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Books I Read in January 2025

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It is a new year and so far it has been a busy one! Along with my normal job, I’ve been busy with things that happened in the latter half of 2024. One of those things was my mixer broke. From December 23 through the first weekend of January, I had plans to bake and freeze food (Such as cookies and muffins) to eat in the first half of 2025, but I couldn’t because I was without a mixer. Even though I ordered a new mixer, it didn’t show up until mid January. Since I allocated a lot of time to bake, I spent this time reading.

I do not consider myself a fast reader, yet, in January, I was able to read three books the whole way through. Some of the books I’m really enjoying while others I am not. Still, I wanted to talk about them in a post, just in case I don’t remember to talk about them on this blog again!

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How I Went from a Romance Novel Hater to a (Sometimes) Lover

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Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. The amount of time I read varies depending on how much free time I have. Right now, I am prioritizing taking breaks while sitting down. I’m not a fan of what is currently on TV, so I decided to pick up books and read them.

As I have been doing a lot of reading, I began to realize how many romance novels in my to be read list. I’m very surprised by this because I used to not like romance novels. Instead, I hated them.

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Book Review: Sound of Light: A Marvel School of X Novel by Amanda Bridgeman

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I used to really like Marvel Studios movies, but for the past few years I haven’t enjoyed them. Instead, I shifted my focus from watching Marvel movies to reading comic books only.

I have been aware of Marvel novel that have been published over the past few years. For the most part I passed over many of them, but a few have caught my eye. One of them is Sound of Light.

Last year, during a time when I missed the way the stories old Marvel Studios movies had, I decided to pick up some of the Marvel novels I own. I was hoping I could fill the void these movies left when the story telling and other elements of the movies changed. The first books I read was Sound of Light. After reading it, I decided to write a dedicated review about it.

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Book Review: A Royal Christmas Wish by Lizzie Shane

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A few years ago, I read A Royal Christmas Wish from Hallmark Publishing. At that time, there were many things happening so it took me a while to finish the book. Years later, I rediscovered the book and decided to reread it in order to see if I would like it more a second time. Last year, I reread it for Christmas but didn’t get to finish it until after Christmas ended. This year, I decided to finally publish the review post I wrote about it! Continue reading “Book Review: A Royal Christmas Wish by Lizzie Shane” →

Book Review: Santa Stops at Disneyland- A Little Golden Book

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Ever since I was a girl, I enjoyed reading Christmas books. Even if it wasn’t Christmas time, I still would like to read them! As an adult, I still enjoy reading Christmas themed children’s books. Even though my collection is not very large, I still enjoy reading them!

For this year’s Blogmas, I decided to write some more reviews on some of my Christmas children’s books. I decided to start with one of my newest additions to my book collection: Santa Stops at Disneyland!

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Art, Fan Art, and Book Fan Inspired Small Businesses to Shop on Black Friday 2024

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It’s Thanksgiving week which means so many great things. For shoppers, and anyone looking for bargains, it means it is time for Black Friday sales!

This year, I wanted to share small business I really like that are available to shop online on Black Friday. They are all taking orders (Unless I wasn’t aware they were closed this week!) and some may even have sales in honor of the big shopping day. I don’t know all the sales they have or any special offers for Thanksgiving and Black Friday, so please check out their websites to see if there are any specials available!

I also want to mention that I have either purchased from the stores or have been watching them for a while and have good reviews. The links to the shops are going to be their own shop websites or Etsy stores. If there is an Etsy store and a separate shop website, I will link both.

None of the links in this post contain affiliate links. The stores featured in this post are not sponsored.

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Books I Read in September 2024

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It’s already the beginning of a new month, which means I need to write a new post about all the books I read in the previous month!

In September, I finally had some time to sit down and read. Although I am an avid reader, this year has been a hit or miss reading year for me. It was busy and I spent a lot of time doing other things instead of reading. This was the problem in August when I decided to force myself to sit down and actually read more books. It didn’t turn out that way, so I ended up postponing my reading plans until September. I was able to finish one book and three more. Again, September was a busy month, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as the previous months!

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Book Review: Audrey Hepburn: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon by Megan Hess

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Earlier this year, I wrote a review of Megan Hess’ Grace Kelly: The Illustrated Wold of a Fashion Icon. You can read that post here. In that post, I mentioned I planned on writing a review about Megan Hess’ book about Audrey Hepburn. I planned to write and publish the post during the summer, but I never got around to it!

Since the Emmys will be this weekend, and Audrey was an Emmy winner, I decided to save the book review post until now!

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Books I Read in July 2024

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Last month, I decided to set a very high reading goal for me. My goal was to read ten books before the end of the month. I decided to do this in order to push myself to read more and get faster at reading. I used to be a fast reader, but I needed to slow down during school. Since then I haven’t been able to pick up my reading speed. This year, I made a goal to start practice reading faster.

I didn’t make my goal, but I did read and finish more than five. Some of the books are manga, which means I read them faster than novels. Still, I am still really happy I was able to read and finish more than five books in a month.

Since the end of July, I have thought about the books I read. Some of them I like while others I’m not sure about. Instead of dedicating posts to every book I read, I decided to compile my thoughts into one posts. I still plan on writing review posts about certain books, specifically novels, in the future, but that is for the future.

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A List of Notable Fantasy Novels and Series to Read During Fall

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Last year, I wrote a post in which I talked about reading fantasy novels during the fall. (You can read the post here.) This year, I felt inspired to talk more openly about fantasy novels I read.

I still consider August a summer month, but fall home decor, scented candles, and more are all around. Even if you are like me and hang onto summer until September, August is still a great month to search for new books to read as the weather gets cooler outside. Since I like to read fantasy novels in the fall, I decided to create a list of the noteworthy  novels and series I like the most.

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