 🗡️ [8/8] ✓
- crescent city 🌙 [3/3] ✓
- the shepherd king 🥀 [2/2] ✓
- defy the night 🌸 [3/3] ✓
- the shadow and bone trilogy 🦌 [3/3] ✓
- six of crows 🐦⬛ [2/2] ✓
- red rising saga 🔺 [6/6] ✓
- the cruel prince 👑 [3/3] ✓
- crowns of nyaxia ⚔️ [3.5/3.5] ✓
- mistborn: era 1 🪙 [3/3] ✓
- arc of a scythe ⛏️ [3/3] ✓
- caraval 🎪 [3.5/3.5] ✓
- once upon a broken heart 🏹 [3/3] ✓
⋆ standalones i want to read:
- the song of achilles ✓
- the secret history ✓
- babel ✓
- a study in drowning ✓
- throne of the fallen ✓
⋆ 2024 releases i want to read:
- the familiar ✓
- lady macbeth ✓
- funny story ✓
- the crimson moth (the crimson moth, #1) 🪰 ✓
- reckless (the powerless trilogy, #2) 💜 ✓
- when the moon hatched (moonfall, #1)🌛 ✓
- five broken blades (the broken blades, #1) 🔪 ✓
- a fate inked in blood (saga of the unfated, #1)💧✓
— — — — — — — — — — — — —
➙ key:
- star ratings: ⭐️
- dnf: 🗑️
- reread: ✨
— — — — — — — — — — — — —
⭒ monthly reading wrap up: ⁀➴
❄️ january ౨ৎ
- a court of mist and fury | 2.5 ⭐️
- a court of wings and ruin | 3.5 ⭐️
- a court of frost and starlight | 1 ⭐️
- a court of silver flames | 1.5 ⭐️
- divine rivals | 2 ⭐️
- the assassins blade | 2.5 ⭐️
- throne of glass | 3 ⭐️
- crown of midnight | 3 ⭐️
- heir of fire | 4 ⭐️
- queen of shadows | 5 ⭐️
- empire of storms | 5 ⭐️
- tower of dawn | 4 ⭐️
- kingdom of ash | 4.25 ⭐️
- red, white & royal blue | 🗑️
- one dark window | 2 ⭐️
➙january stats:
- favorite book: queen of shadows
- least favorite book: a court of frost and starlight
- amount of books read: 14
- amount of pages read: 8,058
- average star rating: 3.09 ⭐️
💌 february౨ৎ
- house of earth and blood | 3 ⭐️
- house of sky and breath | 2 ⭐️
- house of flame and shadow | 1 ⭐️
- the song of achilles | 2 ⭐️
- bride | 🗑️
- two twisted crowns | 2 ⭐️
- a dowry of blood | 2 ⭐️
- red rising | 4.25 ⭐️
- golden son | 5 ⭐️
- morning star | 6 ⭐️
- the will of the many | 4 ⭐️
➙ february stats:
- favorite book: morning star
- least favorite book: house of flame and shadow
- amount of books read: 10
- amount of pages read: 5,581
- average star rating: 3.10 ⭐️
🌱 march ౨ৎ
- fourth wing | 2 ⭐️
- my year of rest and relaxation | 3 ⭐️
- the stranger | 3 ⭐️
- defy the night | 4 ⭐️
- defend the dawn | 3 ⭐️
- destroy the day | 3.75 ⭐️
- animal farm | 3.75 ⭐️
- white nights | 4 ⭐️
- the secret history | 5 ⭐️
- heartstopper: volume five | 4 ⭐️
- babel | 6 ⭐️
- done and dusted | 3 ⭐️
➙ march stats:
- favorite book: babel
- least favorite book: fourth wing
- amount of books read: 12
- amount of pages read: 4,474
- average star rating: 3.63 ⭐️
🌷 april ౨ৎ
- things have gotten worse since we last spoke | 1 ⭐️
- swift and saddled | 3 ⭐️
- the death of ivan ilyich | 3 ⭐️
- six of crows | 5 ⭐️
- crooked kingdom | 6 ⭐️
- powerful | 3.5 ⭐️
- the familiar | 2 ⭐️
- binding 13 | 🗑️
➙ april stats:
- favorite book: crooked kingdom
- least favorite book: things have gotten worse since we last spoke
- amount of books read: 7
- amount of pages read: 2,476
- average star rating: 3.35 ⭐️
🌸 may ౨ৎ
- dark rise | 5 ⭐️
- dark heir | 5 ⭐️
- iron gold | 3.5 ⭐️
- dark age | 4.25 ⭐️
- light bringer | 5 ⭐️
- shadow and bone | 3 ⭐️
- siege and storm | 2 ⭐️
- ruin and rising | 2.5 ⭐️
- beach read | 5 ⭐️
- the crimson moth | 4 ⭐️
- king of scars | 3.5 ⭐️
- rule of wolves | 3.75 ⭐️
- the poppy war | 2 ⭐️
➙ may stats:
- favorite book: light bringer
- least favorite book: the poppy war
- amount of books read: 13
- amount of pages read: 6,508
- average star rating: 3.73 ⭐️
🌈 june ౨ৎ
- the cruel prince | 3.75 ⭐️
- the wicked king | 4 ⭐️
- the queen of nothing | 5 ⭐️
- how the king of elfhame learned to hate
stories | 4.25 ⭐️
- magnolia parks | 🗑️
- the foxhole court | 1 ⭐️
- the raven king | 1 ⭐️
- the king’s men | 1 ⭐️
- people we meet on vacation | 2.5 ⭐️
- the serpent & the wings of night | 3 ⭐️
- six scorched roses | 4 ⭐️
- the ashes & the star-cursed king | 3.25 ⭐️
➙ june stats:
- favorite book: the queen of nothing
- least favorite book: the foxhole court
- amount of books read: 11
- amount of pages read: 4,089
- average star rating: 3.16 ⭐️
☀️ july ౨ৎ
- heavenbreaker | 1 ⭐️
- reckless | 1 ⭐️
- she drives me crazy | 4 ⭐️
- better than the movies | 3.75 ⭐️
- when the moon hatched | 2 ⭐️
- book lovers | 4 ⭐️
- red queen | 3 ⭐️
- glass sword | 2 ⭐️
- king’s cage | 2 ⭐️
- quicksilver | 🗑️
- the final empire | 5 ⭐️
- the well of ascension | 4 ⭐️
- the hero of ages | 5 ⭐️
➙ july stats:
- favorite book: the final empire
- least favorite book: heavenbreaker
- amount of books read: 12
- amount of pages read: 5,984
- average star rating: 3.06 ⭐️
🌻 august ౨ৎ
- five broken blades | 1 ⭐️
- happy place | 3.5 ⭐️
- nothing like the movies | 1 ⭐️
- scythe | 5 ⭐️ | ✨
- thunderhead | 3.75 ⭐️
- the toll | 2 ⭐️
- flawless | 🗑️
- a study in drowning | 5 ⭐️
- lady macbeth | 1 ⭐️
- throne of the fallen | 4 ⭐️
- a fate inked in blood | 2.5 ⭐️
- part of your world | 🗑️
- just for the summer | 3.25 ⭐️
- faebound | 🗑️
➙ august stats:
- favorite book: a study in drowning
- least favorite book: five broken blades
- amount of books read: 11
- amount of pages read: 5,216
- average star rating: 2.91 ⭐️
🍂 september ౨ৎ
- the scepter | 2 ⭐️
- the sword | 2 ⭐️
- the crown of oaths and curses | 🗑️
- the stolen heir | 2.5 ⭐️
- the prisoner’s throne | 3 ⭐️
- undead gods | 🗑️ | ARC
- funny story | 3.75 ⭐️
- the veiled kingdom | 2 ⭐️
- the hunted heir | 2 ⭐️
- the bastard king | 2.5 ⭐️ | ARC
- sword catcher | 🗑️
- quicksilver | 4 ⭐️
- to bleed a crystal boom | 🗑️
- the road of bones | 🗑️
- from blood and ash | 2 ⭐️
- a kingdom of flesh and fire | 1 ⭐️
- yours truly | 3.75 ⭐️
➙ september stats:
- favorite book: quicksilver
- least favorite book: a kingdom of flesh and fire
- amount of books read: 12
- amount of pages read: 5,428
- average star rating: 2.54 ⭐️
🎃 october ౨ৎ
- rain of shadows and endings | 🗑️
- caraval | 4 ⭐️
- legendary | 2.75 ⭐️
- finale | 2 ⭐️
- the awakening | 3 ⭐️
- ruthless fae | 3 ⭐️
- the reckoning | 3 ⭐️
- spectacular | 3.5 ⭐️
- the courting of bristol keats | 🗑️ | ARC
- on wings of blood | 3 ⭐️ | ARC
- once upon a broken heart | 3.75 ⭐️
- the ballad of never after | 5 ⭐️
➙ october stats:
- favorite book: the ballad of never after
- least favorite book: finale
- amount of books read: 10
- amount of pages read: 4,887
- average star rating: 3.33 ⭐️
🍁 november ౨ৎ
- a curse for true love | 2 ⭐️
- fourth wing | 3.25 ⭐️
- iron flame | 1 ⭐️
- nocticadia | 2 ⭐️
- the fifth season | 2.75 ⭐️
- the obelisk gate | 🗑️
- fear the flames | 3 ⭐️
- the songbird & the heart of stone | 3.75 ⭐️
- lightlark | 🗑️
- metal slinger | 🗑️
➙ november stats:
- favorite book: the songbird & the heart of stone
- least favorite book: iron flame
- amount of books read: 7
- amount of pages read: 3,506
- average star rating: 2.54 ⭐️
🎄 december ౨ৎ
- blood over bright haven | 5 ⭐️
- the eleventh metal (arcanum unbounded) | 3 ⭐️
- mistborn: secret history | 4 ⭐️
- elantris | 2.5 ⭐️
- the hope of elantris (arcanum unbounded) | 3 ⭐️
- the emperor’s soul (arcanum unbounded) | 3.75 ⭐️
- white sand (arcanum unbounded) | 2 ⭐️
- warbreaker | 5 ⭐️
➙ december stats:
- favorite book: warbreaker
- least favorite book: white sand
- amount of books read: 8
- amount of pages read: 2,556
- average star rating: 3.53 ⭐️
— — — — — — — — — — — — —
⭒ summary:
- total books read: 124
- total average star rating: 3.16 ⭐️
- total pages read: 59,251
- total 5 ⭐️ books: 17 | + three 6 ⭐️’s
- total 1 ⭐️ books: 3
- total books DNF’ed: 17
- most read author: sarah j. maas (unfortunately)
- new favorite author: brandon sanderson
- favorite book: babel - r.f. kuang
- least favorite book: five broken blades - mai corland
- favorite series: red rising saga - pierce brown
- fav 2024 release: the crimson moth - kristen ciccarelli
- least fav 2024 release: lady macbeth - ava reid
- best reading month: may | 3.73 ⭐️
- worst reading month: november | 2.54 ⭐️
⭒ top 10 favorite books i read in 2024:
⤷ one book per series:
1. babel - r.f. kuang
2. morning star - pierce brown
3. crooked kingdom - leigh bardugo
4. the final empire - brandon sanderson
5. dark heir - c.s. pacat
6. blood over bright haven - m.l. wang
7. a study in drowning - ava reid
8. the ballad of never after - stephanie garber
9. warbreaker - brandon sanderson
10. the will of the many - james islington
⭒ top 5 favorite series i read in 2024:
1. red rising saga - pierce brown
2. mistborn - brandon sanderson
3. six of crows - leigh bardugo
4. dark rise - c.s. pacat
5. once upon a broken heart - stephanie garber
⭒ top 10 WORST books i read in 2024:
⤷ including DNF’s:
1. five broken blades - mai corland
2. lightlark - alex aster
3. house of flame and shadow - sarah j. maas
4. reckless - lauren roberts
5. to bleed a crystal bloom - sarah a. parker
6. faebound - saara el-arifi
7. iron flame - rebecca yarros
8. binding 13 - chloe walsh
9. nothing like the movies - lynn painter
10. the foxhole court - nora sakavic
⭒ more in detail:
➙ 6 ⭐️ reads of 2024:
- morning star - pierce brown
- babel - r.f. kuang
- crooked kingdom - leigh bardugo
➙ DNF’s of 2024:
- red, white & royal blue - casey mcquiston | 29/01
- bride - ali hazelwood | 15/02
- binding 13 - chloe walsh | 29/04
- magnolia parks - jessa hastings | 06/06
- flawless - elsie silver | 16/08
- part of your world - abby jimenez | 26/08
- faebound - saara el-arifi | 29/08
- the crown of oaths and curses - j. bree | 03/09
- undead gods - caitlyn battelle | 09/09
- sword catcher - cassandra clare | 20/09
- to bleed a crystal bloom - sarah a. parker | 21/09
- the road of bones - demi winters | 23/09
- rain of shadows and endings - melissa k.
roehrich | 30/09
- the courting of bristol keats - mary e. pearson | 24/10
- the obelisk gate - n.k. jemisin | 14/11
- lightlark - alex aster | 26/11
- metal slinger - rachel schneider | 28/11
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thank you for reading!! 🫶
⋆ goals:
- read 100 books [124/100] ✓
- read more books on my kindle ✓
- write longer reviews ✓
⋆ series i want to start/finish:
- a court of thorns and roses 🧝🏻♀️ [5/5] ✓
- throne of glass 🗡️ [8/8] ✓
- crescent city 🌙 [3/3] ✓
- the shepherd king 🥀 [2/2] ✓
- defy the night 🌸 [3/3] ✓
- the shadow and bone trilogy 🦌 [3/3] ✓
- six of crows 🐦⬛ [2/2] ✓
- red rising saga 🔺 [6/6] ✓
- the cruel prince 👑 [3/3] ✓
- crowns of nyaxia ⚔️ [3.5/3.5] ✓
- mistborn: era 1 🪙 [3/3] ✓
- arc of a scythe ⛏️ [3/3] ✓
- caraval 🎪 [3.5/3.5] ✓
- once upon a broken heart 🏹 [3/3] ✓
⋆ standalones i want to read:
- the song of achilles ✓
- the secret history ✓
- babel ✓
- a study in drowning ✓
- throne of the fallen ✓
⋆ 2024 releases i want to read:
- the familiar ✓
- lady macbeth ✓
- funny story ✓
- the crimson moth (the crimson moth, #1) 🪰 ✓
- reckless (the powerless trilogy, #2) 💜 ✓
- when the moon hatched (moonfall, #1)🌛 ✓
- five broken blades (the broken blades, #1) 🔪 ✓
- a fate inked in blood (saga of the unfated, #1)💧✓
— — — — — — — — — — — — —
➙ key:
- star ratings: ⭐️
- dnf: 🗑️
- reread: ✨
— — — — — — — — — — — — —
⭒ monthly reading wrap up: ⁀➴
❄️ january ౨ৎ
- a court of mist and fury | 2.5 ⭐️
- a court of wings and ruin | 3.5 ⭐️
- a court of frost and starlight | 1 ⭐️
- a court of silver flames | 1.5 ⭐️
- divine rivals | 2 ⭐️
- the assassins blade | 2.5 ⭐️
- throne of glass | 3 ⭐️
- crown of midnight | 3 ⭐️
- heir of fire | 4 ⭐️
- queen of shadows | 5 ⭐️
- empire of storms | 5 ⭐️
- tower of dawn | 4 ⭐️
- kingdom of ash | 4.25 ⭐️
- red, white & royal blue | 🗑️
- one dark window | 2 ⭐️
➙january stats:
- favorite book: queen of shadows
- least favorite book: a court of frost and starlight
- amount of books read: 14
- amount of pages read: 8,058
- average star rating: 3.09 ⭐️
💌 february౨ৎ
- house of earth and blood | 3 ⭐️
- house of sky and breath | 2 ⭐️
- house of flame and shadow | 1 ⭐️
- the song of achilles | 2 ⭐️
- bride | 🗑️
- two twisted crowns | 2 ⭐️
- a dowry of blood | 2 ⭐️
- red rising | 4.25 ⭐️
- golden son | 5 ⭐️
- morning star | 6 ⭐️
- the will of the many | 4 ⭐️
➙ february stats:
- favorite book: morning star
- least favorite book: house of flame and shadow
- amount of books read: 10
- amount of pages read: 5,581
- average star rating: 3.10 ⭐️
🌱 march ౨ৎ
- fourth wing | 2 ⭐️
- my year of rest and relaxation | 3 ⭐️
- the stranger | 3 ⭐️
- defy the night | 4 ⭐️
- defend the dawn | 3 ⭐️
- destroy the day | 3.75 ⭐️
- animal farm | 3.75 ⭐️
- white nights | 4 ⭐️
- the secret history | 5 ⭐️
- heartstopper: volume five | 4 ⭐️
- babel | 6 ⭐️
- done and dusted | 3 ⭐️
➙ march stats:
- favorite book: babel
- least favorite book: fourth wing
- amount of books read: 12
- amount of pages read: 4,474
- average star rating: 3.63 ⭐️
🌷 april ౨ৎ
- things have gotten worse since we last spoke | 1 ⭐️
- swift and saddled | 3 ⭐️
- the death of ivan ilyich | 3 ⭐️
- six of crows | 5 ⭐️
- crooked kingdom | 6 ⭐️
- powerful | 3.5 ⭐️
- the familiar | 2 ⭐️
- binding 13 | 🗑️
➙ april stats:
- favorite book: crooked kingdom
- least favorite book: things have gotten worse since we last spoke
- amount of books read: 7
- amount of pages read: 2,476
- average star rating: 3.35 ⭐️
🌸 may ౨ৎ
- dark rise | 5 ⭐️
- dark heir | 5 ⭐️
- iron gold | 3.5 ⭐️
- dark age | 4.25 ⭐️
- light bringer | 5 ⭐️
- shadow and bone | 3 ⭐️
- siege and storm | 2 ⭐️
- ruin and rising | 2.5 ⭐️
- beach read | 5 ⭐️
- the crimson moth | 4 ⭐️
- king of scars | 3.5 ⭐️
- rule of wolves | 3.75 ⭐️
- the poppy war | 2 ⭐️
➙ may stats:
- favorite book: light bringer
- least favorite book: the poppy war
- amount of books read: 13
- amount of pages read: 6,508
- average star rating: 3.73 ⭐️
🌈 june ౨ৎ
- the cruel prince | 3.75 ⭐️
- the wicked king | 4 ⭐️
- the queen of nothing | 5 ⭐️
- how the king of elfhame learned to hate
stories | 4.25 ⭐️
- magnolia parks | 🗑️
- the foxhole court | 1 ⭐️
- the raven king | 1 ⭐️
- the king’s men | 1 ⭐️
- people we meet on vacation | 2.5 ⭐️
- the serpent & the wings of night | 3 ⭐️
- six scorched roses | 4 ⭐️
- the ashes & the star-cursed king | 3.25 ⭐️
➙ june stats:
- favorite book: the queen of nothing
- least favorite book: the foxhole court
- amount of books read: 11
- amount of pages read: 4,089
- average star rating: 3.16 ⭐️
☀️ july ౨ৎ
- heavenbreaker | 1 ⭐️
- reckless | 1 ⭐️
- she drives me crazy | 4 ⭐️
- better than the movies | 3.75 ⭐️
- when the moon hatched | 2 ⭐️
- book lovers | 4 ⭐️
- red queen | 3 ⭐️
- glass sword | 2 ⭐️
- king’s cage | 2 ⭐️
- quicksilver | 🗑️
- the final empire | 5 ⭐️
- the well of ascension | 4 ⭐️
- the hero of ages | 5 ⭐️
➙ july stats:
- favorite book: the final empire
- least favorite book: heavenbreaker
- amount of books read: 12
- amount of pages read: 5,984
- average star rating: 3.06 ⭐️
🌻 august ౨ৎ
- five broken blades | 1 ⭐️
- happy place | 3.5 ⭐️
- nothing like the movies | 1 ⭐️
- scythe | 5 ⭐️ | ✨
- thunderhead | 3.75 ⭐️
- the toll | 2 ⭐️
- flawless | 🗑️
- a study in drowning | 5 ⭐️
- lady macbeth | 1 ⭐️
- throne of the fallen | 4 ⭐️
- a fate inked in blood | 2.5 ⭐️
- part of your world | 🗑️
- just for the summer | 3.25 ⭐️
- faebound | 🗑️
➙ august stats:
- favorite book: a study in drowning
- least favorite book: five broken blades
- amount of books read: 11
- amount of pages read: 5,216
- average star rating: 2.91 ⭐️
🍂 september ౨ৎ
- the scepter | 2 ⭐️
- the sword | 2 ⭐️
- the crown of oaths and curses | 🗑️
- the stolen heir | 2.5 ⭐️
- the prisoner’s throne | 3 ⭐️
- undead gods | 🗑️ | ARC
- funny story | 3.75 ⭐️
- the veiled kingdom | 2 ⭐️
- the hunted heir | 2 ⭐️
- the bastard king | 2.5 ⭐️ | ARC
- sword catcher | 🗑️
- quicksilver | 4 ⭐️
- to bleed a crystal boom | 🗑️
- the road of bones | 🗑️
- from blood and ash | 2 ⭐️
- a kingdom of flesh and fire | 1 ⭐️
- yours truly | 3.75 ⭐️
➙ september stats:
- favorite book: quicksilver
- least favorite book: a kingdom of flesh and fire
- amount of books read: 12
- amount of pages read: 5,428
- average star rating: 2.54 ⭐️
🎃 october ౨ৎ
- rain of shadows and endings | 🗑️
- caraval | 4 ⭐️
- legendary | 2.75 ⭐️
- finale | 2 ⭐️
- the awakening | 3 ⭐️
- ruthless fae | 3 ⭐️
- the reckoning | 3 ⭐️
- spectacular | 3.5 ⭐️
- the courting of bristol keats | 🗑️ | ARC
- on wings of blood | 3 ⭐️ | ARC
- once upon a broken heart | 3.75 ⭐️
- the ballad of never after | 5 ⭐️
➙ october stats:
- favorite book: the ballad of never after
- least favorite book: finale
- amount of books read: 10
- amount of pages read: 4,887
- average star rating: 3.33 ⭐️
🍁 november ౨ৎ
- a curse for true love | 2 ⭐️
- fourth wing | 3.25 ⭐️
- iron flame | 1 ⭐️
- nocticadia | 2 ⭐️
- the fifth season | 2.75 ⭐️
- the obelisk gate | 🗑️
- fear the flames | 3 ⭐️
- the songbird & the heart of stone | 3.75 ⭐️
- lightlark | 🗑️
- metal slinger | 🗑️
➙ november stats:
- favorite book: the songbird & the heart of stone
- least favorite book: iron flame
- amount of books read: 7
- amount of pages read: 3,506
- average star rating: 2.54 ⭐️
🎄 december ౨ৎ
- blood over bright haven | 5 ⭐️
- the eleventh metal (arcanum unbounded) | 3 ⭐️
- mistborn: secret history | 4 ⭐️
- elantris | 2.5 ⭐️
- the hope of elantris (arcanum unbounded) | 3 ⭐️
- the emperor’s soul (arcanum unbounded) | 3.75 ⭐️
- white sand (arcanum unbounded) | 2 ⭐️
- warbreaker | 5 ⭐️
➙ december stats:
- favorite book: warbreaker
- least favorite book: white sand
- amount of books read: 8
- amount of pages read: 2,556
- average star rating: 3.53 ⭐️
— — — — — — — — — — — — —
⭒ summary:
- total books read: 124
- total average star rating: 3.16 ⭐️
- total pages read: 59,251
- total 5 ⭐️ books: 17 | + three 6 ⭐️’s
- total 1 ⭐️ books: 3
- total books DNF’ed: 17
- most read author: sarah j. maas (unfortunately)
- new favorite author: brandon sanderson
- favorite book: babel - r.f. kuang
- least favorite book: five broken blades - mai corland
- favorite series: red rising saga - pierce brown
- fav 2024 release: the crimson moth - kristen ciccarelli
- least fav 2024 release: lady macbeth - ava reid
- best reading month: may | 3.73 ⭐️
- worst reading month: november | 2.54 ⭐️
⭒ top 10 favorite books i read in 2024:
⤷ one book per series:
1. babel - r.f. kuang
2. morning star - pierce brown
3. crooked kingdom - leigh bardugo
4. the final empire - brandon sanderson
5. dark heir - c.s. pacat
6. blood over bright haven - m.l. wang
7. a study in drowning - ava reid
8. the ballad of never after - stephanie garber
9. warbreaker - brandon sanderson
10. the will of the many - james islington
⭒ top 5 favorite series i read in 2024:
1. red rising saga - pierce brown
2. mistborn - brandon sanderson
3. six of crows - leigh bardugo
4. dark rise - c.s. pacat
5. once upon a broken heart - stephanie garber
⭒ top 10 WORST books i read in 2024:
⤷ including DNF’s:
1. five broken blades - mai corland
2. lightlark - alex aster
3. house of flame and shadow - sarah j. maas
4. reckless - lauren roberts
5. to bleed a crystal bloom - sarah a. parker
6. faebound - saara el-arifi
7. iron flame - rebecca yarros
8. binding 13 - chloe walsh
9. nothing like the movies - lynn painter
10. the foxhole court - nora sakavic
⭒ more in detail:
➙ 6 ⭐️ reads of 2024:
- morning star - pierce brown
- babel - r.f. kuang
- crooked kingdom - leigh bardugo
➙ DNF’s of 2024:
- red, white & royal blue - casey mcquiston | 29/01
- bride - ali hazelwood | 15/02
- binding 13 - chloe walsh | 29/04
- magnolia parks - jessa hastings | 06/06
- flawless - elsie silver | 16/08
- part of your world - abby jimenez | 26/08
- faebound - saara el-arifi | 29/08
- the crown of oaths and curses - j. bree | 03/09
- undead gods - caitlyn battelle | 09/09
- sword catcher - cassandra clare | 20/09
- to bleed a crystal bloom - sarah a. parker | 21/09
- the road of bones - demi winters | 23/09
- rain of shadows and endings - melissa k.
roehrich | 30/09
- the courting of bristol keats - mary e. pearson | 24/10
- the obelisk gate - n.k. jemisin | 14/11
- lightlark - alex aster | 26/11
- metal slinger - rachel schneider | 28/11
— — — — — — — — — — — — —
thank you for reading!! 🫶
Shelved as 'review-of-the-year'
January 3, 2025꒰
my reading year in 2024
꒱
what’s up y’all! this year hasn’t been the best in terms of finding winners, but we win some, we lose some, i suppose. i’m not gonna be reading any more till the new year begins, so here’s my reading wrap up!
— 2024 has been rather busy for me, which i’d been anticipating, hence the huge reduction in my number of reads. i still managed to read 168 books (woohoo!), which i’m very proud of, since my reading goal was 150. (for reference, i read 412 last year.)
— my tastes have changed quite a bit over the past year! i’ve noticed i’m leaning more towards reading lighthearted & humorous books than the darker, emotional type. even when i do read dark fiction (romance, mostly), i tend to get nitpicky and more critical — because i apparently have higher standards for books in that genre.
— my most read authors this year are: john wiltshire (duh, i binged the entire more heat than the sun series within the span of 2 weeks in the start of the year lmao), cat sebastian (how i adore this author), mò xiāng tóng xiù (did i mention i finally got around to reading módào zǔshī and i’m so glad i did? it was truly splendid, and i adored wangxian), marina vivancos (my beloved!), haley cass (so dear to me, again), and runyx (no comment).
— my average rating for the year, according to storygraph, is 2.92, so… evidently i have been much pickier this year lol.
— i managed to check out all except one of the books on my immediate tbr that i’d been intending to read this year, which was so surprising to me because i rarely tend to stick to such goals. it brought me some unexpected wins — like the seven husbands of evelyn hugo and babel — which i’m very glad for. (alas, the iskari series got left out, but oh well. there’s always next year.)
— i participated in the 12 recs by 12 friends challenge this year and got around to reading all my friends’ recommendations (at least partially), so cheers to that! i didn’t get around to finishing 4 of them, but that’s another topic.
— i also took part in the trans reading challenge 2024, organized by @readwithrhys, and read some very intriguing as well as enlightening books. i’d recommend if you still recognize me by cynthia so, gender queer by maia kobabe and the prospects by k.t. hoffman.
— i joined the storygraph’s onboarding reading challenge mid-year as well and completed all the prompts! sadly all duds, from what i read. but hey, at least i tried.
— i buddy read a whopping 24 books with my friends! most of them were with buket, my beloved. i adore you.
— i watched three shows in the latter half of the year that i got absolutely obsessed with: interview with the vampire, heartstopper, and arcane. and two of them have bicons i’m obsessed with! (yes, nick, i mean you, you adorable lil cutie. and yes, of course it’s you, lestat de lioncourt, don’t you smirk that evil smirk at me.)
🎀 top 24 of 2024
in no particular order, this is just sorted by when i read it.
⭑ bad reputation
⭑ this other country
⭑ the bruise-black sky
⭑ when you least expect it
⭑ you don’t have a shot
⭑ two straights too many
⭑ on the same page
⭑ season’s change
⭑ and then you
⭑ if you still recognize me
⭑ charlie sunshine
⭑ babel
⭑ nowhere ranch
⭑ attractive forces
⭑ the prospects
⭑ winter’s orbit
⭑ requiem
⭑ the language of seabirds
⭑ book lovers
⭑ sicken of the calm
⭑ a matter of temptation
⭑ the seven husbands of evelyn hugo
⭑ free from falling
⭑ the perfect rake
finally, to all my friends (old & new) who’ve been here with me — thank you for sticking with me through the journey that was this year! sending out hugs & kisses to you all! i hope this year has been kind to you. be proud that you made it out to the other side.
happy holidays! here’s to reading some awesome books over the course of the next year 🥂
what’s up y’all! this year hasn’t been the best in terms of finding winners, but we win some, we lose some, i suppose. i’m not gonna be reading any more till the new year begins, so here’s my reading wrap up!
— 2024 has been rather busy for me, which i’d been anticipating, hence the huge reduction in my number of reads. i still managed to read 168 books (woohoo!), which i’m very proud of, since my reading goal was 150. (for reference, i read 412 last year.)
— my tastes have changed quite a bit over the past year! i’ve noticed i’m leaning more towards reading lighthearted & humorous books than the darker, emotional type. even when i do read dark fiction (romance, mostly), i tend to get nitpicky and more critical — because i apparently have higher standards for books in that genre.
— my most read authors this year are: john wiltshire (duh, i binged the entire more heat than the sun series within the span of 2 weeks in the start of the year lmao), cat sebastian (how i adore this author), mò xiāng tóng xiù (did i mention i finally got around to reading módào zǔshī and i’m so glad i did? it was truly splendid, and i adored wangxian), marina vivancos (my beloved!), haley cass (so dear to me, again), and runyx (no comment).
— my average rating for the year, according to storygraph, is 2.92, so… evidently i have been much pickier this year lol.
— i managed to check out all except one of the books on my immediate tbr that i’d been intending to read this year, which was so surprising to me because i rarely tend to stick to such goals. it brought me some unexpected wins — like the seven husbands of evelyn hugo and babel — which i’m very glad for. (alas, the iskari series got left out, but oh well. there’s always next year.)
— i participated in the 12 recs by 12 friends challenge this year and got around to reading all my friends’ recommendations (at least partially), so cheers to that! i didn’t get around to finishing 4 of them, but that’s another topic.
— i also took part in the trans reading challenge 2024, organized by @readwithrhys, and read some very intriguing as well as enlightening books. i’d recommend if you still recognize me by cynthia so, gender queer by maia kobabe and the prospects by k.t. hoffman.
— i joined the storygraph’s onboarding reading challenge mid-year as well and completed all the prompts! sadly all duds, from what i read. but hey, at least i tried.
— i buddy read a whopping 24 books with my friends! most of them were with buket, my beloved. i adore you.
— i watched three shows in the latter half of the year that i got absolutely obsessed with: interview with the vampire, heartstopper, and arcane. and two of them have bicons i’m obsessed with! (yes, nick, i mean you, you adorable lil cutie. and yes, of course it’s you, lestat de lioncourt, don’t you smirk that evil smirk at me.)
🎀 top 24 of 2024
in no particular order, this is just sorted by when i read it.
⭑ bad reputation
⭑ this other country
⭑ the bruise-black sky
⭑ when you least expect it
⭑ you don’t have a shot
⭑ two straights too many
⭑ on the same page
⭑ season’s change
⭑ and then you
⭑ if you still recognize me
⭑ charlie sunshine
⭑ babel
⭑ nowhere ranch
⭑ attractive forces
⭑ the prospects
⭑ winter’s orbit
⭑ requiem
⭑ the language of seabirds
⭑ book lovers
⭑ sicken of the calm
⭑ a matter of temptation
⭑ the seven husbands of evelyn hugo
⭑ free from falling
⭑ the perfect rake
finally, to all my friends (old & new) who’ve been here with me — thank you for sticking with me through the journey that was this year! sending out hugs & kisses to you all! i hope this year has been kind to you. be proud that you made it out to the other side.
happy holidays! here’s to reading some awesome books over the course of the next year 🥂
December 31, 2024
UPD:
Goal: 300 книжок
Read: 957 книжок
В цьому році я щось багато читала різних коміксів, манхв, якісь коротенькі історії, тому і цифра така велика, в минулому році було меньше 300, тому я і вирішила в цьому взяти цю цифру, бо тоді трішки не дотягнула.
Книжки, які найбільше сподобались в 2024:
1. «Хімія смерті. Перше розслідування» Саймон Бекетт;
2. «Записано на кістках. Друге розслідування» Саймон Бекетт;
3. «On the Island» Tracey Garvis Graves;
4. «Lotus» Jennifer Hartmann;
5. «Шепіт Мертвих. Третє розслідування» Саймон Бекетт;
6. «Мандрівка до потойбіччя. Маріуполь» Євген Шишацький;
7. «Хімія смерті. Перше розслідування» Саймон Бекетт;
8. «Dead Devil's Night» Maree Rose;
9. «Дім у волошковому морі» Т. Дж. Клун;
10. «To Love a Dragon» Tiffany Roberts;
11. «По той бік чарівної палички. Магія і хаос мого дорослішання» Том Фелтон;
12. Серія «Коли завмирає серце» Еліс Осман;
13. Серія «Гаррі Поттер» Дж. К. Ролінґ;
14. Серія «Трилогія переможця» Марі Раткоські;
15. «Jumping The Shark» Ash Raven;
16. «Ідеальний шторм» Дірк Райнгардт;
17. «Майже хороші хлопці» Дар'я Чайка;
18. «For the Fans» Nyla K.;
19. «Метро до Темного Міста» Олена Захарченко;
20. «Емпати» Метт Кауліц;
21. «Мій тато повернувся з війни» Олександр Корєшков;
22. «The fabric of the Souls» K. M. Moronova;
23. «A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope» K. M. Moronova;
24. «The Songbird & The Forest» Emma Elizabeth;
25. Серія «У світлі світляків» Ольга Войтенко;
26. Серія «Awakened Wobm» Hawke Oakley;
27. « «死神は殺せない» Mikkamita;
28. «カー&シガレット/Liquor & Cigarette» Ranmaru Zaria;
29. «Hidamari no Orange / 陽だまりのオレンジ» Yu Chitose;
30. «Unvover Me with Your Eyes» Rai Yaezaki;
31. Серія «The Mountain Men of Fox Hollow» Frankie Love, C. M. Seabrook;
32. «Cuff me, Santa» Bonnie Bliss;
33. Серія «Трилогія Червоної Зими» Аннетт Марі;
34. Серія «Vows» Jessa Kane;
35. «Courageous Beginnings» Ginny Sterling;
36. «Dear Aaron» Mariana Zapata;
37. «Nerdgasm» Kimberly Reese;
38. «Merry Ever After» Tessa Bailey;
39. «Ікла» Сара Андерсон;
40. «Інструкція до запасного серця» Тамсин Мюррей;
41. «Elfemies to Lovers» Jennifer Chipman;
42. «Останній лист» Ребекка Яррос;
43. «Лемберґ: мамцю, ну не плач» Олена Чернінька;
44. «The Waiter At Table 6» Nikki Castle;
Отже, в планах:
Я прибрала свою ціль, бо мене вже трішки підбішує оновлювати кожну цифру, в кінці року можливо я додам одну цифру, скільки я прочитала в цьому році
✿ Прочитати обов'язково:
✿ Laura Pavlov серія «Honey Mountain» – 5/5 ✅
✿ Де є одностатеві стосунки – 10/10✅
✿ Різдвяні – 25/25✅
✿ Більше двох партнерів – 5/5✅
Goal: 300 книжок
Read: 957 книжок
В цьому році я щось багато читала різних коміксів, манхв, якісь коротенькі історії, тому і цифра така велика, в минулому році було меньше 300, тому я і вирішила в цьому взяти цю цифру, бо тоді трішки не дотягнула.
Книжки, які найбільше сподобались в 2024:
1. «Хімія смерті. Перше розслідування» Саймон Бекетт;
2. «Записано на кістках. Друге розслідування» Саймон Бекетт;
3. «On the Island» Tracey Garvis Graves;
4. «Lotus» Jennifer Hartmann;
5. «Шепіт Мертвих. Третє розслідування» Саймон Бекетт;
6. «Мандрівка до потойбіччя. Маріуполь» Євген Шишацький;
7. «Хімія смерті. Перше розслідування» Саймон Бекетт;
8. «Dead Devil's Night» Maree Rose;
9. «Дім у волошковому морі» Т. Дж. Клун;
10. «To Love a Dragon» Tiffany Roberts;
11. «По той бік чарівної палички. Магія і хаос мого дорослішання» Том Фелтон;
12. Серія «Коли завмирає серце» Еліс Осман;
13. Серія «Гаррі Поттер» Дж. К. Ролінґ;
14. Серія «Трилогія переможця» Марі Раткоські;
15. «Jumping The Shark» Ash Raven;
16. «Ідеальний шторм» Дірк Райнгардт;
17. «Майже хороші хлопці» Дар'я Чайка;
18. «For the Fans» Nyla K.;
19. «Метро до Темного Міста» Олена Захарченко;
20. «Емпати» Метт Кауліц;
21. «Мій тато повернувся з війни» Олександр Корєшков;
22. «The fabric of the Souls» K. M. Moronova;
23. «A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope» K. M. Moronova;
24. «The Songbird & The Forest» Emma Elizabeth;
25. Серія «У світлі світляків» Ольга Войтенко;
26. Серія «Awakened Wobm» Hawke Oakley;
27. « «死神は殺せない» Mikkamita;
28. «カー&シガレット/Liquor & Cigarette» Ranmaru Zaria;
29. «Hidamari no Orange / 陽だまりのオレンジ» Yu Chitose;
30. «Unvover Me with Your Eyes» Rai Yaezaki;
31. Серія «The Mountain Men of Fox Hollow» Frankie Love, C. M. Seabrook;
32. «Cuff me, Santa» Bonnie Bliss;
33. Серія «Трилогія Червоної Зими» Аннетт Марі;
34. Серія «Vows» Jessa Kane;
35. «Courageous Beginnings» Ginny Sterling;
36. «Dear Aaron» Mariana Zapata;
37. «Nerdgasm» Kimberly Reese;
38. «Merry Ever After» Tessa Bailey;
39. «Ікла» Сара Андерсон;
40. «Інструкція до запасного серця» Тамсин Мюррей;
41. «Elfemies to Lovers» Jennifer Chipman;
42. «Останній лист» Ребекка Яррос;
43. «Лемберґ: мамцю, ну не плач» Олена Чернінька;
44. «The Waiter At Table 6» Nikki Castle;
Отже, в планах:
Я прибрала свою ціль, бо мене вже трішки підбішує оновлювати кожну цифру, в кінці року можливо я додам одну цифру, скільки я прочитала в цьому році
✿ Прочитати обов'язково:
✿ Laura Pavlov серія «Honey Mountain» – 5/5 ✅
✿ Де є одностатеві стосунки – 10/10✅
✿ Різдвяні – 25/25✅
✿ Більше двох партнерів – 5/5✅
Want to read
July 30, 2024★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ ୨୧ 2024 Year in Books ୨୧ ｡･:*:･ﾟ★
➛ Reading goal: 115 books
➛ Books read so far: 85
The fact that it's 2024 already?! Absolutely crazy 🫢🫢 But I had a lot of fun doing one of these this year, so I'm gonna do it again! 🫶🫶
So here are some general goals & books I would love to read in 2024 💘💘
ೃ⁀➷ General Goals:
➳ Read 115 books (fingers crossed)
➳ DNF more! Don't waste my time on bad books
➳ Reread ouabh series (my roman empire)
➳ Read more romance
ೃ⁀➷ 24 Books to Read in 2024:
➳ Ruthless Vows ✅️
➳ Foul Heart Huntsman ✅️
➳ Vow of Thieves ✅️
➳ Reckless
➳ The Prisoner's Throne ✅️
➳ The Reappearance of Rachel Price ✅️
➳ Check & Mate ✅️
➳ Love, Thereotically ✅️
➳ One Dark Window ✅️
➳ Vengeance of the Pirate Queen ✅️
➳ Thieves' Gambit ✅️
➳ This Woven Kingdom ✅️
➳ The Library of Shadows ✅️
➳ The Chalice of the Gods ✅️
➳ The Fiery Heart ✅️
➳ Silver Shadows ✅️
➳ The Ruby Circle ✅️
➳ Destroy the Day ✅️
➳ Foxglove ✅️
➳ Hunting Prince Dracula ✅️
➳ Lady Midnight ✅️
➳ Lord of Shadows ✅️
➳ In the Weeds ✅️
➳ Mixed Signals ✅️
ೃ⁀➷ New Releases:
➳ Reckless (July 4)
➳ Destroy the Day (January 23) ✅️
➳ The Prisoner's Throne (March 5) ✅️
��� A Witch's Guide to Magical Inkeeping (September 10)
➳ Bride (February 6) ✅️
➳ Song of the Six Realms (April 23)
➳ The Reappearance of Rachel Price (April 2) ✅️
➳ The Darkness Within Us (July 9)
➳ I Hope This Doesn't Find You (February 6)
➳ Powerful (April 30) ✅️
ೃ⁀➷ Series to start/finish:
➳ Secret Shanghai series (5/5) ✅️
➳ Letters of Enchantment (2/2) ✅️
➳ This Woven Kingdom (2/3)
➳ Dance of Thieves (2/2) ✅️
➳ Bloodlines (6/6) ✅️
➳ Dark Artifices (3/3) ✅️
➳ Lovelight Series (3/4)
➳ Stalking Jack the Ripper (3/4)
➳ Acotar (4/5)
➳ The Lunar Chronicles (4/4) ✅️
ೃ⁀➷ Key:
🪷 - monthly favorite
💌 - all time favorite
🧸 - really enjoyed/loved it
🍭 - worst book of the month
💐 - cried/extremely sad
🫧 - disappointing
🍓 - better than expected
💝 - amazing romance
🎀 - reread
🪐 - off physical tbr
🎧 - audiobook
🍰 - dnf
♡ Note: rereads don't count towards fav of the month ♡
｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆
୨୧ january ୨୧
total books read: 18
favorite book: Love, Thereotically 💗
worst book: A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime
average rating: 3.76 ⭐️
dnfs: 1
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Vow of Thieves- 4★ 🧸💝
➳ The Library of Shadows- 3.75★ 🍓🧸
➳ Love, Thereotically- 4.5★ 🍓🧸💝🪐🪷
➳ The Fiery Heart- 3★ 🫧
➳ Vengeance of the Pirate Queen- 4★ 🍓🧸💝
➳ The Queen of Nothing- 5★ 🎀🧸💝💌🪐
➳ Hunting Prince Dracula- 4★ 🍓🧸💝🎧
➳ In the Weeds- 4★ 🍓🧸💝🪐
➳ Thieves' Gambit- 🍰🫧
➳ What Happens After Midnight- 3.5★ 🍓
➳ The Woman in the Window- 3.5★ 🍓🪐
➳ Lady Midnight- 4★ 🧸💝
➳ Heartstopper Vol. 5- 4★ 🧸
➳ Shatter Me- 3★ 🎀🍓
➳ Destroy Me- 4★ 🎀🍓💝
➳ Unravel Me- 4★ 🎀🧸💝
➳ A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime- 1.5★ 🫧🍭
➳ Lord of Shadows- 4.25★ 🍓🧸
ೃ⁀➷ comments:
Such a great reading month to start off the year! ✨️ I read sm more than expected 🥹🥹 My favs of the month were Love, Thereotically, my Queen of Nothing reread, the start of my Shatter Me reread and In the Weeds 🎀
୨୧ february ୨୧
total books read: 11
favorite book: Foxglove 💘
worst book: Destroy the Day
average rating: 3.84 ⭐️
dnfs: none
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Ignite Me- 5★ 🎀🧸💝💌
➳ Queen of Air & Darkness- 3.5★ 🫧💐
➳ Check & Mate- 4★ 🍓🧸🪐
➳ Destroy the Day- 3★ 🫧🍭
➳ Foxglove- 4.25★ 🍓🧸💝🪐🪷
➳ Restore Me- 4★ 🎀🧸
➳ Defy Me- 4★ 🎀🧸💝🪐
➳ Imagine Me- 3★ 🎀🫧
➳ Believe Me- 4★ 🎀🧸💝
➳ You Deserve Each Other- 4★ 🧸💝
➳ Just So You Know- 3.5★ 🍓🧸
ೃ⁀➷ comments:
A pretty decent reading month! 💓💓 I didn't read as much as in January, but I still had a lot of fun with majority of the books i was reading (despite the ones that let me down 🥲) My favs of the month were Foxglove, Check & Mate, You Deserve Each Other and my Shatter Me reread! 💐✨️
୨୧ march ୨୧
total books read: 16
favorite book: Foul Heart Huntsman / Ruthless Vows 🎀
worst book: The Retribution of Mara Dyer
average rating: 3.73 ⭐️
dnfs: 1
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer- 3★ 🍓
➳ Honey & Spice- 3.75★ 🍓🧸
➳ Bride- 4★ 🍓🧸🪐
➳ Silver Shadows- 3★ 🫧
➳ The Evolution of Mara Dyer- 3.75★ 🍓
➳ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue- 🍰🫧
➳ XOXO- 4★ 🍓🧸
➳ The Retribution of Mara Dyer- 2★ 🫧🍭
➳ Foul Heart Huntsman- 5★ 🧸🪷💌💝🪐
➳ Bitterthorn- 3★
➳ Ruthless Vows- 5★ 🍓🧸🪷💌💝🪐
➳ The 100- 3★
➳ One Dark Window- 4.5★ 🍓🧸💝🪐
➳ Mixed Signals- 4.25★ 🍓🧸💝🪐
➳ Acotar- 4.25★ 🧸💝🪐
➳ Escaping from Houdini- 3.5★ 🎧🫧
ೃ⁀➷ comments:
This was such a good reading month! 🥹🥹 though i did have a few disappointments, I read so many new favorites 💘💘 my favs of the month were Foul Heart Huntsman, Ruthless Vows & Acotar 🪷
୨୧ april ୨୧
total books read: 12
favorite book: Acomaf 🌷
worst book: Bring Me Your Midnight
average rating: 3.65 ⭐️
dnfs: 1
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Acomaf- 5★ 🧸🪐💝🪷💌
➳ Bring Me Your Midnight- 2.5★ 🫧🍭
➳ The Chalice of the Gods- 4★ 🧸💝
➳ A Discovery of Witches- 3★ 🫧
➳ You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight- 3★
➳ The Prisoner's Throne- 4★ 🧸🪐
➳ This Woven Kingdom- 3.75★ 🧸🍓🪐
➳ These Infinite Threads- 4★ 🧸💝
➳ ASAP- 3.75★ 🧸💝
➳ Forging Silver into Stars- 3★ 🫧
➳ Powerful- 4.25★ 🧸🍓💝💐🎧
➳ The Night Circus- 🍰🫧
ೃ⁀➷ comments: a pretty decent reading month! 🎀💗 my fav was by far Acomaf (im entering my acotar era 😚), but I also really enjoyed Powerful, These Infinite Threads and The Prisoner's Throne ✨️
୨୧ may ୨୧
total books read: 8
favorite book: Beartown 🤍
worst book: Only a Monster
average rating: 3.68 ⭐️
dnfs: none
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Only a Monster- 3.5★ 🍭
➳ Loathe to Love You- 3.5★ 🧸🪐
➳ Beartown- 4.25★ 🧸🍓💐🪷
➳ The Long Game- 3.75★ 🧸🍓🪐
➳ Marriage for One- 3.5★ 🧸
➳ The Reappearance of Rachel Price- 3.75★ 🍓🧸🪐
➳ Scarlet- 3.5★ 🍓
➳ Cress- 3.75★ 🍓🧸
ೃ⁀➷ comments: it was an okay reading month! 🫶🫶 I read a little less than usual & I didn't have the best reads ever, but it's okay! My fav of the month was definitely Beartown, but I also enjoyed the Reappearance of Rachel Price, the Long Game and Cress 🌷
୨୧ june ୨୧
total books read: 10
favorite book: Acowar ✨️
worst book: Nettle & Bone
average rating: 4.05 ⭐️
dnfs: none
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Winter- 3.75★ 🍓🧸
➳ Ninth House- 4★ 🍓🧸🪷
➳ If He Had Been With Me- 3.5★ 💐
➳ Nettle & Bone- 3★ 🍭
➳ The Crimson Moth- 4★ 🧸💝🪷
➳ Hell Bent- 4★ 🧸
➳ Acowar- 5★ 🧸💝💐🪐🪷💌
➳ The Naturals- 4.25★ 🧸🪐
➳ Acofas- 4★ 🧸💝🪐
➳ Two Twisted Crowns- 5★ 🧸💝💌
ೃ⁀➷ comments: a really good reading month overall! 💋 my fav read of the month was acowar (the inner circle 🥹🥹), but I also really loved ninth house, two twisted crowns and the naturals! 🩷🩷
୨୧ july ୨୧
total books read: 11
favorite book: The Seven Year Slip 💓
worst book: Blood and Moonlight / House of Marionne / The Ruby Circle
average rating: 3.72 ⭐️
dnfs: 2
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Flawless- 4★ 🍓🧸🪷
➳ Blood and Moonlight- 🍰🫧🍭
➳ The Seven Year Slip- 5★ 🍓🧸💝🪷💌💐
➳ If Only I Had Told Her- 3★ 💐
➳ Capturing the Devil- 3.75★ 🧸
➳ The Spanish Love Deception- 4★ 🍓🧸
➳ One of Us is Back- 3.75★ 🍓🧸
➳ House of Marionne- 🍰🫧🍭
➳ Lock Every Door- 4★ 🍓🧸
➳ The Ruby Circle- 2★ 🫧🍭
➳ An Ember in the Ashes- 4★ 🍓🧸
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worst book: -
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dnfs: -
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More updates to come soon! Hope everyone has an amazing 2024 💗
➛ Reading goal: 115 books
➛ Books read so far: 85
The fact that it's 2024 already?! Absolutely crazy 🫢🫢 But I had a lot of fun doing one of these this year, so I'm gonna do it again! 🫶🫶
So here are some general goals & books I would love to read in 2024 💘💘
ೃ⁀➷ General Goals:
➳ Read 115 books (fingers crossed)
➳ DNF more! Don't waste my time on bad books
➳ Reread ouabh series (my roman empire)
➳ Read more romance
ೃ⁀➷ 24 Books to Read in 2024:
➳ Ruthless Vows ✅️
➳ Foul Heart Huntsman ✅️
➳ Vow of Thieves ✅️
➳ Reckless
➳ The Prisoner's Throne ✅️
➳ The Reappearance of Rachel Price ✅️
➳ Check & Mate ✅️
➳ Love, Thereotically ✅️
➳ One Dark Window ✅️
➳ Vengeance of the Pirate Queen ✅️
➳ Thieves' Gambit ✅️
➳ This Woven Kingdom ✅️
➳ The Library of Shadows ✅️
➳ The Chalice of the Gods ✅️
➳ The Fiery Heart ✅️
➳ Silver Shadows ✅️
➳ The Ruby Circle ✅️
➳ Destroy the Day ✅️
➳ Foxglove ✅️
➳ Hunting Prince Dracula ✅️
➳ Lady Midnight ✅️
➳ Lord of Shadows ✅️
➳ In the Weeds ✅️
➳ Mixed Signals ✅️
ೃ⁀➷ New Releases:
➳ Reckless (July 4)
➳ Destroy the Day (January 23) ✅️
➳ The Prisoner's Throne (March 5) ✅️
��� A Witch's Guide to Magical Inkeeping (September 10)
➳ Bride (February 6) ✅️
➳ Song of the Six Realms (April 23)
➳ The Reappearance of Rachel Price (April 2) ✅️
➳ The Darkness Within Us (July 9)
➳ I Hope This Doesn't Find You (February 6)
➳ Powerful (April 30) ✅️
ೃ⁀➷ Series to start/finish:
➳ Secret Shanghai series (5/5) ✅️
➳ Letters of Enchantment (2/2) ✅️
➳ This Woven Kingdom (2/3)
➳ Dance of Thieves (2/2) ✅️
➳ Bloodlines (6/6) ✅️
➳ Dark Artifices (3/3) ✅️
➳ Lovelight Series (3/4)
➳ Stalking Jack the Ripper (3/4)
➳ Acotar (4/5)
➳ The Lunar Chronicles (4/4) ✅️
ೃ⁀➷ Key:
🪷 - monthly favorite
💌 - all time favorite
🧸 - really enjoyed/loved it
🍭 - worst book of the month
💐 - cried/extremely sad
🫧 - disappointing
🍓 - better than expected
💝 - amazing romance
🎀 - reread
🪐 - off physical tbr
🎧 - audiobook
🍰 - dnf
♡ Note: rereads don't count towards fav of the month ♡
｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆
୨୧ january ୨୧
total books read: 18
favorite book: Love, Thereotically 💗
worst book: A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime
average rating: 3.76 ⭐️
dnfs: 1
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Vow of Thieves- 4★ 🧸💝
➳ The Library of Shadows- 3.75★ 🍓🧸
➳ Love, Thereotically- 4.5★ 🍓🧸💝🪐🪷
➳ The Fiery Heart- 3★ 🫧
➳ Vengeance of the Pirate Queen- 4★ 🍓🧸💝
➳ The Queen of Nothing- 5★ 🎀🧸💝💌🪐
➳ Hunting Prince Dracula- 4★ 🍓🧸💝🎧
➳ In the Weeds- 4★ 🍓🧸💝🪐
➳ Thieves' Gambit- 🍰🫧
➳ What Happens After Midnight- 3.5★ 🍓
➳ The Woman in the Window- 3.5★ 🍓🪐
➳ Lady Midnight- 4★ 🧸💝
➳ Heartstopper Vol. 5- 4★ 🧸
➳ Shatter Me- 3★ 🎀🍓
➳ Destroy Me- 4★ 🎀🍓💝
➳ Unravel Me- 4★ 🎀🧸💝
➳ A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime- 1.5★ 🫧🍭
➳ Lord of Shadows- 4.25★ 🍓🧸
ೃ⁀➷ comments:
Such a great reading month to start off the year! ✨️ I read sm more than expected 🥹🥹 My favs of the month were Love, Thereotically, my Queen of Nothing reread, the start of my Shatter Me reread and In the Weeds 🎀
୨୧ february ୨୧
total books read: 11
favorite book: Foxglove 💘
worst book: Destroy the Day
average rating: 3.84 ⭐️
dnfs: none
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Ignite Me- 5★ 🎀🧸💝💌
➳ Queen of Air & Darkness- 3.5★ 🫧💐
➳ Check & Mate- 4★ 🍓🧸🪐
➳ Destroy the Day- 3★ 🫧🍭
➳ Foxglove- 4.25★ 🍓🧸💝🪐🪷
➳ Restore Me- 4★ 🎀🧸
➳ Defy Me- 4★ 🎀🧸💝🪐
➳ Imagine Me- 3★ 🎀🫧
➳ Believe Me- 4★ 🎀🧸💝
➳ You Deserve Each Other- 4★ 🧸💝
➳ Just So You Know- 3.5★ 🍓🧸
ೃ⁀➷ comments:
A pretty decent reading month! 💓💓 I didn't read as much as in January, but I still had a lot of fun with majority of the books i was reading (despite the ones that let me down 🥲) My favs of the month were Foxglove, Check & Mate, You Deserve Each Other and my Shatter Me reread! 💐✨️
୨୧ march ୨୧
total books read: 16
favorite book: Foul Heart Huntsman / Ruthless Vows 🎀
worst book: The Retribution of Mara Dyer
average rating: 3.73 ⭐️
dnfs: 1
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer- 3★ 🍓
➳ Honey & Spice- 3.75★ 🍓🧸
➳ Bride- 4★ 🍓🧸🪐
➳ Silver Shadows- 3★ 🫧
➳ The Evolution of Mara Dyer- 3.75★ 🍓
➳ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue- 🍰🫧
➳ XOXO- 4★ 🍓🧸
➳ The Retribution of Mara Dyer- 2★ 🫧🍭
➳ Foul Heart Huntsman- 5★ 🧸🪷💌💝🪐
➳ Bitterthorn- 3★
➳ Ruthless Vows- 5★ 🍓🧸🪷💌💝🪐
➳ The 100- 3★
➳ One Dark Window- 4.5★ 🍓🧸💝🪐
➳ Mixed Signals- 4.25★ 🍓🧸💝🪐
➳ Acotar- 4.25★ 🧸💝🪐
➳ Escaping from Houdini- 3.5★ 🎧🫧
ೃ⁀➷ comments:
This was such a good reading month! 🥹🥹 though i did have a few disappointments, I read so many new favorites 💘💘 my favs of the month were Foul Heart Huntsman, Ruthless Vows & Acotar 🪷
୨୧ april ୨୧
total books read: 12
favorite book: Acomaf 🌷
worst book: Bring Me Your Midnight
average rating: 3.65 ⭐️
dnfs: 1
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Acomaf- 5★ 🧸🪐💝🪷💌
➳ Bring Me Your Midnight- 2.5★ 🫧🍭
➳ The Chalice of the Gods- 4★ 🧸💝
➳ A Discovery of Witches- 3★ 🫧
➳ You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight- 3★
➳ The Prisoner's Throne- 4★ 🧸🪐
➳ This Woven Kingdom- 3.75★ 🧸🍓🪐
➳ These Infinite Threads- 4★ 🧸💝
➳ ASAP- 3.75★ 🧸💝
➳ Forging Silver into Stars- 3★ 🫧
➳ Powerful- 4.25★ 🧸🍓💝💐🎧
➳ The Night Circus- 🍰🫧
ೃ⁀➷ comments: a pretty decent reading month! 🎀💗 my fav was by far Acomaf (im entering my acotar era 😚), but I also really enjoyed Powerful, These Infinite Threads and The Prisoner's Throne ✨️
୨୧ may ୨୧
total books read: 8
favorite book: Beartown 🤍
worst book: Only a Monster
average rating: 3.68 ⭐️
dnfs: none
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Only a Monster- 3.5★ 🍭
➳ Loathe to Love You- 3.5★ 🧸🪐
➳ Beartown- 4.25★ 🧸🍓💐🪷
➳ The Long Game- 3.75★ 🧸🍓🪐
➳ Marriage for One- 3.5★ 🧸
➳ The Reappearance of Rachel Price- 3.75★ 🍓🧸🪐
➳ Scarlet- 3.5★ 🍓
➳ Cress- 3.75★ 🍓🧸
ೃ⁀➷ comments: it was an okay reading month! 🫶🫶 I read a little less than usual & I didn't have the best reads ever, but it's okay! My fav of the month was definitely Beartown, but I also enjoyed the Reappearance of Rachel Price, the Long Game and Cress 🌷
୨୧ june ୨୧
total books read: 10
favorite book: Acowar ✨️
worst book: Nettle & Bone
average rating: 4.05 ⭐️
dnfs: none
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Winter- 3.75★ 🍓🧸
➳ Ninth House- 4★ 🍓🧸🪷
➳ If He Had Been With Me- 3.5★ 💐
➳ Nettle & Bone- 3★ 🍭
➳ The Crimson Moth- 4★ 🧸💝🪷
➳ Hell Bent- 4★ 🧸
➳ Acowar- 5★ 🧸💝💐🪐🪷💌
➳ The Naturals- 4.25★ 🧸🪐
➳ Acofas- 4★ 🧸💝🪐
➳ Two Twisted Crowns- 5★ 🧸💝💌
ೃ⁀➷ comments: a really good reading month overall! 💋 my fav read of the month was acowar (the inner circle 🥹🥹), but I also really loved ninth house, two twisted crowns and the naturals! 🩷🩷
୨୧ july ୨୧
total books read: 11
favorite book: The Seven Year Slip 💓
worst book: Blood and Moonlight / House of Marionne / The Ruby Circle
average rating: 3.72 ⭐️
dnfs: 2
ೃ⁀➷ books read:
➳ Flawless- 4★ 🍓🧸🪷
➳ Blood and Moonlight- 🍰🫧🍭
➳ The Seven Year Slip- 5★ 🍓🧸💝🪷💌💐
➳ If Only I Had Told Her- 3★ 💐
➳ Capturing the Devil- 3.75★ 🧸
➳ The Spanish Love Deception- 4★ 🍓🧸
➳ One of Us is Back- 3.75★ 🍓🧸
➳ House of Marionne- 🍰🫧🍭
➳ Lock Every Door- 4★ 🍓🧸
➳ The Ruby Circle- 2★ 🫧🍭
➳ An Ember in the Ashes- 4★ 🍓🧸
୨୧ august ୨୧
total books read: -
favorite book: -
worst book: -
average rating: -
dnfs: -
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total books read: -
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average rating: -
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total books read: -
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worst book: -
average rating: -
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ೃ⁀➷ yearly stats ೃ
Total books read:
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Average rating:
Longest book read:
Shortest book read:
ೃ⁀➷ top ten books of the year ೃ
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August 18, 2024☆⋰⋱♡ 2024! ♡⋰⋱☆
hi lovelies! i would really love to read some of your favourite books so if you have any recommendations for me, please drop them below in the comments! any genre is fine by me, ily all ｡°✧
(if everyone could ignore that i changed this a hundred times only to revert it back to the og format that would be great thank you ily)
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august update:
➳ # books read so far: 49 out of 148
➳ # choice awards read: 4 out of 65
➳ # accepted arc requests: 30
➳ # arcs read: 31
➳ # anticipated releases read: 10 out of 23
➳ # reviews written: 35(?)
➳ # brain cells lost: innumerable
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`·. 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐲!
table of contents:
i. goals
ii. choice awards list
iii. anticipated releases
iv. tbr for 2024
v. monthly journal
vi. overall thoughts on the year
wishing all of you the best reading year ever, mwah <3
i.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
Ღ goals:
☆ read all the books in the 2023 choice awards (in chosen genres) + choose which books should have won and then bask in my self-righteousness
☆ revive netgalley ratio to above 10%
☆ read 10 books every month (enter: march)
☆ buddy read!
☆ stop taking booktok recommendations (immediately fails)
☆ write more reviews about books that i liked (bahahaha)
☆ read an incredibly unpopular book just because i can (why do i do this to myself???)
☆ rewrite a terribly written review
☆ and finally, reduce my expectations because if i make it through this year alive it will be a miracle
ii.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
Ღ my choice awards for 2023:
goodreads needs an update. desperately. i reached the character limit in jan so i made a status update for the list of books that are part of the choice awards list.
[ i don't like dealing with the consequences of my own actions so if anyone wants to help me out and do a br you can find a list of books here or in my other tbr below ]
iii.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
Ღ anticipated releases:
☆ funny story
☆ the grandest game
☆ the familiar
☆ not in love
☆bride 3.5★
☆i hope this doesn't find you
☆ nothing like the movies
☆ happily never after
☆a song to drown rivers 2★
☆ four weekends and a funeral
☆how to end a love story 2.5★
☆the ex vows 1.5★
☆ the rom commers
☆four eids and a funeral DNF
☆ twelfth knight
☆a crane among wolves 2.25★
☆ the paradise problem
☆ hate mail 1★
☆ restless stars (za 9)
☆ old flames and new fortunes
☆just for the summer 2.5★
☆ divine mortals
☆beneath these cursed stars 1.5★
iv.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
Ღ priority + physical tbr for 2024:
˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗ - standalones:
☆ babel
☆blood over bright haven 5★
☆ girl in pieces
☆ ace of spades
☆ the secret history
☆ if we were villains
☆if you could see the sun 3.5★
☆ the priory of the orange tree
˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗ - series to start/finish:
☆ zodiac academy (7/9)
☆acotar (2/5) DNF
☆kingdom of the wicked (1/3) DNF
☆shatter me (1/10) DNF
☆ gods and monsters (0/2)
☆ the poppy war (0/3)
☆ magnolia parks universe (0/5)
☆ mindf*ck series (0/5)
☆ dark verse series (0/5)
☆ addicted/calloway sisters: (0/10)
☆never after series (1/5) DNF
☆ boys of tommen (0/5)
v.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
★✰ monthly journal:
key:
💮 - choice award
🌼 - reread
💐 - arc
🥀 - dnf
🌸- reviewed
🌷- rtc
🩷 - buddy read
january •𝔀𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓶𝓪𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓾𝓹 '𝓽𝓲𝓵 𝓳𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂
books:
♡ cursed fates 4.75★🌷
♡ brutal prince 1★🥀🌸
♡ at the end there was you 4.5★🌸
♡ if you could see the sun 3.5★🌸
♡ under one roof 1.5★🌸
♡ stuck with you 0★🌸
♡ this time it's real 3★💮🌸
♡ below zero 1.5★🌸
♡ sense & irritability 1★🌸
♡ fated throne 4★🌷
♡ a feather so black 1.5★💐🌸
♡ how to kill men and get away with it 2.5★💐🌸
♡ the bride of death 3.25★💐🌸
the favourite child: at the end there was you
the disappointment: hmm which to choose?
thoughts: overall, very meh, but i did get approved for a bunch of arcs
˚✩ ⋆｡˚ ✩
february •𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓪 𝓯𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓰
books:
♡ shatter me 1.5★🌷
♡ heartless sky 2.5★🌷
♡ practice makes perfect 3★💮🌸
♡ better left unsent 3★💐🌸
♡ girl abroad 3★💐🌸
♡ i hope this doesn't find you 4★🌷
♡ the exception to the rule 4★🌷
♡ worst wingman ever 1★🌷
♡ how to end a love story 2.5★ 💐🌸
♡ hate mail 1★ 💐🥀🌸
♡ the love of my afterlife 3★ 💐🌸
♡ kingdom of the wicked 3.5★🌷
♡ the exes 1★ 💐🌸
♡ i love you, i love you, i love you 2★ 💐🌸
the favourite child: i hope this doesn't find you
the disappointment: the rest of them
thoughts: more arcs and more slumps. fuck. happy birthday to me😭
˚✩ ⋆｡˚ ✩
march •𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓰𝓻𝓮𝔀 𝓾𝓹 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝔃𝓮𝓷 𝓰𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭
books:
♡ wildfire 1.5★. 💮🌸
♡ the ex vows 1.5★ 💐🌸
♡ all the devils 4★💐🌷
♡ silent sister 3.5★ 💐🌸
♡ never getting back together 2★ 💐🥀🌸
the favourite child: all the devils
the disappointment:me the ex vows
thoughts: should have read more
˚✩ ⋆｡˚ ✩
april •𝓭𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓪𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓵 29𝓽𝓱?
books:
♡ just for the summer 2.5★ 💐🌸
♡ hera 4.25★ 💐🌸
♡ the dixon rule 3.5★ 💐🌸
♡ this summer will be different 4★💐🌸
♡ a crane among wolves 2.25★ 💐🌸
♡ first comes marriage 2.5★ 💐🌸
♡ unhinged 5★ 🩷🌸
the favourite child: hera
the disappointment: a crane among wolves
thoughts: exams and slumps are killing meeee
˚✩ ⋆｡˚ ✩
may •𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓽 𝓶𝓪𝔂𝔂𝔂, 𝓸𝓱, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓽 𝓶𝓮
books:
♡ beneath these cursed stars 1.5★ 💐🌸
♡ eye of the beholder 2★ 💐🌸
♡ four eids and a funeral 1★ 🥀💐🌸
the favourite child: none of them
the disappointment: all of them
thoughts: may sucked but i did get an 80% ratio on netgalley!!!! woohoo! plus no more exams and no more slumps (i'm just lying to myself at this point)
˚✩ ⋆｡˚ ✩
june •𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓳𝓾𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲 𝓶𝓮𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾
books:
♡ blood over bright haven 5★ 💐🌷
♡ a song to drown rivers 2★ 🩷💐🌷
♡ breaking the dark 3.5★ 💐🌸
♡ bride 3.5★ 🌷
the favourite child: blood over bright haven
the disappointment: a song to drown rivers
thoughts:
˚✩ ⋆｡˚ ✩
july • 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓳𝓾𝓵𝔂 9𝓽𝓱, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽
books:
♡ the thread that connects us 💐🌷
♡ the jasad heir 💮💐
♡ wretched
the favourite child:
the disappointment:
thoughts:
i'm currently/will be reading
♡ throne of the fallen 💮
♡ the secret history
♡ bunny
ignore me i'm behind on this
vi.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
Ღ overall thoughts on the year:
➳ # number of books read:
➳ # goals completed:
➳ # rereads:
➳ # reviews written:
➳ # dnfs:
➳ # arcs read:
➳ # buddy reads:
➳ # 5 stars:
➳ # 4 stars:
➳ # 3 stars:
➳ # 2 stars:
➳ # 1 stars:
➳ netgalley ratio:
➳ avg rating:
➳ favourite series:
➳ most disappointing series:
➳ favourite standalone:
➳ most disappointing standalone:
➳ favourite book:
➳ most disappointing book:
➳ favourite author:
➳ favourite new release:
hi lovelies! i would really love to read some of your favourite books so if you have any recommendations for me, please drop them below in the comments! any genre is fine by me, ily all ｡°✧
(if everyone could ignore that i changed this a hundred times only to revert it back to the og format that would be great thank you ily)
───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────
august update:
➳ # books read so far: 49 out of 148
➳ # choice awards read: 4 out of 65
➳ # accepted arc requests: 30
➳ # arcs read: 31
➳ # anticipated releases read: 10 out of 23
➳ # reviews written: 35(?)
➳ # brain cells lost: innumerable
───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────
:¨·.·¨:
`·. 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐲!
table of contents:
i. goals
ii. choice awards list
iii. anticipated releases
iv. tbr for 2024
v. monthly journal
vi. overall thoughts on the year
wishing all of you the best reading year ever, mwah <3
i.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
Ღ goals:
☆ read all the books in the 2023 choice awards (in chosen genres) + choose which books should have won and then bask in my self-righteousness
☆ revive netgalley ratio to above 10%
☆ read 10 books every month (enter: march)
☆ buddy read!
☆ stop taking booktok recommendations (immediately fails)
☆ write more reviews about books that i liked (bahahaha)
☆ read an incredibly unpopular book just because i can (why do i do this to myself???)
☆ rewrite a terribly written review
☆ and finally, reduce my expectations because if i make it through this year alive it will be a miracle
ii.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
Ღ my choice awards for 2023:
goodreads needs an update. desperately. i reached the character limit in jan so i made a status update for the list of books that are part of the choice awards list.
[ i don't like dealing with the consequences of my own actions so if anyone wants to help me out and do a br you can find a list of books here or in my other tbr below ]
iii.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
Ღ anticipated releases:
☆ funny story
☆ the grandest game
☆ the familiar
☆ not in love
☆
☆
☆ nothing like the movies
☆ happily never after
☆
☆ four weekends and a funeral
☆
☆
☆ the rom commers
☆
☆ twelfth knight
☆
☆ the paradise problem
☆ hate mail 1★
☆ restless stars (za 9)
☆ old flames and new fortunes
☆
☆ divine mortals
☆
iv.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
Ღ priority + physical tbr for 2024:
˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗ - standalones:
☆ babel
☆
☆ girl in pieces
☆ ace of spades
☆ the secret history
☆ if we were villains
☆
☆ the priory of the orange tree
˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗ - series to start/finish:
☆ zodiac academy (7/9)
☆
☆
☆
☆ gods and monsters (0/2)
☆ the poppy war (0/3)
☆ magnolia parks universe (0/5)
☆ mindf*ck series (0/5)
☆ dark verse series (0/5)
☆ addicted/calloway sisters: (0/10)
☆
☆ boys of tommen (0/5)
v.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
★✰ monthly journal:
key:
💮 - choice award
🌼 - reread
💐 - arc
🥀 - dnf
🌸- reviewed
🌷- rtc
🩷 - buddy read
january •𝔀𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓶𝓪𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓾𝓹 '𝓽𝓲𝓵 𝓳𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂
books:
♡ cursed fates 4.75★🌷
♡ brutal prince 1★🥀🌸
♡ at the end there was you 4.5★🌸
♡ if you could see the sun 3.5★🌸
♡ under one roof 1.5★🌸
♡ stuck with you 0★🌸
♡ this time it's real 3★💮🌸
♡ below zero 1.5★🌸
♡ sense & irritability 1★🌸
♡ fated throne 4★🌷
♡ a feather so black 1.5★💐🌸
♡ how to kill men and get away with it 2.5★💐🌸
♡ the bride of death 3.25★💐🌸
the favourite child: at the end there was you
the disappointment: hmm which to choose?
thoughts: overall, very meh, but i did get approved for a bunch of arcs
˚✩ ⋆｡˚ ✩
february •𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓪 𝓯𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓰
books:
♡ shatter me 1.5★🌷
♡ heartless sky 2.5★🌷
♡ practice makes perfect 3★💮🌸
♡ better left unsent 3★💐🌸
♡ girl abroad 3★💐🌸
♡ i hope this doesn't find you 4★🌷
♡ the exception to the rule 4★🌷
♡ worst wingman ever 1★🌷
♡ how to end a love story 2.5★ 💐🌸
♡ hate mail 1★ 💐🥀🌸
♡ the love of my afterlife 3★ 💐🌸
♡ kingdom of the wicked 3.5★🌷
♡ the exes 1★ 💐🌸
♡ i love you, i love you, i love you 2★ 💐🌸
the favourite child: i hope this doesn't find you
the disappointment: the rest of them
thoughts: more arcs and more slumps. fuck. happy birthday to me😭
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march •𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓰𝓻𝓮𝔀 𝓾𝓹 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝔃𝓮𝓷 𝓰𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭
books:
♡ wildfire 1.5★. 💮🌸
♡ the ex vows 1.5★ 💐🌸
♡ all the devils 4★💐🌷
♡ silent sister 3.5★ 💐🌸
♡ never getting back together 2★ 💐🥀🌸
the favourite child: all the devils
the disappointment:
thoughts: should have read more
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april •𝓭𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓪𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓵 29𝓽𝓱?
books:
♡ just for the summer 2.5★ 💐🌸
♡ hera 4.25★ 💐🌸
♡ the dixon rule 3.5★ 💐🌸
♡ this summer will be different 4★💐🌸
♡ a crane among wolves 2.25★ 💐🌸
♡ first comes marriage 2.5★ 💐🌸
♡ unhinged 5★ 🩷🌸
the favourite child: hera
the disappointment: a crane among wolves
thoughts: exams and slumps are killing meeee
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may •𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓽 𝓶𝓪𝔂𝔂𝔂, 𝓸𝓱, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓽 𝓶𝓮
books:
♡ beneath these cursed stars 1.5★ 💐🌸
♡ eye of the beholder 2★ 💐🌸
♡ four eids and a funeral 1★ 🥀💐🌸
the favourite child: none of them
the disappointment: all of them
thoughts: may sucked but i did get an 80% ratio on netgalley!!!! woohoo! plus no more exams and no more slumps (i'm just lying to myself at this point)
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june •𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓳𝓾𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲 𝓶𝓮𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾
books:
♡ blood over bright haven 5★ 💐🌷
♡ a song to drown rivers 2★ 🩷💐🌷
♡ breaking the dark 3.5★ 💐🌸
♡ bride 3.5★ 🌷
the favourite child: blood over bright haven
the disappointment: a song to drown rivers
thoughts:
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july • 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓳𝓾𝓵𝔂 9𝓽𝓱, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽
books:
♡ the thread that connects us 💐🌷
♡ the jasad heir 💮💐
♡ wretched
the favourite child:
the disappointment:
thoughts:
i'm currently/will be reading
♡ throne of the fallen 💮
♡ the secret history
♡ bunny
ignore me i'm behind on this
vi.
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January 10, 2025
!!! I fixed my notification problem! I am now receiving them for comments. I logged out/off from all devices and also cleared cache/history on all the browsers where I used the website. I hope it will also help others who share the same issue. You still need to manually check the Notify me when people reply box manually though.
Only 3* this year and here is why:
1. Goodreads’ management decisions to eliminate some functions succeeded to annoy me so badly that I considered leaving the website. The worse was when they removed the sorting of friends. I used that for different reasons, but mostly for kipping up with new updates. The news feed is not good enough as I am only receiving updates from some friends. The removal of notifications and the need to go through each review and tick the Notify me box was an insult addressed to all members. I am still here because I care about the community. I still like reading and writing about books and I feel good when people are inspired by my thoughts. For how long, I do not know.
2. I could not keep up with my reading. I still have around 40 book that need reviewing and I feel overwhelmed. It did not help that I did not write any reviews for almost one month due to reason no.1.
3. I had a big literary fiction reading slump which is not entirely over. I read a lot of mystery and fantasy which is fine but I wish I could have read more of the novels I had planned at the beginning of the year.
Taking everything in consideration, I did not make my usual summary and I will only mention a few favorites.
Favorite fantasy:
1. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
2. The Liveship Traders series by Robin Hobb
3. The Riyria Chronicles series by Michael J. Sullivan
Favorite SF novel:
1. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
2. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
3. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Favorite mystery novel:
1. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
2. Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
3. A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr
Favorite literary fiction:
1. Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
2. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
3. Father Goriot by Balzac
Happy New Year friends! Hopefully, next year, users will be listened to more.
Only 3* this year and here is why:
1. Goodreads’ management decisions to eliminate some functions succeeded to annoy me so badly that I considered leaving the website. The worse was when they removed the sorting of friends. I used that for different reasons, but mostly for kipping up with new updates. The news feed is not good enough as I am only receiving updates from some friends. The removal of notifications and the need to go through each review and tick the Notify me box was an insult addressed to all members. I am still here because I care about the community. I still like reading and writing about books and I feel good when people are inspired by my thoughts. For how long, I do not know.
2. I could not keep up with my reading. I still have around 40 book that need reviewing and I feel overwhelmed. It did not help that I did not write any reviews for almost one month due to reason no.1.
3. I had a big literary fiction reading slump which is not entirely over. I read a lot of mystery and fantasy which is fine but I wish I could have read more of the novels I had planned at the beginning of the year.
Taking everything in consideration, I did not make my usual summary and I will only mention a few favorites.
Favorite fantasy:
1. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
2. The Liveship Traders series by Robin Hobb
3. The Riyria Chronicles series by Michael J. Sullivan
Favorite SF novel:
1. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
2. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
3. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Favorite mystery novel:
1. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
2. Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
3. A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr
Favorite literary fiction:
1. Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
2. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
3. Father Goriot by Balzac
Happy New Year friends! Hopefully, next year, users will be listened to more.
Shelved as 'reading-challenge'
January 1, 2025my reading goals this year:
january: (16 books)
february: (19 books)
march: (18 books)
april: (24 books)
may: (15 books)
june: (12 books)
july: (23 books)
august: (24 books)
september: (20 books)
october: (16 books)
november: (17 books)
december:
total books read: 216 📚
1) to read with intent rather than to pass the time.
2) to read a classic a month.
january: (16 books)
Bride by Ali Hazelwood — 5 stars ⭐️
A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal — 5 stars ⭐️
Devils’ Day Party by C.M. Stunich — 5 stars ⭐️
Always with You by Harmony West — 4 stars ⭐️
Far From You by Tess Sharpe — ∞ stars ⭐️
Mathilda by Mary Shelley — 3 stars ⭐️
Five Survive by Holly Jackson — 4 stars ⭐️
The Cruel Dark by Bea Northwick — 2.5 stars ⭐️
P.S. You’re Intolerable by Julia Wolf — 4 stars ⭐️
Do You Dare? by Lylah James — 5 stars ⭐️
I Dare You by Lylah James — 4 stars ⭐️
Down Too Deep by J. Daniels — 4 stars ⭐️
If You Dare by Harmony West — 3 stars ⭐️
Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin by Mariana Zapata — 4 stars ⭐️
The Exception to the Rule by Christina Lauren — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Six Times We Almost Kissed [and One Time We Did] by Tess Sharpe — 5 stars ⭐️
february: (19 books)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen — 4 stars ⭐️
Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales — 3 stars ⭐️
The Darkest Corner of the Heart by Lisina Coney — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Lady Susan by Jane Austen — 4 stars ⭐️
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky — 5 stars ⭐️
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield — 4 stars ⭐️
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf — 4 stars ⭐️
Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings — 4 stars ⭐️
The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce — 5 stars ⭐️
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen — 3 stars ⭐️
Nobody Like Us by Krista and Becca Ritchie — 5 stars ⭐️
Live and Let Lionel by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti — 3 stars ⭐️
Lonely Hearts Day by Kasie West — 4 stars ⭐️
Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark by Jessa Hastings — no rating.
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston — 5 stars ⭐️
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett — 5 stars ⭐️
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — 3 stars ⭐️
The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe — 4 stars ⭐️
The Girl in Question by Tess Sharpe — 5 stars ⭐️
march: (18 books)
In Harmony by Emma Scott — 5 stars ⭐️
Dear Ava by Ilsa Madden-Mills — 3.5 stars ⭐️
The Best of All by Karla Sorensen — 3.5 stars ⭐️
The Love You Fight For by Brit Benson — 2.5 stars ⭐��
I Wish You Would by Eva Des Lauriers — 4 stars ⭐️
The Someday Daughter by Ellen O’Clover — 5 stars ⭐️
Her Wild Roommate by Adele Knight — no rating.
The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins — 3 stars ⭐️
Only and Forever by Chloe Liese — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett — 5 stars ⭐️
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett — 5 stars ⭐️
A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston — 4 stars ⭐️
Dead Girls Talking by Megan Cooley Peterson — 3 stars ⭐️
Villette by Charlotte Brontë — 4 stars ⭐️
The Nutcracker by E.T.A Hoffmann — 4 stars ⭐️
Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey — 5 stars ⭐️
This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings — no rating.
The Boy Next Door by Jenny Ireland — 4.5 stars ⭐️
april: (24 books)
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang — 4 stars ⭐️
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell — 3 stars ⭐️
The Co-Op by Tarah DeWitt — 3 stars ⭐️
The Dixon Rule by Elle Kennedy— 5 stars ⭐️
The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson — 4 stars ⭐️
Normal People by Sally Rooney — 4.5 stars ⭐️
Ne'er Duke Well by Alexandra Vasti — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Pirate Girls by Penelope Douglas — 5 stars ⭐️
Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto — 4.5 stars ⭐️
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur — 4 stars ⭐️
A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland — 4 stars ⭐️
Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin — 3 stars ⭐️
Older by Jennifer Hartmann — 4 stars ⭐️
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher — 3.5 stars ⭐️
What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher — 3 stars ⭐️
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen — 3 stars ⭐️
Wifedom by Anna Funder— 5 stars ⭐️
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrianne Young — 5 stars ⭐️
Restless Stars by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti — 1 star ⭐️
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë — 3 stars ⭐️
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood— 4 stars ⭐️
Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young — 4 stars ⭐️
Dishonestly Yours by Krista & Becca Ritchie — 4.5 stars ⭐️
may: (15 books)
Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth — 5 stars ⭐️
My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong — 4 stars ⭐️
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence — 2 stars ⭐️
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin — 3 stars ⭐️
Lucio and Janie by GroveltoHEA — 4 stars ⭐️
Savage Vicious Heir by Caitlyn Dare — 4.5 stars ⭐️
Chaos at Westbrook High by Bethany Winters — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter — 4 stars ⭐️
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson — 5 stars ⭐️
An Encore of Roses by S.T. Gibson — 4 stars ⭐️
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell — ∞ stars ⭐️
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell — 5 stars ⭐️
A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft— 3 stars ⭐️
The Crimson Moth by Kristen Ciccarelli — 5 stars⭐️
june: (12 books)
When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn — 5 stars ⭐️
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever — 4 stars ⭐️
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan — 5 stars ⭐️
Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood — 3.5 stars ⭐️
God of War by Rina Kent — 4 stars ⭐️
Save Me by Mona Kasten — no rating.
Save You by Mona Kasten — no rating.
Save Us by Mona Kasten — no rating.
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle — 2.5 stars ⭐️
Only in Your Dreams by Ellie K. Wilde — 5 stars ⭐️
Outmatched by Kristen Callihan — 4 stars ⭐️
Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek — 4 stars ⭐️
july: (23 books)
Caraval by Stephanie Garber — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Legendary by Stephanie Garber — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Finale by Stephanie Garber — 4 stars ⭐️
Slippery Creatures by K.J Charles— 4 stars ⭐️
The Sugared Game by K.J Charles— 4 stars ⭐️
Subtle Blood by K.J Charles — 4 stars ⭐️
Marriage on Madison Avenue by Lauren Layne — 4.5 stars ⭐️
The Bonus by T.L. Swan — 5 stars ⭐️
Sweet Like Poison by Julia Wolf — 3.5 stars ⭐️
The Takeover by T.L. Swan — 3.5 stars ⭐️
The Blonde by GroveltoHEA — no rating.
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth van Armin— 4 stars ⭐️
The New Catacomb by Arthur Conan Doyle — 5 stars ⭐️
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe — 3 stars ⭐️
Silent Lies by Neva Altaj — 3 stars ⭐️
Mourning Wood by Heather M. Orgeron— 3 stars ⭐️
The Archer and His Rosebud by Mindy Michele — 3 stars ⭐️
Daddy’s Doll by Rory Ireland — no rating.
Max and Briony by GroveltoHEA — no rating.
Settling the Score by R.S. Grey — 2 stars ⭐️
Out of Bounds by R.S. Grey — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Rules of Our Own by Jessa Wilder — 3 stars⭐️
The Burns We Carry by Marae Good — 4.5 stars ⭐️
august: (24 books)
Chasing the Moon by S.M. Soto — 4 stars ⭐️
The Fling by M. Robinson — 1 star ⭐️
Flickerbook by Leila Berg — 4 stars ⭐️
Rules of Protection by Alison Bliss — 4 stars ⭐️
Forsaken Trail by Devney Perry — 2.5 stars ⭐️
Rally by Devney Perry — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Make It Sweet by Kristen Callihan — 4 stars ⭐️
After the Kiss by Lauren Layne — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Love the One You're With by Lauren Layne — 4 stars ⭐️
Just One Night by Lauren Layne — 3 stars ⭐️
The Trouble with Love by Lauren Layne — 4 stars ⭐️
Irresistibly Yours by Lauren Layne — 3 stars ⭐️
I Wish You Were Mine by Lauren Layne — 4 stars ⭐️
Someone Like You by Lauren Layne — 3 stars ⭐️
I Knew You Were Trouble by Lauren Layne — 4 stars ⭐️
I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne — 2.5 stars ⭐️
Our Kate by Catherine Cookson — 5 stars ⭐️
Dear Enemy by Kristen Callihan — 5 stars ⭐️
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth — 3 stars ⭐️
Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott — 4 stars ⭐️
Wisteria by Adalyn Grace — 5 stars ⭐️
Playing the Part by Macy T. Riosa — 3 stars ⭐️
Nerdy Little Secret by Carrie Aarons — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Going Nowhere Fast by Kati Wilde — 2.5 stars ⭐️
september: (20 books)
Neighbour Dearest by Penelope Ward— no rating.
Fool Around by Penny Clarke — 1 star ⭐️
Bang Out by Penny Clarke — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Laid Bare by Penny Clarke — no rating.
Dirty Rotten Cheating Husband Katie Landry — no rating.
Barron’s Second Chance by S.T. Moors — 3 stars ⭐️
Act Like Its by Lucy Parker — 4 stars ⭐️
Pretty Face by Lucy Parker — 4 stars ⭐️
Making Up by Lucy Parker — 3 stars ⭐️
The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker — 3.5 stars ⭐️
In the Details by Julia Wolf — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Lies by Kylie Scott — 3 stars ⭐️
The Ever King by L.J. Andrews — 3.5 stars ⭐️
The Ever Queen by L.J. Andrews — 4 stars ⭐️
The Chemistry of Familiar Objects by Alexandra Vasti— 4 stars ⭐️
P.S. I Hate You by Lauren Connolly — 5 stars ⭐️
Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne — 4.5 stars ⭐️
Alaric and Faina by GroveltoHEA — no rating.
Heroux and Odette by GroveltoHEA — no rating.
Isn't She Lovely by Lauren Layne — 4 stars ⭐️
october: (16 books)
My Darling Dreadful Thing — 4.5 stars ⭐️
Slap Shot Surprise — 3 stars ⭐️
Two Can Play — 2 stars ⭐️
The Deepest End of Love — 4 stars ⭐️
The Fake Mate — 3 stars ⭐️
Wicked King — 1 star ⭐️
Where Happiness Begins — ∞ stars ⭐️
A Risk on Forever — 4 stars ⭐️
Our Final Love Song — 3 stars ⭐️
Nightwood — 3 stars ⭐️
Karma's Kiss — 3 stars ⭐️
Four Weekends and a Funeral — 4 stars ⭐️
Fangs — 3 stars ⭐️
A Haunted House — no rating.
Don't Let the Forest In — 5 stars ⭐️
When I Arrived at the Castle — 3 stars ⭐️
november: (17 books)
Beg, Borrow, or Steal — 5 stars ⭐️
Meet Me at Midnight — 4 stars ⭐️
Cash — 5 stars ⭐️
I Wish We Had Forever — 3 stars ⭐️
Cruel Winter with You — 4 stars ⭐️
The Syndicater — 1 star ⭐️
Merriment and Mayhem — 2.5 stars ⭐️
Rebel Witch — 5 stars ⭐️
Perfect Fit — 3 stars ⭐️
Can I Tell You Something? — 3.5 stars ⭐️
That Christmas Kind of Feeling — no rating.
My December Darling — 2 stars ⭐️
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Tales — 4 stars ⭐️
Chess Story — 5 stars ⭐️
Stalking Jack the Ripper — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Meeting Thomas Cresswell — no rating.
Hunting Prince Dracula — 3 stars ⭐️
december:
My Lady Jane — 4 stars ⭐️
Not in My Book — no rating.
Requiem — 4 stars ⭐️
Hostile for the Holidays — no rating.
A Sea of Unspoken Things — 3 stars ⭐️
The Infinity Between Us — 3.5 stars ⭐️
Picking Daisies on Sundays — 3 stars ⭐️
Failure to Match — 4.5 stars ⭐️
How the Grump Saved Christmas — no rating.
Christmas Cupid — 4 stars ⭐️
The Christmas Switch — 3.5 stars ⭐️
I Kill Killers — 4 stars⭐️
total books read: 216 📚
Want to read
August 21, 2024my 2024 in literature <3
key.
ᝰ .ᐟ - my loves
☁️ - read with someone
✩ - arcs
★ - best of 2024
ii. goals.
⤿ my number one goal is to just read for fun and not put too much pressure on myself. instead of skimming the book, i actually want to savor it and enjoy!
☐ read 70 books
☒ read more classics
☒ annotate
☒ increase # of books to grow a bookshelf
☒ finish 5 series
☒ write more reviews and improve my writing
☒ apply + get more arcs (# this year: 24)
⤿ most anticipated releases.
note: some of these aren't going to be released in 2024.
☒ i hope this doesn't find you by ann liang ✩
☒ a song to drown rivers by ann liang ✩
☒ nothing like the movies by lynn painter ✩
☒ the reappearance of rachel price by holly jackson
☒ i am not jessica chen by ann liang ✩
☒ asap by axie oh
☒ the grandest game by jennifer lynn barnes
☒ a crane among wolves by june hur
favorite authors.
- ann liang
- chloe gong
new favorites of 2024.
☒ chloe gong (flf + fhh, romajuliette christmas special, last violent call)
emily henry
☒ r.f. kuang (the poppy war, the dragon republic, babel)
☒ holly jackson (kill joy, the reappearance of rachel price, as good as dead, five survive)
☒ elizabeth lim (spin the dawn, unravel the dusk)
☒ axie oh (xoxo, asap)
fredrik backman
emma mills
amélie wen zhao
olivie blake
sally rooney
⤿ priority tbr.
☒ i hope this doesn't find you
☒ foul lady fortune
☒ foul heart huntsman
→ a million junes
→ foolish hearts
→ daisy jones and the six
→ beartown
→ pride and prejudice
☒ reread of little women
→ crying in h mart
→ the atlas six
→ six crimson cranes
☒ spin the dawn
☒ unravel the dusk
→ immortal longings
→ betting on you
☒ love from a to z
→ song of silver, flame like night
☒ as long as the lemon trees grow
☒ the poppy war
☒ babel
→ a magic steeped in poison
→ jade city
→ one for my enemy
→ reread land of stories (juju forced me, everyone)
recs from bffs.
⊹ rina:the poppy war, foul lady fortune, spin the dawn
⊹ cheska:babel
⊹ juju:asap, a romajuliette christmas special
⊹ iso: lonely castle in the mirror,a study in drowning, if we were villains
⊹ adira:anne of green gables, the cartographers
⊹ lila: if he had been with me
⊹ ren: the song of achilles, conversations with friends
⊹ mags: emily wilde's encyclopedia of fairies
⊹ sofie:as good as dead
⊹ irha:love from a to z, we hunt the flame, seven year slip
⊹ eden: foolish hearts
⊹ ingrid: kimi ni todoke, ninth house
⊹ tiffany: strange the dreamer
⊹ anna: just for the summer
⊹ bri: the picture of dorian gray
⊹ sumi: legend, coraline
+ give me some recommendations <3 i'd love to add them.
january:
- i hope this doesn't find you by ann liang. ᝰ .ᐟ ✩ 5 stars!
- our violent ends by chloe gong #2. 4.5 stars
- xoxo by axie oh. 3 stars
- a song to drown rivers by ann liang. ᝰ .ᐟ ✩★ 5 stars!
best of the month: a song to drown rivers
february:
- before the coffee gets cold by toshikazu kawaguchi #1. 3.5 stars (rec from syd)
- of jade and dragons by amber chen. ✩ 4 stars
- the poppy war by r.f. kuang #1. ★ 4 stars (rec from rina)
- if you could see the sun by ann liang + reread. ᝰ .ᐟ 5 stars!
- spin the dawn by elizabeth lim #1. 4 stars (rec from rina)
- foul lady fortune by chloe gong #1. ᝰ .ᐟ★ 5 stars!
- last violent call by chloe gong #1.5. 3.5 stars (novella)
best of the month: foul lady fortune
march:
- kill joy by holly jackson #0.5. 3 stars (novella)
- a romajuliette christmas special by chloe gong #0.5. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars (novella + rec from juju)
- foul heart huntsman by chloe gong #2. ᝰ .ᐟ☁️ (br with cheska)
- unravel the dusk by elizabeth lim #2. ᝰ .ᐟ 3 stars
- asap by axie oh #2. 2.5 stars ☁️ (br with adira)
- happily never after by lynn painter. ✩ 2 stars
- women of good fortune by sophie wan. ✩ 3 stars
- the night ends with fire by k.x. song. ✩ 4 stars (rec from rina + shehrbear)
- the dragon republic by r.f. kuang. ᝰ .ᐟ 5 stars!
- babel by r.f. kuang. ᝰ .ᐟ ★ 5 stars! (br with lils)
- little women by louisa may alcott. 4.5 stars
best of the month: babel
april:
- night by elie wiesel. not rated as it’s deeply personal + about the holocaust. (for school)
- the invisible life of addie larue by ve schwab. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars
- the chalice of the gods by rick riordan. ᝰ .ᐟ 3.5 stars
- the reappearance of rachel price by holly jackson. ☁️ 3.5 stars (br with juju)
- kill her twice by stacey lee. ☁️ ✩ 3.5 stars (br with dee)
best of the month: the invisible life of addie larue
may:
- we hunt the flame by hafsah faizal. 3.5 stars (rec from irha)
june:
- as good as dead by holly jackson. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars
july:
- love from a to z by s.k. ali. ᝰ .ᐟ 3.5 stars
- a crane among wolves by june hur. 3 stars
- powerless by lauren roberts. 2 stars
- a study with drowning by ava reid. 3 stars
- the seven year slip by ashley poston. ☁️ 4 stars (br with ria and nes)
- five survive by holly jackson. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars
- picking daisies on sundays by liana cincotti. 3.5 stars
- counting down with you by tashie bhuiyan. 1 star
- nothing like the movies #2 by lynn painter. ☁️ ✩ 3 stars (br with shehr and juju)
- beach read by emily henry. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars (rec from irha)
- shatter me #1 by tahereh mafi. 1 star (br with lulu)
- i am not jessica chen by ann liang. ᝰ .ᐟ ✩ ★ 5 stars!
best of the month: i am not jessica chen
august:
- the naturals #1 by jennifer lynn barnes. 3 stars
- the grandest game by jennifer lynn barnes. ᝰ .ᐟ 3.5 stars
- legendborn #1 by tracy deonn. ᝰ .ᐟ ★ 5 stars!
- bloodmarked #2 by tracy deonn. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars
love, mitra. ♡
key.
ᝰ .ᐟ - my loves
☁️ - read with someone
✩ - arcs
★ - best of 2024
ii. goals.
⤿ my number one goal is to just read for fun and not put too much pressure on myself. instead of skimming the book, i actually want to savor it and enjoy!
☐ read 70 books
☒ read more classics
☒ annotate
☒ increase # of books to grow a bookshelf
☒ finish 5 series
☒ write more reviews and improve my writing
☒ apply + get more arcs (# this year: 24)
⤿ most anticipated releases.
note: some of these aren't going to be released in 2024.
☒ i hope this doesn't find you by ann liang ✩
☒ a song to drown rivers by ann liang ✩
☒ nothing like the movies by lynn painter ✩
☒ the reappearance of rachel price by holly jackson
☒ i am not jessica chen by ann liang ✩
☒ asap by axie oh
☒ the grandest game by jennifer lynn barnes
☒ a crane among wolves by june hur
favorite authors.
- ann liang
- chloe gong
new favorites of 2024.
☒ chloe gong (flf + fhh, romajuliette christmas special, last violent call)
emily henry
☒ r.f. kuang (the poppy war, the dragon republic, babel)
☒ holly jackson (kill joy, the reappearance of rachel price, as good as dead, five survive)
☒ elizabeth lim (spin the dawn, unravel the dusk)
☒ axie oh (xoxo, asap)
fredrik backman
emma mills
amélie wen zhao
olivie blake
sally rooney
⤿ priority tbr.
☒ i hope this doesn't find you
☒ foul lady fortune
☒ foul heart huntsman
→ a million junes
→ foolish hearts
→ daisy jones and the six
→ beartown
→ pride and prejudice
☒ reread of little women
→ crying in h mart
→ the atlas six
→ six crimson cranes
☒ spin the dawn
☒ unravel the dusk
→ immortal longings
→ betting on you
☒ love from a to z
→ song of silver, flame like night
☒ as long as the lemon trees grow
☒ the poppy war
☒ babel
→ a magic steeped in poison
→ jade city
→ one for my enemy
→ reread land of stories (juju forced me, everyone)
recs from bffs.
⊹ rina:
⊹ cheska:
⊹ juju:
⊹ iso: lonely castle in the mirror,
⊹ adira:
⊹ lila: if he had been with me
⊹ ren: the song of achilles, conversations with friends
⊹ mags: emily wilde's encyclopedia of fairies
⊹ sofie:
⊹ irha:
⊹ eden: foolish hearts
⊹ ingrid: kimi ni todoke, ninth house
⊹ tiffany: strange the dreamer
⊹ anna: just for the summer
⊹ bri: the picture of dorian gray
⊹ sumi: legend, coraline
+ give me some recommendations <3 i'd love to add them.
january:
- i hope this doesn't find you by ann liang. ᝰ .ᐟ ✩ 5 stars!
- our violent ends by chloe gong #2. 4.5 stars
- xoxo by axie oh. 3 stars
- a song to drown rivers by ann liang. ᝰ .ᐟ ✩★ 5 stars!
best of the month: a song to drown rivers
february:
- before the coffee gets cold by toshikazu kawaguchi #1. 3.5 stars (rec from syd)
- of jade and dragons by amber chen. ✩ 4 stars
- the poppy war by r.f. kuang #1. ★ 4 stars (rec from rina)
- if you could see the sun by ann liang + reread. ᝰ .ᐟ 5 stars!
- spin the dawn by elizabeth lim #1. 4 stars (rec from rina)
- foul lady fortune by chloe gong #1. ᝰ .ᐟ★ 5 stars!
- last violent call by chloe gong #1.5. 3.5 stars (novella)
best of the month: foul lady fortune
march:
- kill joy by holly jackson #0.5. 3 stars (novella)
- a romajuliette christmas special by chloe gong #0.5. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars (novella + rec from juju)
- foul heart huntsman by chloe gong #2. ᝰ .ᐟ☁️ (br with cheska)
- unravel the dusk by elizabeth lim #2. ᝰ .ᐟ 3 stars
- asap by axie oh #2. 2.5 stars ☁️ (br with adira)
- happily never after by lynn painter. ✩ 2 stars
- women of good fortune by sophie wan. ✩ 3 stars
- the night ends with fire by k.x. song. ✩ 4 stars (rec from rina + shehrbear)
- the dragon republic by r.f. kuang. ᝰ .ᐟ 5 stars!
- babel by r.f. kuang. ᝰ .ᐟ ★ 5 stars! (br with lils)
- little women by louisa may alcott. 4.5 stars
best of the month: babel
april:
- night by elie wiesel. not rated as it’s deeply personal + about the holocaust. (for school)
- the invisible life of addie larue by ve schwab. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars
- the chalice of the gods by rick riordan. ᝰ .ᐟ 3.5 stars
- the reappearance of rachel price by holly jackson. ☁️ 3.5 stars (br with juju)
- kill her twice by stacey lee. ☁️ ✩ 3.5 stars (br with dee)
best of the month: the invisible life of addie larue
may:
- we hunt the flame by hafsah faizal. 3.5 stars (rec from irha)
june:
- as good as dead by holly jackson. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars
july:
- love from a to z by s.k. ali. ᝰ .ᐟ 3.5 stars
- a crane among wolves by june hur. 3 stars
- powerless by lauren roberts. 2 stars
- a study with drowning by ava reid. 3 stars
- the seven year slip by ashley poston. ☁️ 4 stars (br with ria and nes)
- five survive by holly jackson. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars
- picking daisies on sundays by liana cincotti. 3.5 stars
- counting down with you by tashie bhuiyan. 1 star
- nothing like the movies #2 by lynn painter. ☁️ ✩ 3 stars (br with shehr and juju)
- beach read by emily henry. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars (rec from irha)
- shatter me #1 by tahereh mafi. 1 star (br with lulu)
- i am not jessica chen by ann liang. ᝰ .ᐟ ✩ ★ 5 stars!
best of the month: i am not jessica chen
august:
- the naturals #1 by jennifer lynn barnes. 3 stars
- the grandest game by jennifer lynn barnes. ᝰ .ᐟ 3.5 stars
- legendborn #1 by tracy deonn. ᝰ .ᐟ ★ 5 stars!
- bloodmarked #2 by tracy deonn. ᝰ .ᐟ 4 stars
mid-year stats
books read: 29
# of buddy reads: 5
# of dnfs: 0
# of books owned: 8
# of books annotated: 2
#1 favorite so far: i hope this doesn’t find you/babel
⤿ 2024 awards.
all time favorite:
worst:
best series:
best standalone:
cherished author:
favorite review that i wrote:
top new release:
love, mitra. ♡
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January 2, 2025Happy New Year and I am thankful to all of you for another wonderful year of reading. I can’t express how much I really enjoy all the discussions and sharing of books I’ve done with you all and often it’s the little conversations and shared joy of books that really help me get through the day. I had a wonderful year of reading, completing just over 150 books but I’d have to say my biggest book moment this year was when I got to meet my favorite author, Jeanette Winterson and hear her speak.
I got to meet Winterson at Hay Festival in Wales the spring of 2024. What a great day, what a lovely person.
Other authors I got to see speak this year were Hanif Abdurraqib in Chicago, who was just so charming and warm and it was a rather emotional discussion that I won’t soon forget. This spring I also got to see R.F. Kuang who is one of the best spoken people I have ever had the pleasure to listen to. She responded to audience questions so eloquently and was a joy to hear her mind work. I cannot wait for her new book.
But on to the books! I had a lot of great reading and it’s hard to pick favorites but here are some in no particular order:
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth (shoutout to Liv for reading it with me!)
Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Another favorite I read this year was My Husband by Maud Ventura (thanks to , which was part of my 2024 goal to not only continue reading a lot of books in translation but to try and read more authors by French women after having really gotten into some Simone de Beauvoir last year. I did a few, such as The Lover by Marguerite Duras and The Mad Woman’s Ball by Victoria Mas.
This was also the year I finally got into romance novels. And not just the horny holiday collection of novellas we were all just reading, but I really enjoyed KJ Charles’ Slippery Creatures>,
Funny Story by Emily Henry and really liked Daisy Jones and the Six from Taylor Jenkins Reid. But I also learned to really like YA in this style too, and thanks to Adira really enjoyed Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter and really enjoyed both of Rebecca Ross’ books, particularly Divine Rivals.
I am a huge fan of poetry and this year brought some amazing collections. A few I really loved are:
Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan
Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha
Bluff by Danez Smith
Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss
I also got down on a lot of poetry from Mary Oliver and Hanif Abdurraqib, especially after seeing him read.
I was also thrilled to read the new Murakami this year and was reminded of a few years back when I pledged to read 2 new Japanese women authors for every Murakami I had read. In 2025 I’d like to read more Japanese women but, as always, my biggest goal will be to read more women in translation.
Happy New Year, thanks for all the book love and can’t wait to continue discussing with you all soon!
I got to meet Winterson at Hay Festival in Wales the spring of 2024. What a great day, what a lovely person.
Other authors I got to see speak this year were Hanif Abdurraqib in Chicago, who was just so charming and warm and it was a rather emotional discussion that I won’t soon forget. This spring I also got to see R.F. Kuang who is one of the best spoken people I have ever had the pleasure to listen to. She responded to audience questions so eloquently and was a joy to hear her mind work. I cannot wait for her new book.
But on to the books! I had a lot of great reading and it’s hard to pick favorites but here are some in no particular order:
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth (shoutout to Liv for reading it with me!)
Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Another favorite I read this year was My Husband by Maud Ventura (thanks to , which was part of my 2024 goal to not only continue reading a lot of books in translation but to try and read more authors by French women after having really gotten into some Simone de Beauvoir last year. I did a few, such as The Lover by Marguerite Duras and The Mad Woman’s Ball by Victoria Mas.
This was also the year I finally got into romance novels. And not just the horny holiday collection of novellas we were all just reading, but I really enjoyed KJ Charles’ Slippery Creatures>,
Funny Story by Emily Henry and really liked Daisy Jones and the Six from Taylor Jenkins Reid. But I also learned to really like YA in this style too, and thanks to Adira really enjoyed Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter and really enjoyed both of Rebecca Ross’ books, particularly Divine Rivals.
I am a huge fan of poetry and this year brought some amazing collections. A few I really loved are:
Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan
Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha
Bluff by Danez Smith
Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss
I also got down on a lot of poetry from Mary Oliver and Hanif Abdurraqib, especially after seeing him read.
I was also thrilled to read the new Murakami this year and was reminded of a few years back when I pledged to read 2 new Japanese women authors for every Murakami I had read. In 2025 I’d like to read more Japanese women but, as always, my biggest goal will be to read more women in translation.
Happy New Year, thanks for all the book love and can’t wait to continue discussing with you all soon!
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January 1, 2025✦——✦
〘 ₊˚𑁍.ೃ࿔*:･〙
2024
goals
˖° ࣪𖤐
- borrow more from the library ✓
- surpass reading challenge! (100 books)
- read more in the summer ✓
- 10 buddy reads (11/10) ✓
✦——✦
✓: finished
YA series to start
˖° ࣪𖤐
- powerless (2/3)
- the prison healer
- these hollow vows
- the poppy war
- the dark artifices ✓
- the last hours
- the atlas six
- encyclopedia of faeries
- the remnant chronicles ✓
- the lunar chronicles ✓
- the ascendance trilogy
- percy jackson (og 5 books) ✓
- when in rome ✓
- dance of thieves ✓
- arc of a scythe
- legend ✓
- the raven cycle
- one dark window ✓
- belladonna ✓
✦——✦
anticipated releases
˖° ࣪𖤐
- a song to drown rivers ✓
- reckless ✓
- the reappearance of rachel price ✓
- spectacular
- funny story ✓
- just for the summer ✓
✦——✦
authors to check out
˖° ࣪𖤐
- rf kuang ✓
- ann liang ✓
- lynn painter ✓
- chloe gong ✓
- rebecca ross ✓
- olivie blake
- katherine center ✓
- abby jiminez ✓
- sarah adams ✓
- christina lauren ✓
✦——✦
monthly wrap ups
˖° ࣪𖤐
january
books read: 12
estimated page count: 4,940
highlights: the infernal devices, letters of enchantment, this time it’s real
february
books read: 11
estimated page count: 5,130
highlights: book lovers, the seven year slip, these violent delights
march
books read: 15
estimated page count: 6,000
highlights: foul lady fortune, the seven year slip (reread), as long as the lemon trees grow
april
books read: 14
estimated page count: 5,330
highlights: babel, percy jackson, a good girl’s guide to murder (reread)
may
books read: 12
estimated page count: 3,650
highlights: funny story
june
books read: 15
estimated page count: 5,500
highlights: when in rome, practice makes perfect
july
books read: 11
estimated page count: 4,450
highlights: fourth wing, part of your world, yours truly
august
books read: 2
estimated page count: 768
highlights: none…
september
books read: 2
estimated page count: 1,040
highlights: ashes and the star cursed king
october
books read: 2
estimated page count: 1,380
highlights: cress
november
books read: 2
estimated page count: 700
highlights: the enemy
december
books read: 5
estimated page count: 1,370
highlights: a song to drown rivers
✦——✦
best books of the year!
˖° ࣪𖤐
- divine rivals
- clockwork princess
- the seven year slip
- book lovers
- foul lady fortune
- funny story
- the rule book
- belladonna
- float
- when in rome
- practice makes perfect
- heartless hunter
- yours truly
- serpent and the wings of night
〘 ₊˚𑁍.ೃ࿔*:･〙
✦——✦
〘 ₊˚𑁍.ೃ࿔*:･〙
2024
goals
˖° ࣪𖤐
- borrow more from the library ✓
- surpass reading challenge! (100 books)
- read more in the summer ✓
- 10 buddy reads (11/10) ✓
✦——✦
✓: finished
YA series to start
˖° ࣪𖤐
- powerless (2/3)
- the prison healer
- these hollow vows
- the poppy war
- the dark artifices ✓
- the last hours
- the atlas six
- encyclopedia of faeries
- the remnant chronicles ✓
- the lunar chronicles ✓
- the ascendance trilogy
- percy jackson (og 5 books) ✓
- when in rome ✓
- dance of thieves ✓
- arc of a scythe
- legend ✓
- the raven cycle
- one dark window ✓
- belladonna ✓
✦——✦
anticipated releases
˖° ࣪𖤐
- a song to drown rivers ✓
- reckless ✓
- the reappearance of rachel price ✓
- spectacular
- funny story ✓
- just for the summer ✓
✦——✦
authors to check out
˖° ࣪𖤐
- rf kuang ✓
- ann liang ✓
- lynn painter ✓
- chloe gong ✓
- rebecca ross ✓
- olivie blake
- katherine center ✓
- abby jiminez ✓
- sarah adams ✓
- christina lauren ✓
✦——✦
monthly wrap ups
˖° ࣪𖤐
january
books read: 12
estimated page count: 4,940
highlights: the infernal devices, letters of enchantment, this time it’s real
february
books read: 11
estimated page count: 5,130
highlights: book lovers, the seven year slip, these violent delights
march
books read: 15
estimated page count: 6,000
highlights: foul lady fortune, the seven year slip (reread), as long as the lemon trees grow
april
books read: 14
estimated page count: 5,330
highlights: babel, percy jackson, a good girl’s guide to murder (reread)
may
books read: 12
estimated page count: 3,650
highlights: funny story
june
books read: 15
estimated page count: 5,500
highlights: when in rome, practice makes perfect
july
books read: 11
estimated page count: 4,450
highlights: fourth wing, part of your world, yours truly
august
books read: 2
estimated page count: 768
highlights: none…
september
books read: 2
estimated page count: 1,040
highlights: ashes and the star cursed king
october
books read: 2
estimated page count: 1,380
highlights: cress
november
books read: 2
estimated page count: 700
highlights: the enemy
december
books read: 5
estimated page count: 1,370
highlights: a song to drown rivers
✦——✦
best books of the year!
˖° ࣪𖤐
- divine rivals
- clockwork princess
- the seven year slip
- book lovers
- foul lady fortune
- funny story
- the rule book
- belladonna
- float
- when in rome
- practice makes perfect
- heartless hunter
- yours truly
- serpent and the wings of night
〘 ₊˚𑁍.ೃ࿔*:･〙
✦——✦
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September 29, 2024✦. ⊹ ˚ ꒰ my 2024 in literature ꒱ ‧₊˚
this is my first year doing this!
wishing the best to everyone and i hope you have the best year of reads <3
·˚⋆ ౨ৎ ·˚⋆
╰ ✦ reading goals
□ read 50 books [46/50]
☒ read more series
☒ do a buddy read
☒ prioritise physical tbr
☒ keep up with writing reviews
□ rate more harshly
□ branch out genres
╰ ✦ priority tbr
a court of thorns and roses ﹔ sarah j. maas┊ 5 / 5
throne of glass ﹔ sarah j. maas┊ 8 / 8
crescent city ﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 1 / 3
boys of tommen ﹔ chloe walsh┊ 5 / 5
the stolen heir﹔ holly black┊ 2 / 2
twisted﹔ ana huang┊ 4 / 4
kings of sin ﹔ ana huang ┊ 4 / 4
chestnut springs﹔ elsie silver ┊ 2 / 5
darkverse ﹔ runyx ┊ 2 / 5
zodiac academy ﹔ caroline peckham & susanne valenti ┊ 1 / 12
the made series ﹔ danielle lori ┊ 0 / 3
addicted ﹔ kristie ritchie┊ 0 / 5
rose hill﹔ elsie silver ┊ 0 / 2
caraval﹔stephanie garber ┊ 0 / 3
once upon a broken heart﹔stephanie garber ┊ 0 / 3
the devils night﹔penelope douglas ┊ 0 / 6
key ᝰ.ᐟ
౨ৎ changed the trajectory of my life
⟢ my loves
ꕤ novella
✧ reread
⛧ buddy read
ᶻz disappointing
⨳ dnf
╰ ✦ monthly stats
i. january
shadow me ﹔ tahereh mafi ꕤ ┊ 2 ☆
defy me ﹔ tahereh mafi ᶻz ┊ 3 ☆
reveal me ﹔ tahereh mafi ꕤ ┊ 2 ☆
��� a court of thorns and roses ﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 4 ☆
a court of mist and fury ﹔ sarah j. maas ⟢ ┊ 5 ☆
court of wings and ruin ﹔ sarah j. maas ⟢ ┊ 4.5 ☆
this time it’s real ﹔ ann liang ⛧ ┊ 3 ☆
a court of frost and starlight ﹔ sarah j. maas ꕤ ┊ 3 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔ 8
favourite ﹔ a court of mist and fury
ii. february
a court of silver flames ﹔ sarah j. maas ⟢ ┊ 4 ☆
imagine me ﹔ tahereh mafi ⨳
the assassin’s blade ﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 3.5 ☆
throne of glass ﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 4 ☆
crown of midnight ﹔ sarah j. maas ⟢ ┊ 4.5☆
heir of fire ﹔ sarah j. maas ⟢┊ 4.75 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔ 6
favourite ﹔ heir of fire
iii. march
queen of shadows ﹔ sarah j. maas ౨ৎ ⟢ ┊ 5 ☆
the stolen heir ﹔ holly black ᶻz ┊ 1 ☆
the prisoner’s throne ﹔ holly black ᶻz ┊ 2 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔ 3
favourite ﹔ queen of shadows
iv. april
empire of storms ﹔ sarah j. maas ౨ৎ ⟢ ┊ 5 ☆
tower of dawn ﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 4 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔ 2
favourite ﹔ empire of storms
v. may
i hope this doesn’t find you ﹔ ann liang ┊ 4 ☆
kingdom of ash ﹔ sarah j. maas ౨ৎ ⟢ ┊ 5 ☆
house of earth and blood﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 4 ☆
binding 13﹔ chloe walsh ⟢ ┊ 4.75 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔4
favourite ﹔kingdom of ash
vi. june
keeping 13 ﹔ chloe walsh ౨ৎ ⟢ ┊ 5 ☆
saving 6﹔ chloe walsh
redeeming 6 ﹔ chloe walsh
⌗ of books total ﹔3
favourite ﹔keeping 13
vii. july
taming 7 ﹔ chloe walsh ┊ 2.75 ☆
better than the movies﹔ lynn painter
butcher and blackbird﹔ brynne weaver ᶻz ┊ 2 ☆
twisted love﹔ ana huang ᶻz ┊ 1 ☆
twisted games﹔ ana huang ┊ 3.5 ☆
twisted hate﹔ ana huang ┊ 3.25 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔6
favourite ﹔twisted hate
viii. august
twisted lies﹔ ana huang ┊ 2.5 ☆
king of wrath﹔ ana huang ┊ 3.25 ☆
king of pride﹔ ana huang ┊ 2.75 ☆
king of greed﹔ ana huang ᶻz ┊ 2 ☆
king of sloth﹔ ana huang ┊ 3 ☆
flawless﹔ elsie silver ┊ 2 ☆
heartless﹔ elsie silver ⟢ ┊ 4.5 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔7
favourite ﹔heartless
ix. september
the awakening﹔ caroline peckham & susanne valenti┊ 2 ☆
the predator﹔ runyx┊ 2 ☆
the reaper﹔ runyx┊ 4 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔
favourite ﹔
x. october
xi. november
xii. december
╰ ✦ overall
→ ⌗ of books total ﹔
→ fav series ﹔
→ fav book in a series ﹔
→ fav standalone ﹔
→ top authors ﹔
→ ⌗ dnf total ﹔
→ worst read ﹔
this is my first year doing this!
wishing the best to everyone and i hope you have the best year of reads <3
·˚⋆ ౨ৎ ·˚⋆
╰ ✦ reading goals
□ read 50 books [46/50]
☒ read more series
☒ do a buddy read
☒ prioritise physical tbr
☒ keep up with writing reviews
□ rate more harshly
□ branch out genres
╰ ✦ priority tbr
crescent city ﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 1 / 3
chestnut springs﹔ elsie silver ┊ 2 / 5
darkverse ﹔ runyx ┊ 2 / 5
zodiac academy ﹔ caroline peckham & susanne valenti ┊ 1 / 12
the made series ﹔ danielle lori ┊ 0 / 3
addicted ﹔ kristie ritchie┊ 0 / 5
rose hill﹔ elsie silver ┊ 0 / 2
caraval﹔stephanie garber ┊ 0 / 3
once upon a broken heart﹔stephanie garber ┊ 0 / 3
the devils night﹔penelope douglas ┊ 0 / 6
key ᝰ.ᐟ
౨ৎ changed the trajectory of my life
⟢ my loves
ꕤ novella
✧ reread
⛧ buddy read
ᶻz disappointing
⨳ dnf
╰ ✦ monthly stats
i. january
shadow me ﹔ tahereh mafi ꕤ ┊ 2 ☆
defy me ﹔ tahereh mafi ᶻz ┊ 3 ☆
reveal me ﹔ tahereh mafi ꕤ ┊ 2 ☆
��� a court of thorns and roses ﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 4 ☆
a court of mist and fury ﹔ sarah j. maas ⟢ ┊ 5 ☆
court of wings and ruin ﹔ sarah j. maas ⟢ ┊ 4.5 ☆
this time it’s real ﹔ ann liang ⛧ ┊ 3 ☆
a court of frost and starlight ﹔ sarah j. maas ꕤ ┊ 3 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔ 8
favourite ﹔ a court of mist and fury
ii. february
a court of silver flames ﹔ sarah j. maas ⟢ ┊ 4 ☆
imagine me ﹔ tahereh mafi ⨳
the assassin’s blade ﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 3.5 ☆
throne of glass ﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 4 ☆
crown of midnight ﹔ sarah j. maas ⟢ ┊ 4.5☆
heir of fire ﹔ sarah j. maas ⟢┊ 4.75 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔ 6
favourite ﹔ heir of fire
iii. march
queen of shadows ﹔ sarah j. maas ౨ৎ ⟢ ┊ 5 ☆
the stolen heir ﹔ holly black ᶻz ┊ 1 ☆
the prisoner’s throne ﹔ holly black ᶻz ┊ 2 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔ 3
favourite ﹔ queen of shadows
iv. april
empire of storms ﹔ sarah j. maas ౨ৎ ⟢ ┊ 5 ☆
tower of dawn ﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 4 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔ 2
favourite ﹔ empire of storms
v. may
i hope this doesn’t find you ﹔ ann liang ┊ 4 ☆
kingdom of ash ﹔ sarah j. maas ౨ৎ ⟢ ┊ 5 ☆
house of earth and blood﹔ sarah j. maas ┊ 4 ☆
binding 13﹔ chloe walsh ⟢ ┊ 4.75 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔4
favourite ﹔kingdom of ash
vi. june
keeping 13 ﹔ chloe walsh ౨ৎ ⟢ ┊ 5 ☆
saving 6﹔ chloe walsh
redeeming 6 ﹔ chloe walsh
⌗ of books total ﹔3
favourite ﹔keeping 13
vii. july
taming 7 ﹔ chloe walsh ┊ 2.75 ☆
better than the movies﹔ lynn painter
butcher and blackbird﹔ brynne weaver ᶻz ┊ 2 ☆
twisted love﹔ ana huang ᶻz ┊ 1 ☆
twisted games﹔ ana huang ┊ 3.5 ☆
twisted hate﹔ ana huang ┊ 3.25 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔6
favourite ﹔twisted hate
viii. august
twisted lies﹔ ana huang ┊ 2.5 ☆
king of wrath﹔ ana huang ┊ 3.25 ☆
king of pride﹔ ana huang ┊ 2.75 ☆
king of greed﹔ ana huang ᶻz ┊ 2 ☆
king of sloth﹔ ana huang ┊ 3 ☆
flawless﹔ elsie silver ┊ 2 ☆
heartless﹔ elsie silver ⟢ ┊ 4.5 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔7
favourite ﹔heartless
ix. september
the awakening﹔ caroline peckham & susanne valenti┊ 2 ☆
the predator﹔ runyx┊ 2 ☆
the reaper﹔ runyx┊ 4 ☆
⌗ of books total ﹔
favourite ﹔
x. october
xi. november
xii. december
╰ ✦ overall
→ ⌗ of books total ﹔
→ fav series ﹔
→ fav book in a series ﹔
→ fav standalone ﹔
→ top authors ﹔
→ ⌗ dnf total ﹔
→ worst read ﹔
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Every Rating & Review for 2024
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
(A-) 83% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/10/2024
Notes: On ugly truth, fading youth, dead appeals, courage, morals, community quarrels and fallible humans spoiling ideals.
The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer and Nathaniel Parker
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/11/2024
Notes: Wherein former foes go quid pro quo—to boot, two villains team—it's a do-or-die trust exercise: misgivings to esteem.
BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 by Mattson Tomlin
(B+) 79% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/11/2024
Notes: More plot than fists, it's twists on twists, a lucid, lively story, still lots of blood, but not a flood (not ludicrously gory).
Kaya #14 by Wes Craig
(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 01/12/2024
Notes: Big setting-shift (full urban drift), its action scenes are thrilling, a revolt/despot/messiah plot (it's prophecy-fulfilling).
Zorro: Man of the Dead #1 by Sean Gordon Murphy
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/13/2024
Notes: Bit farfetched, synthetic/stretched, Quixotic tale indeed, while art's first-rate, no charm nor weight to either hero lead.
Book of Butcher #1 by James Tynion IV and Tate Brombal
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/13/2024
Notes: A monster guide, real legends tied, all real plum information, its story bits, though, rarely hit, it takes a plot vacation.
Superman '78: The Metal Curtain (2023-2024) #3 by Robert Venditti
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/14/2024
Notes: Sprinkling in wrinkles: new relationshippy drama, broken trust (things not discussed) and painful post-fight trauma.
Edenwood #3 by Tony S. Daniel
(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory | ⭐⭐ – 01/15/2024
Notes: Who's who and why are facts denied, its storytelling sucks, connects no dots, all scattershot, its scenes just run amok.
Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 16 by Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin
(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 01/19/2024
Notes: Hardly Spawn here early on, and hardly more than build, stuff introduced, but lacking juice, the arc's left unfulfilled.
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/22/2024
Notes: A kind of jailed-princess tale (bit Nineteen Eighty-Four), on wounding feuds, abusive dudes, relentless grief and more.
Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 17 by Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin
(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 01/24/2024
Notes: Hot to start, super art, just bold and consequential, its back half tales, though, really pale: worse art and nonessential.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #1 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 79% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/25/2024
Notes: Apocalypse now! The art really wows, a main event feel, and awful ambitious, but gets repetitious, diminishing zeal.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #2 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 79% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/26/2024
Notes: More warm than hot, a steady plot, not boring nor berserk: task-assigning, scope-defining, wrenches tossed in works.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #3 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 79% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/27/2024
Notes: A multiverse blend, just plot at both ends, it's mostly big action: historical eras, team-up chimeras, ad hoc interactions.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #4 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/29/2024
Notes: More people die, Pariah cries (which seems his only role), and quite a few quite varied views on dying (fate and toll).
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #5 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/30/2024
Notes: Seeing is believing, convincing doubting Thomases; just shocked expressions, info sessions, partnering and promises.
The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer and Nathaniel Parker
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/30/2024
Notes: Wherein heroes heist, get truly iced, betray and get betrayed, get up from fails (adapt, prevail), and favors get repaid.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #6 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/31/2024
Notes: Heroes are foes, a just go with it flow, it's really high gear if not always clear, no story protraction, all narrative action.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #7 byMarv Wolfman
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/02/2024
Notes: A fortress raid, distress displayed, expounds essential lore (forbidden learning, gods returning), selfless death in war.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #8 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/03/2024
Notes: A kind of resetting/hiatus (no sweating), on Earth it's quite serene, a hero dies but no one cries—self-sacrifice unseen.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #9 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/04/2024
Notes: Lots of killing (not-so-thrilling/undistinguished culling), cool battle scenes if brief and lean: all rather impact-dulling.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #10 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/06/2024
Notes: Crescendoing well, its seriousness swells, the bonus story's fine: but never jells (told parallel) and doesn't quite align.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #11 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 83% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/08/2024
Notes: Post-merger pains, what's lost/remains, a single earth rebuilt, beyond repair for hero spares (intense survivor's guilt).
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #12 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 83% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/09/2024
Notes: Bit convenient (logic-lenient), but epic all-around: right nightmarish, heroes perish, and the foe just won't stay down.
History of the DC Universe (1986) #1 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/11/2024
Notes: No story here (it's info-geared), a Time-Life textbook feel, great overviews, myth-melding too, and tons of art appeal.
History of the DC Universe (1986) #2 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/12/2024
Notes: Though hardly deep (a shallow sweep), it's certainly extensive, a hero blitz in bite-sized bits, it's never lore-intensive.
The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer and Nathaniel Parker
(A-) 83% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/26/2024
Notes: Wherein shifts are felt, convictions melt, dormancies awaken, evil aims go Hunger Games, and leaps of faith are taken.
Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 18 by Todd McFarlane, Brian Holguin and Steve Niles
(B) 73% | More than Satisfactory | ⭐⭐⭐ – 02/29/2024
Notes: The artwork sucks (it's clear as muck), a needless story strain: not that plot's so great or taut, just art's a mental drain.
Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 19 by Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin
(B) 74% | More than Satisfactory | ⭐⭐⭐ – 03/04/2024
Notes: Art is intense but terribly dense (all speed lines and shapes), plots are too trite, its pivotal fights are nebulous scrapes.
Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 20 by Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin
(B-) 71% | Satisfactory | ⭐⭐⭐ – 03/10/2024
Notes: A pain to read (art misleads), shambles from the start, plot twists are nice but not worth the price of noisy/blobby art.
Zorro: Man of the Dead #2 by Sean Gordon Murphy
(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 03/10/2024
Notes: Follows-up fine, but nothing sublime, more of the same, battles are fought, advances the plot: just fanning the flames.
Kaya #15 by Wes Craig
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 03/10/2024
Notes: All meeting/meshing/character-fleshing, attitudes defogged, fairly succinct, everyone is distinct, never a tedious slog.
Kaya #16 by Wes Craig
(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 03/13/2024
Notes: Tepid tension, light dissension, loyalty conniption, new friends get close, drug overdose: just follow the prescription!
House of Slaughter #21 by James Tynion IV and Tate Brombal
(B+) 76% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 03/14/2024
Notes: Nothing shocking, lots of talking, delegations meeting, passive jibes between the tribes: in league but still competing.
Superman '78: The Metal Curtain (2023-2024) #4 by Robert Venditti
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 03/16/2024
Notes: Just simple fun, not overdone, it goes by pretty quick, bit standard-plot, though hits the spot, plain Cold War politics.
Superman '78: The Metal Curtain (2023-2024) #5 by Robert Venditti
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 03/17/2024
Notes: With lots of talk and taking stock, it highlights motivations, strife abroad, and stacks the odds before the culmination.
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Every Rating & Review for 2024
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
(A-) 83% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/10/2024
Notes: On ugly truth, fading youth, dead appeals, courage, morals, community quarrels and fallible humans spoiling ideals.
The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer and Nathaniel Parker
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/11/2024
Notes: Wherein former foes go quid pro quo—to boot, two villains team—it's a do-or-die trust exercise: misgivings to esteem.
BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 by Mattson Tomlin
(B+) 79% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/11/2024
Notes: More plot than fists, it's twists on twists, a lucid, lively story, still lots of blood, but not a flood (not ludicrously gory).
Kaya #14 by Wes Craig
(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 01/12/2024
Notes: Big setting-shift (full urban drift), its action scenes are thrilling, a revolt/despot/messiah plot (it's prophecy-fulfilling).
Zorro: Man of the Dead #1 by Sean Gordon Murphy
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/13/2024
Notes: Bit farfetched, synthetic/stretched, Quixotic tale indeed, while art's first-rate, no charm nor weight to either hero lead.
Book of Butcher #1 by James Tynion IV and Tate Brombal
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/13/2024
Notes: A monster guide, real legends tied, all real plum information, its story bits, though, rarely hit, it takes a plot vacation.
Superman '78: The Metal Curtain (2023-2024) #3 by Robert Venditti
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/14/2024
Notes: Sprinkling in wrinkles: new relationshippy drama, broken trust (things not discussed) and painful post-fight trauma.
Edenwood #3 by Tony S. Daniel
(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory | ⭐⭐ – 01/15/2024
Notes: Who's who and why are facts denied, its storytelling sucks, connects no dots, all scattershot, its scenes just run amok.
Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 16 by Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin
(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 01/19/2024
Notes: Hardly Spawn here early on, and hardly more than build, stuff introduced, but lacking juice, the arc's left unfulfilled.
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/22/2024
Notes: A kind of jailed-princess tale (bit Nineteen Eighty-Four), on wounding feuds, abusive dudes, relentless grief and more.
Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 17 by Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin
(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 01/24/2024
Notes: Hot to start, super art, just bold and consequential, its back half tales, though, really pale: worse art and nonessential.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #1 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 79% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/25/2024
Notes: Apocalypse now! The art really wows, a main event feel, and awful ambitious, but gets repetitious, diminishing zeal.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #2 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 79% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/26/2024
Notes: More warm than hot, a steady plot, not boring nor berserk: task-assigning, scope-defining, wrenches tossed in works.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #3 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 79% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/27/2024
Notes: A multiverse blend, just plot at both ends, it's mostly big action: historical eras, team-up chimeras, ad hoc interactions.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #4 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/29/2024
Notes: More people die, Pariah cries (which seems his only role), and quite a few quite varied views on dying (fate and toll).
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #5 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/30/2024
Notes: Seeing is believing, convincing doubting Thomases; just shocked expressions, info sessions, partnering and promises.
The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer and Nathaniel Parker
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/30/2024
Notes: Wherein heroes heist, get truly iced, betray and get betrayed, get up from fails (adapt, prevail), and favors get repaid.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #6 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/31/2024
Notes: Heroes are foes, a just go with it flow, it's really high gear if not always clear, no story protraction, all narrative action.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #7 byMarv Wolfman
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/02/2024
Notes: A fortress raid, distress displayed, expounds essential lore (forbidden learning, gods returning), selfless death in war.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #8 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/03/2024
Notes: A kind of resetting/hiatus (no sweating), on Earth it's quite serene, a hero dies but no one cries—self-sacrifice unseen.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #9 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/04/2024
Notes: Lots of killing (not-so-thrilling/undistinguished culling), cool battle scenes if brief and lean: all rather impact-dulling.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #10 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/06/2024
Notes: Crescendoing well, its seriousness swells, the bonus story's fine: but never jells (told parallel) and doesn't quite align.
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #11 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 83% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/08/2024
Notes: Post-merger pains, what's lost/remains, a single earth rebuilt, beyond repair for hero spares (intense survivor's guilt).
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) #12 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 83% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/09/2024
Notes: Bit convenient (logic-lenient), but epic all-around: right nightmarish, heroes perish, and the foe just won't stay down.
History of the DC Universe (1986) #1 by Marv Wolfman
(A-) 80% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/11/2024
Notes: No story here (it's info-geared), a Time-Life textbook feel, great overviews, myth-melding too, and tons of art appeal.
History of the DC Universe (1986) #2 by Marv Wolfman
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/12/2024
Notes: Though hardly deep (a shallow sweep), it's certainly extensive, a hero blitz in bite-sized bits, it's never lore-intensive.
The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer and Nathaniel Parker
(A-) 83% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 02/26/2024
Notes: Wherein shifts are felt, convictions melt, dormancies awaken, evil aims go Hunger Games, and leaps of faith are taken.
Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 18 by Todd McFarlane, Brian Holguin and Steve Niles
(B) 73% | More than Satisfactory | ⭐⭐⭐ – 02/29/2024
Notes: The artwork sucks (it's clear as muck), a needless story strain: not that plot's so great or taut, just art's a mental drain.
Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 19 by Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin
(B) 74% | More than Satisfactory | ⭐⭐⭐ – 03/04/2024
Notes: Art is intense but terribly dense (all speed lines and shapes), plots are too trite, its pivotal fights are nebulous scrapes.
Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 20 by Todd McFarlane and Brian Holguin
(B-) 71% | Satisfactory | ⭐⭐⭐ – 03/10/2024
Notes: A pain to read (art misleads), shambles from the start, plot twists are nice but not worth the price of noisy/blobby art.
Zorro: Man of the Dead #2 by Sean Gordon Murphy
(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 03/10/2024
Notes: Follows-up fine, but nothing sublime, more of the same, battles are fought, advances the plot: just fanning the flames.
Kaya #15 by Wes Craig
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 03/10/2024
Notes: All meeting/meshing/character-fleshing, attitudes defogged, fairly succinct, everyone is distinct, never a tedious slog.
Kaya #16 by Wes Craig
(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 03/13/2024
Notes: Tepid tension, light dissension, loyalty conniption, new friends get close, drug overdose: just follow the prescription!
House of Slaughter #21 by James Tynion IV and Tate Brombal
(B+) 76% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 03/14/2024
Notes: Nothing shocking, lots of talking, delegations meeting, passive jibes between the tribes: in league but still competing.
Superman '78: The Metal Curtain (2023-2024) #4 by Robert Venditti
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 03/16/2024
Notes: Just simple fun, not overdone, it goes by pretty quick, bit standard-plot, though hits the spot, plain Cold War politics.
Superman '78: The Metal Curtain (2023-2024) #5 by Robert Venditti
(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 03/17/2024
Notes: With lots of talk and taking stock, it highlights motivations, strife abroad, and stacks the odds before the culmination.
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- Addendum #1-7
January 5, 2025
3.3 Star Average...
...According to "My Year in Books," anyway (which you can find here if you are interested: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_i...)
Sounds fairly accurate. This was a very lackluster reading year and I can only think of a few standout reads.
Some smut highlights:
I also had a resurgence in my interest in Romantasy a la 2010-2017:
Again, other than that, fairly meh all around. I was pretty distracted by real life this year - in a good way - so I also don't feel too bad about it.
That said, here were my goals for the year (as originally written at the beginning of 2024), with my failure commentary next to each point.
Goals as written early 2024:
I've been very laissez-faire regarding my reading goals the last couple years...
But I've decided to change it up for 2024 as I am, at heart, a very goal-driven person...And I really want to see how my newfound late-2023 love affair with nonfiction audiobooks affects my reading numbers moving forward.
I also really like lists. So standby for some lists.
Off we go...
READING GOALS FOR 2024
1) Make it to my 100 books goal before the last nail-biting moment (unlike this year).
Yeah, that didn't happen. In fact, for the first time in my decade+ on goodreads, I did NOT make my reading goal of 100. Landed at 96.
2) Track my reading format, i.e., whether each read was a physical book, an ebook (KU or not), or an audiobook.
I actually did this, shocker. Here is the breakdown:
Physical book:19
Ebook: 66 (15 Owned / 51 Kindle Unlimited)
Audiobook: 4
Library ebook: 3
Free ebook: 1
Borrowed: 2
Netgalley: 1
TOTAL BOOKS: 96
Honestly, I'm glad I did this...it showed me that I really need to continue to try to actually read books I own. It also reaffirmed the value of my Kindle Unlimited subscription and showed me I have conflated the audio book potential in my mind.
3) Finally finish the Harry Potter series. I know, I can't believe I haven't read books 4+ either.
Yeah, this didn't happen.
4) Get back into epic fantasy. I read none in 2023, sadly.
And I read none in 2024.
5) Read at least 15 memoir/biographies. Because I've always loved them and the audiobook versions have been making my excruciating work commute feel less self-harmy.
I read a whopping TWO memoirs. Hahahahaha.
And of course...
6) Continue my quest toward a zero physical TBR, a project I started in 2022 (which you can read about in my 2022 goals HERE and/or my 2023 goals HERE if you are reallybored our of your mind interested).
At this point, I have a physical TBR of 142 books. It used to be 243 at the beginning of 2022.
Now for repeated disclaimer/explanation from 2022: "I recognize how privileged this is and how lucky I am. And I'm not complaining; however, this amount of unread books is not what I want. I want only books I have read and loved or am truly excited about. Not books I bought ten years ago when I still liked YA romance and YA fantasy."
That said, my main goal - AGAIN - for this year is to cut this number down significantly, ideally to around 50 (yes, I know this is lofty, but I am apparently thinking very highly of myself and my abilities at the moment). Whether that is through reading books, gifting books, or donating books, I don't care...Like I said, I just want to be able to look at my shelves and have books I love or am excited to read.
So there you have it.
I finished the year at 113. So not bad considering I only read 19 of my own physical books and continued to accumulate more throughout the year. Did I even get close to 50? Nope. But hey. At least there was SOME progress. Month to month progress below:
Physical TBR Tracking:
Starting Point: 142
January:145...starting the year off with an increase. How glorious. Just kidding. I can't do math. 142. I offset some incoming with a small declutter that I forgot to include originally.
February:Still at 142.
March/April:Had some real life shit going on and was not reading or on goodreads much. But here we are and I'm not sure how we got here. Regardless, total right now is 139. Progress which, while small, makes me proud. Being that I barely read and/or was mentally present. So I count this a win.
May:Whoops. 140
June/July: 139...not making much progress.
August:120...thanks to another realistic YA declutter.
September: 117
October: 117
I obviously fell off around the holidays. Oh well. I will continue this tbr quest in 2025. But honestly, I don't think I'm going to make specific goals next year otherwise.
Hope everyone else had a great reading year!
...According to "My Year in Books," anyway (which you can find here if you are interested: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_i...)
Sounds fairly accurate. This was a very lackluster reading year and I can only think of a few standout reads.
Some smut highlights:
I also had a resurgence in my interest in Romantasy a la 2010-2017:
Again, other than that, fairly meh all around. I was pretty distracted by real life this year - in a good way - so I also don't feel too bad about it.
That said, here were my goals for the year (as originally written at the beginning of 2024), with my failure commentary next to each point.
Goals as written early 2024:
I've been very laissez-faire regarding my reading goals the last couple years...
But I've decided to change it up for 2024 as I am, at heart, a very goal-driven person...And I really want to see how my newfound late-2023 love affair with nonfiction audiobooks affects my reading numbers moving forward.
I also really like lists. So standby for some lists.
Off we go...
READING GOALS FOR 2024
1) Make it to my 100 books goal before the last nail-biting moment (unlike this year).
Yeah, that didn't happen. In fact, for the first time in my decade+ on goodreads, I did NOT make my reading goal of 100. Landed at 96.
2) Track my reading format, i.e., whether each read was a physical book, an ebook (KU or not), or an audiobook.
I actually did this, shocker. Here is the breakdown:
Physical book:19
Ebook: 66 (15 Owned / 51 Kindle Unlimited)
Audiobook: 4
Library ebook: 3
Free ebook: 1
Borrowed: 2
Netgalley: 1
TOTAL BOOKS: 96
Honestly, I'm glad I did this...it showed me that I really need to continue to try to actually read books I own. It also reaffirmed the value of my Kindle Unlimited subscription and showed me I have conflated the audio book potential in my mind.
3) Finally finish the Harry Potter series. I know, I can't believe I haven't read books 4+ either.
Yeah, this didn't happen.
4) Get back into epic fantasy. I read none in 2023, sadly.
And I read none in 2024.
5) Read at least 15 memoir/biographies. Because I've always loved them and the audiobook versions have been making my excruciating work commute feel less self-harmy.
I read a whopping TWO memoirs. Hahahahaha.
And of course...
6) Continue my quest toward a zero physical TBR, a project I started in 2022 (which you can read about in my 2022 goals HERE and/or my 2023 goals HERE if you are really
At this point, I have a physical TBR of 142 books. It used to be 243 at the beginning of 2022.
Now for repeated disclaimer/explanation from 2022: "I recognize how privileged this is and how lucky I am. And I'm not complaining; however, this amount of unread books is not what I want. I want only books I have read and loved or am truly excited about. Not books I bought ten years ago when I still liked YA romance and YA fantasy."
That said, my main goal - AGAIN - for this year is to cut this number down significantly, ideally to around 50 (yes, I know this is lofty, but I am apparently thinking very highly of myself and my abilities at the moment). Whether that is through reading books, gifting books, or donating books, I don't care...Like I said, I just want to be able to look at my shelves and have books I love or am excited to read.
So there you have it.
I finished the year at 113. So not bad considering I only read 19 of my own physical books and continued to accumulate more throughout the year. Did I even get close to 50? Nope. But hey. At least there was SOME progress. Month to month progress below:
Physical TBR Tracking:
Starting Point: 142
January:
February:Still at 142.
March/April:Had some real life shit going on and was not reading or on goodreads much. But here we are and I'm not sure how we got here. Regardless, total right now is 139. Progress which, while small, makes me proud. Being that I barely read and/or was mentally present. So I count this a win.
May:Whoops. 140
June/July: 139...not making much progress.
August:120...thanks to another realistic YA declutter.
September: 117
October: 117
I obviously fell off around the holidays. Oh well. I will continue this tbr quest in 2025. But honestly, I don't think I'm going to make specific goals next year otherwise.
Hope everyone else had a great reading year!
January 2, 2025
World Tour Books 2024
1. Ireland - Seek the Fair Land, Walter Macken (5🌟)
2. S.Africia - Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton (4🌟)
3. Dominican Rep - In the Time of the Butterflies (5🌟)
4. Poland / Katyn massacre by USSR. Surviving Katyn (5🌟)
5. Argentina - Tango, Mystery and Passion (4🌟)
6. US - The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald (4🌟)
7. China - Do Not Say we have Nothing (4🌟)
8. Burma - Burmese Days (4🌟)
9. Germany (Bavaria) - Not So Happily Ever After: The Tale of King Ludwig II, Susan Barnett Braun (4🌟)
10. England - The Winter King, Bernard Cornwall (5🌟)
11. Austria - The Flames, Sophie Haydock (4🌟)
12. India - Valmiki Ramayana, Valmiki (4🌟)
13. Greece - The Iliad (4🌟)
14. Cambodia - In the Shadow of the Banyan (5🌟)
15. Brazil - Captain of the Sands (3🌟)
16. Korea - The Island of Sea Women (5🌟)
17. Cyprus - The Cyprus Maze (4🌟)
18. St Petersburg - Crime and Punishment (3🌟)
19. Kosovo - three Elegies of Kosovo (4🌟)
20. Cuba - The Cuban Daughter (5🌟)
21. Sri Lanka - The Seasons of Trouble (4🌟)
22. France - Suite française (4🌟)
23. Spain - Homeland (5🌟)
24. Bolivia - Women Talking (4🌟)
25. Scotland - Corrag (5🌟)
26. Martinique - Sugar Money (2🌟)
27. US - Hidden Figures (5🌟)
28. Russia - Gulag Archipelago (5🌟)
29. Malta - The Sword and the Scimitar (5🌟)
30. Tudor England - The Mirror and the Light (5🌟)
Many more to come.....
1. Ireland - Seek the Fair Land, Walter Macken (5🌟)
2. S.Africia - Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton (4🌟)
3. Dominican Rep - In the Time of the Butterflies (5🌟)
4. Poland / Katyn massacre by USSR. Surviving Katyn (5🌟)
5. Argentina - Tango, Mystery and Passion (4🌟)
6. US - The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald (4🌟)
7. China - Do Not Say we have Nothing (4🌟)
8. Burma - Burmese Days (4🌟)
9. Germany (Bavaria) - Not So Happily Ever After: The Tale of King Ludwig II, Susan Barnett Braun (4🌟)
10. England - The Winter King, Bernard Cornwall (5🌟)
11. Austria - The Flames, Sophie Haydock (4🌟)
12. India - Valmiki Ramayana, Valmiki (4🌟)
13. Greece - The Iliad (4🌟)
14. Cambodia - In the Shadow of the Banyan (5🌟)
15. Brazil - Captain of the Sands (3🌟)
16. Korea - The Island of Sea Women (5🌟)
17. Cyprus - The Cyprus Maze (4🌟)
18. St Petersburg - Crime and Punishment (3🌟)
19. Kosovo - three Elegies of Kosovo (4🌟)
20. Cuba - The Cuban Daughter (5🌟)
21. Sri Lanka - The Seasons of Trouble (4🌟)
22. France - Suite française (4🌟)
23. Spain - Homeland (5🌟)
24. Bolivia - Women Talking (4🌟)
25. Scotland - Corrag (5🌟)
26. Martinique - Sugar Money (2🌟)
27. US - Hidden Figures (5🌟)
28. Russia - Gulag Archipelago (5🌟)
29. Malta - The Sword and the Scimitar (5🌟)
30. Tudor England - The Mirror and the Light (5🌟)
Many more to come.....
December 31, 2024
**2024 READING GOALS**
✔️Read 75 books - 75/75
Year-End Total: 115
Read 1 Classic - 0/1
✔️Finish the Aurora Teagarden Series
Finish the They Came with the Snow Series
Start the Court of Thorns and Roses Series
✔️Read 12 books in the Hannah Swensen Series - 12/12
Read 30 ARC’s - 29/30
Read 6 Stephen King books - 1/6
JANUARY:
1. *Wreck the Halls ✔️
2. A Candy Cane Murder ✔️
3. *A Christmas Vanishing ✔️
4. *The Christmas Cat Café ✔️
5. *Twice on Christmas ✔️
6. *The Weekend Retreat ✔️
# of books read: 6/6
*5 ARCS
Best: Wreck the Halls
Worst: The Christmas Cat Café
February:
1-6. Improbable Meet-Cute Collection ✔️
7.A Winter in New York
8.A Catered Valentine’s Day
9. Vistas, Vices, & Valentines ✔️
10. *A Demons Guide to Wooing a Witch ✔️
11. *The Fake Mate ✔️
12. The Only Purple House in Town ✔️
13. Valentine’s Day Disaster ✔️
14. Outage: Last Responder ✔️
# of books read: 12/14
*2 ARCS
Best: Outage: Last Responder
Worst: The Only Purple House in Town
March:
1.A Catered St. Patrick’s Day
2. Four Leaf Felony ✔️
3. *Irish Milkshake Murder ✔️
4. *The Search Party ✔️
5. *Easter Basket Murder ✔️
6. *A Winter in New York ✔️
7. Carrot Cake Murder ✔️
8. *Among the Living ✔️
# of books read: 7/8
*5 ARCS
Best: The Search Party
Worst: N/A
April:
1. Sleep Like a Baby ✔️
2. Adventure, Abduction, & Arrest ✔️
3. *A Werewolves Guide to Seducing a Vampire ✔️
4. Cream Puff Murder ✔️
5. The Witch is Back ✔️
6. *The New Couple in 5B ✔️
7. The Honeymoon Crashers ✔️
8. The Vampire Knitting Club ✔️
# of books read: 8/8
*2 ARCS
Best: A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire
Worst: Sleep Like a Baby
May:
1. Mother’s Day Murder ✔️
2. *Summers at the Saint ✔️
3. *The Takeover ✔️
4. Rangers, RVs, & Revenge ✔️
5. Apple Turnover Murder ✔️
6. Campfires, Courage, & Convicts ✔️
7. Trapping, Turkeys, & Thanksgiving ✔️
8. *Patchwork Quilt Murder ✔️
9. Brides, Bribes, & Binoculars ✔️
10. Gifts, Clamping, & Glocks ✔️
11. Things We Hide From the Light ✔️
# of books read: 11/11
*3 ARCS
Best: Mother’s Day Murder
Worst: Patchwork Quilt Murder
June:
1. Witness, Woods, & Wedding ✔️
2. Elves, Evergreens, & Evidence ✔️
3. Zoning, Zealots, & Ziplines ✔️
4. Hammocks, Handguns, & Hearsay ✔️
5. Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scone ✔️
6. Moonlight, Marshmallows, and Manslaughter ✔️
7. The Stranger in the Library ✔️
8. Take the Honey and Run ✔️
9. *Kill or Bee Killed ✔️
10. Questions, Quarrels, & Quandary ✔️
# of books read: 10/10
*1 ARC
Best: Kill or Bee Killed
Worst: N/A
July:
1. *Gollitok ✔️
2. Cinnamon Roll Murder ✔️
3. *The Couple in the Photo ✔️
4. Gwendy’s Final Task ✔️
5. *The Gathering ✔️
6. *The Break-Up Pact ✔️
7. The One Night ✔️
8. A Halloween Homicide ✔️
9. Every Vow You Break ✔️
10. Devil’s Food Cake Murder ✔️
# of books read: 10/10
*4 ARC’s
Best: Every Vow You Break
Worst: Gollitok
August:
1. Rosie’s Traveling Tea Shop ✔️
2. Witches in the Kitchen ✔️
3. Red Velvet Cupcake Murder ✔️
4. The Only One Left ✔️
5. *Torn Asunder ✔️
6. *The Midnight Feast ✔️
7. *The Last One at the Wedding ✔️
8. Blackberry Pie Murder ✔️
# of books read: 8/8
*3 ARC
Best: Rosie’s Traveling Tea Shop
Worst: N/A
September:
1. Double Fudge Brownie Murder ✔️
2. Bonfires, Backpacks, & Brawls ✔️
3. Murder’s a Witch ✔️
4. A Witch of a Day ✔️
5. Wicked Witch Murder ✔️
6. Pumpkin Spice Café ✔️
7. Can’t Spell Treason without Tea ✔️
8. Fireworks, Freedom & Felonies ✔️
# of books read: 8/8
*0 ARC
Best: Pumpkin Spice Café
Worst: Double Fudge Brownie Murder
October:
1. Halloween Cupcake Murder ✔️
2. Bait and Witch ✔️
3. Halloween Party Murder ✔️
4. *Murder Road ✔️
5. Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant ✔️
6. Seven Year Witch ✔️
7. Hex Appeal ✔️
8. *De-Witched ✔️
9. Thanksgiving Dinner Death ✔️
10. Haunted House Murder ✔️
11. Southern Magic ✔️
12. Chocolate Bunny Betrayal ✔️
# of books read: 12/12
*2 ARC
Best: Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant
Worst: Thanksgiving Dinner Death
November:
1. Fourth of July Forgery ✔️
2. Thanksgiving Treachery ✔️
3. Cinnamon Bun Book Store ✔️
4. Aria’s Traveling Book Shop ✔️
5. Who Slayed the Santas? ✔️
6. Wedding Cake Murder ✔️
7. The Night Raven 🐦⬛ ✔️
8. Holiday Hideaway ✔️
9. Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop ✔️
10. Witch and Famous ✔️
11. *The Wedding Witch ✔️
12. Crochet and Cauldrons ✔️
# of books read: 12/12
*1 ARC
Best: The Wedding Witch
Worst: Aria’s Traveling Book Shop
December:
1. Santa Claus Surprise ✔️
2. Witch Upon a Star ✔️
3. *The Christmas Tree Farm ✔️
4. Flora’s Traveling Christmas Shop ✔️
5. Christmas Caramel Murder ✔️
6. Murder at the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off ✔️
7. Christmas Card Murder ✔️
8. ‘‘Twas the Knife Before Christmas ✔️
9. 25 Days
10. Twelve Slays of Christmas ✔️
# of books read: 9/10
*1 ARC
Best: Twelve Slays of Christmas
Worst: N/A
✔️Read 75 books - 75/75
Year-End Total: 115
Read 1 Classic - 0/1
✔️Finish the Aurora Teagarden Series
Finish the They Came with the Snow Series
Start the Court of Thorns and Roses Series
✔️Read 12 books in the Hannah Swensen Series - 12/12
Read 30 ARC’s - 29/30
Read 6 Stephen King books - 1/6
JANUARY:
1. *Wreck the Halls ✔️
2. A Candy Cane Murder ✔️
3. *A Christmas Vanishing ✔️
4. *The Christmas Cat Café ✔️
5. *Twice on Christmas ✔️
6. *The Weekend Retreat ✔️
# of books read: 6/6
*5 ARCS
Best: Wreck the Halls
Worst: The Christmas Cat Café
February:
1-6. Improbable Meet-Cute Collection ✔️
7.
8.
9. Vistas, Vices, & Valentines ✔️
10. *A Demons Guide to Wooing a Witch ✔️
11. *The Fake Mate ✔️
12. The Only Purple House in Town ✔️
13. Valentine’s Day Disaster ✔️
14. Outage: Last Responder ✔️
# of books read: 12/14
*2 ARCS
Best: Outage: Last Responder
Worst: The Only Purple House in Town
March:
1.
2. Four Leaf Felony ✔️
3. *Irish Milkshake Murder ✔️
4. *The Search Party ✔️
5. *Easter Basket Murder ✔️
6. *A Winter in New York ✔️
7. Carrot Cake Murder ✔️
8. *Among the Living ✔️
# of books read: 7/8
*5 ARCS
Best: The Search Party
Worst: N/A
April:
1. Sleep Like a Baby ✔️
2. Adventure, Abduction, & Arrest ✔️
3. *A Werewolves Guide to Seducing a Vampire ✔️
4. Cream Puff Murder ✔️
5. The Witch is Back ✔️
6. *The New Couple in 5B ✔️
7. The Honeymoon Crashers ✔️
8. The Vampire Knitting Club ✔️
# of books read: 8/8
*2 ARCS
Best: A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire
Worst: Sleep Like a Baby
May:
1. Mother’s Day Murder ✔️
2. *Summers at the Saint ✔️
3. *The Takeover ✔️
4. Rangers, RVs, & Revenge ✔️
5. Apple Turnover Murder ✔️
6. Campfires, Courage, & Convicts ✔️
7. Trapping, Turkeys, & Thanksgiving ✔️
8. *Patchwork Quilt Murder ✔️
9. Brides, Bribes, & Binoculars ✔️
10. Gifts, Clamping, & Glocks ✔️
11. Things We Hide From the Light ✔️
# of books read: 11/11
*3 ARCS
Best: Mother’s Day Murder
Worst: Patchwork Quilt Murder
June:
1. Witness, Woods, & Wedding ✔️
2. Elves, Evergreens, & Evidence ✔️
3. Zoning, Zealots, & Ziplines ✔️
4. Hammocks, Handguns, & Hearsay ✔️
5. Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scone ✔️
6. Moonlight, Marshmallows, and Manslaughter ✔️
7. The Stranger in the Library ✔️
8. Take the Honey and Run ✔️
9. *Kill or Bee Killed ✔️
10. Questions, Quarrels, & Quandary ✔️
# of books read: 10/10
*1 ARC
Best: Kill or Bee Killed
Worst: N/A
July:
1. *Gollitok ✔️
2. Cinnamon Roll Murder ✔️
3. *The Couple in the Photo ✔️
4. Gwendy’s Final Task ✔️
5. *The Gathering ✔️
6. *The Break-Up Pact ✔️
7. The One Night ✔️
8. A Halloween Homicide ✔️
9. Every Vow You Break ✔️
10. Devil’s Food Cake Murder ✔️
# of books read: 10/10
*4 ARC’s
Best: Every Vow You Break
Worst: Gollitok
August:
1. Rosie’s Traveling Tea Shop ✔️
2. Witches in the Kitchen ✔️
3. Red Velvet Cupcake Murder ✔️
4. The Only One Left ✔️
5. *Torn Asunder ✔️
6. *The Midnight Feast ✔️
7. *The Last One at the Wedding ✔️
8. Blackberry Pie Murder ✔️
# of books read: 8/8
*3 ARC
Best: Rosie’s Traveling Tea Shop
Worst: N/A
September:
1. Double Fudge Brownie Murder ✔️
2. Bonfires, Backpacks, & Brawls ✔️
3. Murder’s a Witch ✔️
4. A Witch of a Day ✔️
5. Wicked Witch Murder ✔️
6. Pumpkin Spice Café ✔️
7. Can’t Spell Treason without Tea ✔️
8. Fireworks, Freedom & Felonies ✔️
# of books read: 8/8
*0 ARC
Best: Pumpkin Spice Café
Worst: Double Fudge Brownie Murder
October:
1. Halloween Cupcake Murder ✔️
2. Bait and Witch ✔️
3. Halloween Party Murder ✔️
4. *Murder Road ✔️
5. Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant ✔️
6. Seven Year Witch ✔️
7. Hex Appeal ✔️
8. *De-Witched ✔️
9. Thanksgiving Dinner Death ✔️
10. Haunted House Murder ✔️
11. Southern Magic ✔️
12. Chocolate Bunny Betrayal ✔️
# of books read: 12/12
*2 ARC
Best: Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant
Worst: Thanksgiving Dinner Death
November:
1. Fourth of July Forgery ✔️
2. Thanksgiving Treachery ✔️
3. Cinnamon Bun Book Store ✔️
4. Aria’s Traveling Book Shop ✔️
5. Who Slayed the Santas? ✔️
6. Wedding Cake Murder ✔️
7. The Night Raven 🐦⬛ ✔️
8. Holiday Hideaway ✔️
9. Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop ✔️
10. Witch and Famous ✔️
11. *The Wedding Witch ✔️
12. Crochet and Cauldrons ✔️
# of books read: 12/12
*1 ARC
Best: The Wedding Witch
Worst: Aria’s Traveling Book Shop
December:
1. Santa Claus Surprise ✔️
2. Witch Upon a Star ✔️
3. *The Christmas Tree Farm ✔️
4. Flora’s Traveling Christmas Shop ✔️
5. Christmas Caramel Murder ✔️
6. Murder at the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off ✔️
7. Christmas Card Murder ✔️
8. ‘‘Twas the Knife Before Christmas ✔️
9. 25 Days
10. Twelve Slays of Christmas ✔️
# of books read: 9/10
*1 ARC
Best: Twelve Slays of Christmas
Worst: N/A
Shelved as 'ꕤㆍyearly'
January 1, 2025 ✧ ˚. ᯇ 2024 in books ୨୧
. . . goals ᝰ.ᐟ
･ read fifty books or more
･ read at least two arabic books
･ do buddy reads
･ improve my reviews
･ finish rina kent's universe
. . . key ᝰ.ᐟ
･ 💿 — didn't finish it
･ 🧂 — re read
･ 🖇️ — buddy read
･ 🩹 — hated it
･ 🫙 — loved it
･ 🐩 — novella - short book
･ 📂 — arc
. . . priority tbr ᝰ.ᐟ
⚝ .. anticipated releases ੭ 🥢◞
⊹ leather & lark﹙June 4﹚
⊹love unwritten ≀ 🖇️ with maram﹙June 18﹚
⊹ reckless﹙July 4﹚
⊹ daydream﹙Aug 27﹚
⊹ a song to drown rivers﹙October 8﹚
⊹ the songbird & the heart of stone﹙Nov 19﹚
⚝ .. stand-alone books ੭ 🥢◞
⊹the seven years slip
⊹ a man called ove
⊹as long as the lemon trees grow
⊹ this time it's real
⊹ say you swear
⊹ babel
⊹ if u could see the sun
⊹out on a limb
⊹the unmaking of june farrow
⊹ one for my enemy
⊹if we were villains
⊹ ghosted
⊹a love letter to whiskey
⚝ .. series to read / start ੭ 🥢◞
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ caraval
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ once upon a broken heart
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ the poppy war
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ the shepherd king
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ the naturals
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ six of crows
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ alex stern
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ dark verse
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ sands of arawiya
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ a good girl's guide to murder
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ villains
𖧧 🎲 𖥻 ִ ۫ ּ authors to try their books ✩̸̷ ʾʿ ˒˓
⋅ Mariana Zapata
⋅ Freida McFadden
⋅ Taylor Jenkins Reid
⋅ Emily Henry
. . . monthly updates ᝰ.ᐟ
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ january ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ basketball night ≀ ☆☆☆ ≀ 🐩
⊹ the naturals ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ love redesigned ≀ ☆☆☆½ ≀ 🖇️ with maram
⊹ skin of a sinner ≀ ☆☆☆
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ february ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ the risk ≀ ☆☆☆¾ ≀ 🖇️ with aksh
⊹ sidetracked ≀ ☆☆☆☆½ ≀ 🫙🖇️ with aksh
⊹ 8 days of salvation ≀ ☆ ≀ 🩹🐩🖇️ with maram ﹠ sama
⊹ powerless ≀ ☆☆☆½
⊹ the exception of the rule ≀ ☆☆☆ ≀ 🐩
⊹ scarlet angel ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🖇️ with aksh
⊹ where's molly ≀ ☆☆☆¼ ≀ 🖇️ with maram
⊹ all the lies ≀ ☆☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙🖇️ with aksh
⊹ paint it all red ≀ ☆☆☆☆¾ ≀ 🫙🖇️ with aksh
⊹ rise of a queen ≀ ☆☆☆½
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ march ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ royal elite epilogue ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🐩
⊹ the darkest temptation ≀ ☆☆☆½
⊹ heartless ≀ ☆ ≀ 🩹🖇️ with maram
⊹ masks of faded dreams ≀ ☆ ≀ 🩹📂
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ april ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ i hope this doesn't find you ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ warm up ≀ ☆☆☆ ≀ 🐩
⊹ vicious ≀ ☆☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ all the lies ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ all the truths ≀ ☆☆
⊹ caraval ≀ ☆☆☆½
⊹ dark deception ≀ ☆☆ ≀ 🐩
⊹ vow of deception ≀ ☆☆☆½
⊹ tempted by deception ≀ ☆☆¼
⊹ killer instinct ≀ ☆☆
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ may ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ consumed by deception ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ when in rome ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ does it hurt ≀ ☆☆☆ ≀ 🖇️ with fadheela ﹠ lulu
⊹ waysider ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙📂
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ june ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ the fake out ≀ ☆½ ≀ 💿 at 53%
⊹ slaying the vampire conqueror ≀ ☆☆☆☆
⊹ a love letter to whiskey ≀ ☆☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ satan's affair ≀ ☆ ≀ 🩹💿 at chp 6 🖇️ with lulu ﹠youssra
⊹ blood of my monster ≀ ☆☆☆☆
⊹ lies of my monster ≀ ☆☆½ ≀ 🩹
⊹ heart of my monster ☆½ ≀ 🩹
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ july ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ powerful ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ the predator ≀ ☆☆☆
⊹ the reaper ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ legendary ≀ ☆☆ ≀ 🩹
⊹ marry my husband ☆☆☆ ❨manhwa❩
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ august ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ my reason to die ❨manhwa❩
⊹ the sea of tranquility ≀ ☆☆☆☆
⊹ stay with me ≀☆☆☆½
⊹ even when I'm gone ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ the emperor ≀ ☆☆☆
⊹ god of malice ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ out on a limb ≀ ☆☆
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ septembre ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ god of pain ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ one dark window ≀ ☆☆
⊹ vengeful ≀ ☆☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ love unwritten ≀ ☆☆ ≀ 🖇️ with maram
⊹ the unmaking of june farrow ≀ ☆☆☆☆½ ≀ 🫙
⊹ the seven year slip ≀ ☆☆☆½
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ october ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ the poppy war ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙🖇️ with aksh
⊹ wildfire ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ if we were villains ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ god of wrath ≀ ☆☆☆
⊹ the six deaths of the saint ≀ ☆☆☆½ ≀ 🐩
⊹ your eternal lies ❨manhwa❩ ≀ ☆☆☆☆
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ novembre ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ the perks of being a wallflower ≀ ☆☆☆☆½ ≀ 🫙
⊹ lights out ≀ ☆ ≀ 🩹
⊹ beautiful world, where are you ≀ ☆☆
⊹ letters to a young poet ≀ ☆☆☆½
⊹ the country will bring us no peace ≀ ☆☆☆½
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ december ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ alone with you in the ether ≀ ☆☆
⊹ as long as the lemon trees grow ≀ ☆☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ foolish hearts ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
ִ ⎯⎯ㅤִ year summary ִ ⎯⎯ ִ
⊹ no. of books read: 85
⊹ no. of pages read: 25,783
⊹ no. of 5 stars read: 5
⊹ no. of dnfs: 2
⊹ no. of buddy reads: 14
⊹ my average rating for 2024: 2.9 ★
⊹ top five books:
i. vicious
ii. as long as the lemon trees grow
iii. a love letter to whiskey
iv. the perks of being a wallflower
v. the unmaking of june farrow
⊹ top authors: victoria e. schwab and r. f. kuang
⊹ fav series: villains, victoria schwab
⊹ fav book in series: vicious
⊹ fav stand alone: as long as the lemon trees grow
⊹ most hated book: masks of faded dreams
⊹ most hated series: lies & truths duet
. . . goals ᝰ.ᐟ
･ read at least two arabic books
･ finish rina kent's universe
. . . key ᝰ.ᐟ
･ 💿 — didn't finish it
･ 🧂 — re read
･ 🖇️ — buddy read
･ 🩹 — hated it
･ 🫙 — loved it
･ 🐩 — novella - short book
･ 📂 — arc
. . . priority tbr ᝰ.ᐟ
⚝ .. anticipated releases ੭ 🥢◞
⊹ leather & lark﹙June 4﹚
⊹
⊹ reckless﹙July 4﹚
⊹ daydream﹙Aug 27﹚
⊹ a song to drown rivers﹙October 8﹚
⊹ the songbird & the heart of stone﹙Nov 19﹚
⚝ .. stand-alone books ੭ 🥢◞
⊹
⊹ a man called ove
⊹
⊹ this time it's real
⊹ say you swear
⊹ babel
⊹ if u could see the sun
⊹
⊹
⊹ one for my enemy
⊹
⊹ ghosted
⊹
⚝ .. series to read / start ੭ 🥢◞
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ caraval
⊹caraval# 1
⊹legendary# 2
⊹ finale # 3
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ once upon a broken heart
⊹ once upon a broken heart # 1
⊹ the ballad of never after # 2
⊹ a curse for true love # 3
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ the poppy war
⊹the poppy war# 1
⊹ the dragon republic # 2
⊹ the drowning faith # 2.5
⊹ the burning god # 3
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ the shepherd king
⊹one dark window# 1
⊹ two twisted crowns # 2
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ the naturals
⊹the naturals# 1
⊹killer instinct# 2
⊹ all in # 3
⊹ bad blood # 4
⊹ twelve # 4.5
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ six of crows
⊹ six of crows # 1
⊹ crooked kingdom # 2
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ alex stern
⊹ ninth house # 1
⊹ hell bent # 2
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ dark verse
⊹the predator# 1
⊹the reaper# 2
⊹the emperor# 3
⊹ the finisher # 4
⊹ the annihilator # 5
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ sands of arawiya
⊹ we hunt the flame # 1
⊹ we free the stars # 2
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ a good girl's guide to murder
⊹ kill joy # 0.5
⊹ a good girl's guide to murder # 1
⊹ good girl, bad blood # 2
⊹ as good as dead # 3
– ̨✶ ִֶָ ་ villains
⊹warm up# 0.5
⊹vicious# 1
⊹vengeful# 2
⊹ victorious # 3
𖧧 🎲 𖥻 ִ ۫ ּ authors to try their books ✩̸̷ ʾʿ ˒˓
⋅ Mariana Zapata
⋅ Freida McFadden
⋅ Taylor Jenkins Reid
⋅ Emily Henry
. . . monthly updates ᝰ.ᐟ
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ january ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ basketball night ≀ ☆☆☆ ≀ 🐩
⊹ the naturals ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ love redesigned ≀ ☆☆☆½ ≀ 🖇️ with maram
⊹ skin of a sinner ≀ ☆☆☆
𖥻 favorite - the naturals
𖥻 least favorite - basketball night
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ february ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ the risk ≀ ☆☆☆¾ ≀ 🖇️ with aksh
⊹ sidetracked ≀ ☆☆☆☆½ ≀ 🫙🖇️ with aksh
⊹ 8 days of salvation ≀ ☆ ≀ 🩹🐩🖇️ with maram ﹠ sama
⊹ powerless ≀ ☆☆☆½
⊹ the exception of the rule ≀ ☆☆☆ ≀ 🐩
⊹ scarlet angel ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🖇️ with aksh
⊹ where's molly ≀ ☆☆☆¼ ≀ 🖇️ with maram
⊹ all the lies ≀ ☆☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙🖇️ with aksh
⊹ paint it all red ≀ ☆☆☆☆¾ ≀ 🫙🖇️ with aksh
⊹ rise of a queen ≀ ☆☆☆½
𖥻 favorite - the mindfuck series
𖥻 least favorite - 8 days of salvation
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ march ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ royal elite epilogue ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🐩
⊹ the darkest temptation ≀ ☆☆☆½
⊹ heartless ≀ ☆ ≀ 🩹🖇️ with maram
⊹ masks of faded dreams ≀ ☆ ≀ 🩹📂
𖥻 favorite - the darkest temptation
𖥻 least favorite - masks of faded dreams
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ april ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ i hope this doesn't find you ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ warm up ≀ ☆☆☆ ≀ 🐩
⊹ vicious ≀ ☆☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ all the lies ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ all the truths ≀ ☆☆
⊹ caraval ≀ ☆☆☆½
⊹ dark deception ≀ ☆☆ ≀ 🐩
⊹ vow of deception ≀ ☆☆☆½
⊹ tempted by deception ≀ ☆☆¼
⊹ killer instinct ≀ ☆☆
𖥻 favorite - vicious
𖥻 least favorite - all the truths
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ may ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ consumed by deception ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ when in rome ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ does it hurt ≀ ☆☆☆ ≀ 🖇️ with fadheela ﹠ lulu
⊹ waysider ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙📂
𖥻 favorite - waysider
𖥻 least favorite - when in rome
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ june ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ the fake out ≀ ☆½ ≀ 💿 at 53%
⊹ slaying the vampire conqueror ≀ ☆☆☆☆
⊹ a love letter to whiskey ≀ ☆☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ satan's affair ≀ ☆ ≀ 🩹💿 at chp 6 🖇️ with lulu ﹠youssra
⊹ blood of my monster ≀ ☆☆☆☆
⊹ lies of my monster ≀ ☆☆½ ≀ 🩹
⊹ heart of my monster ☆½ ≀ 🩹
𖥻 favorite - a love letter to whiskey
𖥻 least favorite - satan's affair
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ july ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ powerful ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ the predator ≀ ☆☆☆
⊹ the reaper ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ legendary ≀ ☆☆ ≀ 🩹
⊹ marry my husband ☆☆☆ ❨manhwa❩
𖥻 favorite - the reaper
𖥻 least favorite - legendry
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ august ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ my reason to die ❨manhwa❩
⊹ the sea of tranquility ≀ ☆☆☆☆
⊹ stay with me ≀☆☆☆½
⊹ even when I'm gone ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ the emperor ≀ ☆☆☆
⊹ god of malice ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ out on a limb ≀ ☆☆
𖥻 favorite - the sea of tranquility
𖥻 least favorite - out on a limb
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ septembre ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ god of pain ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ one dark window ≀ ☆☆
⊹ vengeful ≀ ☆☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ love unwritten ≀ ☆☆ ≀ 🖇️ with maram
⊹ the unmaking of june farrow ≀ ☆☆☆☆½ ≀ 🫙
⊹ the seven year slip ≀ ☆☆☆½
𖥻 favorite - vengeful
𖥻 least favorite - one dark window / love unwritten
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ october ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ the poppy war ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙🖇️ with aksh
⊹ wildfire ≀ ☆☆½
⊹ if we were villains ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ god of wrath ≀ ☆☆☆
⊹ the six deaths of the saint ≀ ☆☆☆½ ≀ 🐩
⊹ your eternal lies ❨manhwa❩ ≀ ☆☆☆☆
𖥻 favorite - the poppy war
𖥻 least favorite - wildfire
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ novembre ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ the perks of being a wallflower ≀ ☆☆☆☆½ ≀ 🫙
⊹ lights out ≀ ☆ ≀ 🩹
⊹ beautiful world, where are you ≀ ☆☆
⊹ letters to a young poet ≀ ☆☆☆½
⊹ the country will bring us no peace ≀ ☆☆☆½
𖥻 favorite - the perks of being a wallflower
𖥻 least favorite - lights out
.𖥔 ⛸️ ˖ december ୭ 🔭 ᵎᵎ
⊹ alone with you in the ether ≀ ☆☆
⊹ as long as the lemon trees grow ≀ ☆☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
⊹ foolish hearts ≀ ☆☆☆☆ ≀ 🫙
𖥻 favorite - as long as the lemon trees grow
𖥻 least favorite - alone with you in the ether
ִ ⎯⎯ㅤִ year summary ִ ⎯⎯ ִ
⊹ no. of books read: 85
⊹ no. of pages read: 25,783
⊹ no. of 5 stars read: 5
⊹ no. of dnfs: 2
⊹ no. of buddy reads: 14
⊹ my average rating for 2024: 2.9 ★
⊹ top five books:
i. vicious
ii. as long as the lemon trees grow
iii. a love letter to whiskey
iv. the perks of being a wallflower
v. the unmaking of june farrow
⊹ top authors: victoria e. schwab and r. f. kuang
⊹ fav series: villains, victoria schwab
⊹ fav book in series: vicious
⊹ fav stand alone: as long as the lemon trees grow
⊹ most hated book: masks of faded dreams
⊹ most hated series: lies & truths duet
Shelved as 'ꗃ-yearly-review'
January 1, 2025୨୧ archive 12/31/2024
ㅤㅤ . . . this was an amazing reading year and i'm so excited to see what's to come in 2025!!
ㅤ 𓈒 ୭ৎ my 2024 year in literature 🪡 ۪ ݁ 𓈒
i. goals
⊹ read 50 books [50/50]
⊹ reread 2 books [7/2]
⊹ read a classic [1/1]
⊹ write longer reviews
ii. arcs
�� twelfth knight
☒ i hope this doesn't find you
☒ a song to drown rivers
☒ the night ends with fire
⊹ fathomfolk
⊹ of jade and dragons
⊹ collide
☒ call it what you want
☒ the emperor and the endless palace
⊹ the lamplighter
iii. key
[💌] heart shaped locket
[🗞️] physical copy
[💿] ebook
[☁️] audiobook
[🪸] library (physical)
[🩰] to buy
[🖇] buddy read/planned
[🥥] arc
iv. priority tbr
⊹babel 🖇
⊹ the poppy war 🖇
⊹ these violent delights 🖇
⊹ foul lady fortune 🩰
⊹spin the dawn 🖇
⊹foolish hearts 🖇
⊹ yellowface 🩰
⊹asap 🖇🩰
⊹once upon a broken heart
⊹the ballad of never after
⊹ as long as the lemon trees grow
⊹ six of crows 🖇
⊹percy jackson: the lightning thief
⊹ pjo: the sea of monsters
⊹if we were villians
⊹ the secret history
⊹the invisible life of addie larue
⊹ a little life
⊹circe 🖇
⊹the silent patient
⊹ love and other words 🖇🩰
⊹the wicked king
⊹the queen of nothing
⊹ duet me not 🩰
⊹the girl who fell beneath the sea 🖇
⊹ picking daisies on sundays 🩰
⊹ the dragon's promise 🖇
⊹then she was gone 🖇
⊹ adelaide 🖇
v. monthly
⊹ ࣪ ˖ january (8)
→ divine rivals 5★ [💌🗞️]
→ a romajuliette christmas special 4★ [💿]
→ xoxo 3.5★ [💿]
→ the lost sisters 2★ [💿]
→ i hope this doesn't find you 6★ [💌🥥💿]
→ this time it's real 5★ [💌🗞️🖇 with syd]
→ twelfth knight 3.5★ [🥥💿]
→ ruthless vows [🗞️]
→ before the coffee gets cold [on hold ☁️]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ february (6)
→ a song to drown rivers 5★ [💌🥥💿]
→ ripper [🗞️]
→ six crimson cranes 3.9★ [🗞️🖇 with fadhee]
→ happy place 4★ [💿]
→ if he had been with me 5★ [💌🗞️ reread]
→ where the crawdads sing 2.5★ [🗞️🖇 with michelle and khloe]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ march (5)
→ if only i had told her 4.5★ [🗞️]
→ the housemaid 3.75★ [🗞️🖇 with rach]
→ legendary 2★ [🗞️]
→ the night ends with fire 4★ [🥥💿]
→ the emperor and the endless palace 1★ [dnf🥥💿]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ april (6)
→ babel 6★ [💌🗞️🖇 with mims]
→ the boy in the striped pajamas [for school 🗞️]
→ asap 3.75★ [💿🖇 with iso]
→ call it what you want 1★ [🥥💿]
→ the wicked king 4★ [🗞️]
→ once upon a broken heart 4.5★ [🗞️]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ may (6)
→ normal people 2★ [💿🖇 with rach]
→ spin the dawn 4★ [💌🗞️🖇 with ches]
→ the queen of nothing 4.5★ [💌🗞️]
→ then she was gone 3.5★ [🗞️🖇 with kinley]
→ foolish hearts 4★ [💌🗞️🖇 with libby]
→ the summer i turned pretty 2★ [🗞️ reread]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ june (7)
→ the naturals 3.5★ [🗞️]
→ it's not summer without you 1★ [🗞️ reread]
→ how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories 4★ [🗞️]
→ we'll always have summer 2.5★ [🗞️ reread]
→ kill joy 3★ [🗞️]
→ the lightning thief 4★ [🗞️]
→ turtles all the way down 2★ [🗞️]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ july (4)
→ circe 2★ [🪸/☁️🖇 with rach]
→ if you could see the sun 5★ [💌🗞️ reread]
→ the girl who fell beneath the sea 3★ [🗞️🖇 with rebu]
→ beach read 5★ [💌💿]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ august (2)
→ better than the movies 5★ [💌🗞️ reread]
→ the invisible life of addie larue 4★ [💌🪸]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ september (1)
→ nothing like the movies 2★ [💿]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ october (3)
→ twilight 1.5★ [🗞️]
→ the silent patient 3.5★ [🗞️]
→ the bell jar 3★ [🗞️]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ november (1)
→ if we were villains 4★ [💌🗞️]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ december (2)
→ to all the boys i've loved before 4★ [💌🗞️ reread]
→ the ballad of never after 4.5★ [💌🗞️]
vii. end of year awards !
⊹ keeping in my heart shaped locket forever: i hope this doesn't find you, babel
⊹ worst read: call it what you want
⊹ favorite author: ann liang
⊹ best series: the cruel prince, divine rivals
⊹ best standalone: i hope this doesn't find you, babel, beach read
viii. stats
⊹ series count: 6(??)
⊹ buddy reads: 12
⊹ grand total: 50 books! [plus: one dnf, one on hold]
ꕤ last revamp mar. 25
ㅤㅤ . . . this was an amazing reading year and i'm so excited to see what's to come in 2025!!
ㅤ 𓈒 ୭ৎ my 2024 year in literature 🪡 ۪ ݁ 𓈒
i. goals
⊹ read 50 books [50/50]
⊹ reread 2 books [7/2]
⊹ read a classic [1/1]
⊹ write longer reviews
ii. arcs
�� twelfth knight
☒ i hope this doesn't find you
☒ a song to drown rivers
☒ the night ends with fire
⊹ fathomfolk
⊹ of jade and dragons
⊹ collide
☒ call it what you want
☒ the emperor and the endless palace
⊹ the lamplighter
iii. key
[💌] heart shaped locket
[🗞️] physical copy
[💿] ebook
[☁️] audiobook
[🪸] library (physical)
[🩰] to buy
[🖇] buddy read/planned
[🥥] arc
iv. priority tbr
⊹
⊹ the poppy war 🖇
⊹ these violent delights 🖇
⊹ foul lady fortune 🩰
⊹
⊹
⊹ yellowface 🩰
⊹
⊹
⊹
⊹ as long as the lemon trees grow
⊹ six of crows 🖇
⊹
⊹ pjo: the sea of monsters
⊹
⊹ the secret history
⊹
⊹ a little life
⊹
⊹
⊹ love and other words 🖇🩰
⊹
⊹
⊹ duet me not 🩰
⊹
⊹ picking daisies on sundays 🩰
⊹ the dragon's promise 🖇
⊹
⊹ adelaide 🖇
v. monthly
⊹ ࣪ ˖ january (8)
→ divine rivals 5★ [💌🗞️]
→ a romajuliette christmas special 4★ [💿]
→ xoxo 3.5★ [💿]
→ the lost sisters 2★ [💿]
→ i hope this doesn't find you 6★ [💌🥥💿]
→ this time it's real 5★ [💌🗞️🖇 with syd]
→ twelfth knight 3.5★ [🥥💿]
→ ruthless vows [🗞️]
→ before the coffee gets cold [on hold ☁️]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ february (6)
→ a song to drown rivers 5★ [💌🥥💿]
→ ripper [🗞️]
→ six crimson cranes 3.9★ [🗞️🖇 with fadhee]
→ happy place 4★ [💿]
→ if he had been with me 5★ [💌🗞️ reread]
→ where the crawdads sing 2.5★ [🗞️🖇 with michelle and khloe]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ march (5)
→ if only i had told her 4.5★ [🗞️]
→ the housemaid 3.75★ [🗞️🖇 with rach]
→ legendary 2★ [🗞️]
→ the night ends with fire 4★ [🥥💿]
→ the emperor and the endless palace 1★ [dnf🥥💿]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ april (6)
→ babel 6★ [💌🗞️🖇 with mims]
→ the boy in the striped pajamas [for school 🗞️]
→ asap 3.75★ [💿🖇 with iso]
→ call it what you want 1★ [🥥💿]
→ the wicked king 4★ [🗞️]
→ once upon a broken heart 4.5★ [🗞️]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ may (6)
→ normal people 2★ [💿🖇 with rach]
→ spin the dawn 4★ [💌🗞️🖇 with ches]
→ the queen of nothing 4.5★ [💌🗞️]
→ then she was gone 3.5★ [🗞️🖇 with kinley]
→ foolish hearts 4★ [💌🗞️🖇 with libby]
→ the summer i turned pretty 2★ [🗞️ reread]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ june (7)
→ the naturals 3.5★ [🗞️]
→ it's not summer without you 1★ [🗞️ reread]
→ how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories 4★ [🗞️]
→ we'll always have summer 2.5★ [🗞️ reread]
→ kill joy 3★ [🗞️]
→ the lightning thief 4★ [🗞️]
→ turtles all the way down 2★ [🗞️]
vi. mid year book tag !
→top five were chosen for each category! i have more favs but these are just my top <3
⊹ fav book(s) so far: ihtdfy · babel · divine rivals · ttir · astdr
⊹ new fav book couples: romaniris · sadiejulius · elizacaz · xishifanli · meilinsky
⊹ biggest disappointment: ciwyw · legendary · ruthless vows · normal people
⊹ most anticipated book(s) for rest of year: a little life · tbona · alatltg · twp · tvd
⊹ newly discovered fav authors: r.f. kuang · emily henry · elizabeth lim · axie oh · emma mills
⊹ number of books read so far: 37
⊹ ࣪ ˖ july (4)
→ circe 2★ [🪸/☁️🖇 with rach]
→ if you could see the sun 5★ [💌🗞️ reread]
→ the girl who fell beneath the sea 3★ [🗞️🖇 with rebu]
→ beach read 5★ [💌💿]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ august (2)
→ better than the movies 5★ [💌🗞️ reread]
→ the invisible life of addie larue 4★ [💌🪸]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ september (1)
→ nothing like the movies 2★ [💿]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ october (3)
→ twilight 1.5★ [🗞️]
→ the silent patient 3.5★ [🗞️]
→ the bell jar 3★ [🗞️]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ november (1)
→ if we were villains 4★ [💌🗞️]
⊹ ࣪ ˖ december (2)
→ to all the boys i've loved before 4★ [💌🗞️ reread]
→ the ballad of never after 4.5★ [💌🗞️]
vii. end of year awards !
⊹ keeping in my heart shaped locket forever: i hope this doesn't find you, babel
⊹ worst read: call it what you want
⊹ favorite author: ann liang
⊹ best series: the cruel prince, divine rivals
⊹ best standalone: i hope this doesn't find you, babel, beach read
viii. stats
⊹ series count: 6(??)
