#bookish december

[lone-nyctophile]

[champagnexowishes]

[bookishlyvintage]

Goodbye November, Hello December ~

[bellasbookclub]

Fairy Tale December is SO BACK 🥀🏰🐾

Why is the tale of Beauty and the Beast inherently wintercore? Doesn't matter, it just is—which is why BBC's December book is fairy tale retelling Beauty by Robin McKinley! Read the book before the last rose petal falls and then join us for our Discord discussion on Christmas Adam December 23rd. Fairy tale? More like furry tale 🌹✨

Discord discussion: Monday 12/23 8 PM EST | Tuesday 12/24 11 AM AEST

***note: Robin McKinley has written two novels that are Beauty and the Beast retellings. We are reading the one entitled Beauty ✅, NOT the one called Rose Daughter ⛔

Join the Storygraph readalong here!

Bella’s Book Club is an interactive virtual book club created by the Three Books One Plot podcast. Our monthly Discord discussions are open to all! More info here.

[sheiswisenbonkers]

"It's winter

But I am warm Because, I'm holding a book"

©sheiswisenbonkers

[franticvampirereads]

December has been one of my most successful reading months in a really long time! I think I finished 9 (?) book and I honestly don’t remember the last time that happened. 😊 So, here’s what I read in this month:

Circle of Magic books 1 & 2 5 ⭐️ {review}

Shelter In Garnet Run 5 ⭐️ {review}

A Short Holiday 4 ⭐️

A Reluctant Santa 4 ⭐️ {review}

Santa’s Favorite DNF @ 50%

Victor & Nora: A Gotham Love Story 3.25 ⭐️ {review}

Captive Prince 5⭐️ {review}

The Training of Erasmus 4⭐️

Let Your Hearts Be Light -currently reading and hoping to have done before midnight!

My favorite books this month were Shelter In Garnet Run, Captive Prince, and Let Your Hearts Be Light. I’m so happy with everything I read this month!

[isbahstudio]

🌟 Winter Joy

Here are some small things bringing me joy this winter season:

🟣 Warm fuzzy socks in cute pastel colors.

🟣 Seeing public places and stores all decorated.

🟣 Cozy chocolate themed winter gift sets.

🟣 All the sales in stores and online.

🟣 My fresh stack of books to be read.

🟣 A warm mug of fluffy coffee.

🟣 The frosted lofthouse cookies.

🟣 Chilly walks in the evening amongst the bare trees.

🟣 The beautiful shades of the sky on a chill morning and on a crisp evening.

🟣 Watching TV and movies with family, huddled up in blankets on the couch.

🟣 Warm big bowls of popcorn.

🟣 New scents for the wax warmers in the house.

🟣 Days off from school and work.

🟣 The approaching of the new year with it's new possibilities.

[bookaddict24-7]

✨My final wrap up on 2023: My December wrap up!✨

I read 42 books.

25 of those books were ones I owned, the rest were from the library.

I DNFed 5 books.

My favourite book of the month was The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

My least favourite was Yours Truly.

How was your reading in December?

[misakizzzzz]

My current read : Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin which definitely is one of the best books I’ve ever read in my life.

[caffineandcoziness]

cozy winter days 🌨️

ig : chasiteyy

[books-and-strawberry-tea]

Okay, here’s my plan:

I have a few book preorders. And to be strict on myself about reading, to be able to keep the preorders, I have to read either the previous book or read the digital version on my kindle (some of the books haven’t released here physically so).

Here’s my preorders:

2024:

3 Dec - Scarlet Veil Deluxe Edition (this is an automatic keep cause it’s one of my fav books)

10 December - An Education in Malice (I have to read this digitally. For some reason Australia has no stock of this atm that I can find, but Amazon is getting stock soon)

2025:

21 Jan - Phantom (instantly getting this as I adore the Haunting Adeline series. This is also just a kindle book)

29 Jan - Immortal (to keep this preorder, I have to finish daughter of the moon goddess and heart of the sun warrior)

11 Feb - Scythe & Sparrow (have to finish leather and lark to keep this preorder)

2 April - The Shadow Bride (this is an instant keep. I’ve read The Scarlet Veil, as we know, it’s my favourite book so I have to read the next one instantly.)

