Christmas Songs Book Tag | 2025

I was on That Artsy Reader Girl’s blog to start doing my January 2026 Top Ten Tuesday posts when I saw this cute tag she posted and created! So I’m going to try it out!

1. “All I Want for Christmas Is You”: Favorite bookish couple.
Oskar and Guinevere from Tusk Love by. Thea Guanzon .

2. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”: Name a book where a character is away from home (school, vacation, etc.).
Your Knife, My Heart by. K.M. Moronova – everyone is in a military camp undergoing some deadly trials.

3. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”: Name your favorite “little” book (children’s book, short story, novella, etc.).
I read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by. Eric Carle to my kids a million times, to the point I had it memorized. But I love it still.

4. “Santa Claus is Coming to Town“: What book(s) do you hope Santa brings you this year?
The Wolf and the Crown of Blood by. Elizabeth May.

5. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”: Which book turned your nose red (made you cry)?
Atmosphere by. Taylor Jenkins Reid the audiobook was so good!

6. “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”: Your favorite book/kind of book to read during the holidays.
I am such a mood reader that even during the holidays I get picky and don’t necessarily pick up holidays books. Anything with a cute romance, I’ll be happy with. I’m listening to the arc The Swan’s Daughter by. Roshni Choksi on audiobook which comes out on 1/6/26 but the fairytale writing and magical setting puts me in the mood for the holidays.

7. “We Three Kings”: Your favorite trilogy/book from a trilogy (or feel free to fudge it and pick a book from a series).
Starchaser from R.M. Gray is the second book in the Nightweaver series. I’m sure this is a trilogy (I thought it would be a duology), but so far I’m really enjoying this series!

8. “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow”: A character you would love to be snowed in with.
Blake from The Night Prince by. Lauren Palphreyman. 😍

9. “Last Christmas”: A book that seriously let you down.
I DNF’ed The Nightshade God by. Hannah Whitten. I just didn’t remember anything from book one and I was just lost and didn’t care about the story.

10. “White Christmas”: An upcoming release you’re dreaming about.
Shadow Reaper by. Lynette Noni.

Now it’s your turn! Which books would you choose for these prompts?

And I’m not tagging anyone, feel free to do the tag if you like! ☺️

The All Hallows Book Tag | 2025

🎃Happy Halloween readers!🎃

Let’s do book tag but this time for Spooky season! The All Hallows Book Tag was created by QuirinusReads (Twitter/Instagram).

So some choices has changed this year in comparison to last year’s post! This time I chose hot chocolate, haunted house and dark academia but some of these are hard because I love werewolves more this year and I read more dark academia this year but I love paranormal too. 😅 It’s hard to choose!

Here are the questions:

What are your favourite spooky season genres?

Horror, Thrillers, Mystery, and now I’m also adding Dark Romance and Dark Fantasy to the list!

Which titles do you recommend for Halloween reading?

What are your most anticipated reads this month?

Since October is basically over – I’m posting my November anticipated reads:

I was so lucky to actually read a lot of my most anticipated November reads through Netgalley:

Fallen City by. Adrienne Young
Starchaser by. R.M. Gray
The House Saphir by. Marissa Meyer
Coldwire by. Chloe Gong

Have you had a paranormal experience or spooky coincidence?

I’d say yes, a few!

What are your spooky season film and TV favourites?

It’s cringey as hell but I love it, it’s so nostalgic and cracks me up! My friend and I send each other Teen Witch clips just to remind each other it’s Teen Witch season LOL.

This time around I watched the new season of Wednesday on Netflix and that definitely brings in the Halloween vibes!

How do you celebrate Halloween?

This year I am staying home to pass out the candy while my kids will go with their dad around the block since he missed 2 Halloweens when he was living in Okinawa the past few years.

Here is the clean copy of This or That:

Here are the questions from this book tag if you feel like doing it:

The Questions:

What are your favourite spooky season genres?
Which titles do you recommend for Halloween reading?
What are your most anticipated reads this month?
Have you had a paranormal experience or spooky coincidence?
What are your spooky season film and TV favourites?
How do you celebrate Halloween?

And I’m not tagging anyone, feel free to do the tag if you like! ☺️

The All Hallows Book Tag

Let’s do another book tag but this time for Spooky season! I saw this book tag on Book Are 42 and thought it was perfect for Halloween. The All Hallows Book Tag was created by QuirinusReads (Twitter/Instagram).

For Dark academia vs. Paranormal, I LOVE both…but for Halloween I’d go for Paranormal. Also for Haunted House vs. Enchanted Forest…for me personally I’d rather go to an Enchanted Forest lol…but I’d rather read about a Haunted House for Halloween. A clean version of this image is at the end of this post.

Here are the questions:

What are your favourite spooky season genres?

Horror, Thrillers, Mystery, and Romance! Witchy, paranormal – all of it! I love it all but for spooky season I would like some thrills and chills in my books. But also I want some cozy fall romances.

Which titles do you recommend for Halloween reading?

A Place for Vanishing by. Ann Fraistat – bug horror! Ugh.
Deja Brew by. Celestine Martin – witchy and cozy romance
The Hacienda by. Isabel Cañas – a haunted house – haunts, hallucinations, blood, you want it – it’s got it!

What are your most anticipated reads this month?

I already posted my anticipated reads for October and honestly, not a lot of them were spooky themed so this is my anticipated reads for NOVEMBER because the arcs I have been reading have been dark, witchy, and filled with the paranormal. Here are some of the arcs I’m working on for November releases!

