Waiting on Wednesday #767, January 21st

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating!


Expected Publication:
From Goodreads:
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What about you guys? Happy reading! 

WWW Wednesday #771, January 21st

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?

Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme! And thanks now to Taking on a World of Words for reviving it! 

What about you guys? Happy reading!

Teaser Tuesday #771, January 20th

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Ambrosia of The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Today's teaser comes from , page .

"."

What about you guys? Happy reading!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #763, January 19th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #762
Teaser Tuesday #770
WWW Wednesday #770
WOW #766
Will the Time Come #763
Third Sentence Thursday #753
Random Reads #739
First Lines Friday #766
Book Blogger Hop #432
The Reward Challenge Update #748
Wheel of TBR #295
How Well I Stuck to It #600
Wrote that Review Update #597

Week 3 Reviews:

OK, so I got  posts in 7 days, What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read 

Wrote that Review Update #597, January 18th

If you want to participate, set a certain amount of reviews to write, and once you make that goal, you can get a reward!

My reviews to reward is writing all of the reviews of the week, and I motivated myself to write my review for , so I have  of  reviews written!

And as always, I want to review this week's reviews!

What about you guys? Happy reading!

How Well I Stuck to It #600, January 18th

So I decided that I should have accountability on sticking to what should be in a week, so I'm doing How Well I Stuck to It every Sunday, because my schedule should be fixed in by now!

NetGalley: #. Check.

Edelweiss: #. Check.

New Books: #. Check.





vs.



What about you guys? Happy reading!

Wheel of TBR #295, January 18th

I saw Codie's Book Corner doing the Wheel of TBR, and I thought that sounded like a great way to pick what to read from your TBR. So thanks to her! I'll only do 3 spins, because I'm doing this every week, and so it won't make up my total TBR of the week, but it'll be a start!

Rules:

1. For each week of the month, I'll do 3 spins each week to read each week though I do have the rest of the month to read them. Once a prompt is used, I'll randomly choose one from the list, keeping track of how often a colour comes up. If colour comes up 3 or more times in month, I'll do another spin once it comes up 3 times.

2. If I don't read a book that week or at least start it before the end of the month, then for my next week of spins, I have to add a punishment for each book unread. I'll roll for each unread book, and have to apply each and every punishment chosen to the week.

3. Each month I'll get a prompt from my Binge Read Wheel (either specifically picking the prompt, or spinning the wheel) and I have to read at least 9 books, though I can read more!

Of the books from the last week, I read

Binge Read Wheel:

For this month, the wheel picked/I chose . I read  , so I've read /9+.

This week I read the past wheel picks of , so I have  past spins left,

Prompts Used This Week:


Colour Totals:
Red:
Orange:
Yellow:
Chartreuse:
Green:
Spring Green:
Cyan:
Azure:
Blue:
Violet:
Magenta:
Rose:

Prompts for Next Week:


So those are some of the books I'm going to try to read this week. What about you guys? Happy reading!

The Reward Challenge Update #748, January 18th

The Reward Challenge is almost the complete opposite to a book buying ban as you'll end up buying lots of new books throughout the challenge but only after you've completed a certain amount of reading. It was hosted by Good Golly Miss Holly, so thanks to her for starting it!

OK, so I read

which counts twice/times as a ,

which counts twice/times as a .

So I have  counts which translates to $ this week! I'll use it to buy books!

Book Blogger Hop #432, January 16th

Book Blogger Hop

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer's permission, Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here! 

Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop's purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Question of the week is:

First Lines Friday #766, January 16th

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!


""-

What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Random Reads #739, January 15th

Random Reads is a monthly meme (that I'm going to do weekly) hosted by I'm Loving Books to read some books that have been on our TBR piles for a long time. Using Random.org, I got  which turned out to be ! It's been on my TBR pile since , 20, and I added it because ! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Third Sentence Thursday #753, January 15th

Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme which likes to watch fireworks especially while eating a cookie!

1) Take the book you are currently reading and open it to a random page. Share the third full sentence on that page. (If there isn't a third one – like at the end of a chapter or a blank page – you can share the third sentence of the book or just choose another random page.) Feel free to share more than one sentence, if you feel the need to do so.

2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)

3) Post a link to your sentence at Words I Write Crazy (This Blog)

4) Visit one or two of the other blogs to check out their third sentences!