8 April - My Funny Demon Valentine (have to read this book on my kindle to keep the preorders)

TBR Plan:

November:

An Education in Malice (have to read in November)❗️❗️❗️

Leather & Lark

Charm (personal goal: finish crave series before e.o.y)

Crescent city #1 (Nov - Dec)

The Thirteenth Child (personal goal: to be up to date with all Erin A Craig books)

December:

Daughter of the Moon Goddess (have to read)❗️❗️❗️

Heart of the Sun Warrior (have to read)❗️❗️❗️

My Funny Demon Valentine (have to read)❗️

Cherish (personal goal: finish crave series before e.o.y)

Audiobook:

A Court of Silver Flame (finish by e.o.y)

To Finish:

Breasts and Eggs

If You Have Spare Time: (please do these my god)

If You Could See The Sun

Belladonna

Starling House

Any Japanese Book

Frankenstein

Hunting Adeline (Where’s Molly - if finished)

Is this incredibly ambitious? Absolutely! But I have to try or I can’t get the books I really want.

Get to it Bek!

[godzilla-reads]

📚December Reading Wrapup 📚

In December I finished 13 books, bringing my yearly final total to 177 books finished! Here is the list, plus my Top 3 books have been starred:

❄️ The Ice Dragon by George R.R. Martin

🔥 Fire Punch Vol. 1 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

🧚 Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie by Charles Vess

🍄 The Hidden World of Gnomes by Lauren Soloy

🌈 Born This Gay by Babet Van De Schot

⭐️ The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

🧚‍♀️ The Good Neighbors by Holly Black and Ted Naifeh

⭐️ The Dragon Ark: Join the Quest to Save the Rarest Dragon on Earth by Emma Roberts and Tomislav Tomić

💤 The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz and Angela Barrett

🐸 How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black and Rovina Cai

⭐️ Heartstopper Vol. 5 by Alice Oseman

🐰 The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

🐲 Dragons by Wellern Polturnees and Elizabeth Ratisseau

[bookishlyvintage]

everything I read in december [& thoughts]

[oracleofmadness]

I just want to hug this book!!! I loved it so much for the comforting characters and the author's smooth storytelling. I am a huge fan of A.K. Mulford and this did not disappoint.

Calla is twin to the missing golden wolf princess, which, of course, makes Calla a missing princess too. They are the last of the golden wolves, wolf shifters, whose family were the monarchs of a kingdom. When Briar and Calla were born, an evil sorceress murdered their parents along with all the other golden wolves and took over their kingdom. Calla and Briar have been raised by a faerie who kept them safe until it was time for Briar to wed the prince of the silver wolves which also marked the time for both sisters to come out of hiding in secrecy. However, as per usual in any good book, things do not go as expected... at all.

Calla went through a journey in this story in more ways than one. There are so many meaningful and insightful quotes throughout this book that I definitely recommend a good highlighter or tabs for! Most meaningful to me is the author's incredibly kind and understanding way of expressing Calla's gender and the very real fears that go along with self-discovery. This not only made me feel seen but just so comforted by these characters (particularly Ora).

I definitely recommend this one!!

Out December 5, 2023!

Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!

[theletterboxstuff]

Okay everyone brace yourselves, the plot development months of the year are here

[franticvampirereads]

Hi, so…..I totally forgot to post my December TBR 😅. I’m already deep into some of my books and loving them. And I kind of maybe already threw part of this TBR out the window…🤦‍♀️. But that’s okay! Here’s what I planned and some of the other books that have snuck onto the TBR:

The Circle Of Magic book 1 -finished

The Circle Of Magic book 2 -currently reading

The Rivals of Casper Road -currently reading (almost done, still counting this as a November read)

Shelter In Garnet Run (snuck up on me)

Let Your Hearts Be Light

Victor & Nora A Gotham Love Story

Santa’s Favorite

The Circle of Magic book 3 (snuck up on me)

The Circle of Magic book 4 (snuck up on me)

A Reluctant Santa

Captive Prince

Us

I think my TBR might be a bit out of hand? But whatever, I’m just gonna roll with it. Wish me luck?