Have you had a paranormal experience or spooky coincidence?

Yes I have! Especially when I was younger in my teens and all we did on this island was ghost hunting for fun. But none of my experiences happened during those ghost hunting experiences. All I can say to keep this short is one experience happened on Halloween night, I was in middle school, and we were at my friend’s house – a friend whose older sisters had a Ouija board they used DAILY. I mean guys it was the 90’s, Ouija boards were popular 😩. My friends and I were contemplating using the board and we were sitting outside, she had this big tree and a picnic table/bench under it and we were all sitting there before going trick or treating. No one was sitting to the left of me and yet I felt someone nudge my upper arm on the left side. And I said, “who did that?”. All my girlfriends looked at me confused and we looked around and screamed when all that was next to me on the table was the Ouija board. Needless to say we did NOT use that board that night or ever.

What are your spooky season film and TV favourites?

The Nightmare Before Christmas because it’s dark, but cute (Zero), and funny and I love the songs.

It’s cringey as hell but I love it, it’s so nostalgic and cracks me up! My friend and I send each other Teen Witch clips just to remind each other it’s Teen Witch season LOL. I should try and watch Practical Magic if I can find it one streaming, because I love that one too.

** I would SO watch horror if my kids weren’t always around me! But I can’t do it because they would both be sleeping with me if they watched it with me. I already have a hard time with my daughter being so attached to me. lol **

How do you celebrate Halloween?

I put a bowl of candy outside on my front step and then my kids and I go trick or treating – we live in a suburban neighborhood with so many trick or treaters, I am TIRED by the time we get back home and we only go around one block! My son says he doesn’t want to trick or treat this year ☹️ he’s 12! SIGH…and so it begins, he thinks he’s too old for it! We’ll see, he might change his mind last minute. But my daughter LOVES it so I go with her. Then when we come home, we go through the candy, put some back into the candy bowl and I’ll sit out there until I’m tired or gotta get the kids in bed because it’s a school day the next day. This year my daughter has no school the next day – YAY!! But my son does – BOO!! lol…

Here is the clean copy of This or That:

Here are the questions from this book tag if you feel like doing it:

The Questions:

What are your favourite spooky season genres?
Which titles do you recommend for Halloween reading?
What are your most anticipated reads this month?
Have you had a paranormal experience or spooky coincidence?
What are your spooky season film and TV favourites?
How do you celebrate Halloween?

And I’m not tagging anyone, feel free to do the tag if you like! ☺️

The TBR Book Tag!

Hi everyone! I haven’t done a book tag in so long but I saw this one on Leslie’s blog Books Are the New Black and I thought okay, I think it’s time for me to really take a look at my TBR list. Scary thought huh?! lol…

Here are the questions:

How do you keep track of your TBR pile?

Um…Goodreads? LOL…I will confess, I add titles to Goodreads but never check on it ever. I’d also say I have a mental list of books I want to read and when I see it come up somewhere I remember it’s on my list. Also, because I do a new release post on my blog, I keep a written log of when books are being released, so that’s part of my TBR list also.

Is your TBR mostly print or e-book?

It’s mostly e-books because it’s easier for me to read e-books at night. But I have a very small TBR list of print books that I want to get for my bookshelf and these are usually the pretty books with sprayed edges or a whole complete series I’ve been wanting to get.

How do you determine which book from your TBR to read next?

Good question. I’m a mood reader so that is what determines any book I read but if I get a backlist book from the library, I try to read that first because I have a time limit. Unfortunately, there are a lot of books on my physical book shelf that I own, that I haven’t read and are on my TBR list. 😅

A book that’s been on your TBR the longest

A Darker Shade of Magic by. V.E. Schwab has been on my Goodreads list for the longest time and I even have a physical copy of it on my book shelf. 😆 I don’t know why I haven’t read it yet!

A book that you recently added to your TBR

The Jasad Crown by. Sara Hashem. It has a cover! I’m excited to read this sequel to The Jasad Heir.

A book on your TBR you strictly bought because of the beautiful cover

I saw it at Barnes and Noble and on the whim just bought it because of the cover. It’s gorgeous!

A book on your TBR you never actually plan on reading

I added Ninth House by. Leigh Bardugo because of the hype I think but I don’t think I will ever read it.

An unpublished book on your TBR that you’re excited for

The Scorpion and the Night Blossom by. Amélie Wen Zhao looks amazing. I’m tempted to buy the hardcover but I just got approved for the arc so I’m excited to read this one!

A book on your TBR that basically everyone has read except you

A Sky Beyond the Storm by. Sabaa Tahir is the book I need to read to finish the series but the more time goes on I keep putting it off because now I feel like I need to start from the beginning to remember all the details from the previous books. I really should just do it.

A book on your TBR that everyone recommends

I see Legends & Lattes by. Travis Baldree on different blogs a lot! I still have to read it.

A book on your TBR that you’re just dying to read

Onyx Storm by. Rebecca Yarros and I hope it’s better than book two which I didn’t love. I didn’t hate it but it was just okay. Just a few more months for this one!

The number of books on your Goodreads shelf

It says I have 627 which is WRONG, but I actually have to switch a bunch of them to “Read”. It just takes so long. 😅 Actually, after doing this post I’m very motivated to clean up that list so I think that’s what I’ll do right now.

Here are the questions from this book tag if you feel like doing it: