#2025 reading log

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2025 reading log:

it’s a love story - annabelle monaghan

intermezzo - sally rooney

animal farm - george orwell

all the bright places - jennifer niven

the house of my mother - shari franke

magnolia parks: the long way home - jessa hastings

the consequences of falling - liliana rose hastings (reread)

beg, borrow, or steal - sarah adams

i’ll paint you a sunset someday - bex alexander

play along - liz tomforde

exes and o’s - amy lea

whirlwind - kayla grosse

the favorites - layne fargo

unsteady - peyton corinne

twilight - stephenie meyer

well, actually - mazey eddings

reckless - elsie silver

deep end - ali hazelwood

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2025 Reading Log 📚

Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden - 3.25 ⭐️ (1/2)

The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz - 3.75 ⭐️ (1/14)

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters ‐ 4.75⭐️ (1/18)

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin - 4⭐️ (1/22)

Weyward by Emilia Hart - 3.5 ⭐️ (1/28)

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez - 4.5 ⭐️ (2/17)

The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo - 3.75 ⭐️ (2/24)

goodreads storygraph

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Started reading letter to his father last nigth before going to bed, sometimes therapy really isn't enough

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Not that there's anyone keeping up with my blog but I'm gonna start posting my reading log here :)))

Yes I listened to this on audiobook but to me it counts.

[astraydestiny]

NEW QUEST UNLOCKED: January Writing Month Challenge

ALLLLLLRIGHTY. ITS TIMEEEEEEEEE!

Time for January Writing Month!

Hey, i’m Kani/Kana! (I alternate between those two names) for those who don’t know me.

What most people don’t know about me, except for my lovely moots, is that I usually have a rotating schedule for my consistent writing (for my own sanity). My last writing month was November, and not it’s january! It’s pretty much like this:

January: Writing Quest

February: XP Farming (Inspo gathering/content consumption)

March: Writing Quest

April: XP Farming

May: Writing Quest

June: XP Farming

July: Writing Quest

August: XP Farming

September: Writing Quest

October: XP Farming

November: Writing Quest

December: XP Farming

Of course, you don’t have to stay within these boundaries, and you can write if you want to on the XP months! But on the Writing Quests, you HAVE to remain consistent to achieve a set goal of whatever amount of words you wish to achieve, by the end of the month,

If you want to participate with me of course, i usually do this, bc i have a BOOK TO FINISH!!!! Books plural actually, both reading and writing… And shows I wanna watch and movies i wanna watch but i just don’t feel motivated to watch them… BUT YK THATS WHY I MADE THIS SYSTEM THAT I’M ONY JUST NOW SHARING WITH THE WORLD!!

It’s very simple, and i’m sure other people pretty much came up with the same thing, just different names and stuff, but i guess the unique thing about it here is that you can get constant updates about my progress throughout the entire thing, and you can also like show ur progress thru reblogging or comment or smth i dunno ITS THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS!!!

Bc we’re motivating eachother and stuff

SO YEAH

Writing Quests can also be a lot of things, I know I listed one of them in one of the previous paragraphs but I’ll put a list of things you can do right here if ur not writing a book.

Assign a Word count to finish by the end of the month

Weekly Short Stories (1k-2k), written and edited

Analysis’s of Tales you like, and been wanting to do

Asks and requests for your own blogs

IDK PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING THAT INVOLVES WRITING TBH

A Writing Quest should also be fun by the way! So make it as fun as you can, don’t force yourself to write, write about what you like, or even just journal your thoughts! Just as long as you write and grow from the process!

Mmm that should be it. If ur interested then reblog probably idk

BUT YEAH! GL ON EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS AND IS INTERESTING I TRYING IT!

From a fellow writer,

-Kani

(Me rn bec its liek 12:30 on a school night after winter break i needa sleep istg)

[thefastestclockintheuniverse]

No one does it like Terezi.

[ofliterarynature]

2025 Reading Goals

Based on previous years (and barring any major life upheavals), I've again set my year total to 120! As part of that number, I would like to read:

12 owned tbr print books

12 owned tbr graphic novels

12 owned tbr audiobooks

25-in-25 (I'm working on a list I promise) it's here!

And for some non-numerical goals, I would like to:

Use star ratings in a way that reflects my love/like/okay ratings

Reorganize my bookshelves

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READING LOG No. 9: IRON FLAME (The Empyrean, Book 2) by Rebecca Yarros

Since this is a reread, I won't be writing a full review like normal. I'm just going to ramble about it. I liked this book when I first read it in 2023, but I love it now. Upon re-visit, I truly believe that this book elevated the first one and this one with a single detail: Xaden's second signet.

There is so much nuance now with every Xaden interaction. In Fourth Wing, you can see where he uses his signet on Violet, like when she's hiding in the tree and also when she's brooding the night before gauntlet. There are three moments in Iron Flame that are my favorite hints to his inntinnsic ability: first, when Varrish is trying to take Violet for their first interrogation test for RSC and Xaden is mentally telling Violet that Varrish plans to use that as a way to kill her; second, when he insists on meeting Jesinia and Violet's like, "so you can do your reading of her to test her trustworthiness," not knowing that is exactly why; and thirdly, when Xaden yells for Violet right before Aaric grabs at her and pulls her through the barrier in the archives. I figured he must have been using his second signet the whole time to monitor Aaric to ensure his compliance and dependability.