"" - by , page .



What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!

Will the Time Come #763, January 15th

Every Thursday I am going to list a book which I really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! Thanks to Jodie from Books for Company for this meme!

Want to Join?

-Pick a book you have been meaning to read

-Do a post telling us about the book    

-Link the post up in the linky  

-Visit the other blogs

From Goodreads:

d

Why the time hasn't come yet...

What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Waiting on Wednesday #766, January 14th

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating!


Expected Publication:
From Goodreads:
d

What about you guys? Happy reading! 

WWW Wednesday #770, January 14th

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?

Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme! And thanks now to Taking on a World of Words for reviving it! 

What about you guys? Happy reading!

Teaser Tuesday #770, January 13th

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Ambrosia of The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Today's teaser comes from , page .

"."

What about you guys? Happy reading!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #762, January 12th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #761
Teaser Tuesday #769
WWW Wednesday #769
WOW #765
Will the Time Come #762
Third Sentence Thursday #752
Random Reads #738
First Lines Friday #765
Book Blogger Hop #431
The Reward Challenge Update #747
Wheel of TBR #294
How Well I Stuck to It #599
Wrote that Review Update #596

Week 2 Reviews:

OK, so I got  posts in 7 days, What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read 

Wrote that Review Update #596, January 11th

If you want to participate, set a certain amount of reviews to write, and once you make that goal, you can get a reward!

My reviews to reward is writing all of the reviews of the week, and I motivated myself to write my review for , so I have  of  reviews written!

And as always, I want to review this week's reviews!

What about you guys? Happy reading!

How Well I Stuck to It #599, January 11th

So I decided that I should have accountability on sticking to what should be in a week, so I'm doing How Well I Stuck to It every Sunday, because my schedule should be fixed in by now!

NetGalley: #. Check.

Edelweiss: #. Check.

New Books: #. Check.





vs.



What about you guys? Happy reading!

Wheel of TBR #294, January 11th

I saw Codie's Book Corner doing the Wheel of TBR, and I thought that sounded like a great way to pick what to read from your TBR. So thanks to her! I'll only do 3 spins, because I'm doing this every week, and so it won't make up my total TBR of the week, but it'll be a start!

Rules:

1. For each week of the month, I'll do 3 spins each week to read each week though I do have the rest of the month to read them. Once a prompt is used, I'll randomly choose one from the list, keeping track of how often a colour comes up. If colour comes up 3 or more times in month, I'll do another spin once it comes up 3 times.

2. If I don't read a book that week or at least start it before the end of the month, then for my next week of spins, I have to add a punishment for each book unread. I'll roll for each unread book, and have to apply each and every punishment chosen to the week.

3. Each month I'll get a prompt from my Binge Read Wheel (either specifically picking the prompt, or spinning the wheel) and I have to read at least 9 books, though I can read more!

Of the books from the last week, I read

Binge Read Wheel:

For this month, the wheel picked/I chose . I read  , so I've read /9+.

This week I read the past wheel picks of , so I have  past spins left,

Prompts Used This Week:


Colour Totals:
Red:
Orange:
Yellow:
Chartreuse:
Green:
Spring Green:
Cyan:
Azure:
Blue:
Violet:
Magenta:
Rose:

Prompts for Next Week:


So those are some of the books I'm going to try to read this week. What about you guys? Happy reading!

The Reward Challenge Update #747, January 11th

The Reward Challenge is almost the complete opposite to a book buying ban as you'll end up buying lots of new books throughout the challenge but only after you've completed a certain amount of reading. It was hosted by Good Golly Miss Holly, so thanks to her for starting it!

OK, so I read

which counts twice/times as a ,

which counts twice/times as a .

So I have  counts which translates to $ this week! I'll use it to buy books!

Book Blogger Hop #431, January 9th

Book Blogger Hop

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer's permission, Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here! 

Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop's purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Question of the week is:

First Lines Friday #765, January 9th

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!


""-

What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Random Reads #738, January 8th

Random Reads is a monthly meme (that I'm going to do weekly) hosted by I'm Loving Books to read some books that have been on our TBR piles for a long time. Using Random.org, I got  which turned out to be ! It's been on my TBR pile since , 20, and I added it because ! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Third Sentence Thursday #752, January 8th

Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme which likes to watch fireworks especially while eating a cookie!