⊹ buddy reads: 12
⊹ grand total: 50 books! [plus: one dnf, one on hold]
ꕤ last revamp mar. 25
Want to read
December 31, 2024❥ My 2024 reading goal
➪Read 50 books (120/50)✓
➪Do buddy reads (7/3) ✓
➪Reread 3 books (7/3)✓
➪Read 3 poems (16/3)✓
➪Try to read more paperbacks (3/10)
➪Write reviews ✓
➪Be harsher while rating✓
➪Read whatever the fuck I want ✓
➪Discover at least 10 new authors (44/10) ✓
➪Interact more and make new friends ✓
❥Series to continue/finish
➳Shatter me (3/6)
➳Kingsmakers (1/5)
➳Fall away (1/4)
➳Letters of enchantment (1/2)
➳Kings of sin (4/4)✓
➳The Empyrean (1/2)
❥Series/standalones I want to reread
➳Cat & Mouse duet(2/2)✓
➳The Devil's night series (6/6) ✓
➳The made series (0/3)
➳A vow of hate
❥series to start
➳Acotar (5/5) ✓
➳Windy city (4/4) ✓
➳Throne of glass (1/8)
➳Dark verse series (1/5)
➳Rebel blue ranch (3/3) ✓
➳Rina kent universe (35/35)
❥Standalones
➳Happy place (try it out again) ✓
➳Funny story ✓
➳Beach read ✓
➳As long as the lemon trees grow
➳From lukov with love
➳Archers voice
➳Ghosted ✓
➳Powerless
➳Where´s Molly ✓
➳If you could see the sun
❥Authors I want to meet
➳Mariana Zapata
➳Zoulfa Katouh
➳Lauren Roberts
➳Stephanie Garber
➳Mia Sheridan
➳Sarah J. Maas ✓
➳J.M. Darhower ✓
➳Lyla Sage ✓
➳Ann Liang
➳Elsie Silver
➳Rina Kent ✓
➳Neva Altaj ✓
➳Liz tomforde✓
🗑️ = DNF
🎧 = Audiobook
📱 = Kindle
📖 = Physical
💌 = Reread
🫂 = Buddy read
💫 = Loved
🫧 = Disappointed
🌸 = Monthly favorites
🍉 = Monthly least favorite
⋆ ˚｡⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡⋆
❥January
➳Bully 5 stars ✰📱💌💫🌸
➳A court of thorns and roses 4 stars ✰ 📱🌸
➳Getting over you 4 stars ✰ 📱
➳And every morning the way home gets longer and longer 2 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
Total books read: 4
Best read: Bully 5 stars ✰
Worst read: And every morning the way home gets longer and longer 2 stars ✰
❥February
➳A court of mist and fury 5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Don´t stop 3 stars ✰ 🫂📱
➳A court of wings and ruin 5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Where´s Molly 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Ignite me 4.5 stars ✰📱🌸
Total books read: 5
Best read: Acomaf & Acowar 5 stars ✰
Worst read: X
❥March
➳A court of frost and starlight 4.5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Het gouden ei 1 stars ✰📱🫧🍉
➳A court of silver flames 5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Ghosted 4 stars ✰📖🌸
➳Throne of glass 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
➳Done and Dusted 4.75 stars ✰📱 🌸
➳Swift and Saddled 4.5 stars ✰📱🌸
Total books read: 7
Best read: Acosf 4.5 stars ✰
Worst read: Het gouden ei 1 stars ✰
❥April
➳Corrupt 3.5 stars ✰📱💌
➳Hideaway 4 stars ✰📱💌🌸
➳Kill switch 5 stars ✰ 📱💌💫🌸
➳Conclave 3.5 stars ✰📱💌
➳Nightfall 5 stars ✰📱💌💫🌸
➳Fire night 5 stars ✰📱💌💫🌸
➳Funny story 3.75 stars ✰📱
Total books read: 7
Best read: Kill switch 5 stars ✰
Worst read: X
❥May
➳Daughter of the pirate king 3 stars ✰ 🎧
➳A touch of darkness 4 stars ✰ 📖🌸💫
➳Ugly love 2.75 stars ✰ 📖🫧
➳Cruel king 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Deviant king 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
➳Milk and Honey 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Steel princess 2.75 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Twisted kingdom 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Unrequited feelings 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Happy place 1 stars ✰ 📱🗑️🫧🍉
Total books read: 9
Best read: A touch of darkness 4 stars ✰
Worst read: Happy place 1 stars ✰
❥June
➳Learning to love myself 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Black knight 2.25 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Vicious prince 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Ruthless Empire 4.25 stars ✰📱💫🌸
➳Rule of a kingdom 3 stars ✰📱
➳Reign of a king 3 stars ✰📱🍉
➳Dear self 2.75 stars ✰📱🍉
➳Rise of a queen 2.75 stars ✰📱🍉
➳Beach read 4 stars ✰📱💫🌸
➳All the lies 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳All the truths 3.75 stars ✰ 📱
➳The sun and her flowers 1.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Satans affair 2 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Healing my heart 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Royal elite epilogue 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
➳Yellow thorns 2 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Red thorns 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Black thorns 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Break your glas slippers 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Shine your icy crown 3.75 stars ✰ 📱🌸
➳Unlock your storybook heart2 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
Total books read: 21
Best read: Ruthless empire 4.25 stars ✰
Worst read: The sun and her flowers 1.5 stars ✰
❥July
➳Painted scars 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Hooked 1 stars ✰ 📱🗑️🫧🍉
➳Empire of desire 1.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Throne of power 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Throne of vengeance 3.25stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Empire of sin 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Empire of hate3.25 ✰ 📱
➳Empire of lust 3.75 stars ✰ 📱
➳forked 1 stars ✰📱
➳Dark deception 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Vow of deception 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Tempted by deception 4 stars ✰ 📱
➳Consumed by deception 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫
Total books read: 13
Best read: Empire of sin 4 stars ✰
Worst read: Empire of desire 1.5 stars ✰
❥August
➳Blood of my monster 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Lies of my monster 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Heart of my monster 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳I am more than my nightmares 2.75 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳the princess saves herself in this one 2.25 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳You left me on read 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳The predator 4 stars ✰ 📱💫
➳God of malice 3.75 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳God of pain 2.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳King of sloth 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳2 am thoughts 1 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳You´ll come back to yourself 2.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳The widow´s husband´s secret lie 2.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳Playing the part 3.75 stars ✰ 📱
Total books read: 14
Best read: king of sloth 4.25 stars ✰
Worst read: 2 an thoughts 1 stars ✰
❥September
➳Cupids peak 3.75 stars ✰ 📱💫
➳The exception of the rule 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
➳Worst wingman ever 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Rosie and the dreamboat 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Drop, cover and hold on 2 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳With any luck 1.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳God of wrath 4 stars ✰ 📱 💫🌸
➳God of ruin 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳God of fury 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Santa baby 2.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳Iced out 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳God of war 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
Total books read: 12
Best read: God of ruin and God of fury 4.25 stars ✰
Worst read: With any luck 1.5 stars ✰
❥October
➳A little life 1 stars ✰ 📱🗑️🫧🍉
➳There are no saints 1 stars ✰ 📱🗑️🫧🍉
➳Haunting adeline 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💌💫🌸
➳hunting adeline 5 stars ✰ 📱💌💫🌸
➳Business casual 4.5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳A risk worth taking 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Textual relations 4 stars ✰ 📱
Total books read: 7
Best read: Hunting adeline 5 stars ✰
Worst read: a little life & There are no saints 1 stars ✰
❥November
➳Rookie mistake 2.25 stars ✰📱
➳Maus 1 1.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳ Zodiac academy: The awakening 4 stars ✰ 📱💫 🌸
➳Lost & lassoed 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Mile high 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳The right move 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Break up blueprint 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
Total books read: 7
Best read: Lost & lassoed 4 stars ✰
Worst read: Maus 1 1.5 stars ✰
❥December
➳Caught up 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Play along5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Hostile for the holidays3.75 stars ✰ 📱🫂💫
➳The deal 2 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳My december darling 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
➳Zodiac academy: Ruthless fae 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Priest 1 stars ✰ 📱🗑️🫧🍉
➳Kiss a villain 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳merry kissmass 3.25 stars ✰ 🎧
➳Zodiac academy: the reckoning 4.5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Cruel winter with you 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Lights out 4 stars ✰ 🎧💫🌸
Total books read: 12
Best read: Play along 5 stars ✰
Worst read: Priest 1 stars ✰
5 Star reads:
➳ A court of mist and fury
➳ A court of wings and ruin
➳ A court of silver flames
➳ Kill switch
➳ Fire night
➳ Hunting adeline
➳ Play along
DNF´s of the year
➳ The night circus
➳ Happy place
➳ Unlock your storybook heart
➳ Hooked
➳ A little life
➳ There are no saints
➳ Priest
❥Buddy reads:
➳ Don´t stop with Siff and Shanayaa <3
➳ The night circus with my girls <3
➳ Satans affair with Lulu and Kenzy <3
➳ Hooked with Lulu <3
➳ Throne of power with Lulu <3
➳ Throne of vengeance with Lulu <3
➳ Hostile for the holidays Buket <3
❥2024 wrap up
Total books read: 120
Total pages read: 36,799
All time favorites: Play along
Worst reads: All my Dnf´s
Average book lenght: 306 pages
Average rating: 3.2
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➪Try to read more paperbacks (3/10)
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❥Series to continue/finish
➳Shatter me (3/6)
➳Kingsmakers (1/5)
➳Fall away (1/4)
➳Letters of enchantment (1/2)
➳
➳The Empyrean (1/2)
❥Series/standalones I want to reread
➳
➳
➳The made series (0/3)
➳A vow of hate
❥series to start
➳
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➳Throne of glass (1/8)
➳Dark verse series (1/5)
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❥Standalones
➳
➳
➳
➳As long as the lemon trees grow
➳From lukov with love
➳Archers voice
➳
➳Powerless
➳
➳If you could see the sun
❥Authors I want to meet
➳Mariana Zapata
➳Zoulfa Katouh
➳Lauren Roberts
➳Stephanie Garber
➳Mia Sheridan
➳
➳
➳
➳Ann Liang
➳Elsie Silver
➳
➳
➳
🗑️ = DNF
🎧 = Audiobook
📱 = Kindle
📖 = Physical
💌 = Reread
🫂 = Buddy read
💫 = Loved
🫧 = Disappointed
🌸 = Monthly favorites
🍉 = Monthly least favorite
⋆ ˚｡⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡⋆
❥January
➳Bully 5 stars ✰📱💌💫🌸
➳A court of thorns and roses 4 stars ✰ 📱🌸
➳Getting over you 4 stars ✰ 📱
➳And every morning the way home gets longer and longer 2 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
Total books read: 4
Best read: Bully 5 stars ✰
Worst read: And every morning the way home gets longer and longer 2 stars ✰
❥February
➳A court of mist and fury 5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Don´t stop 3 stars ✰ 🫂📱
➳A court of wings and ruin 5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Where´s Molly 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Ignite me 4.5 stars ✰📱🌸
Total books read: 5
Best read: Acomaf & Acowar 5 stars ✰
Worst read: X
❥March
➳A court of frost and starlight 4.5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Het gouden ei 1 stars ✰📱🫧🍉
➳A court of silver flames 5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Ghosted 4 stars ✰📖🌸
➳Throne of glass 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
➳Done and Dusted 4.75 stars ✰📱 🌸
➳Swift and Saddled 4.5 stars ✰📱🌸
Total books read: 7
Best read: Acosf 4.5 stars ✰
Worst read: Het gouden ei 1 stars ✰
❥April
➳Corrupt 3.5 stars ✰📱💌
➳Hideaway 4 stars ✰📱💌🌸
➳Kill switch 5 stars ✰ 📱💌💫🌸
➳Conclave 3.5 stars ✰📱💌
➳Nightfall 5 stars ✰📱💌💫🌸
➳Fire night 5 stars ✰📱💌💫🌸
➳Funny story 3.75 stars ✰📱
Total books read: 7
Best read: Kill switch 5 stars ✰
Worst read: X
❥May
➳Daughter of the pirate king 3 stars ✰ 🎧
➳A touch of darkness 4 stars ✰ 📖🌸💫
➳Ugly love 2.75 stars ✰ 📖🫧
➳Cruel king 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Deviant king 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
➳Milk and Honey 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Steel princess 2.75 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Twisted kingdom 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Unrequited feelings 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Happy place 1 stars ✰ 📱🗑️🫧🍉
Total books read: 9
Best read: A touch of darkness 4 stars ✰
Worst read: Happy place 1 stars ✰
❥June
➳Learning to love myself 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Black knight 2.25 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Vicious prince 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Ruthless Empire 4.25 stars ✰📱💫🌸
➳Rule of a kingdom 3 stars ✰📱
➳Reign of a king 3 stars ✰📱🍉
➳Dear self 2.75 stars ✰📱🍉
➳Rise of a queen 2.75 stars ✰📱🍉
➳Beach read 4 stars ✰📱💫🌸
➳All the lies 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳All the truths 3.75 stars ✰ 📱
➳The sun and her flowers 1.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Satans affair 2 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Healing my heart 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Royal elite epilogue 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
➳Yellow thorns 2 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Red thorns 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Black thorns 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Break your glas slippers 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Shine your icy crown 3.75 stars ✰ 📱🌸
➳Unlock your storybook heart2 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
Total books read: 21
Best read: Ruthless empire 4.25 stars ✰
Worst read: The sun and her flowers 1.5 stars ✰
❥July
➳Painted scars 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Hooked 1 stars ✰ 📱🗑️🫧🍉
➳Empire of desire 1.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳Throne of power 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Throne of vengeance 3.25stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Empire of sin 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Empire of hate3.25 ✰ 📱
➳Empire of lust 3.75 stars ✰ 📱
➳forked 1 stars ✰📱
➳Dark deception 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Vow of deception 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Tempted by deception 4 stars ✰ 📱
➳Consumed by deception 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫
Total books read: 13
Best read: Empire of sin 4 stars ✰
Worst read: Empire of desire 1.5 stars ✰
❥August
➳Blood of my monster 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Lies of my monster 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Heart of my monster 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳I am more than my nightmares 2.75 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳the princess saves herself in this one 2.25 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳You left me on read 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳The predator 4 stars ✰ 📱💫
➳God of malice 3.75 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳God of pain 2.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳King of sloth 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳2 am thoughts 1 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳You´ll come back to yourself 2.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳The widow´s husband´s secret lie 2.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳Playing the part 3.75 stars ✰ 📱
Total books read: 14
Best read: king of sloth 4.25 stars ✰
Worst read: 2 an thoughts 1 stars ✰
❥September
➳Cupids peak 3.75 stars ✰ 📱💫
➳The exception of the rule 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
➳Worst wingman ever 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Rosie and the dreamboat 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳Drop, cover and hold on 2 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳With any luck 1.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳God of wrath 4 stars ✰ 📱 💫🌸
➳God of ruin 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳God of fury 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Santa baby 2.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳Iced out 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳God of war 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
Total books read: 12
Best read: God of ruin and God of fury 4.25 stars ✰
Worst read: With any luck 1.5 stars ✰
❥October
➳A little life 1 stars ✰ 📱🗑️🫧🍉
➳There are no saints 1 stars ✰ 📱🗑️🫧🍉
➳Haunting adeline 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💌💫🌸
➳hunting adeline 5 stars ✰ 📱💌💫🌸
➳Business casual 4.5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳A risk worth taking 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Textual relations 4 stars ✰ 📱
Total books read: 7
Best read: Hunting adeline 5 stars ✰
Worst read: a little life & There are no saints 1 stars ✰
❥November
➳Rookie mistake 2.25 stars ✰📱
➳Maus 1 1.5 stars ✰ 📱🫧🍉
➳ Zodiac academy: The awakening 4 stars ✰ 📱💫 🌸
➳Lost & lassoed 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Mile high 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳The right move 4 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Break up blueprint 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
Total books read: 7
Best read: Lost & lassoed 4 stars ✰
Worst read: Maus 1 1.5 stars ✰
❥December
➳Caught up 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Play along5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Hostile for the holidays3.75 stars ✰ 📱🫂💫
➳The deal 2 stars ✰ 📱🫧
➳My december darling 3.25 stars ✰ 📱
➳Zodiac academy: Ruthless fae 4.25 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Priest 1 stars ✰ 📱🗑️🫧🍉
➳Kiss a villain 3 stars ✰ 📱
➳merry kissmass 3.25 stars ✰ 🎧
➳Zodiac academy: the reckoning 4.5 stars ✰ 📱💫🌸
➳Cruel winter with you 3.5 stars ✰ 📱
➳Lights out 4 stars ✰ 🎧💫🌸
Total books read: 12
Best read: Play along 5 stars ✰
Worst read: Priest 1 stars ✰
5 Star reads:
➳ A court of mist and fury
➳ A court of wings and ruin
➳ A court of silver flames
➳ Kill switch
➳ Fire night
➳ Hunting adeline
➳ Play along
DNF´s of the year
➳ The night circus
➳ Happy place
➳ Unlock your storybook heart
➳ Hooked
➳ A little life
➳ There are no saints
➳ Priest
❥Buddy reads:
➳ Don´t stop with Siff and Shanayaa <3
➳ The night circus with my girls <3
➳ Satans affair with Lulu and Kenzy <3
➳ Hooked with Lulu <3
➳ Throne of power with Lulu <3
➳ Throne of vengeance with Lulu <3
➳ Hostile for the holidays Buket <3
❥2024 wrap up
Total books read: 120
Total pages read: 36,799
All time favorites: Play along
Worst reads: All my Dnf´s
Average book lenght: 306 pages
Average rating: 3.2
Shelved as 'interested-in'
January 5, 20252024 WRAP UP
જ⁀➴ goals
❀ reading goal: (160/150) - increased from 80 ✔️
❀ finish 10 series (14/10) ✔️
❀ read 40 books off my physical tbr (71/40) ✔️
❀ read a debut author ✔️
❀ read a book by an Australian author ✔️
❀ learn to dnf books!!! (1) ✔️
❀ read at least 5 thriller books (14/5) ✔️
❀ read a classic (0/1) ❌
જ⁀➴ stats:
✎ total 5 star reads: 17
✎ total dnf's: 1
✎ total arc's read this year: 32
✎ most books read in a month: 26
✎ least books read in a month: 7
✎ average books read a month: 13
✎ average rating: 3.5 stars (according to gr)
✎ number of buddy reads: 14
✎ most read genre: romance
✎ number of pages: 60,473
જ⁀➴ TOP 24 READS OF 2024
1. the great alone
2. the women
3. a thousand splendid suns
4. funny story
5. firefly lane
6. the lion women of tehran
7. the things we leave unfinished
8. one true loves
9. the entire boys of tommen series
10. empire of storms / kingdom of ash
11. As long as the lemon trees grow
12. magnolia parks series
13. the serpent and the wings of night
14. The nightingale
15. after I do
16. the seven year slip
17. the emperor
18. how to end a love story
19. the stars are our witness
20. daisy jones and the six
21. all my love
22. the dixon rule
23. heartless / reckless
24. from air
જ⁀➴ honourable mentions:
♡ love and other words
♡ kiss the sky
♡ come break my heart again
♡ the rule book
♡ carrie soto is back
♡ the four winds
♡ learn your lesson
જ⁀➴ top 3 series
1. boys of tommen
2. throne of glass
3. magnolia parks + addicted/calloway
The above completely consumed me this year. I couldn't leave any of them out.
﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌
જ⁀➴ monthly journal:
👙 january: 👙
books read:
➸ the housemaid - 4 stars
➸ love and other words - 4 stars
➸ the things we leave unfinished - 5 stars
➸ the love hypothesis - 3 stars
➸ the rule book (arc) - 4.5 stars
➸ magnolia parks - 4 stars
➸ exodus (br) - 1 star
total: 7
favourite: the things we leave unfinished
least favourite: exodus
🏖️ february 🏖️
books read:
➸ daisy haites - 4 stars
➸ magnolia parks: the long way home - 5 stars
➸ an education in malice (arc) - 3 stars
➸ the predator (br) - 4 stars
➸ assassin's blade (br) - 4 stars
➸ daisy haites: the great undoing - 3.75 stars
➸ it's complicated (arc) - 2.5 stars
➸ you and me on vacation - 3.75 stars
➸ fathomfolk (arc) - 2.5 stars
total: 9
favourite: magnolia parks: the long way home
least favourite: it's complicated
🧡 march 🧡
books read:
➸ a touch of darkness - 3.5 stars
➸ the inmate (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ magnolia parks: into the dark (br) - 4 stars
➸ the reaper - 4.5 stars
➸ a feather so black (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ heartless - 4.5 stars
➸ the housemaid's secret - 3.75 stars
➸ the seven year slip - 4.5 stars
➸ their's for the night - 3 stars
➸ the great alone - 5 stars
➸ bunny (br) - 3 stars
total: 11
favourite: the great alone
least favourite: bunny
🍃 april 🍃
books read:
➸ how to end a love story (arc) - 5 stars
➸ the saviors (br) - 4 stars
➸ the foxglove king - 3.75 stars
➸ the hemlock queen (arc) - 4 stars
➸ one of us is dead - 4 stars
➸ the emperor - 5 stars
➸ wild love - 2.75 stars
➸ the stars are our witness (arc) - 4.5 stars
➸ learn your lesson - 4.5 stars
➸ funny story - 5 stars
➸ a letter to the luminous deep (arc) - 3 stars
➸ all my love (arc) - 4.5 stars
total: 12
favourite: how to end a love story / the emperor / funny story 😅
least favourite: a letter to the luminous deep
🍂 may 🍂
books read:
➸ when we lied (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ the nightingale - 4.5 stars
➸ the score - 3 stars
➸ the many lies of veronica hawkins (arc) - 2.5 stars
➸ revelry - 3 stars
➸ the graham effect - 4 stars
➸ the dixon rule (arc) - 4.5 stars
➸ pulse (arc) - 3 stars
➸ a game of fate - 2.5 stars
➸ the clique (arc) (br) - 2.5 stars
➸ a touch of ruin - 2.75 stars
➸ twisted hate - 2 stars
➸ then she was gone - 3 stars
total: 13
favourite: the nightingale
least favourite: twisted hate
🥶 june 🥶
books read:
➸ butcher and blackbird - 4 stars
➸ four winds - 4.25 stars
➸ fangirl down - 2.5 stars
➸ savour it (arc) - 2.75 stars
➸ come break my heart again (arc) - 4.25 stars
➸ the serpent and the wings of night (br) - 5 stars
➸ beartown - 3 stars
➸ the women - 5 stars
➸ finale (br) - 3.75 stars
➸ powerless - 3.5 stars
total: 10
favourite: the women / the serpent and the wings of night
least favourite: fan girl / savour it
❄️ july ❄️
books read:
➸ dishonestly yours (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ reckless - 4.5 stars
➸ binding 13 - 5 stars
➸ the unraveling (arc) - 4 stars
➸ cross the line (arc) - 3.75 stars
➸ the au pair affair (arc) - 2.5 stars
➸ frisco (arc) - 2 stars
➸ throne of glass - 3 stars
➸ keeping 13 - 5 stars
➸ one true loves - 5 stars
total: 10
favourite: binding 13 / one true loves
least favourite: frisco
🩵 august 🩵
books read:
➸ carrie soto is back - 4.25 stars
➸ beach read (reread) - 5 stars
➸ six scorched roses - 4 stars
➸ happy place (reread) - 5 stars
➸ wicked serve (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ saving 6 - 4 stars
➸ redeeming 6 - 4 stars
➸ this time is real - 2 stars
➸ homefront (br) - 4 stars
total: 9
favourite: rereads
least favourite: this time is real
🌸 september 🌸
books read:
➸ crown of midnight - 4 stars
➸ heir of fire - 4.5 stars
➸ queen of shadows - 4.5 stars
➸ the finisher - 3.5 stars
➸ every summer after - 2 stars
➸ the annihilator - 3 stars
➸ taming 7 - 3 stars
➸ empire of storms - 5 stars
➸ tower of dawn - 3 stars
➸ painted scars - 2 stars
➸ every moment since (arc) 3.75 stars
➸ a song to drown rivers (arc) - 3 stars
total: 12
favourite: empire of storms
least favourite: painted scars
🎃 october 🎃
books read:
➸ forever interrupted - 4 stars
➸ seven sleepless nights - 4 stars
➸ blue sisters (br) - 3 stars
➸ night road - 4 stars
➸ king of wrath - 3 stars
➸ how my neighbour stole christmas (arc) - 4 stars
➸ the witch collector - 3.5 stars
➸ part of your world - 4 stars
➸ hopeless - 2 stars
➸ spectacular - 3.75 stars
➸ local woman missing - 3 stars
➸ intermezzo - 4.25 stars
➸ noire moon (br) - 3 stars
➸ this girls a killer (arc) - 4 stars
➸ city of ruin - 3 stars
total: 15
favourite: intermezzo
least favourite: hopeless
☀️ november ☀️
books read:
➸ the pumpkin spice cafe - 2.5 stars
➸ firefly lane - 5 stars
➸ you, with a view - 4 stars
➸ addicted to you - 3.5 stars
➸ ricochet - 4 stars
➸ when the moon hatched - 3 stars
➸ the syndicator - 2.75 stars
➸ from air (arc) - 4.75 stars
➸ addicted for now - 4 stars
➸ cruel winter with you - 2 stars
➸ merry ever after - 1 star
➸ all by my elf - 2 stars
➸ merriment and mayhem - 3.5 stars
➸ only santas in the building - 2.5 stars
➸ the unhoneymooners - 4 stars
➸ not another love song (br) - 3 stars
➸ twisted lies - 4.5 stars
➸ my december darling - 4 stars
➸ the housemaid is watching - 2.5 stars
➸ after I do - 4.5 stars
➸ the housemaid's wedding - 1 star
➸ merry kissmas - 3.5 stars
➸ daisy jones and the six (br) - 4.5 stars
➸ once upon a broken heart - 4 stars
total: 24
favourite: firefly lane
least favourite: merry ever after
🎄 december 🎄
books read:
➸ the christmas blanket - 3 stars
➸ kingdom of ash - 5 stars
➸ the gift - 1 star
➸ evidence of the affair - 4 stars
➸ the lion women of tehran (arc) - 5 stars
➸ the mistletoe motive - 4 stars
➸ resting scrooge face - 3.5 stars
➸ small things like these - 3 stars
➸ blood of hercules (arc) - 4 stars
➸ a little magic - 3.5 stars
➸ powerless - 3 stars
➸ wreck the halls - (dnf 42%)
➸ cash - 4 stars
➸ from blood and ash - 4 stars
➸ the widow's husband's secret life - 3 stars
➸ out on a limb - 4 stars
➸ a thousand splendid suns - 5 stars
➸ tis the season for revenge - 4 stars
➸ wyatt (br, arc) - 3 stars
➸ kiss the sky - 4.5 stars
➸ and every morning the way home gets longer and longer - 4 stars
➸ hothouse flower - 3 stars
➸ the situationship - 3 stars
➸ the exception to the rule - 4 stars
➸ worst wingman ever - 3 stars
➸ as long as the lemon trees grow - 5 stars
➸ beg, borrow and steal (arc) - tbc
total: 26 (excl. dnf)
favourite: kingdom of ash / a thousand splendid suns
least favourite: wreck the halls
જ⁀➴ goals
❀ reading goal: (160/150) - increased from 80 ✔️
❀ finish 10 series (14/10) ✔️
❀ read 40 books off my physical tbr (71/40) ✔️
❀ read a debut author ✔️
❀ read a book by an Australian author ✔️
❀ learn to dnf books!!! (1) ✔️
❀ read at least 5 thriller books (14/5) ✔️
❀ read a classic (0/1) ❌
જ⁀➴ stats:
✎ total 5 star reads: 17
✎ total dnf's: 1
✎ total arc's read this year: 32
✎ most books read in a month: 26
✎ least books read in a month: 7
✎ average books read a month: 13
✎ average rating: 3.5 stars (according to gr)
✎ number of buddy reads: 14
✎ most read genre: romance
✎ number of pages: 60,473
જ⁀➴ TOP 24 READS OF 2024
1. the great alone
2. the women
3. a thousand splendid suns
4. funny story
5. firefly lane
6. the lion women of tehran
7. the things we leave unfinished
8. one true loves
9. the entire boys of tommen series
10. empire of storms / kingdom of ash
11. As long as the lemon trees grow
12. magnolia parks series
13. the serpent and the wings of night
14. The nightingale
15. after I do
16. the seven year slip
17. the emperor
18. how to end a love story
19. the stars are our witness
20. daisy jones and the six
21. all my love
22. the dixon rule
23. heartless / reckless
24. from air
જ⁀➴ honourable mentions:
♡ love and other words
♡ kiss the sky
♡ come break my heart again
♡ the rule book
♡ carrie soto is back
♡ the four winds
♡ learn your lesson
જ⁀➴ top 3 series
1. boys of tommen
2. throne of glass
3. magnolia parks + addicted/calloway
The above completely consumed me this year. I couldn't leave any of them out.
﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌
જ⁀➴ monthly journal:
👙 january: 👙
books read:
➸ the housemaid - 4 stars
➸ love and other words - 4 stars
➸ the things we leave unfinished - 5 stars
➸ the love hypothesis - 3 stars
➸ the rule book (arc) - 4.5 stars
➸ magnolia parks - 4 stars
➸ exodus (br) - 1 star
total: 7
favourite: the things we leave unfinished
least favourite: exodus
🏖️ february 🏖️
books read:
➸ daisy haites - 4 stars
➸ magnolia parks: the long way home - 5 stars
➸ an education in malice (arc) - 3 stars
➸ the predator (br) - 4 stars
➸ assassin's blade (br) - 4 stars
➸ daisy haites: the great undoing - 3.75 stars
➸ it's complicated (arc) - 2.5 stars
➸ you and me on vacation - 3.75 stars
➸ fathomfolk (arc) - 2.5 stars
total: 9
favourite: magnolia parks: the long way home
least favourite: it's complicated
🧡 march 🧡
books read:
➸ a touch of darkness - 3.5 stars
➸ the inmate (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ magnolia parks: into the dark (br) - 4 stars
➸ the reaper - 4.5 stars
➸ a feather so black (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ heartless - 4.5 stars
➸ the housemaid's secret - 3.75 stars
➸ the seven year slip - 4.5 stars
➸ their's for the night - 3 stars
➸ the great alone - 5 stars
➸ bunny (br) - 3 stars
total: 11
favourite: the great alone
least favourite: bunny
🍃 april 🍃
books read:
➸ how to end a love story (arc) - 5 stars
➸ the saviors (br) - 4 stars
➸ the foxglove king - 3.75 stars
➸ the hemlock queen (arc) - 4 stars
➸ one of us is dead - 4 stars
➸ the emperor - 5 stars
➸ wild love - 2.75 stars
➸ the stars are our witness (arc) - 4.5 stars
➸ learn your lesson - 4.5 stars
➸ funny story - 5 stars
➸ a letter to the luminous deep (arc) - 3 stars
➸ all my love (arc) - 4.5 stars
total: 12
favourite: how to end a love story / the emperor / funny story 😅
least favourite: a letter to the luminous deep
🍂 may 🍂
books read:
➸ when we lied (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ the nightingale - 4.5 stars
➸ the score - 3 stars
➸ the many lies of veronica hawkins (arc) - 2.5 stars
➸ revelry - 3 stars
➸ the graham effect - 4 stars
➸ the dixon rule (arc) - 4.5 stars
➸ pulse (arc) - 3 stars
➸ a game of fate - 2.5 stars
➸ the clique (arc) (br) - 2.5 stars
➸ a touch of ruin - 2.75 stars
➸ twisted hate - 2 stars
➸ then she was gone - 3 stars
total: 13
favourite: the nightingale
least favourite: twisted hate
🥶 june 🥶
books read:
➸ butcher and blackbird - 4 stars
➸ four winds - 4.25 stars
➸ fangirl down - 2.5 stars
➸ savour it (arc) - 2.75 stars
➸ come break my heart again (arc) - 4.25 stars
➸ the serpent and the wings of night (br) - 5 stars
➸ beartown - 3 stars
➸ the women - 5 stars
➸ finale (br) - 3.75 stars
➸ powerless - 3.5 stars
total: 10
favourite: the women / the serpent and the wings of night
least favourite: fan girl / savour it
❄️ july ❄️
books read:
➸ dishonestly yours (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ reckless - 4.5 stars
➸ binding 13 - 5 stars
➸ the unraveling (arc) - 4 stars
➸ cross the line (arc) - 3.75 stars
➸ the au pair affair (arc) - 2.5 stars
➸ frisco (arc) - 2 stars
➸ throne of glass - 3 stars
➸ keeping 13 - 5 stars
➸ one true loves - 5 stars
total: 10
favourite: binding 13 / one true loves
least favourite: frisco
🩵 august 🩵
books read:
➸ carrie soto is back - 4.25 stars
➸ beach read (reread) - 5 stars
➸ six scorched roses - 4 stars
➸ happy place (reread) - 5 stars
➸ wicked serve (arc) - 3.5 stars
➸ saving 6 - 4 stars
➸ redeeming 6 - 4 stars
➸ this time is real - 2 stars
➸ homefront (br) - 4 stars
total: 9
favourite: rereads
least favourite: this time is real
🌸 september 🌸
books read:
➸ crown of midnight - 4 stars
➸ heir of fire - 4.5 stars
➸ queen of shadows - 4.5 stars
➸ the finisher - 3.5 stars
➸ every summer after - 2 stars
➸ the annihilator - 3 stars
➸ taming 7 - 3 stars
➸ empire of storms - 5 stars
➸ tower of dawn - 3 stars
➸ painted scars - 2 stars
➸ every moment since (arc) 3.75 stars
➸ a song to drown rivers (arc) - 3 stars
total: 12
favourite: empire of storms
least favourite: painted scars
🎃 october 🎃
books read:
➸ forever interrupted - 4 stars
➸ seven sleepless nights - 4 stars
➸ blue sisters (br) - 3 stars
➸ night road - 4 stars
➸ king of wrath - 3 stars
➸ how my neighbour stole christmas (arc) - 4 stars
➸ the witch collector - 3.5 stars
➸ part of your world - 4 stars
➸ hopeless - 2 stars
➸ spectacular - 3.75 stars
➸ local woman missing - 3 stars
➸ intermezzo - 4.25 stars
➸ noire moon (br) - 3 stars
➸ this girls a killer (arc) - 4 stars
➸ city of ruin - 3 stars
total: 15
favourite: intermezzo
least favourite: hopeless
☀️ november ☀️
books read:
➸ the pumpkin spice cafe - 2.5 stars
➸ firefly lane - 5 stars
➸ you, with a view - 4 stars
➸ addicted to you - 3.5 stars
➸ ricochet - 4 stars
➸ when the moon hatched - 3 stars
➸ the syndicator - 2.75 stars
➸ from air (arc) - 4.75 stars
➸ addicted for now - 4 stars
➸ cruel winter with you - 2 stars
➸ merry ever after - 1 star
➸ all by my elf - 2 stars
➸ merriment and mayhem - 3.5 stars
➸ only santas in the building - 2.5 stars
➸ the unhoneymooners - 4 stars
➸ not another love song (br) - 3 stars
➸ twisted lies - 4.5 stars
➸ my december darling - 4 stars
➸ the housemaid is watching - 2.5 stars
➸ after I do - 4.5 stars
➸ the housemaid's wedding - 1 star
➸ merry kissmas - 3.5 stars
➸ daisy jones and the six (br) - 4.5 stars
➸ once upon a broken heart - 4 stars
total: 24
favourite: firefly lane
least favourite: merry ever after
🎄 december 🎄
books read:
➸ the christmas blanket - 3 stars
➸ kingdom of ash - 5 stars
➸ the gift - 1 star
➸ evidence of the affair - 4 stars
➸ the lion women of tehran (arc) - 5 stars
➸ the mistletoe motive - 4 stars
➸ resting scrooge face - 3.5 stars
➸ small things like these - 3 stars
➸ blood of hercules (arc) - 4 stars
➸ a little magic - 3.5 stars
➸ powerless - 3 stars
➸ wreck the halls - (dnf 42%)
➸ cash - 4 stars
➸ from blood and ash - 4 stars
➸ the widow's husband's secret life - 3 stars
➸ out on a limb - 4 stars
➸ a thousand splendid suns - 5 stars
➸ tis the season for revenge - 4 stars
➸ wyatt (br, arc) - 3 stars
➸ kiss the sky - 4.5 stars
➸ and every morning the way home gets longer and longer - 4 stars
➸ hothouse flower - 3 stars
➸ the situationship - 3 stars
➸ the exception to the rule - 4 stars
➸ worst wingman ever - 3 stars
➸ as long as the lemon trees grow - 5 stars
➸ beg, borrow and steal (arc) - tbc
total: 26 (excl. dnf)
favourite: kingdom of ash / a thousand splendid suns
least favourite: wreck the halls
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December 29, 2024˖⁺‧✮GOALS FOR 2024✮‧⁺˖
122/30 books
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Books coming out in 2024
• I hope this doesn’t find you(Feb. 6)
• The disappearance of Rachel Price(April 2)
• Just for the summer(April 2)
• Funny Story(April)
• The Dixon Rule(May 14)
• Daydream (June 4)
• Not in Love(June 11)
• Play Along(June 11)
• Love Unwritten (June 18)
• A thousand Broken Pieces(June 20)
• Reckless(July)
• Nothing like movie(Oct. 1)
• Spectacular(Oct. 22)
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Months
January
Total:14
- The Right Move 4/5 💿
- Caught Up 3.45/5 💿
- Brutal Prince 2/5 💿
- Stolen Heir N/A 💿
- XOXO 3.75/5 💿
- Mile High 3.45/5 💿
- Does it hurt? 1.75/5 💿
- Falling off the cliff 3/5 💿
- A river enchanted 3.5/5 📖🐚
- That kind of guy 2.7/5 💿
- Fake Empire 2.45/5 💿
- King of wrath 3/5 💿
- King of pride 2.75/5 💿
- A Song to Drown Rivers 4.5/5 💿💙💫
Favorite book: a song to drown rivers
Least favorite: stolen heir
Dnf: 0
February
Total: 6
- King of Greed 2.5/5 💿
- I hope this doesn’t find you 3/5 💿
- Picking Daisies on Sundays 4.5/5 💿🐚
- Lovelight farm 3/5 📖
- In the weeds 3.5/5 📖
- A Not So Prince Charming dnf 💿🪐🐚
- A Girl Abroad 3/5 💿🐚
Favorite book: Picking Daisies on Sunday
Least favorite: King of Greed
Dnf: 1
March
Total: 17
- Call It What You Want 3/5 💿 🐚💫
- Once Upon A Broken Heart 4.5/5 💿🌙❄️ (ren)
- All the lovers in the night 3/5 📖🐚
- Famous last words 2/5 💿
- Against all odds 2/5 💿
- It’s all relative DNF 💿🪐💫
- The Seven Year Slip 4.8/5 📖 🌙 🌊
- Throttled 2.5/5 💿
- First Base 3/5 💿💫 🐚
- Trust Me 2.8/5 💿
- The brightest light of sunshine 3.2/5 💿
- The Darkest Corner of my heart 3.5/5 💿
- Corrupt N/A 💿
- The Typo 2.5/5 💿 💫 🐚
- Keep and Catch 3.2/5 💿 💫
- Corkscrew you 2.5/5 💿💫
- Magnolia Parks 3.75/5 📖 🐚
- Daisy Haites 3/5 📖
Favorite book: Magnolia Parks
Least favorite: corrupt
Dnf: 1
April
Total: 9
- Left field love 2/5 💿
- Not another love song 4/5 💿 💫
- Fault Line 2.75/5 💿
- The Truth Never Spoken 4/5 💿 💫
- Prime time romance DNF 💿 💫 🪐
- The reappearance of rachel price 4/5 📖
- Paging Dr. Hart 3.5/5 💿 💫 🐚
- The Fiancé Dilemma 3.5/5 💿 💫
- Center Ice 3/5 💿
- Sin Bin 3.5/5 💿
Favorite book: The reappearance of rachel price
Least favorite: left field love
Dnf: 1
May
Total: 11
- King of Sloth 3/5 💿 🐚
- Pole Position 2.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- A Fire Endless 4.4/5 📖💙
- Community Service DNF 💿💫 🪐 🐚
- The Dixon Rule 3/5 💿
- The Love of My Afterlife 4/5 💿 💫 🐚
- Burnout 3/5 💿
- The Road Trip Scam DNF 💿 💫 🪐 🐚
- Perfect Fit 3/5 💿 💫 🐚
- Second first date 3/5 💿
- Wild Love 2.9/5 💿
- Papers don’t lie 2.4/5 💿 🐚
- Beach Read 3.7/5 📖
Favorite book: A fire endless
Least favorite: pole position
Dnf: 2
June
Total: 11
- If we ever meet again 3/5 💿 💫 🐚
- Hot Pursuit 2.5/5 💿 💫 🐚
- Binding 13 3/5 📖 🌙
- My Killer Vacation 2/5 💿 ❄️(addie) 🐚
- Keeping 13 3.5/5 📖 🌙 🌊
- Saving 6 3.5/5 📖 🌊 🐚
- Karaoke Chemistry DNF 💿💫 🪐 🐚
- Sidelined love DNF 💿 🪐 🐚
- Redeeming 6 4/5 📖 🌊 🐚
- Love Unwritten 3.6/5 💿
- Taming 7 3/5 📖 🐚
- Keep Me 2.7/5 💿💫 🐚
- Fangirl Down 1.5/5 💿 🪐 ❄️(sama) 🐚
Favorite book: Saving 6
Least favorite: My Killer Vacation
Dnf: 3
July
Total: 13
- Just for the Summer 3/5 💿
- Face Off 3/5 💿
- Not In Love 3.5/5 📖 🐚
- Play Along 3.7/5 💿
- Wonderstruck 2/5 💿💫 🐚 🪐
- Not In My Book 3.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- Playmaker: The hidden attraction novel 2/5 💿💫 🐚
- Love not qualified 2.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- The Road Less Traveled By 3.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- Cross The Line 2.6/5 💿
- Nothing Like The Movies 2.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- Flawless 2/5 💿
- Christmas Is All Around 3.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- Heartless 3.2/5 💿
Favorite book: Play Along
Least favorite: Playmaker:…
Dnf: 1
August
Total: 16
- Powerless 3.6/5 💿
- All I Want Is You 3.75/5 💿💫 🐚
- The Co-Op 2.3/4 💿💫 🐚
- What my Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fiften Writers Break the Silence DNF 💿🪐
- Playing The Field 3.4/5 💿💫 🐚
- Love & Lattes 3/5 💿💫 🐚
- I Am Not Jessica Chen 4.7/5 💿💫 🐚 💙 🌊
- Powerless 2/5 💿🐚 🌙
- A Five letter word for love 3.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- Reckless 3.5/5 💿
- Bride 2/5 🎧
- The Mindfuc* Series N/A 💿
- The Lodge 3/5 💿💫 🐚
Favorite book: I Am Not Jessica Chen
Least favorite: Powerless
Dnf: 1
September
Total: 5
- The Scenic Route 3/5 💿💫🐚
- Daydream 3.2/5 💿🐚
- Book of the Month 3/5 💿💫 🐚 🌊
- Humor Me DNF 🪐💿💫🐚
- Close Knit 3/5 💿💫🐚
- Seven Sleepless Nights 2.5/5 💿
Favorite book: Daydream
Least favorite: The Scenic Route
Dnf: 1
October
Total: 12
- The Deepest End of Love 2.5/5 💿🐚
- The Most Famous Girl In The World 2.8/5 💿💫🐚
- Drive Me Wild 2.7/5 💿💫🐚
- Is She Really Going Out With Him 3.5/5 💿💫🐚
- Pick-Up 3.2/5 💿💫🐚
- The First Time 2/5 💿💫🐚
- Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home 3.25/5 📖🐚
- Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing 3/5 📖🐚
- Statistically Speaking 2.8/5 💿💫🐚
- My Kind of Trouble 2.5/5 💿💫🐚
- Unloved 3/5 💿💫🐚
- The Striker DNF 💿 🐚 🪐
Favorite book: Is she really going out with him?