The way that Liam haunts the narrative as an emotional crutch was for both Violet and me. I love that he is still present, even if it was as a delusion. It is actually insane how deeply attached I, and many others, are to him from just one book. I cried again over his death during my reread of Fourth Wing. I hope he continues to haunt the narrative in the next three books.

With the wording used for the excerpts before each chapter, and keeping mind the fact that both books start with a disclaimer that the following story is a translation by Jesinia, I have a prediction for the way this series will end. I think our main cast of dragon riders are all going to die, including Violet and Xaden. I feel like the letters Xaden wrote to Violet wouldn't be listed as "recovered" if one of them had voluntarily handed them over to Jesinia so that she could add it to her records. I also think they were too personal and meaningful for either of them to hand them over. I, also, think that the tradition of burning possessions immediately after a death is going to be stopped for the exact reason of maintaining accurate archiving of information. So much of these books are about government censorship and rewritten history for propaganda and societal control.

I've read a lot of criticism about the pacing of the book, which I don't understand. I loved the pacing. I loved that it's split into two parts, because, at 600+ pages, Yarros could have easily split this into 2 books and that would've been annoying to me.

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2025 books read

Only If You're Lucky - Stacy Willingham (Dec 31-Jan 2)

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna (Jan 2-Jan 3)

Dracula (reread) - Bram Stoker (Jan 4-Jan 11)

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (Jan 6-Jan 15)

I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (Jan 13-Jan 16)

Evelina - Frances Burney (Jan 12-Jan 22)

Sunburn - Chloe Michelle Howarth (Jan 16-Jan 24)

Delilah Green Doesn't Care - Ashley Herring Blake (Jan 25-Jan 26)

Don't Let the Forest In - C.G. Drews (Jan 26-Feb 5)

The Invocations - Krystal Sutherland (Feb 9-Feb 14)

'Salem's Lot - Stephen King (Jan 25-Feb 14)

The Favorites - Layne Fargo (Feb 15-Feb 16)

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Reading log #1

January 2025

No Spoilers.

Books are in order of when I read them.

⭐-Favorite Read of the Month

#1 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

3/5. I think the content is great and it's a nice story but the narrative was just not my thing.

#2 Eat the World by MARINA

4/5. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Marina's voice is just so powerful and it was a gift to read.

#3 The Secret History by Donna Tartt

5/5. I enjoyed every second of this book.

#4 Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

2/5. Although the writing was beautiful I just couldn't get past the actual content. A decent book but I would not read it again.

#5 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

5/5. A great story, great symbolism, great writing, just absolute perfection.

#6 Don't let the Forest in by C. G. Drews⭐

5/5. Most definitely my favorite YA novel ever. This was an emotional rollercoaster and I could not stop reading.

#7 The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado

4/5. A beautiful and disturbing story that made me very emotional.

#8 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

3/5. There were parts I liked and parts I didn't, though the ending was absolute perfection.

#9 Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

4/5. More entertaining than I expected. A beautiful story of family and loss.

These are just my opinions and how much I enjoyed each piece, it does not mean one work is better than another.

[bunnny84]

✨2025📚

Reading List

I read just about every day.

Paper books, on my kindle, and audio books.

📖currently reading:

Quicksilver by Callie Hart

Zodiac Academy: Shadow Princess by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valent

The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer Armentrout

Barbarian’s Touch by Ruby Dixon

📚Books I’ve finished:

Don’t Eat the Pie by Monique Asher

Iron Flame(reread) by Rebecca Yarros

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer Armentrout

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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the books i have read in 2025, updated as i read them:

All Systems Red by Martha Wells / finished 01/04/25

Genre: Sci-fi

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

Thoughts: this book is....so impressive?? it's so short but I got attached to it so fast. murderbot is so good I want a hundred more stories with murderbot omfg

[shazzeaslightnovels]

February 2025

(Series: Makeine | Artist: Imigimuru)

Usually I would do my top 5 2025 anime here but I ended up doing it on twitter this year as it was easier to format for me.

List of Reviews:

Sword Oratoria 15

Makeine 1

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Very late but here is the reading log I made for February! Sized for insta stories

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READING LOG No. 13: ALL YOU WANT by Senlinyu

Status: First-Time Read

Log: February 2025

Honestly, I should've expected this to be mainly smut, considering it's an omegaverse fic. The plot that it did have was intriguing, though. The massive communication issues were driving me insane, but they were all resolved in the end. Interesting how different this was written compared to Manacled (which is the only other Senlinyu fic I have read).

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2025 Goals

Happy Tuesday Nerds! These are my 2025 goals when it comes to my reading. I kept it quite simple this year as I have started a new job and am not sure what kind of hours I will continue to get. I always achieve to do better than my goals set but at least I have given myself a starting point. 75 books read this year.This is a pretty easy goal for myself as I normally read 100 or more. However I…