1) Take the book you are currently reading and open it to a random page. Share the third full sentence on that page. (If there isn't a third one – like at the end of a chapter or a blank page – you can share the third sentence of the book or just choose another random page.) Feel free to share more than one sentence, if you feel the need to do so.

2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)

3) Post a link to your sentence at Words I Write Crazy (This Blog)

4) Visit one or two of the other blogs to check out their third sentences!

"" - by , page .



What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!

Will the Time Come #762, January 8th

Every Thursday I am going to list a book which I really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! Thanks to Jodie from Books for Company for this meme!

Want to Join?

-Pick a book you have been meaning to read

-Do a post telling us about the book    

-Link the post up in the linky  

-Visit the other blogs

From Goodreads:

d

Why the time hasn't come yet...

What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Waiting on Wednesday #765, January 7th

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating!


Expected Publication:
From Goodreads:
d

What about you guys? Happy reading! 

WWW Wednesday #769, January 7th

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?

Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme! And thanks now to Taking on a World of Words for reviving it! 

What about you guys? Happy reading!

Teaser Tuesday #769, January 6th

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Ambrosia of The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Today's teaser comes from , page .

"."

What about you guys? Happy reading!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #761, January 5th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #760
Teaser Tuesday #768
WWW Wednesday #768
WOW #764
Will the Time Come #761
Third Sentence Thursday #751
Random Reads #737
First Lines Friday #764
Book Blogger Hop #430
The Reward Challenge Update #746
Wheel of TBR #293
How Well I Stuck to It #598
Wrote that Review Update #595

Week 1 Reviews:

Random:

What I Wanted to Read in 2025

Series Started and Completed in 2025 Stats

Series Started and Current in 2025 Stats

Series Started and Unfinished in 2025 Stats

Series Continued and Completed 2025 Stats

Series Continued and Current 2025 Stats

Series Continued and Unfinished 2025 Stats

Series Read Master List 2025

Series Untouched in 2025 Stats

Books I Bought in 2025 Stats

Where I Got the Books From 2025

Stats of 2025 Wrap Up

2025 Reviews

Happy New Years!!! 2026 Version 

Best Books Read in 2025

Wheel of TBR Books to Pull From 2026

Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge 2026

A-Z Reading Challenge 2026

26 Books to Read in 2026

Monthly ARC's Master List 2026

Monthly Series Master List 2026

Series Untouched Master List 2026

OK, so I got  posts in 7 days, What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read 

Wrote that Review Update #595, January 4th

If you want to participate, set a certain amount of reviews to write, and once you make that goal, you can get a reward!

My reviews to reward is writing all of the reviews of the week, and I motivated myself to write my review for , so I have  of  reviews written!

And as always, I want to review this week's reviews!

What about you guys? Happy reading!

How Well I Stuck to It #598, January 4th

So I decided that I should have accountability on sticking to what should be in a week, so I'm doing How Well I Stuck to It every Sunday, because my schedule should be fixed in by now!

NetGalley: #. Check.

Edelweiss: #. Check.

New Books: #. Check.





vs.



What about you guys? Happy reading!

Wheel of TBR #293, January 4th

I saw Codie's Book Corner doing the Wheel of TBR, and I thought that sounded like a great way to pick what to read from your TBR. So thanks to her! I'll only do 3 spins, because I'm doing this every week, and so it won't make up my total TBR of the week, but it'll be a start!

Rules:

1. For each week of the month, I'll do 3 spins each week to read each week though I do have the rest of the month to read them. Once a prompt is used, I'll randomly choose one from the list, keeping track of how often a colour comes up. If colour comes up 3 or more times in month, I'll do another spin once it comes up 3 times.

2. If I don't read a book that week or at least start it before the end of the month, then for my next week of spins, I have to add a punishment for each book unread. I'll roll for each unread book, and have to apply each and every punishment chosen to the week.

3. Each month I'll get a prompt from my Binge Read Wheel (either specifically picking the prompt, or spinning the wheel) and I have to read at least 9 books, though I can read more!

Of the books from the last week, I read

Binge Read Wheel:

For this month, the wheel picked/I chose . I read  , so I've read /9+.

This week I read the past wheel picks of , so I have  past spins left,

Prompts Used This Week:


Colour Totals:
Red:
Orange:
Yellow:
Chartreuse:
Green:
Spring Green:
Cyan:
Azure:
Blue:
Violet:
Magenta:
Rose:

Prompts for Next Week:


So those are some of the books I'm going to try to read this week. What about you guys? Happy reading!

The Reward Challenge Update #746, January 4th

The Reward Challenge is almost the complete opposite to a book buying ban as you'll end up buying lots of new books throughout the challenge but only after you've completed a certain amount of reading. It was hosted by Good Golly Miss Holly, so thanks to her for starting it!

OK, so I read

which counts twice/times as a ,

which counts twice/times as a .

So I have  counts which translates to $ this week! I'll use it to buy books!

Monthly ARC's February Round Up

This is my monthly ARC accountability challenge, to list out the books that I have as ARC's that are being published in the coming month, rounding them up at the start of the month, and seeing how well I did at the end, as well as rounding up the next month's books. 

So how did I do last month? 

I read  of 15 books. 

So the ARC's that I have coming out in February are

NetGalley:

The Heir & the Spare by Harper L. Woods - February 3rd, 2026

Queen of Faces by Petra Lord - February 3rd, 2026

Heart's Gambit by J.D. Myal - February 3rd, 2026

The Cursed Queen's Daughter by Elly Blake - February 10th, 2026

Muscles & Monsters by Ashley Bennett - February 10th, 2026

Crown of War and Shadow by J.R. Ward - February 17th, 2026

The Beasts We Raise by D. L. Taylor - February 24th, 2026 

Edelweiss:

Amari and the Metalwork Menace by B. B. Alston - February 24th, 2026

8 books. Which is pretty doable, but I'm also getting a lot into manga and such, and I still haven't caught up with blogging. But I'll do my best! 

Monthly Series January Round Up

In 2026, I going to continue to focus on continuing series. So each month, I'll chose a series that I was current on in a previous year, but has since been continued. A series that I started or continued, but didn't catch up with what was currently published. A series that I haven't touched since 2020. A series that I read from this year, but still need to continue. A series that I haven't started yet, but have been meaning to. Then each month, I'll do one more series from one of these types, so I have 2, it'll just depend on what I'm planning on reading that month. The goal is to finish out as many series as I can, and keep current on the series that are still ongoing. 

So how did I do last month? 

This month I've chosen which series, and the ones that got chosen and I'm going to be reading this month are:

Current in a Previous Year:

Unfinished in a Previous Year:

Untouched Since 2020:

Series from This Year:

Series to Start:

Book Blogger Hop #430, January 2nd

Book Blogger Hop

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer's permission, Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here! 

Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop's purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Question of the week is:

First Lines Friday #764, January 2nd

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!


""-

What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Monthly ARC's February Round Up

This is my monthly ARC accountability challenge, to list out the books that I have as ARC's that are being published in the coming month, rounding them up at the start of the month, and seeing how well I did at the end, as well as rounding up the next month's books. 

So how did I do last month? 

I read # of # books.

So the ARC's that I have coming out in February are

NetGalley:

Edelweiss:

Random Reads #737, January 1st

Random Reads is a monthly meme (that I'm going to do weekly) hosted by I'm Loving Books to read some books that have been on our TBR piles for a long time. Using Random.org, I got  which turned out to be ! It's been on my TBR pile since , 20, and I added it because ! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Third Sentence Thursday #751, January 1st

Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme which likes to watch fireworks especially while eating a cookie!

1) Take the book you are currently reading and open it to a random page. Share the third full sentence on that page. (If there isn't a third one – like at the end of a chapter or a blank page – you can share the third sentence of the book or just choose another random page.) Feel free to share more than one sentence, if you feel the need to do so.

2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)

3) Post a link to your sentence at Words I Write Crazy (This Blog)

4) Visit one or two of the other blogs to check out their third sentences!

"" - by , page .



What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!

Will the Time Come #761, January 1st

Every Thursday I am going to list a book which I really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! Thanks to Jodie from Books for Company for this meme!

Want to Join?

-Pick a book you have been meaning to read

-Do a post telling us about the book    

-Link the post up in the linky  

-Visit the other blogs

From Goodreads:

d

Why the time hasn't come yet...

