This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what all we borrowed, bought, and received for review. It’s hosted over at Tynga’s Reviews. From Netgalley: From Libby: The Weekly Wrap-Up!: Sunday 12/21/25 : Stacking the Shelves #665 & the Weekly Wrap-Up!Monday 12/22/25: Sparks Fly by Zakiya N. JamalTuesday 12/23/25: TTT: Books I Hope Santa Brings! & Two for Tuesday: Memorable Holiday Popcorn Garlands! Wednesday 12/24/25: WoW: Big…
e-ALC, 02:00:00Narrated by: Vivienne LehenyRelease Date: December 1, 2025Published by: Amazon Original Stories, Brilliance Publishing, Inc.Read from: December 9, 2025Stand-aloneSource: Netgalley (I received this ALC free from the publisher and Netgalley. This did nothing to influence my review!)Content Warning: Murder, Death of Parent, Domestic Abuse, Sexual Content, Animal Death, Alcohol, Death, Gun Violence, GriefFor Readers…
One holiday tradition my mom always wanted to do with us but never did is celebrate Kwanzaa. She did educate me on what it is and what everything means, but we never got around to ever doing it. But now that I’m starting my own family, I wanted to do celebrate this year (even if…
e-ALC, 12:06:00Narrated by: Samantha Brentmoor, Teddy Hamilton, J.F. Harding, Vanessa Edwin, Robert Hatchet, & Shane EastRelease Date: October 14, 2025Published by: Hot-Lanta Publishing, LLCRead from: December 6-8, 2025Stand-aloneSource: Audible Content Warning: Sexual Content, Cursing, Injury/Injury Detail, Grief, Alcohol, Death, Cancer, Pregnancy, ArachnidsFor Readers Interested In: Adult, Audible, Audio, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Full Cast Audio, Holidaze, Sparkly…
One holiday tradition my mom always wanted to do with us but never did is celebrate Kwanzaa. She did educate me on what it is and what everything means, but we never got around to ever doing it. But now that I’m starting my own family, I wanted to do celebrate this year (even if…
e-ALC, 09:11:37Narrated by: Dede Davis & Thomas Delacourt Release Date: October 23, 2025Published by: Simon & Schuster UKRead from: December 5-7, 2025Stand-aloneSource: Libro FM (I received this ALC free from the publisher and Libro FM. This did nothing to influence my review!)Content Warning: Sexual Content, CursingFor Readers Interested In: Audio, Contemporary, Enemies to Lovers, Holidaze (Christmas),…
How many books did you read in 2025? TBH Idk. My Goodreads # is different than my Storygraph number, and both those numbers are different than what I have in my reading journal. I couldn’t post everything that I read because of a work committee, so yeah. Anywhere between 280 and 330. Maybe more? I…
e-ALC, 12:06:47Narrated by: Karissa Vacker & Will WattRelease Date: October 21, 2025Published by: HarperCollinsRead from: December 3-5, 2025Ghosted, #1Source: Libro FM (I received this ALC free from the publisher and Libro FM. This did nothing to influence my review!)Content Warning: Sexual Content, Death, Emotional Abuse, Grief, Toxic Relationship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury Detail, Body Shaming, CursingFor Readers…
This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine! Because life’s too short, and mean girls ain’t sh…Jazmyn Payne fled her hometown—and the fatphobes who made her life hell– the minute she graduated high school. Growing up, her haven…
These themes will vary! It could be based off of some book mail I just received, pop culture, something personal to me, a headline from the news, a trend I noticed when I was buying books for my library system, etc. I hope you stick around to see all the themes and book recs I…
