2025 Half Yearly Reading Update!!

 

So far 2025 has been a fun year of reading!! I've listened to audiobooks exclusively this year vs reading physical books or ebooks. 

I've listened to a total of 40 books since the start of 2025. I've discovered plenty of new to me authors and explored a wide array of both fiction and nonfiction along the way.

My favorite fiction books to date include:

1. The Seas by Samantha Hunt
2. The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner

3. Aphrodite's Island by Hilary Green

My favorite nonfiction books to date include: 

1. Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants by Fez Inkwright
2. Millionaire Mission by Brian Preston
3. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron

4. Trust Your Intuition by Jill Sylvester LMHC

Which books have been your favorite reads so far in 2025?

We're Halfway Through 2024! Reading Update!

 

I can't believe 2024 is halfway over with already!! It seems like I say this every year... That time goes by too quickly. But, here we are halfway into the year!

Here's a quick reading recap to summarize my reading progress this year so far.

I've read 32 books so far this year! So, far most of them have been audiobooks. The break down is as follows:

Audiobooks: Twenty-five books

Physical Books: Five books

eBooks: Two book

My top ten favorite reads for the first half of the year are as follows:

1. Chasing the Sun by Linda Geddes

2. Overkill by Paul Offit M. D.

3. The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

4. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

5. The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

6. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

7. Eloquence of the Sardine by Bill François

8. A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson

9. A Most Efficient Murder by Anthony Slayton

10. Fire Cider by Rosemary Gladstar and Friends

My reading goal for 2024 is to read fifty-two books. I am currently ahead of schedule in terms of my reading goals. Maybe, I'll end up reading more FAR MORE than 52 books, which would most definitely be a good thing.

How's your reading going so far in 2024? Have you been meeting your reading goals so far? What have been some of your favorite reads this year? Share with me in the comment section below!! 

Reading Update

Even though I haven't being post much the past 2 months (due to a health flare up), I have read a total of 33 books during the months of August and September! 

I'm just really behind at the moment on writing book reviews as I've only written/posted 4 reviews of the 33 books I've read during August and September.

Hopefully, I can start posting more book reviews soon. In the meantime, I'll keep reading more books.

Bout of Books 23 Wrap Up Post!

I enjoyed participating in Bout of Books 23! I met my reading goals of reading two novels, both of which happened to be young adult novels. I started and finished reading, Turtles All The Way Down by John Green and Dear Martin by Nic Stone. I enjoyed reading both novels. 

I've already reviewed Turtles All The Way Down by John Green on my blog. Tomorrow Dear Martin by Nic Stone will be published.

Additionally, I began listening to the unabridged audio version of Enchantment by Orson Scott Card and am 11% into this fantasy novel so far and look forward to finishing it soon.

I also participated in three of the challenges during Bout of Books 23 last week.

If you participated in Bout of Books 23 last week, how was your week of reading?