What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Series Untouched Master List 2026

So this is going to be the yearly master list of the series I started prior to 2024, haven't touched since 2020, and haven't thought of picking up in 2024 to what's been currently published, that I can think of and find are:

Seers by Heather Frost

Katana by Cole Gibsen

Elemental by Brigid Kemmerer

The Violet Eden Chapters by Jessica Shirvington

The Sweetest Dark by Shana Abe

Front Lines by Michael Grant

Dark Angels by Keri Arthur 

At Somerton by Leila Rasheed

The Lost Souls by Tiffany Truitt

The Aquarathi by Amalie Howard

Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

The Twixt by Dawn Metcalf

Splintered by A.G. Howard

Chronicles of a Reluctant Necromancer by Melanie Card

Hundred Oaks by Miranda Kenneally

Creative HeArts by Various

Demon Underground by Parker Blue

Black Knights Inc. by Julie Ann Walker

Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck

Darklyn by Lynn Viehl

13 to Life by Shannon Delany

Dragonfire by Deborah Cooke

Edilean by Jude Deveraux

Dark Gothic by Eve Silver

Jack Reacher by Lee Child

Savage by Tamara Rose Blodgett

Fallen World by Megan Crewe

Sky Chasers by Amy Kathleen Ryan 

XVI by Julia Karr 

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

Dust Lands by Moira Young

Num8ers by Rachel Ward

Mercy by Rebecca Lim

Pure by Julianna Baggott

The Hunted by Jordan Dane

Dead Wrong by Jami Alden

Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick

The Demon Trappers by Jana Oliver

Shades of London by Maureen Johnson

Fairytale Retellings by Jackson Pearce

Fury by Elizabeth Miles

House of Night by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne

Angel Eyes by Shannon Dittemore

Angel by L.A. Weatherly

No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz

Woodcutter Sisters by Alethea Kontis

Revenants by Amy Plum

Gods & Monsters by Kelly Keaton

I started with the beginning of my blog reviews, and have currently made it to August 2012.

Monthly Series Master List 2026

In 2026, I going to continue to focus on continuing series. Each month, I'll chose a series that I was current on in a previous year, but has since been continued. A series that I started or continued, but didn't catch up with what was currently published. A series that I haven't touched since 2020. A series that I read from this year, but still need to continue. A series that I haven't started yet, but have been meaning to. Then each month, I'll do one more series from one of these types, so I have 2, it'll just depend on what I'm planning on reading that month. The goal is to finish out as many series as I can, and keep current on the series that are still ongoing. 

I'll read at least 1 book for each series, and a max of 3. If that series still has more to read, then it'll go back to be selected in another month, but if I catch up with the series, I'll take it off. 

Here on this post, I'll have the master list of what series I picked each month, and I'll also post the status on whether I finished the series, caught up, or still have more books to go, and how many books I read.

January:

February:

March:

April:

May:

June:

July:

August:

September:

October:

November:

December:

Monthly ARC's Master List 2026

This is my master list of monthly ARC accountability challenge, to list out the books that I have as ARC's that are being published in the coming year. Each month will have their post, but all the books will be listed here.

NetGalley:

January:

Thirty, Flirty, and Forever Alone by Christine Riccio - January 1st, 2026

The Storm by Rachel Hawkins - January 6th, 2026

The Swan's Daughter by Roshani Chokshi - January 6th, 2026

Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez - January 13th, 2026

City of Others by Jared Poon - January 13th, 2026

This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers - January 13th, 2026

Greta Gets the Girl by Melissa Marr - January 13th, 2026

A Heart So Green by Lyra Selene - January 20th, 2026

The Poet Empress by Shen Tao - January 20th, 2026

Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis - January 27th, 2026

Such a Perfect Family by Nalini Singh - January 27th, 2026

February:

The Heir & the Spare by Harper L. Woods - February 3rd, 2026

Queen of Faces by Petra Lord - February 3rd, 2026

Heart's Gambit by J.D. Myal - February 3rd, 2026

The Cursed Queen's Daughter by Elly Blake - February 10th, 2026

Muscles & Monsters by Ashley Bennett - February 10th, 2026

Crown of War and Shadow by J.R. Ward - February 17th, 2026

The Beasts We Raise by D. L. Taylor - February 24th, 2026 

March:

Midnight on the Celestial by Julia Alexandra - March 3rd, 2026

Two Perfect Lies by Natalie D. Richards - March 3rd, 2026

The Half-Hearted Queen by Charlie N. Holmberg - March 3rd, 2026

Better Than a Duke by Suzanne Enoch - March 3rd, 2026

The Library of Amorlin by Kalyn Josephson - March 3rd, 2026

Green & Deadly Things by Jenn Lyons - March 3rd, 2026

Hell's Heart by Alexis Hall - March 10th, 2026

Witch of the Shadow Wood by Tori Anne Martin - March 10th, 2026

Heart of Mischief by Emma Noyes - March 10th, 2026

Ruinous Creatures by Jessi Cole Jackson - March 10th, 2026

These Shattered Spires by Cassidy Ellis Salter - March 10th, 2026

You Did Nothing Wrong by CG Drews - March 17th, 2026

The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale by C. M. Waggoner - March 17th, 2026

Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line by Elle Cosimano - March 17th, 2026

Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent - March 17th, 2026

Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher - March 24th, 2026 

What We Did to Survive by Megan Lally - March 31st, 2026

The Kingdom of Almonds by Ariel Kaplan - March 31st, 2026

The Barn Identity by Diane Kelly - March 31st, 2026

April:

May:

June:

July:

August:

September:

October:

November:

December: 

Edelweiss:

January:

16 Forever by Lance Rubin - January 6th, 2025 

A War of Wyverns by S. F. Williamson  - January 6th, 2025 

Better the Devil by Erik J. Brown - January 20th, 2025 

The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay by Ryan Douglass - January 27th, 2025 

February:

Amari and the Metalwork Menace by B. B. Alston - February 24th, 2026 

March:

Aubrey Wants to Die by Pip Knight - March 3rd, 2026

The Wings That Bind by Briar Boleyn - March 10th, 2026

April:

Release Me by Tahereh Mafi - April 7th, 2026

I Could Give You the Moon by Ann Liang - April 14th, 2026

The Demonic Inventions of Aurelie Blake by Mara Rutherford - April 14th, 2026

Reborn by Jaymin Eve - April 21st, 2026

May:

June:

Their Will Undone by R.J. Valldeperas - June 2nd, 2026

Night Witch by Jaymin Eve - June 23rd, 2026

July:

August:

September:

October:

November:

December: 

26 Books to Read in 2026

So time to make 2026's list. I'm still working on all lists (but I'm getting close) but now for another year of books! 

This is my version of These Books Will Self Destruct in 12 months without the self destruct. I wanted to read books that I've had for a while, that I really needed to get read, but maybe I forgot about them or that I had them. So I have 2 lists, one for each way I have them, as physical books, and as ARC's, half NetGalley ARCs, and half Edelweiss ARCs.

So here they are:

Physical:

ARC's:

NetGalley:

Edelweiss: 

A-Z Reading Challenge 2026

Yeah, still not much progress with this, but I ever have hope to get through the alphabet and start over again!

How it Works:
Read 27 books this year (easy right) One for each letter of the alphabet and one starting with an Arabic number. If there aren't any unread books for the difficult letters, then a book that has a title with that letter in it counts.

Once all the letters and the number have been read, it's time to start again!

My Journey:
Q: Tomb of the Queen by Joss Walker

Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge 2026

Again, only a couple of books were read, with books still from the beginning, I really need to read these books! 

What it is:
You pick a book, read it. Then you look at the last letter of the title, for example, "The Adventures of Tom Saywer." Then you take that last letter, and search you TBR piles for a book starting with the last letter, so continuing the example, someone could read "Rotters" next, and then a title that starts with "s."

Rules:
1. Have fun!
2. Read!
3. The last letter of the book you read must be the first letter of the next book you read.
4. Words like "the," "a," "and," and those such don't count as the first letter.

Some other details:
Sounds like fun? Hopefully!  This way, well, there's always going to be a last letter of a title, even if you have to spell out a number. And our TBR piles should hopefully go down a bit!

And if anyone would like to participate (hopefully you do!) leave a link or something? And a plea is going out: if people like this reading challenge (and I hope I'm not copying someone else's meme) would they please create a banner/picture thing for it since I'm helpless at that sort of thing? Thanks!

