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Monthly Wrap Up | May 2025

May was a busy month as usual! There are always so many end of school things to do in May, tests, school events, doctor appointments, etc…and I got through it. YAY!

I read 25 books and posted 14 book reviews in May.

I don’t have my journaling video ready to publish yet so I’m not including it in this monthly wrap up. But I’ll post it sometime later in the month when I have time!

Books I Read – 25 books:

  1. The Love Haters by. Katherine Center (arc)
  2. Embrace the Serpent by. Sunya Mara (arc)
  3. Nightshade by. Autumn Woods
  4. King of Envy by. Ana Huang
  5. Silver Elite by. Dani Francis
  6. A Forgery of Fate by. Elizabeth Lim (arc)
  7. Shield of Sparrows by. Devney Perry
  8. His Mortal Demise by. Vanessa Le
  9. Tenderly, I Am Devoured by. Lyndall Clipstone (arc)
  10. Den of Liars by. Jessica S. Olson (arc)
  11. Well, Actually by. Mazey Eddings (arc)
  12. Predatory Natures by. Amy Goldsmith (arc)
  13. Pigeon-Blood Red by. Ed Duncan
  14. Maid for Each Other by. Lynn Painter (arc)
  15. Enchantra by. Kaylie Smith
  16. For the Record by. Emma Lord (arc)
  17. Love Unmasked by. Becky Dean (arc)
  18. Give Me a Reason by. Jayci Lee (arc)
  19. Bound in Inked Flame by. Ava Larksen
  20. Thorn Season by. Kiera Azar (arc)
  21. The Jasad Crown by. Sara Hashem (arc)
  22. Arcana Academy by. Elise Kova (arc)
  23. Fallen Court: Filthy Rich Fae by. Geneva Lee
  24. Mayra by. Nicky Gonzalez (arc)
  25. Love at Full Tilt by. Jenny L. Howe (arc)

Reviews I Posted: 14 Books

5 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by. Kylie Lee Baker | ARC Review

4.5 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

4 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3.5 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫:

3 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️⭐️:

2.5 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️💫

2 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️

Book Tags:

Birthstone Book Covers: May – Emerald

Blog Tours:

BLOG TOUR} A Campus of Fire by. Patrick O’Dowd | Book Excerpt

Let’s Talk Bookish:

Let’s Talk Bookish:  Bookish Fandoms | 5/2/25

Let’s Talk Bookish:  Motivation to Read | 5/9/25

Let’s Talk Bookish:  What is one book that everyone else seemed to love except you? | 5/16/25

Let’s Talk Bookish:  Literary Palette Cleansers | 5/23/25

Other:

How was your month?

Monthly Wrap Up | April 2025

Another month has passed, another month I was loading up on books to escape reality. Can you believe April is done? I cannot. I read 20 books in April. And posted 14 book reviews on my blog.

Here’s my monthly reading journaling video:

What I Posted: 14 Books

5 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4.5 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

4 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3.5 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫:

3 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️⭐️:

2.5 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️💫

2 Star Reads – ⭐️⭐️

Book Tags:

Birthstone Book Covers: April – Diamond

Blog Tours:

BLOG TOUR} Their Monstrous Hearts by. Yiğit Turhan | Book Excerpt

Let’s Talk Bookish:

Let’s Talk Bookish:  Reading Relatability | 4/4/25

Let’s Talk Bookish:  Do You Buy Books with Intention? | 4/11/25

Let’s Talk Bookish:  Favourite Bookish Accessories | 4/18/25

Let’s Talk Bookish:  Do Blog Tours Build Community? | 4/25/25

Top Ten Tuesday:

Books With “Fool” in the Title | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 4/1/25

Books with Springy Covers | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 4/8/25

Books That Surprised Me | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 4/22/25

Books with the Word “Night” in the Title | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 4/29/25

Top 5 Tuesday:

Top 5 Tuesday | Top 5 anticipated reads for Q2 2025 | 4/1/25

Top 5 Tuesday | Top 5 books set in America | 4/8/25

Top 5 Tuesday | Top 5 books set in Europe | 4/15/25

Top 5 Tuesday | Top 5 books set in Asia | 4/22/25

Top 5 Tuesday | Top 5 books set in Africa, Australia and New Zealand | 4/29/25

Other:

How was your month?

Reading Journal – February 2025 Wrap-Up

Since I’m playing catch up on this reading journal of mine, here is my February wrap-up before March ends.

Continuing on this youtube journey of mine…I went back to the editing app I used when I used to help my son make his gaming videos. And wow, it was so much easier for me, I don’t know why I deviated! I also wanted to make the video shorter and I think I achieved that so yay for me.

Check it out here:

Now I’ve been already filling up my March entries into the journal. There is one spot in the journal where it lists the books you read in a month that I already know I’ll not have enough space for 🤔. It’s definitely a ME problem haha because the space contains lines for 15 books. And I do usually read 15 or less books a month which is why I thought this journal was perfect for me, but March was crazy and I actually listened to 2 audiobook! Who am I? I don’t even recognize myself sometimes when I get through an audiobook! 😅

I actually have borrowed some books in March but I’m trying to push it so I can read it the last week of March and finish in the first week of April before they expire. We’ll see if my plan works. 😬

Anyway thanks for watching my video! I appreciate it!

Reading Journal 2025

This year I decided I wanted to use a reading journal to keep my tracking and I bought something simple on Amazon, something affordable but the more I used it and saw other reading journals on Tiktok (yes I am highly influenced LOL), I started to shop around for a different one.

I figured it’s still March and I have time to start a new journal. That means I was have to be willing to transfer my info from my first journal to the new one but I thought it was worth it. I found THIS:

This beauty is from The Book Sisters. I saw it on TikTok and then I went to their Etsy shop because my mother-in-law had gifted me an Etsy gift card for Christmas. It’s a beauty and made so well. Anyway, I wanted to show it off so I finally made my first youtube video! 😅. First video for myself – I’ve only helped my kids make gaming videos (that’s kind of stopped now) but I thought I could do one for this journal.

Check it out here:

Just an FYI – I hate speaking in a video. I always hated public speaking, so if I sound awkward and nervous in the video – don’t mind me! I’m such a newb (as my kids would say)..an amateur for sure! 😅 I think it would be fun to do a video each month of my journaling and monthly recap. I’ll post one more video this month- the February recap – then I’ll be caught up. I’m thinking of adding some other bookish content? 🤔

But we’ll see how much work I want to do making video content – it’s hard work! The filming, the editing…but I did find it fun!

Anyway let me know what you think and if you do any reading journals. I’ve seen some of you post your journals and I love them!

One of my more ambitious journaling goals would be to do one of those reading journals from scratch – they are so artistic! I felt like I used to be so artistic in my youth (almost did a double major in art!) and I just lost it as I got older (went to work, got married, had kids) and it would be so nice to find that part of myself again. 💜 I just don’t know if I have the motivation to keep up with it though and also narrowing down ideas on what to put it in would drive me a bit bonkers. I guess having a theme would work but I’m just rambling off ideas now. Maybe I’ll do it for 2026!