Least favorite: The First Time
Dnf: 1
November
Total: 5
- Spectacular 5/5 📖🐚
- Rook & Rebel 2/5 💿
- The Sweetest Oblivion 2.5/5 💿
- The Maddest Obsession 2/5 💿
- Spiral 3.5/5 📖💫🐚
Favorite book: Spectacular
Least favorite: The Sweetest Oblivion
Dnf: 0
December
Total: 3
- Hamlet 1/5 💿🐋
- The Score 3/5 💿🌙
- Book people 4/5 💿 💫🐚
- Only In Your Dreams 2/5 💫🐚 🪐
Favorite book: Book People
Least favorite: Hamlet
Dnf: 1
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Top 5 of 2024
1. I Am Not Jessica Chen Ann Laing
2. Picking Daisies on Sundays Liana Cincotti
3. Book People by Jackie Ashenden
4. A Song To Drown Rivers Ann Liang
5. Redeeming 6 Chloe Walsh
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reread 🌙
new favorite 💙
dnf 🪐
cried 🌊
school 🐋
buddy reading ❄️
arc 💫
reviewed 🐚
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ebook 💿
audio book 🎧
physical 📖
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Summary
Total books read: 122
Total ARCs: 70
Average Rating: 3.6 ˖⁺‧✮
Total number of dnf: 13
Notes:
hey!!! so exited for this reading year and here is the little summary and reflection.
i started this year with creating a bookstagram and i honestly had such a fun time posting there. if you want to follow me: juliiareads. i also met so many people and went to a couple of book signings. i read over 100 books (it’s a lot) even though i promised myself to take time with reading. (i actually never pushed myself to read more and i genuinely was interested in reading). moreover, i finally started to like my reviews and i can actually see the development in them throughout this year. i had a huge honor to read and review some of the arcs from my favorite authors and i can’t be more excited about this. i received my first arc back in february and since then i collected over 70😭
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"Fake it, till you make it"🏙️
122/30 books
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Books coming out in 2024
• I hope this doesn’t find you(Feb. 6)
• The disappearance of Rachel Price(April 2)
• Just for the summer(April 2)
• Funny Story(April)
• The Dixon Rule(May 14)
• Daydream (June 4)
• Not in Love(June 11)
• Play Along(June 11)
• Love Unwritten (June 18)
• A thousand Broken Pieces(June 20)
• Reckless(July)
• Nothing like movie(Oct. 1)
• Spectacular(Oct. 22)
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Months
January
Total:14
- The Right Move 4/5 💿
- Caught Up 3.45/5 💿
- Brutal Prince 2/5 💿
- Stolen Heir N/A 💿
- XOXO 3.75/5 💿
- Mile High 3.45/5 💿
- Does it hurt? 1.75/5 💿
- Falling off the cliff 3/5 💿
- A river enchanted 3.5/5 📖🐚
- That kind of guy 2.7/5 💿
- Fake Empire 2.45/5 💿
- King of wrath 3/5 💿
- King of pride 2.75/5 💿
- A Song to Drown Rivers 4.5/5 💿💙💫
Favorite book: a song to drown rivers
Least favorite: stolen heir
Dnf: 0
February
Total: 6
- King of Greed 2.5/5 💿
- I hope this doesn’t find you 3/5 💿
- Picking Daisies on Sundays 4.5/5 💿🐚
- Lovelight farm 3/5 📖
- In the weeds 3.5/5 📖
- A Not So Prince Charming dnf 💿🪐🐚
- A Girl Abroad 3/5 💿🐚
Favorite book: Picking Daisies on Sunday
Least favorite: King of Greed
Dnf: 1
March
Total: 17
- Call It What You Want 3/5 💿 🐚💫
- Once Upon A Broken Heart 4.5/5 💿🌙❄️ (ren)
- All the lovers in the night 3/5 📖🐚
- Famous last words 2/5 💿
- Against all odds 2/5 💿
- It’s all relative DNF 💿🪐💫
- The Seven Year Slip 4.8/5 📖 🌙 🌊
- Throttled 2.5/5 💿
- First Base 3/5 💿💫 🐚
- Trust Me 2.8/5 💿
- The brightest light of sunshine 3.2/5 💿
- The Darkest Corner of my heart 3.5/5 💿
- Corrupt N/A 💿
- The Typo 2.5/5 💿 💫 🐚
- Keep and Catch 3.2/5 💿 💫
- Corkscrew you 2.5/5 💿💫
- Magnolia Parks 3.75/5 📖 🐚
- Daisy Haites 3/5 📖
Favorite book: Magnolia Parks
Least favorite: corrupt
Dnf: 1
April
Total: 9
- Left field love 2/5 💿
- Not another love song 4/5 💿 💫
- Fault Line 2.75/5 💿
- The Truth Never Spoken 4/5 💿 💫
- Prime time romance DNF 💿 💫 🪐
- The reappearance of rachel price 4/5 📖
- Paging Dr. Hart 3.5/5 💿 💫 🐚
- The Fiancé Dilemma 3.5/5 💿 💫
- Center Ice 3/5 💿
- Sin Bin 3.5/5 💿
Favorite book: The reappearance of rachel price
Least favorite: left field love
Dnf: 1
May
Total: 11
- King of Sloth 3/5 💿 🐚
- Pole Position 2.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- A Fire Endless 4.4/5 📖💙
- Community Service DNF 💿💫 🪐 🐚
- The Dixon Rule 3/5 💿
- The Love of My Afterlife 4/5 💿 💫 🐚
- Burnout 3/5 💿
- The Road Trip Scam DNF 💿 💫 🪐 🐚
- Perfect Fit 3/5 💿 💫 🐚
- Second first date 3/5 💿
- Wild Love 2.9/5 💿
- Papers don’t lie 2.4/5 💿 🐚
- Beach Read 3.7/5 📖
Favorite book: A fire endless
Least favorite: pole position
Dnf: 2
June
Total: 11
- If we ever meet again 3/5 💿 💫 🐚
- Hot Pursuit 2.5/5 💿 💫 🐚
- Binding 13 3/5 📖 🌙
- My Killer Vacation 2/5 💿 ❄️(addie) 🐚
- Keeping 13 3.5/5 📖 🌙 🌊
- Saving 6 3.5/5 📖 🌊 🐚
- Karaoke Chemistry DNF 💿💫 🪐 🐚
- Sidelined love DNF 💿 🪐 🐚
- Redeeming 6 4/5 📖 🌊 🐚
- Love Unwritten 3.6/5 💿
- Taming 7 3/5 📖 🐚
- Keep Me 2.7/5 💿💫 🐚
- Fangirl Down 1.5/5 💿 🪐 ❄️(sama) 🐚
Favorite book: Saving 6
Least favorite: My Killer Vacation
Dnf: 3
July
Total: 13
- Just for the Summer 3/5 💿
- Face Off 3/5 💿
- Not In Love 3.5/5 📖 🐚
- Play Along 3.7/5 💿
- Wonderstruck 2/5 💿💫 🐚 🪐
- Not In My Book 3.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- Playmaker: The hidden attraction novel 2/5 💿💫 🐚
- Love not qualified 2.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- The Road Less Traveled By 3.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- Cross The Line 2.6/5 💿
- Nothing Like The Movies 2.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- Flawless 2/5 💿
- Christmas Is All Around 3.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- Heartless 3.2/5 💿
Favorite book: Play Along
Least favorite: Playmaker:…
Dnf: 1
August
Total: 16
- Powerless 3.6/5 💿
- All I Want Is You 3.75/5 💿💫 🐚
- The Co-Op 2.3/4 💿💫 🐚
- What my Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fiften Writers Break the Silence DNF 💿🪐
- Playing The Field 3.4/5 💿💫 🐚
- Love & Lattes 3/5 💿💫 🐚
- I Am Not Jessica Chen 4.7/5 💿💫 🐚 💙 🌊
- Powerless 2/5 💿🐚 🌙
- A Five letter word for love 3.5/5 💿💫 🐚
- Reckless 3.5/5 💿
- Bride 2/5 🎧
- The Mindfuc* Series N/A 💿
- The Lodge 3/5 💿💫 🐚
Favorite book: I Am Not Jessica Chen
Least favorite: Powerless
Dnf: 1
September
Total: 5
- The Scenic Route 3/5 💿💫🐚
- Daydream 3.2/5 💿🐚
- Book of the Month 3/5 💿💫 🐚 🌊
- Humor Me DNF 🪐💿💫🐚
- Close Knit 3/5 💿💫🐚
- Seven Sleepless Nights 2.5/5 💿
Favorite book: Daydream
Least favorite: The Scenic Route
Dnf: 1
October
Total: 12
- The Deepest End of Love 2.5/5 💿🐚
- The Most Famous Girl In The World 2.8/5 💿💫🐚
- Drive Me Wild 2.7/5 💿💫🐚
- Is She Really Going Out With Him 3.5/5 💿💫🐚
- Pick-Up 3.2/5 💿💫🐚
- The First Time 2/5 💿💫🐚
- Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home 3.25/5 📖🐚
- Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing 3/5 📖🐚
- Statistically Speaking 2.8/5 💿💫🐚
- My Kind of Trouble 2.5/5 💿💫🐚
- Unloved 3/5 💿💫🐚
- The Striker DNF 💿 🐚 🪐
Favorite book: Is she really going out with him?
Least favorite: The First Time
Dnf: 1
November
Total: 5
- Spectacular 5/5 📖🐚
- Rook & Rebel 2/5 💿
- The Sweetest Oblivion 2.5/5 💿
- The Maddest Obsession 2/5 💿
- Spiral 3.5/5 📖💫🐚
Favorite book: Spectacular
Least favorite: The Sweetest Oblivion
Dnf: 0
December
Total: 3
- Hamlet 1/5 💿🐋
- The Score 3/5 💿🌙
- Book people 4/5 💿 💫🐚
- Only In Your Dreams 2/5 💫🐚 🪐
Favorite book: Book People
Least favorite: Hamlet
Dnf: 1
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Top 5 of 2024
1. I Am Not Jessica Chen Ann Laing
2. Picking Daisies on Sundays Liana Cincotti
3. Book People by Jackie Ashenden
4. A Song To Drown Rivers Ann Liang
5. Redeeming 6 Chloe Walsh
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reread 🌙
new favorite 💙
dnf 🪐
cried 🌊
school 🐋
buddy reading ❄️
arc 💫
reviewed 🐚
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ebook 💿
audio book 🎧
physical 📖
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Summary
Total books read: 122
Total ARCs: 70
Average Rating: 3.6 ˖⁺‧✮
Total number of dnf: 13
Notes:
hey!!! so exited for this reading year and here is the little summary and reflection.
i started this year with creating a bookstagram and i honestly had such a fun time posting there. if you want to follow me: juliiareads. i also met so many people and went to a couple of book signings. i read over 100 books (it’s a lot) even though i promised myself to take time with reading. (i actually never pushed myself to read more and i genuinely was interested in reading). moreover, i finally started to like my reviews and i can actually see the development in them throughout this year. i had a huge honor to read and review some of the arcs from my favorite authors and i can’t be more excited about this. i received my first arc back in february and since then i collected over 70😭
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"Fake it, till you make it"🏙️
January 7, 2025
To cut to Hecuba, sampling the highlights of 2024, I am thinking of:
• Patrick Modiano, Ballerina(2023 ) – a Modiano grand cru, dreamy and charming. If anyone would ask me which book I would choose to give as a present, this is the one.
• Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam(1939) – a tender, sometimes funny, deeply humane and poignant novel on refugees fleeing Nazi Germany before WWII, lest one would forget that paperless people are human beings just like anyone else.
• Marguerite Duras, The Lover(1984 )– powerful, unsettling, intense, brilliant.
• Eric Karpeles, Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time (2008): I concur with the friends who consider this lavishly illustrated book as an indispensable visual companion for a Proustian.
• Yūko Tsushima, Woman Running in the Mountains(1980) - an elegant, atmospheric and moving novel on a single mother in Tokyo, interspersed with sparks of dreamy luminosity and stunning nature descriptions.
• James Salter, Light Years (1975) – shiny happy people in New York having a full time job handling their messy relationships present sociologically fascinating material in this modern classic - subtly devastating and deceptively bleak beneath the luscious sentences.
• Marga Minco, Bitter Herbs(1957) – a disturbing Dutch classic on the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands based on the author’s personal experiences.
• Cor Hermans, De uitgewiste horizon: Europa's obsessie met cultureel verval 1835-1914 (2023): Mann, Mann, Mann! A wonderfully erudite and lucid work of cultural history covering a plethora of European writers and thinkers from Flaubert and Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Turgenev an Chekhov to Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud and Kierkegaard , but entirely revolving around life and work of Thomas Mann – a feast for readers obsessed by Thomas Mann.
• Edwin Frank, Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel (2024): a delightful and thrilling collection of essays for everyone who enjoys reading on novels and novelists that marked the 20th century (beware of spoilers).
• Three volumes (of the six) of Konstantin Paustovsky’s autobiography The Story of a Life: Volumes 1–3(1946, 1954, 1956).
• Andrew D. Scrimgeour, Books and Libraries: Poems(2021): a delicious anthology of – yes, the title covers the load- poems dedicated to books and libraries – how not to like this as someone who would indicate the local library as her favourite place in town if asked for it?
By the end of 2023, I intuited that also in 2024 I probably would read less than usual and I was right. Making a new professional start after twenty-two years and other changes affected the reading statistics both in pages and number of books and reduced my ability to review and interact here considerably, whereas the disappearance of (e-mail) notifications that previously helped me to keep track, kept loads of reviews and comments that friends posted hidden from my eyes. Nonetheless I keep on stopping over whenever I can, fond of and inspired by this place and the people that I encountered here.
On the plus side, the new job turned out even better than I had hoped. Working in Brussels created the opportunity to attend a couple of concerts and to unexpectedly spend about double the time abroad and in museums than before. December was marked by exhibitions focussing on Rembrandt and Chagall.
Paris, Vienna
Itched by an uncommon Reiselust this year, two places in particular coloured my reading, Paris and Vienna – from fiction (The House in Paris, Ballerina, Sisi) over history (The Habsburgs: To Rule the World; The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction) to art (Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism, New Insights: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, probably rounding Schubert's Vienna the next days. I finally finished the three kilograms of art and architecture of Vienna that I had started in the spring of 2022 (Vienna: Art & Architecture). Some books that had been on my mind for years pleasingly covered both places (The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss), ticking both Paris and Vienna in one fell swoop.
Apart from some biographies of writers (À la recherche de Milan Kundera, Kafka: Um sein Leben schreiben, Marguerite Yourcenar and Marguerite Duras: A Life), I read two noteworthy biographies in the shape of a graphic novel (Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language, George Sand: True Genius, True Woman) and two collections of graphic mini-bio’s on remarkable women (from Pénélope Bagieu,Culottées).
While I normally tend to give the genre a berth, in 2024 I found myself drawn to memoirs and autobiographies, still wondering what instigated this change of heart (perhaps it is the melancholy of the autumn of life that puts me into a contemplative mood, the attainment of a turning point on which one starts looking back rather than forward?). The autobiography of Konstantin Paustovsky had been on my mind since reading his first novel (De romantici) thirty years ago. Of the six volumes of his memoirs, I read three: halfway through, it is as superlative as I hoped it to be, both as a document of his time (the first world war, the Russian revolution) as well as from a literary perspective - the writing is brilliant, brimming with descriptions of nature and life that are achingly beautiful.
Lea Ypi’s witty and incisive Free: Coming of Age at the End of History on growing up under Albanian communism was another of those golden book tips coming from my precious soulmate. With the thought to (re)read everything of Virginia Woolf chronologically at the back of my mind, I started with her Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing. Soon digressing from my original intention, I spend months in the company not of Virginia but of two Marguerites: Marguerite Yourcenar (Oriental Tales and Marguerite Yourcenar, the biography Josyane Savigneau wrote on her) and Marguerite Duras. Jane Sautière’s memoir Corps flottants revolving around her adolescent years in Cambodia, prompted me to finally read Marguerite Duras' The Lover. Intrigued by the intensity of it, I read Laura Adler’s bulky biography Marguerite Duras: A Life, which was fascinating both as a documentary of the era (colonialism, the second world war and resistance, communism in France) and as a commentary on Duras’ body of work. From the six books I read by Annie Ernaux so far, A Woman's Story, her memoir on her mother, is perhaps the one that resonated most with me so far, as the most tender, intimate, melancholy and moving episode in the roman fleuve she concocts from her own life and experiences. Circling back to Virginia Woolf re-reading On Being Ill at the moment, it again struck me how well Woolf’s observations pair with the kindred, quicksilver and sprightly spirit I found in American Girl: Memories That Made Me by Georgia Scott. Turning the last pages, Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday combines the attraction of the memoir with the focus on Vienna; his reflections on war, nationalism, the role of propaganda in the first half of the 20th century eerily relatable today.
From the thorny front of contemporary literature, I can mention three memorable reads: the intimistic The Details (Ia Genberg), the imaginative short story collection Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea (C.D. Rose) and Parade (Rachel Cusk). The latter was my first brush with Rachel Cusk’s fiction and while I cannot say I enjoyed her novel much, my thoughts kept circling back to this viscerally cerebral piece of art and I tremendously enjoyed the discussions it sparked here.
Like the reviews of friends that I read on stolen moments, some of the short stories friends generously provided links to were much appreciated treats - The Tattooer (Tanizaki), Breakfast(Steinbeck), How Wang-Fo Was Saved(Yourcenar), The Address (Marga Minco) standing out.
Reading intentions for 2025? To continue to stay away from the temptation of ARC’s (even if some that I asked for turned out the best reads this year, it’s too much pressure) and instead read two books that have been collecting dust at home for every book I cannot resist taking home from the library. Under the christmas tree I found two books that will enable me to
Happy reading to everyone in 2025 and a big thank you to the readers and reviewers who again showed themselves the strongholders of this wonderful bookish community.
Want to read
August 9, 2024
✨🎉 Happy 2024 reading year!!!!🥂✨
✔️ we can disagree and still be book friends 🤍
✔️ i will be reading less this year but imma keep the reviews coming 🥲
✔️ don't bully anyone into changing an update, a rating or review 🙅🏽♀️
✔️ and you get hugs and kisses, and you get hugs and kisses, and you get hugs and kisses 🫶🏽🩷
rating system :
☆☆☆☆☆ felt ✨️EVERYTHING✨️
☆☆☆☆ felt something
☆☆☆ felt nothing
☆☆ felt bored
☆ felt annoyed
january - i'm excited to read more classics 🤎
📚 read - 11 books
🥰 most favvvv - Jane Eyre 4.5☆
😒 least favvvv - Emma 2☆
✨️ most surprising - The tenant of wildfell hall 4.5☆
february - i'm excited to read more male authors 💙
📚 read - 10 books
🥰 most favvvv - Anxious people 5☆
😒 least favvvv - Kafka on the shore 2☆
✨️ most surprising - Perfume: the story of a murderer 4.2☆
march - time to catch up with my anticipated releases 💆🏽♀️
📚 read - 10 books
🥰 most favvvv - This could be us 4.75☆
😒 least favvvv - The teacher 2☆
✨️ most surprising - I hope this doesn't find you 4.75☆
april - the 'MZ' month 💘 / time to catch up with my anticipated releases pt. 2
📚 read - 7 books
🥰 most favvvv - Just for the summer 4.75☆
😒 least favvvv - Kulti 2☆
✨️ most surprising - All rhodes lead here 4.75☆
may - finish tommen boys series ❤️🩹/ read more thrillers 🔪🩸
📚 read - 20 books
🥰 most favvvv - Do not disturb 4.75☆
😒 least favvvv - Watching you 2.25☆
✨️ most surprising - Where the sleeping girls lie 4.25☆
june - magnolia parks series 😵/ time to catch up with my anticipated releases pt. 3
📚 read - 11 books
🥰 most favvvv - Love redesigned 4.5☆
😒 least favvvv - Magnolia parks 2☆
✨️ most surprising - Restless stars 3.5☆
july - summer romance/ romcoms 🏖🌸🌞
📚 read - 18 books
🥰 most favvvv - How to age disgracefully 4.75☆
😒 least favvvv - The summer of yes 0.75☆
✨️ most surprising - The rom-commers 4.25☆
✔️ we can disagree and still be book friends 🤍
✔️ i will be reading less this year but imma keep the reviews coming 🥲
✔️ don't bully anyone into changing an update, a rating or review 🙅🏽♀️
✔️ and you get hugs and kisses, and you get hugs and kisses, and you get hugs and kisses 🫶🏽🩷
rating system :
☆☆☆☆☆ felt ✨️EVERYTHING✨️
☆☆☆☆ felt something
☆☆☆ felt nothing
☆☆ felt bored
☆ felt annoyed
january - i'm excited to read more classics 🤎
📚 read - 11 books
🥰 most favvvv - Jane Eyre 4.5☆
😒 least favvvv - Emma 2☆
✨️ most surprising - The tenant of wildfell hall 4.5☆
february - i'm excited to read more male authors 💙
📚 read - 10 books
🥰 most favvvv - Anxious people 5☆
😒 least favvvv - Kafka on the shore 2☆
✨️ most surprising - Perfume: the story of a murderer 4.2☆
march - time to catch up with my anticipated releases 💆🏽♀️
📚 read - 10 books
🥰 most favvvv - This could be us 4.75☆
😒 least favvvv - The teacher 2☆
✨️ most surprising - I hope this doesn't find you 4.75☆
april - the 'MZ' month 💘 / time to catch up with my anticipated releases pt. 2
📚 read - 7 books
🥰 most favvvv - Just for the summer 4.75☆
😒 least favvvv - Kulti 2☆
✨️ most surprising - All rhodes lead here 4.75☆
may - finish tommen boys series ❤️🩹/ read more thrillers 🔪🩸
📚 read - 20 books
🥰 most favvvv - Do not disturb 4.75☆
😒 least favvvv - Watching you 2.25☆
✨️ most surprising - Where the sleeping girls lie 4.25☆
june - magnolia parks series 😵/ time to catch up with my anticipated releases pt. 3
📚 read - 11 books
🥰 most favvvv - Love redesigned 4.5☆
😒 least favvvv - Magnolia parks 2☆
✨️ most surprising - Restless stars 3.5☆
july - summer romance/ romcoms 🏖🌸🌞
📚 read - 18 books
🥰 most favvvv - How to age disgracefully 4.75☆
😒 least favvvv - The summer of yes 0.75☆
✨️ most surprising - The rom-commers 4.25☆
Shelved as 'year-in-reading'
August 16, 2024 . . . 2024 in books ᝰ.ᐟ
⤿ redoing this because i want to focus more on quality rather than quantity. i want to read books that i would enjoy rather than reading what everyone else is. i realized that i'm not a fan of "popular" booktok books so i'm reorganizing my tbr. also this was ib rina bsf.
i. goals
☐ read 50 books
✓apply for more arcs
✓do a buddy read
☐ read more non-fiction
☐ read more translated lit
☐ finish 3 completed series
ii. key
[ 🗝 ] priority
[ 🏹 ] physical copy
[ 🍵 ] to be bought
[ 🧸 ] arc
[ 🎞 ] buddy read / planned
[ 🦢 ] open to br
iii. anticipated releases
𖥔a song to drown rivers 🍵 🧸 🗝 ❪ october - 4 ⭑ ❫
𖥔 midnights with you 🍵 🗝 ❪ nov. 12 ❫
𖥔 a banh mi for two 🍵 🗝 ❪ aug. 20 ❫
𖥔 a crane among wolves 🍵 🗝 ❪ may. 14 ❫
𖥔 evocation ❪ may. 28 ❫
+ more that i'm waiting for
iv. asian lit tbr
𖥔i hope this doesn't find you 🏹 🗝❪ 4 ⭑ ❫
𖥔the sword of kaigen 🏹 🎞 🗝 ❪ 5 ⭑ ❫
𖥔 blood over bright haven 🍵 🎞️ 🗝
𖥔 priory of the orange tree 🍵 🎞️ 🗝
𖥔 the red palace 🏹 🗝
𖥔 crying in h mart 🍵 🗝
𖥔 kim jiyoung, born 1982 🍵
𖥔 norwegian wood 🍵
𖥔 the nakano thrift shop 🍵
𖥔 severance 🍵
𖥔 on earth we're briefly gorgeous 🍵
𖥔 the spear cuts through water 🍵
v. 12 books from 12 friends
𖥔 as long as the lemon tree grows 🍵 🗝 ❪ nes ❫
𖥔 the kingdoms + middlegame 🍵 ❪ magsipoo ❫
𖥔 tiger lily + six crimson cranes 🍵 ❪ rinabear ❫
𖥔 the night ends with fire 🍵 🗝 ❪ shehry ❫
𖥔 asap ❪ juju ❫
𖥔divine rivals ❪ mimi - 3 ⭑ ❫
𖥔the lonely castle in the mirror 🏹 🗝 ❪ isaur - 5 ⭑❫
𖥔 the cartographers ❪ adira ❫
𖥔 alone with you in the ether 🍵 ❪ renren ❫
𖥔 little women 🍵 ❪ sof ❫
𖥔 the book thief ❪ lila ❫
𖥔 masters of death 🍵 ❪ ingrid ❫
𖥔 pachinko 🏹 ❪ riaa ❫
vi. completed series tracker
𖥔 the poppy war ●●○ ⊹ 🏹 🗝
𖥔 the radiant emperor ●○ ⊹ 🏹 🗝
𖥔 the green bone saga ○○○ ⊹ 🍵 🗝
𖥔 wolf den ○○○ ⊹ 🍵 🦢 🗝
𖥔 the atlas ○○○ ⊹
𖥔 mistborn ❪ era 1 ❫ ○○○ ⊹ 🗝 🦢
𖥔 the last hours ○○○ ⊹
𖥔 the dark artifices ○○○ ⊹ 🏹
vii. ongoing series tracker
𖥔 alex stern ○○○ ⊹ 🏹 🗝
𖥔 kingdom of three ●○
𖥔 six of crows ●●○ ⊹ 🏹
𖥔 flesh and false gods ○○○ ⊹ 🍵
viii. misc tbr
⤿ books that i would like to read but i don't know where to put them
𖥔 a tempest of tea 🏹
𖥔 chalice of the gods 🏹
𖥔 the will of the many
𖥔 the jasmine throne
𖥔 emily wilde's encyclopedia of faeries 🍵 🎞️
𖥔a good girl's guide to murder 🎞 ❪ 3 ⭑ ❫
𖥔 rouge
𖥔 tress of the emerald sea
𖥔 the fifth season
𖥔 gideon the ninth
⤿ redoing this because i want to focus more on quality rather than quantity. i want to read books that i would enjoy rather than reading what everyone else is. i realized that i'm not a fan of "popular" booktok books so i'm reorganizing my tbr. also this was ib rina bsf.
i. goals
☐ read 50 books
✓
✓
☐ read more non-fiction
☐ read more translated lit
☐ finish 3 completed series
ii. key
[ 🗝 ] priority
[ 🏹 ] physical copy
[ 🍵 ] to be bought
[ 🧸 ] arc
[ 🎞 ] buddy read / planned
[ 🦢 ] open to br
iii. anticipated releases
𖥔
𖥔 midnights with you 🍵 🗝 ❪ nov. 12 ❫
𖥔 a banh mi for two 🍵 🗝 ❪ aug. 20 ❫
𖥔 a crane among wolves 🍵 🗝 ❪ may. 14 ❫
𖥔 evocation ❪ may. 28 ❫
+ more that i'm waiting for
iv. asian lit tbr
𖥔
𖥔
𖥔 blood over bright haven 🍵 🎞️ 🗝
𖥔 priory of the orange tree 🍵 🎞️ 🗝
𖥔 the red palace 🏹 🗝
𖥔 crying in h mart 🍵 🗝
𖥔 kim jiyoung, born 1982 🍵
𖥔 norwegian wood 🍵
𖥔 the nakano thrift shop 🍵
𖥔 severance 🍵
𖥔 on earth we're briefly gorgeous 🍵
𖥔 the spear cuts through water 🍵
v. 12 books from 12 friends
𖥔 as long as the lemon tree grows 🍵 🗝 ❪ nes ❫
𖥔 the kingdoms + middlegame 🍵 ❪ magsipoo ❫
𖥔 tiger lily + six crimson cranes 🍵 ❪ rinabear ❫
𖥔 the night ends with fire 🍵 🗝 ❪ shehry ❫
𖥔 asap ❪ juju ❫
𖥔
𖥔
𖥔 the cartographers ❪ adira ❫
𖥔 alone with you in the ether 🍵 ❪ renren ❫
𖥔 little women 🍵 ❪ sof ❫
𖥔 the book thief ❪ lila ❫
𖥔 masters of death 🍵 ❪ ingrid ❫
𖥔 pachinko 🏹 ❪ riaa ❫
vi. completed series tracker
𖥔 the poppy war ●●○ ⊹ 🏹 🗝
𖥻the poppy war🎞 ❪ 4 ⭑ ❫
𖥻the dragon republic🎞 ❪ 5 ⭑ ❫
𖥻 the burning god 🎞
𖥔 the radiant emperor ●○ ⊹ 🏹 🗝
𖥻she who became the sun🎞 ❪ 3 ⭑ ❫
𖥻 he who drowned the world 🦢
𖥔 the green bone saga ○○○ ⊹ 🍵 🗝
𖥻 jade city 🎞️
𖥻 jade war
𖥻 jade legacy
𖥔 wolf den ○○○ ⊹ 🍵 🦢 🗝
𖥻 the wolf den
𖥻 the house with the golden door
𖥻 the temple of fortuna
𖥔 the atlas ○○○ ⊹
𖥻 the atlas six 🎞️ 🏹
𖥻 the atlas paradox
𖥻 the atlas complex
𖥔 mistborn ❪ era 1 ❫ ○○○ ⊹ 🗝 🦢
𖥻 mistborn 🏹
𖥻 well of ascension 🏹
𖥻 hero of ages 🍵
𖥔 the last hours ○○○ ⊹
𖥻 chain of gold 🏹
𖥻 chain of iron 🍵
𖥻 chain of thorns 🍵
𖥔 the dark artifices ○○○ ⊹ 🏹
𖥻 lady midnight
𖥻 lord of shadows
𖥻 queen of air and darkness
vii. ongoing series tracker
𖥔 alex stern ○○○ ⊹ 🏹 🗝
𖥻 ninth house 🎞
𖥻 hell bent 🦢
𖥻 untitled
𖥔 kingdom of three ●○
𖥻strike the zither❪ 2.5 ⭑ ❫
𖥻 sound the gong
𖥔 six of crows ●●○ ⊹ 🏹
𖥻six of crows❪ 4 ⭑ ❫
𖥻crooked kingdom❪ 4 ⭑ ❫
𖥻 untitled
𖥔 flesh and false gods ○○○ ⊹ 🍵
𖥻 immortal longings 🎞️
𖥻 vilest things
𖥻 untitled
viii. misc tbr
⤿ books that i would like to read but i don't know where to put them
𖥔 a tempest of tea 🏹
𖥔 chalice of the gods 🏹
𖥔 the will of the many
𖥔 the jasmine throne
𖥔 emily wilde's encyclopedia of faeries 🍵 🎞️
𖥔
𖥔 rouge
𖥔 tress of the emerald sea
𖥔 the fifth season
𖥔 gideon the ninth
━━━━━━━━━ summary ━━━━━━━━━━
ix. year end stats
⊹ top 5 books =
⊹ top authors =
⊹ no. of series read =
⊹ no. of 5 star reads =
⊹ no. of dnfs =
⊹ no. of buddy reads =
⊹ no. of books i own =
x. year end awards
⊹ fav standalone: the sword of kaigen
⊹ fav series:
⊹ fav book in a series:
⊹ fav book couple:
⊹ most disappointing series:
⊹ most disappointing book:
⊹ author to read more from:
⊹ cried the most:
⊹ laughed the most:
━━━━━━━━━ love, cheska ━━━━━━━━━━
January 1, 2025
* . °•★|•°∵ 2024 ∵°•|☆•° . *
ੈ✩‧₊˚don’t cry because it’s over. ⋆·˚ ༘ *
⋆·˚ ༘ * smile because it happened.ೃ࿐
˗ˏ✎*ೃ˚ my first time doing this. Feel free to give me some pointers and happy reading everyone!