For me, I'll start with Perfect Lies, and go on from there, though probably not going to go in order!

Yep. Happy reading! 

My Full Journey:

1. 
2. Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
3. Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakeley-Cartwright
4. Dark Arts and a Daiquiri by Annette Marie
5. In the Shadow of Lightning by Brian McClellan
6. Game for Trouble by Karen Erickson 
7. Elemental by Antony John
8. Nantucket Red by Leila Howland
9. Dire by Alyssa Ivy Rose
10. Earthquake by Aprilynne Pike
11. Echoes of Us by Kat Zhang
12. Seers by Heather Frost
13. The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber
14. Raging Star by Moira Young
15. The Ring and the Crown by Melissa De La Cruz
16. Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz
17. The Devil Inside by Jenna Black
18. Eight Grade Bites by Heather Brewer
19. Soar by Alyssa Ivy Rose
20. Rumors by Anna Godbersen
21. Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott
22. Embers in a Dark Frost by Kelly Keaton
23. Try Not to Breathe by Jennifer R. Hubbard
24. The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima
25. Never Enough by Denise Jaden
26. Hot Mama by Jennifer Estep
27. The Apocalypse Gene by Suki Micheal
28. Jersey Angel by Beth Ann Bauman (cycle e for j)
29. The Liar Society by Lisa Roecker
30. You're Next by Kylie Schachte 
31. Take the Key and Lock Her Up by Ally Carter 
32. The Princess & the Pauper by Kate Brian
33. Ruins by Dan Wells
34. 
35. The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring
36. Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovitch
37. Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland
38. Eternity by Elizabeth Miles
39. Yellow Brick War by Danielle Paige
40. Rebel Spirits by Lois Ruby
41. The Shadow's Curse by Amy McCulloch
42. Eternal by Krisi Cook
43. Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott
44. Uninvited by Sophie Jordan
45. Dark Halo by Shannon Dittemore
46. Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin
47. Enhanced by Carrie Jones
48. Dream a Little Dream by Kerstin Gier
49. A Moonlit Knight by Jocelyn Kelley
50. Throat by R.A. Nelson
51. The Thing About the Truth by Lauren Barnholdt
52. Hunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey
53. Take Me On by Katie McGarry
54. No Beauties or Monsters by Tara Goedjen
55. The Shack by William P. Young
56. Kiss of Night by Debbie Viguie
57. Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
58. Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
59. Nightingale by Jennifer Estep
60. Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza
61. Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett
62. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
63. Search by Alyssa Ivy Rose
64. The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith
65. Emergent by Rachel Cohn
66. This Wicked Game by Michelle Zink
67. Eve of Destruction by Patrick Carman
68. The Notorious Pagan Jones by Nina Berry
69. Split Second by Alex Kava 
70. Dawn by Alyssa Rose Ivy
71. The New Order by Chris Weitz
72. Relax, I'm a Ninja by Natalie Whipple
73. Also Known As by Robin Benway
74. Atlantia by Ally Condie
75. Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz
76. After Eden by Helen Douglas
77. The New Order by Chris Weitz

78. Roses of May by Dot Hutchison

79. Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao

80. Night Veil by Yasmine Galenorn

Wheel of TBR Books to Pull From 2026

So I have a few prompts like Restart the Series, and 2nd Chance, where it's not quite as easy to fill the prompts like ARC-NetGalley. So I decided to make a list of books that fill those prompts, and looking ahead, I'll do this every year, so I can update the lists as I read these books!

Restart the Series:
Rebel Belle Series by Rachel Hawkins
Burn for Burn Series by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian
Pretty Little Liars Series by Sara Shepard
The Wired Series by Donna Freitas
Becoming Jinn Series by Lori Goldstein
The Glass Spare Series by Lauren DeStefano
Beautiful Idols Series by Alyson Noel
Falling Kingdoms Series by Morgan Rhodes
Ruined Series by Amy Tintera
Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld
Gone Series by Michael Grant
No Safety in Numbers Series by Dayna Lorentz
So Close to You Series by Rachel Carter
The Dispossessed Series by Page Morgan
Mystic City Series by Theo Lawerence
Partials Sequence Series by Dan Wells
Mirador Series by Dan Wells
Lies I Told Series by Michelle Zink
Quarantine Series by Lex Thomas
Denazen Series by  Jus Accardo