ೃ⁀➷ warning: I’m a pretty generous rater so most of my books will be given four or five stars!
✧*̥˚ last updated *̥˚✧
✾ December 31, 2024
✧*̥˚ goal *̥˚✧
☑ read 150 books [267/150]
✧*̥˚ how I rate my books *̥˚✧
★★★★★: absolutely loved, one of my favorites. 100% recommend. Will read again.
★★★★☆: enjoyed it, but was missing something. Would recommend. Might read again.
★★★☆☆: not too bad, could’ve been better. Might recommend. Prob won’t read again. Rare rating.
★★☆☆☆: disappointing, wasn’t for me. Will not read again. Very rare rating.
★☆☆☆☆: regret reading it. Definitely not for me. Never given this rating before.
✧*̥˚ key *̥˚✧
✾ 🫧 - favorites
✾ 💕 - buddy read
✾ 💗 - dark romance
✾ 🎀 - cute
✾ 💝 - amazing romance/chemistry
✾ 🧸 - will recommend to anyone
✾ 🪐 - ‘holy shit’ ending
✾ 💔 - heartbreaking/I cried
✾ 🌺 - written review
✾ 💐 - free book for honest review/arcs
✾ 🍓 - ebook
✾ 💌 - reread
✾ 🍭 - annotated
✾ 👒 - books for school
✧*̥˚ January*̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 8
✾ Iron Flame ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ A Court of Thorns and Roses ★★★★☆
✾ A Court of Mist and Fury ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ A Court of Wings and Ruin ★★★★☆💝🧸
✾ A Court of Frost and Starlight ★★★☆☆
✾ A Court of Silver Flames ★★★★☆💝
✾ The Love Hypothesis ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸
✾ Case Closed, Vol. 89 ★★★★☆
✧*̥˚ February *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 22
✾ Shatter Me ★★★★☆
✾ Unravel Me ★★★★☆
✾ Unite Me ★★★★☆
✾ Ignite Me ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸
✾ Restore Me ★★★★★🫧🧸
✾ Defy Me ★★★★☆🪐
✾ Find Me ★★★★☆
✾ Imagine Me ★★★★☆🌺
✾ Believe Me ★★★★☆🎀
✾ Keeper of the Lost Cities ★★★★☆
✾ Exile ★★★★★🫧
✾ Everblaze ★★★★☆
✾ Forge ★★★★☆
✾ Neverseen ★★★★★🪐
✾ Lodestar ★★★★☆🪐
✾ Love, Theoretically ★★★★★🫧💝🎀🧸
✾ Nightfall ★★★★★🫧
✾ Flashback ★★★★☆
✾ Legacy ★★★★☆🎀🪐
✾ Unlocked ★★★★☆🪐
✾ Stellarlune ★★★★☆🫧💝🪐
✾ Ashes ★★★★☆
✧*̥˚ March *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 23
✾ The Fellowship of the Ring ★★★★☆
✾ The Two Towers ★★★★☆
✾ The Return of the King ★★★★☆
✾ My Fault ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ Your Fault ★★★★☆🪐
✾ Our Fault ★★★★☆
✾ Heartless ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐💔🌺
✾ Lessons in Chemistry ★★★★☆
✾ Caraval ★★★★☆🪐
✾ Love on the Brain ★★★★☆ 🎀
✾ Legendary ★★★★★🫧💝🪐🌺
✾ Finale ★★★★★💝
✾ The Lightning Thief ★★★★☆
✾ The Sea of Monsters ★★★★☆
✾ The Titan’s Curse ★★★★★🫧🧸
✾ Check & Mate ★★★★☆ 🎀
✾ The Battle of the Labyrinth ★★★★☆
✾ The Last Olympian ★★★★☆
✾ Icebreaker ★★★★☆🎀
✾ The Lost Hero ★★★★☆🪐🌺
✾ The Son of Neptune ★★★★☆
✾ The Search for Synergy ★★★☆☆🌺💐🍓
✾ The Mark of Athena ★★★★☆🎀💝🧸🪐
✧*̥˚ April *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 20
✾ Wildfire ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ The House of Hades ★★★★☆💝🧸
✾ The Blood of Olympus ★★★★★
✾ The Hidden Oracle ★★★★☆
✾ The Dark Prophecy ★★★☆☆
✾ The Burning Maze ★★★★☆🌺
✾ The Tyrant’s Tomb ★★★★☆🌺
✾ Riders of Fire and Ice ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ The Tower of Nero ★★★★☆🫧🌺
✾ Windy City Ruins ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ The Battle for Verdana ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ Mindset: How You Can Fulfill Your Potential ★★★☆☆
✾ The Sun and the Star: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🌺
✾ Fahrenheit 451 ★★★☆☆
✾ Slumber of Silence: A Talisman Series Novella, Vol. 4.5 ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ Desperate Tides, Desperate Measures ★★★★★🌺💐🍓
✾ The Taste of Storm and Brine: A Talisman Series Novella, Vol. 5.5 ★★★★★🌺💐🍓
✾ Case Closed, Vol. 90 ★★★★☆
✾ Fourth Wing ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🌺💌
✾ Iron Flame ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺💌
✧*̥˚ May *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 18
✾ King of Wrath ★★★★★💝🧸
✾ King of Pride ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ King of Greed ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ Once Upon a Broken Heart ★★★★☆
✾ The Ballad of Never After ★★★★★🪐
✾ A Curse for True Love ★★★★★🧸
✾ Heartless ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐💔🌺💌
✾ Scarlet ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💌
✾ Cress ★★★★★🫧 🎀💝🧸💌
✾ Winter ★★★★★🧸💌
✾ Haunting Adeline ★★★★☆💗🪐🍓
✾ Hunting Adeline ★★★★☆💗🍓
✾ King of Sloth ★★★★☆
✾ The Assassin’s Blade ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐💔🌺
✾ Throne of Glass ★★★★☆
✾ Crown of Midnight ★★★★☆🌺
✾ Heir of Fire ★★★★☆🌺
✾ Queen of Shadows ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✧*̥˚ June *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 28
✾ Empire of Storms ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ Tower of Dawn ★★★★☆💝🌺
✾ The Dragnet Prophecy ★★★★☆💌
✾ Kingdom of Ash ★★★★★🫧🧸🌺
✾ Night Shift ★★★★☆🎀
✾ Bride ★★★★★🌺
✾ Fourth Wing ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🌺💌
✾ A Dragon’s Dyne ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ The Wicked King ★★★★☆💝🧸🪐🌺💌
✾ The Hobbit ★★★☆☆
✾ Iron Flame ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺💌
✾ Not in Love ★★★★★🌺
✾ Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! ★★★★☆
✾ Loathe to Love You ★★★★☆🎀💝🌺
✾ Twisted Love ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ Wealth Warrior: 8 Steps for Communities of Color to Conquer the Stock Market ★★★★☆
✾ Twisted Games ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🌺🍓
✾ Powerless ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ Twisted Hate ★★★★★💝🌺
✾ Twisted Lies ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🌺🍓
✾ Powerful ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐💔🌺
✾ ”A Light in the House”: Book One ★★☆☆☆🌺💐🍓
✾ Dance of Thieves ★★★★☆💝
✾ Vow of Thieves ★★★★☆💝
✾ My Fault ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🍓💌
✾ New Moon ★★★★ ★🫧💝🧸🍓💌
✾ Eclipse ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🍓💌
✾ The Stolen Heir ★★★★★🪐🌺
✧*̥˚ July *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 31
✾ Life and Death: Twilight reimagined ★★★★☆💝🍓💌
✾ The Prisoner’s Throne ★★★★★💝🧸
✾ The Fine Print ★★★★☆💝🌺
✾ The Hunger Games ★★★★★🫧🧸💔🍓💌
✾ Terms and Conditions ★★★★★💝
✾ City of Bones ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ City of Ashes ★★★★★🧸🌺
✾ City of Glass ★★★★☆💝🌺
✾ City of Fallen Angels ★★★★☆💝🪐
✾ If We Ever Meet Again ★★★★☆🌺
✾ Breaking Dawn ★★★★☆💝🍓💌
✾ If the Sun Never Sets ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ The Chalice of the Gods ★★★★☆🍓
✾ If Love Had a Price ★★★★☆
✾ City of Lost Souls ★★★★☆
✾ If We Were Perfect ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ God of Malice ★★★★☆💗🍓
✾ Better Than the Movies ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸
✾ Cruel King ★★★★☆💗🍓
✾ Deviant King ★★★★★💗🪐🍓
✾ Steel Princess ★★★★★💗🪐🍓
✾ Twisted Kingdom ★★★★★🫧💗💝🍓
✾ City of Heavenly Fire ★★★★☆💝🧸🌺
✾ Binding 13 ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ You’ve Reached Sam ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🌺
✾ Keeping 13 ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔
✾ Saving 6 ★★★★☆🧸
✾ Redeeming 6 ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔
✾ Sweet Revenge ★★★★☆🍓
✾ The Summer of Broken Rules ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🍓
✾ The Maze Runner ★★★★☆💔🍓
✧*̥˚ August *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 27
✾ The Scorch Trails ★★★★☆🍓
✾ The Death Cure ★★★★☆🪐💔🍓
✾ The Kill Order ★★★☆☆🍓
✾ Final Offer ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🌺
✾ The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time ★★★★☆
✾ Case Closed, Vol. 91 ★★★★☆
✾ Wildfire: A Talisman Series Novella, ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ Reckless ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ A Thousand Boy Kisses ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🌺
✾ Black Knight ★★★★★💗💝🍓
✾ Hooked ★★★☆☆💗
✾ Scarred ★★★★☆💗
✾ Vicious Prince ★★★★☆💗💝🍓
✾ Ruthless Empire ★★★★★💗💝🌺🍓
✾ Royal Elite Epilogue ★★★★★🫧💗🎀💝🧸🌺🍓
✾ What Happens After Midnight ★★★★☆🎀🍓
✾ God of Pain ★★★★☆💗🌺🍓
✾ God of Wrath ★★★★★💗💝🍓
✾ God of Ruin ★★★★★💗💝🍓
✾ Heartless ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐💔🌺🍓💌
✾ God of Fury ★★★★★🫧💗💝🧸🍓
✾ The Inheritance Games ★★★★★💕🧸🪐🌺
✾ Maybe Meant to Be ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🍓
✾ The Hawthorne Legacy ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🌺
✾ Fourth Wing ★★★★★🫧💕💝🧸💔🌺💌🍓
✾ The Final Gambit ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🍓
✾ The Wren in the Holly Library ★★★★☆
✧*̥˚ September *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 32
✾ Daydream ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ The Fever Code ★★★★☆🍓
✾ The Brothers Hawthorne ★★★★☆
✾ Karma and Revenge: Angels from hell duet. ★★★★☆💝🧸🪐🌺💐🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1 ★★★☆☆🍓
✾ The Cruel Prince ★★★★☆🍓💌
✾ A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder ★★★★☆
✾ Heartless Hero ★★★☆☆💗🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 2 ★★★☆☆
✾ Stolen Soulmate ★★★☆☆💗🍓
✾ Pain’s Liberation ★★★★☆🎀💝🌺💐🍓
✾ Taming 7 ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ The Hunger Games ★★★★★🫧🧸💔💌🍭👒
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 3 ★★★☆☆🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 4 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 5 ★★★★☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 6 ★★★☆☆
✾ The Deal ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 7 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 8 ★★★★★🫧💔
✾ Throne of Power ★★★☆☆💗🪐🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 9 ★★★★☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 10 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 11 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 12 ★★★★☆
✾ Once Upon a Broken Heart ★★★★☆💌
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 13 ★★★★☆💔
✾ The Mistake ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Throne of Vengeance ★★★★☆💗💝🍓
✾ The Score ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 14 ★★★★☆
✾ The Curse: Nyx Saga Part One: Mafia/Billionaire Reverse Harem, Poly ★★★☆☆💗🌺🍓
✧*̥˚ October *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 21
✾ The Goal ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 15 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 16 ★★★★☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 17 ★★★★☆
✾ The Sun Is Also a Star ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ God of War ★★★★☆💗💝🍓
✾ The Legacy ★★★★☆🎀💝🧸🍓
✾ Forbidden Fate ★★★☆☆💗🍓
✾ Nothing Like the Movies ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 18 ★★★★☆💔🍓
✾ If He Had Been with Me ★★★★☆💝🧸💔🍓
✾ A Thousand Broken Pieces ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔
✾ Heartstopper: Volume One ★★★★☆🎀🍓🌺
✾ Heartstooper: Volume Two ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Heartstopper: Volume Three ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Heartstopper: Volume Four ★★★★☆ 🎀🍓
✾ Nature Fairies ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🌺💐🍓
✾ Heartstopper: Volume Five ★★★★☆🎀🍓
✾ Red, White, & Royal Blue ★★★★★🎀💝🧸🍓
✾ Nick and Charlie: A Heartstopper Novella ★★★☆☆🎀
✾ Case Closed, Vol. 92 ★★★★☆🪐
✧*̥˚ November *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 18
✾ Fairies of Death ★★★★☆💝🧸🌺💐🍓
✾ The Striker ★★★★★💝🧸🌺
✾ House of Earth and Blood ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🌺
✾ The Chase ★★★★☆🎀💝🧸
✾ House of Sky and Breath ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 19 ★★★☆☆
✾ House of Flame and Shadow ★★★★★💝🧸
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 20 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 21 ★★★★☆💔
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 22 ★★★★☆
✾ Binding 13 ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🪐🌺💌
✾ RUNNIN’ NO MORE ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ Spectacular ★★★★★🎀💝🧸
✾ The Risk ★★★★★🎀💝🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, ★★★★★🧸💔
✾ Just Mercy ★★★★☆🍭👒
✾ The Night Circus ★★★★☆💝🍓
✾ A Court of Mist and Fury: Rhysand’s POV ★★★★★💝🧸🌺🍓
✧*̥˚ December *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 19
✾ If Only I Had Told Her ★★★★☆💝🧸💔🍓
✾ One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market ★★★★☆
✾ Wrath of the Triple Goddess ★★★★☆🎀🧸🍓
✾ Say You Swear ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🍓
✾ Snow Blind: A Talisman Series Novella, Vol. 2.5 ★★★★☆🍓🌺💐
✾ Unraveled ★★★★☆🎀🧸
✾ Spy x Family, Vol. 1 ★★★★★🎀🧸🍓
✾ Promise Me Not ★★★★☆💝🍓
✾ Spy x Family, Vol. 2 ★★★★☆🍓
✾ Spy x Family, Vol. 3 ★★★☆☆🍓
✾ They Hate Each Other ★★★★★🎀💝🧸
✾ Things We Never Got Over ★★★★☆🎀💝🧸🍓
✾ Our Year of Maybe ★★☆☆☆
✾ Love Redesigned ★★★★☆🎀
✾ The Play ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ The Song of Achilles ★★★★★💝🧸💔🍓
✾ All the Lies ★★★★☆💗🍓
✾ All the Truths ★★★★★💗💝🍓
✾ The Dare ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🍓
ੈ✩‧₊˚don’t cry because it’s over. ⋆·˚ ༘ *
⋆·˚ ༘ * smile because it happened.ೃ࿐
˗ˏ✎*ೃ˚ my first time doing this. Feel free to give me some pointers and happy reading everyone!
ೃ⁀➷ warning: I’m a pretty generous rater so most of my books will be given four or five stars!
✧*̥˚ last updated *̥˚✧
✾ December 31, 2024
✧*̥˚ goal *̥˚✧
☑ read 150 books [267/150]
✧*̥˚ how I rate my books *̥˚✧
★★★★★: absolutely loved, one of my favorites. 100% recommend. Will read again.
★★★★☆: enjoyed it, but was missing something. Would recommend. Might read again.
★★★☆☆: not too bad, could’ve been better. Might recommend. Prob won’t read again. Rare rating.
★★☆☆☆: disappointing, wasn’t for me. Will not read again. Very rare rating.
★☆☆☆☆: regret reading it. Definitely not for me. Never given this rating before.
✧*̥˚ key *̥˚✧
✾ 🫧 - favorites
✾ 💕 - buddy read
✾ 💗 - dark romance
✾ 🎀 - cute
✾ 💝 - amazing romance/chemistry
✾ 🧸 - will recommend to anyone
✾ 🪐 - ‘holy shit’ ending
✾ 💔 - heartbreaking/I cried
✾ 🌺 - written review
✾ 💐 - free book for honest review/arcs
✾ 🍓 - ebook
✾ 💌 - reread
✾ 🍭 - annotated
✾ 👒 - books for school
✧*̥˚ January*̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 8
✾ Iron Flame ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ A Court of Thorns and Roses ★★★★☆
✾ A Court of Mist and Fury ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ A Court of Wings and Ruin ★★★★☆💝🧸
✾ A Court of Frost and Starlight ★★★☆☆
✾ A Court of Silver Flames ★★★★☆💝
✾ The Love Hypothesis ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸
✾ Case Closed, Vol. 89 ★★★★☆
✧*̥˚ February *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 22
✾ Shatter Me ★★★★☆
✾ Unravel Me ★★★★☆
✾ Unite Me ★★★★☆
✾ Ignite Me ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸
✾ Restore Me ★★★★★🫧🧸
✾ Defy Me ★★★★☆🪐
✾ Find Me ★★★★☆
✾ Imagine Me ★★★★☆🌺
✾ Believe Me ★★★★☆🎀
✾ Keeper of the Lost Cities ★★★★☆
✾ Exile ★★★★★🫧
✾ Everblaze ★★★★☆
✾ Forge ★★★★☆
✾ Neverseen ★★★★★🪐
✾ Lodestar ★★★★☆🪐
✾ Love, Theoretically ★★★★★🫧💝🎀🧸
✾ Nightfall ★★★★★🫧
✾ Flashback ★★★★☆
✾ Legacy ★★★★☆🎀🪐
✾ Unlocked ★★★★☆🪐
✾ Stellarlune ★★★★☆🫧💝🪐
✾ Ashes ★★★★☆
✧*̥˚ March *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 23
✾ The Fellowship of the Ring ★★★★☆
✾ The Two Towers ★★★★☆
✾ The Return of the King ★★★★☆
✾ My Fault ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ Your Fault ★★★★☆🪐
✾ Our Fault ★★★★☆
✾ Heartless ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐💔🌺
✾ Lessons in Chemistry ★★★★☆
✾ Caraval ★★★★☆🪐
✾ Love on the Brain ★★★★☆ 🎀
✾ Legendary ★★★★★🫧💝🪐🌺
✾ Finale ★★★★★💝
✾ The Lightning Thief ★★★★☆
✾ The Sea of Monsters ★★★★☆
✾ The Titan’s Curse ★★★★★🫧🧸
✾ Check & Mate ★★★★☆ 🎀
✾ The Battle of the Labyrinth ★★★★☆
✾ The Last Olympian ★★★★☆
✾ Icebreaker ★★★★☆🎀
✾ The Lost Hero ★★★★☆🪐🌺
✾ The Son of Neptune ★★★★☆
✾ The Search for Synergy ★★★☆☆🌺💐🍓
✾ The Mark of Athena ★★★★☆🎀💝🧸🪐
✧*̥˚ April *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 20
✾ Wildfire ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ The House of Hades ★★★★☆💝🧸
✾ The Blood of Olympus ★★★★★
✾ The Hidden Oracle ★★★★☆
✾ The Dark Prophecy ★★★☆☆
✾ The Burning Maze ★★★★☆🌺
✾ The Tyrant’s Tomb ★★★★☆🌺
✾ Riders of Fire and Ice ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ The Tower of Nero ★★★★☆🫧🌺
✾ Windy City Ruins ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ The Battle for Verdana ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ Mindset: How You Can Fulfill Your Potential ★★★☆☆
✾ The Sun and the Star: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🌺
✾ Fahrenheit 451 ★★★☆☆
✾ Slumber of Silence: A Talisman Series Novella, Vol. 4.5 ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ Desperate Tides, Desperate Measures ★★★★★🌺💐🍓
✾ The Taste of Storm and Brine: A Talisman Series Novella, Vol. 5.5 ★★★★★🌺💐🍓
✾ Case Closed, Vol. 90 ★★★★☆
✾ Fourth Wing ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🌺💌
✾ Iron Flame ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺💌
✧*̥˚ May *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 18
✾ King of Wrath ★★★★★💝🧸
✾ King of Pride ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ King of Greed ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ Once Upon a Broken Heart ★★★★☆
✾ The Ballad of Never After ★★★★★🪐
✾ A Curse for True Love ★★★★★🧸
✾ Heartless ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐💔🌺💌
✾ Scarlet ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💌
✾ Cress ★★★★★🫧 🎀💝🧸💌
✾ Winter ★★★★★🧸💌
✾ Haunting Adeline ★★★★☆💗🪐🍓
✾ Hunting Adeline ★★★★☆💗🍓
✾ King of Sloth ★★★★☆
✾ The Assassin’s Blade ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐💔🌺
✾ Throne of Glass ★★★★☆
✾ Crown of Midnight ★★★★☆🌺
✾ Heir of Fire ★★★★☆🌺
✾ Queen of Shadows ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✧*̥˚ June *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 28
✾ Empire of Storms ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ Tower of Dawn ★★★★☆💝🌺
✾ The Dragnet Prophecy ★★★★☆💌
✾ Kingdom of Ash ★★★★★🫧🧸🌺
✾ Night Shift ★★★★☆🎀
✾ Bride ★★★★★🌺
✾ Fourth Wing ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🌺💌
✾ A Dragon’s Dyne ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ The Wicked King ★★★★☆💝🧸🪐🌺💌
✾ The Hobbit ★★★☆☆
✾ Iron Flame ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺💌
✾ Not in Love ★★★★★🌺
✾ Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! ★★★★☆
✾ Loathe to Love You ★★★★☆🎀💝🌺
✾ Twisted Love ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ Wealth Warrior: 8 Steps for Communities of Color to Conquer the Stock Market ★★★★☆
✾ Twisted Games ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🌺🍓
✾ Powerless ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ Twisted Hate ★★★★★💝🌺
✾ Twisted Lies ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🌺🍓
✾ Powerful ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐💔🌺
✾ ”A Light in the House”: Book One ★★☆☆☆🌺💐🍓
✾ Dance of Thieves ★★★★☆💝
✾ Vow of Thieves ★★★★☆💝
✾ My Fault ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🍓💌
✾ New Moon ★★★★ ★🫧💝🧸🍓💌
✾ Eclipse ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🍓💌
✾ The Stolen Heir ★★★★★🪐🌺
✧*̥˚ July *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 31
✾ Life and Death: Twilight reimagined ★★★★☆💝🍓💌
✾ The Prisoner’s Throne ★★★★★💝🧸
✾ The Fine Print ★★★★☆💝🌺
✾ The Hunger Games ★★★★★🫧🧸💔🍓💌
✾ Terms and Conditions ★★★★★💝
✾ City of Bones ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ City of Ashes ★★★★★🧸🌺
✾ City of Glass ★★★★☆💝🌺
✾ City of Fallen Angels ★★★★☆💝🪐
✾ If We Ever Meet Again ★★★★☆🌺
✾ Breaking Dawn ★★★★☆💝🍓💌
✾ If the Sun Never Sets ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ The Chalice of the Gods ★★★★☆🍓
✾ If Love Had a Price ★★★★☆
✾ City of Lost Souls ★★★★☆
✾ If We Were Perfect ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ God of Malice ★★★★☆💗🍓
✾ Better Than the Movies ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸
✾ Cruel King ★★★★☆💗🍓
✾ Deviant King ★★★★★💗🪐🍓
✾ Steel Princess ★★★★★💗🪐🍓
✾ Twisted Kingdom ★★★★★🫧💗💝🍓
✾ City of Heavenly Fire ★★★★☆💝🧸🌺
✾ Binding 13 ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ You’ve Reached Sam ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🌺
✾ Keeping 13 ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔
✾ Saving 6 ★★★★☆🧸
✾ Redeeming 6 ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔
✾ Sweet Revenge ★★★★☆🍓
✾ The Summer of Broken Rules ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🍓
✾ The Maze Runner ★★★★☆💔🍓
✧*̥˚ August *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 27
✾ The Scorch Trails ★★★★☆🍓
✾ The Death Cure ★★★★☆🪐💔🍓
✾ The Kill Order ★★★☆☆🍓
✾ Final Offer ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🌺
✾ The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time ★★★★☆
✾ Case Closed, Vol. 91 ★★★★☆
✾ Wildfire: A Talisman Series Novella, ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ Reckless ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ A Thousand Boy Kisses ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🌺
✾ Black Knight ★★★★★💗💝🍓
✾ Hooked ★★★☆☆💗
✾ Scarred ★★★★☆💗
✾ Vicious Prince ★★★★☆💗💝🍓
✾ Ruthless Empire ★★★★★💗💝🌺🍓
✾ Royal Elite Epilogue ★★★★★🫧💗🎀💝🧸🌺🍓
✾ What Happens After Midnight ★★★★☆🎀🍓
✾ God of Pain ★★★★☆💗🌺🍓
✾ God of Wrath ★★★★★💗💝🍓
✾ God of Ruin ★★★★★💗💝🍓
✾ Heartless ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐💔🌺🍓💌
✾ God of Fury ★★★★★🫧💗💝🧸🍓
✾ The Inheritance Games ★★★★★💕🧸🪐🌺
✾ Maybe Meant to Be ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🍓
✾ The Hawthorne Legacy ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🌺
✾ Fourth Wing ★★★★★🫧💕💝🧸💔🌺💌🍓
✾ The Final Gambit ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🍓
✾ The Wren in the Holly Library ★★★★☆
✧*̥˚ September *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 32
✾ Daydream ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ The Fever Code ★★★★☆🍓
✾ The Brothers Hawthorne ★★★★☆
✾ Karma and Revenge: Angels from hell duet. ★★★★☆💝🧸🪐🌺💐🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1 ★★★☆☆🍓
✾ The Cruel Prince ★★★★☆🍓💌
✾ A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder ★★★★☆
✾ Heartless Hero ★★★☆☆💗🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 2 ★★★☆☆
✾ Stolen Soulmate ★★★☆☆💗🍓
✾ Pain’s Liberation ★★★★☆🎀💝🌺💐🍓
✾ Taming 7 ★★★★★🫧💝🧸
✾ The Hunger Games ★★★★★🫧🧸💔💌🍭👒
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 3 ★★★☆☆🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 4 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 5 ★★★★☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 6 ★★★☆☆
✾ The Deal ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 7 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 8 ★★★★★🫧💔
✾ Throne of Power ★★★☆☆💗🪐🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 9 ★★★★☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 10 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 11 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 12 ★★★★☆
✾ Once Upon a Broken Heart ★★★★☆💌
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 13 ★★★★☆💔
✾ The Mistake ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Throne of Vengeance ★★★★☆💗💝🍓
✾ The Score ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 14 ★★★★☆
✾ The Curse: Nyx Saga Part One: Mafia/Billionaire Reverse Harem, Poly ★★★☆☆💗🌺🍓
✧*̥˚ October *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 21
✾ The Goal ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 15 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 16 ★★★★☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 17 ★★★★☆
✾ The Sun Is Also a Star ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ God of War ★★★★☆💗💝🍓
✾ The Legacy ★★★★☆🎀💝🧸🍓
✾ Forbidden Fate ★★★☆☆💗🍓
✾ Nothing Like the Movies ★★★★☆🎀💝
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 18 ★★★★☆💔🍓
✾ If He Had Been with Me ★★★★☆💝🧸💔🍓
✾ A Thousand Broken Pieces ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔
✾ Heartstopper: Volume One ★★★★☆🎀🍓🌺
✾ Heartstooper: Volume Two ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Heartstopper: Volume Three ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ Heartstopper: Volume Four ★★★★☆ 🎀🍓
✾ Nature Fairies ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🌺💐🍓
✾ Heartstopper: Volume Five ★★★★☆🎀🍓
✾ Red, White, & Royal Blue ★★★★★🎀💝🧸🍓
✾ Nick and Charlie: A Heartstopper Novella ★★★☆☆🎀
✾ Case Closed, Vol. 92 ★★★★☆🪐
✧*̥˚ November *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 18
✾ Fairies of Death ★★★★☆💝🧸🌺💐🍓
✾ The Striker ★★★★★💝🧸🌺
✾ House of Earth and Blood ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🌺
✾ The Chase ★★★★☆🎀💝🧸
✾ House of Sky and Breath ★★★★★🫧💝🧸🪐🌺
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 19 ★★★☆☆
✾ House of Flame and Shadow ★★★★★💝🧸
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 20 ★★★☆☆
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 21 ★★★★☆💔
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 22 ★★★★☆
✾ Binding 13 ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🧸🪐🌺💌
✾ RUNNIN’ NO MORE ★★★★☆🌺💐🍓
✾ Spectacular ★★★★★🎀💝🧸
✾ The Risk ★★★★★🎀💝🍓
✾ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, ★★★★★🧸💔
✾ Just Mercy ★★★★☆🍭👒
✾ The Night Circus ★★★★☆💝🍓
✾ A Court of Mist and Fury: Rhysand’s POV ★★★★★💝🧸🌺🍓
✧*̥˚ December *̥˚✧
╰┈➤ Total ✿ 19
✾ If Only I Had Told Her ★★★★☆💝🧸💔🍓
✾ One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market ★★★★☆
✾ Wrath of the Triple Goddess ★★★★☆🎀🧸🍓
✾ Say You Swear ★★★★★🫧💝🧸💔🍓
✾ Snow Blind: A Talisman Series Novella, Vol. 2.5 ★★★★☆🍓🌺💐
✾ Unraveled ★★★★☆🎀🧸
✾ Spy x Family, Vol. 1 ★★★★★🎀🧸🍓
✾ Promise Me Not ★★★★☆💝🍓
✾ Spy x Family, Vol. 2 ★★★★☆🍓
✾ Spy x Family, Vol. 3 ★★★☆☆🍓
✾ They Hate Each Other ★★★★★🎀💝🧸
✾ Things We Never Got Over ★★★★☆🎀💝🧸🍓
✾ Our Year of Maybe ★★☆☆☆
✾ Love Redesigned ★★★★☆🎀
✾ The Play ★★★★☆🎀💝🍓
✾ The Song of Achilles ★★★★★💝🧸💔🍓
✾ All the Lies ★★★★☆💗🍓
✾ All the Truths ★★★★★💗💝🍓
✾ The Dare ★★★★★🫧🎀💝🍓
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December 23, 2024✧ 2024 on goodreads ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖࣪
ᯓ ✮ ๋࣭ ⭑ goals
☐ read 40 books (30/40)
☒ buddy read for the first time
☐ buddy read with 5 people (2/5)
☒ explore more genres
☒ apply for arcs
☒ prioritize physical tbr
☒ write reviews
ᯓ ᡣ𐭩 ₊˚⊹ anticipated releases
➳ a tempest of tea | feb 20
➳ the reappearance of rachel price | apr 2
➳ the rule book | apr 2
➳ just for the summer | apr 2
➳ the familiar | apr 9
➳ past present future | jun 4
➳ reckless | jul 2
➳ the grandest game | jul 30
➳ nothing like the movies | sep 24
➳ a song to drown rivers | oct 1
➳ spectacular | oct 22
➳ games untold | nov 12
ᯓ .𖥔 ๋ reread
➳ a good girl's guide to murder (3/3)
➳ the inheritance games (0/3)
➳ better than the movies
➳ the summer of broken rules
ᯓ ୭ ˚.ᐟ key
🫧 - fav of all time
💿 - reread
🖇 - buddy read
📃 - arc
🗒 - dnf
🪩 - monthly fav
🌧 - did not enjoy
────── ⋆⭒⋅✮⋅⭒⋆ ──────
i. january ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ six of crows - 5 ✰ 🫧
➳ crooked kingdom - 5 ✰ 🫧🪩
➳ king of scars - 3.5 ✰
➳ today tonight tomorrow - 4 ✰
➳ maybe meant to be - 3.5 ✰
ii. february ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ rule of wolves - 4 ✰
➳ divine rivals - 5 ✰ 🫧🪩
➳ ruthless vows - 3.5 ✰
➳ if you could see the sun - 4 ✰
➳ i wish you would - 3.5 ✰ 📃
➳ this time it's real - 5 ✰ 🫧
iii. march ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ i hope this doesn't find you - 4 ✰ 🖇️ with hanna
➳ this night is ours - 2.5 ✰ 📃🌧
➳ masks of faded dreams - 1.5 ✰ 📃🌧🖇️ with jae
➳ picking daisies on sundays - 4.75 ✰ 🪩
➳ a kingdom of souls and shadows - 📃🗒🌧
iv. april ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ the reappearance of rachel price - 4.5 ✰
➳ wild about you - 4 ✰ 📃
➳ a good girl's guide to murder - 5 ✰ 💿🫧
➳ good girl, bad blood - 5 ✰ 💿🫧
➳ as good as dead - 5 ✰ 💿🫧
➳ powerless - 5 ✰ 🫧🪩
v. may ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ six more months of june - 3 ✰ 📃
vii. july ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ powerful - 4 ✰
ix. september ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ i am not jessica chen - 4 ✰ 📃
➳ the seven year slip - 4.5 ✰ 🪩
➳ the housemaid - 3.5 ✰
x. october ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ renegades - 3 ✰
➳ archenemies - 4 ✰ 🪩
➳ supernova - 4 ✰
➳ a tempest of tea - 3 ✰
────── ⋆⭒⋅✮⋅⭒⋆ ──────
˚₊‧ ꒰ 2024 wrap-up ꒱ ‧₊˚
total books read: 30
fav series: six of crows
fav standalone: this time it's real
fav author: ann liang
˚₊‧ ꒰ top 5 ꒱ ‧₊˚
1. crooked kingdom
2. six of crows
3. this time it's real
4. divine rivals
5. powerless
ᯓ ✮ ๋࣭ ⭑ goals
☐ read 40 books (30/40)
☒ buddy read for the first time
☐ buddy read with 5 people (2/5)
☒ explore more genres
☒ apply for arcs
☒ prioritize physical tbr
☒ write reviews
ᯓ ᡣ𐭩 ₊˚⊹ anticipated releases
ᯓ .𖥔 ๋ reread
➳ the inheritance games (0/3)
➳ better than the movies
➳ the summer of broken rules
ᯓ ୭ ˚.ᐟ key
🫧 - fav of all time
💿 - reread
🖇 - buddy read
📃 - arc
🗒 - dnf
🪩 - monthly fav
🌧 - did not enjoy
────── ⋆⭒⋅✮⋅⭒⋆ ──────
i. january ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ six of crows - 5 ✰ 🫧
➳ crooked kingdom - 5 ✰ 🫧🪩
➳ king of scars - 3.5 ✰
➳ today tonight tomorrow - 4 ✰
➳ maybe meant to be - 3.5 ✰
ii. february ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ rule of wolves - 4 ✰
➳ divine rivals - 5 ✰ 🫧🪩
➳ ruthless vows - 3.5 ✰
➳ if you could see the sun - 4 ✰
➳ i wish you would - 3.5 ✰ 📃
➳ this time it's real - 5 ✰ 🫧
iii. march ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ i hope this doesn't find you - 4 ✰ 🖇️ with hanna
➳ this night is ours - 2.5 ✰ 📃🌧
➳ masks of faded dreams - 1.5 ✰ 📃🌧🖇️ with jae
➳ picking daisies on sundays - 4.75 ✰ 🪩
➳ a kingdom of souls and shadows - 📃🗒🌧
iv. april ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ the reappearance of rachel price - 4.5 ✰
➳ wild about you - 4 ✰ 📃
➳ a good girl's guide to murder - 5 ✰ 💿🫧
➳ good girl, bad blood - 5 ✰ 💿🫧
➳ as good as dead - 5 ✰ 💿🫧
➳ powerless - 5 ✰ 🫧🪩
v. may ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ six more months of june - 3 ✰ 📃
vii. july ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ powerful - 4 ✰
ix. september ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ i am not jessica chen - 4 ✰ 📃
➳ the seven year slip - 4.5 ✰ 🪩
➳ the housemaid - 3.5 ✰
x. october ᝰ.ᐟ
➳ renegades - 3 ✰
➳ archenemies - 4 ✰ 🪩
➳ supernova - 4 ✰
➳ a tempest of tea - 3 ✰
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total books read: 30
fav series: six of crows
fav standalone: this time it's real
fav author: ann liang
˚₊‧ ꒰ top 5 ꒱ ‧₊˚
1. crooked kingdom
2. six of crows
3. this time it's real
4. divine rivals
5. powerless
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