2nd Chance:
The Chosen by J.R. Ward
Come Back to Me by Mila Gray
Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox
The Fury by Alexander Gordon Smith
Fireborn by by Katie Macalister
Thief of Cahraman by Lucy Tempest
The Perfectly Imperfect Match by Kendra C. Highley
Blood Bounds by Yasmine Galenorn
Kiss of Fire by Deborah Cooke
Bleeding Love by Harper Sloane
Sworn to Justice by Terah Edun
Dream Things True by Marie Marquardt
All About Me by Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Nowhere but Here by Katie McGarry
Sex, Lies and Vampires by Katie MacAlister

For Fans Of:

The Murder Game by Carrie Doyle

Best Books Read in 2025

I read a good number of books this year, and another decrease from last year, which is understandable, given some events that happened this year.

I read books from January to December, and of those, were the ones that I absolutely loved, be it writing, thinking about it after, how much I'm anticipating any sequels or other books by the author, or the emotions it evoked, like "I hate that villain, they're so bad! HATEHATEHATE!!!! Yep.

So here's those books in alphabetical order so there's no strangeness among them! 

So first off is the 

Happy New Years!!! 2026 Version

Time for another Happy New Year's post! 2025 was kinda an awful year, losing Jax, that was really hard. I'm both glad that we're not in 2025, it hurts being in the first year that he won't see. 

So I do have about the same goals that I always do, because I'm not original and I just want to keep going at the things I do have! 

1. Like the past 12 years now, just read. Reading is my love and passion, so any book that I want to read, I will try to, even if it takes years to get around to it! Reading more than 500 books is the norm for me, with an official Goodreads goal of however many days there are in that year, and an unofficial goal of 400+.

2. Blog regularly. Reviews will be a subset. I mean posts, having them up on time, in finished form, not the form of the meme, without the actual content of the day. Finished on a pretty good note with this, I was pretty consistent this year regarding meme posts! And I even had the form of the meme posts for 2024 done before December, so that was a bit early again!

2. A. Reviews. My goal is still for them to just stay current, trying to write the review of the book, the day that I finish the book. That way, my thoughts are nice and new, and I don't have to struggle to remember some character, or some important part of the plot, or funny little details! I still have a bunch of 2023 reviews, plus half of 2024's, though I did put a dent into all of those this year, but not enough to catch up, though I hope to, this year.

2. B. ARC's. I get ARC's from Edelweiss and NetGalley, and I have for a while. And NetGalley recommends a review written to ARC's requested percentage of 80%. I got my NetGalley review rate up to 82%. Now I have to work on my Edelweiss rate! 

2. C. Catch Up on Authors. What this means is that I read all the books by an author (that I'm interested in) that have been published. I don't know how many authors I'll have this for (since I'm fairly current on my favourite authors, though there's a few exceptions.) I'm not going to have a specific author focus again this year, since a) I couldn't think of one, and b) I've failed these two years I've tried, so just making it a general goal to catch on various authors! 

2. D. Yearly challenges. I have LLFL, A-Z Reading Challenge, and 25 Books to read in Year, which I didn't finish again this year, but I'll do my best to finish them this year! 

2. E. Series. I'm continuing this one, since from the stats, it did a pretty good job of things, so I'm happy with that! Each month, I'll I'll chose a series that I was current on in a previous year, but has since been continued. A series that I started or continued, but didn't catch up with what was currently published. A series that I haven't touched since 2020. A series that I read from this year, but still need to continue. A series that I haven't started yet, but have been meaning to. Then each month, I'll do one more series from one of these types, so I have 2, it'll just depend on what I'm planning on reading that month. The goal is to finish out as many series as I can, and keep current on the series that are still ongoing. 

3. Take care of my health. This has a few prongs, from losing weight, which I know is a pretty staple new years resolution, but I've kept it going these 6 years. I started my journey September 2018 and have been working steadily on it since then. Honestly, I just kept pretty steady, on one hand, Ok, that it hasn't really gotten worse, but it hasn't gotten better, either, which is frustrating. 

These are about the same goals, because I copy and pasted this text again from last year, but added the updates this year brought! 

What are your guys' goals for 2025? Hope you make them, and made last years! Here's to a great (and hopefully better!) new year! Happy reading!