It’s time to sign up for the 2025 Audiobook Challenge, hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer  and That’s What I’m Talking About.

Grab your earbuds, decide on your goals, and sign up to the page! #2025AudiobookChallenge

Challenge Details
• Runs January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025. You can join at any time.
• The goal is to find a new love for audios or to outdo yourself by listening to more audios in 2025 than you did in 2024.
• Books must be in audio format (CD, MP3, etc.)
• All genres count.
• Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.

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Achievement Levels
What level will you choose?
• Newbie (I’ll give it a try) 1-5
• Weekend Warrior (I’m getting the hang of this) 5-10
• Stenographer (can listen while multitasking) 10-15
• Socially Awkward (Don’t talk to me) 15-20
• Binge Listener (Why read when someone can do it for you) 20-30
• My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) 30+
• Marathoner (Look Ma No Hands) 50+
• Over-Achiever (Power Listener) 75+
• The 100 Club (Audiobook Addict) 100+
• I Can’t Hear You (earbuds always in) 125-150
• Audibly Addicted (listening to all the books 24/7) 150+

Me!!!!

As my job has changed and I can’t really listen at work anymore, I’m reducing to 20-30, Binge Listener. I am (secretly) hoping to increase that to My Precious, but I don’t want the pressure to start off with!

Will you be joining in?
Come on, you know you want to!

I tend to do posts like this every Twixmas, aka Crimbo Limbo, and I have updated it a bit this year with X posts instead of the normal ‘I dont know what day it is’ memes!

Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!!!!

And if anyone has any recipes for leftover ham, I’d be most grateful 🤣

HAPPY BOXING DAY!!!

Boxing Day in the UK

Boxing Day in the UK is the day after Christmas Day, December 26, and is a public Bank Holiday.

Traditionally, it was a day when employers distributed money, food, cloth or other valuable goods to their employees in boxes.

Now it’s a day that brings the start of the post-Christmas sales and also is a time to recover from the excesses of Christmas Day!!!!!

Boxing Day is the day me and my whole family get together to celebrate Christmas. We swap gifts, have food, play games and have a drink together.

Happy Christmas to you all!

“I hope the magic of Christmas fills every corner of your heart and home with joy — now and always.”

I’ll probably be off here until the 27th as we have stuff planned so hope you all have a lovely time filled with fun, family and food! 🎅

It wouldn’t be Christmas without some funny memes!

I know you’re probably all busy wrapping presents, cooking, last minute shopping or being with family so you might need a laugh!

Here you go!

HAPPY BLOGMAS!

Here we are with the end of the year fast approaching and a time to reflect on the best reads of the year!

We all love books here so wanted to spread the love and post about them!

I did a post halfway through the year which you can see here and these are the rest of the fabulous books I’ve loved this year (not necessarily released then, I read then!)

I’ve read so many great books this 2nd half of the year but these are the ones that really stood out to me:

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Wisteria by Adalyn Grace
Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley

What have been your best books of this year?

The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer  It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.

Hope you’ve had a good week!

What a week! I didn’t really do much apart from work and I am tired! I’m working on Monday then I have 6 days off so I’m looking forward to that!

We are going to a candlelight carol concert tomorrow, not my sort of thing at all but my Mum wants me to go with her….so I’m going 🤣

I hope you all have a lovely, relaxed, happy Christmas!

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What I’ve Read

Plier, Tourner, Sauter, Relever by Jane Washington (rereads)
(Am actually obsessed with this series and this is my 3rd reread!)

Glisser by Jane Washington
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Yes, a cover change partway through the series. I’m irked.

Look out for my reviews soon!

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You might have missed…..

Blogmas – Series Finished in 2024!
Blogmas – Books I Didn’t Read!
Blogmas – Challenges Update!

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What have you read lately?

I took part in 3 annual reading challenges this year, an audiobook challenge which I have already updated on and also the Goodreads challenge and a Tackle That TBR challenge…..let’s see how I did!

Goodreads

I set my goal to 100 books and I actually met that in November and I’m now up to 117 books read!

Tackle That TBR

Now this one I…….failed (and I hate to say that)!!!

I said I wanted to read 20 from my tbr that I owned before 1 January 2024. I only read 12 – how depressing is that! 

Can I make up for it next year? Who knows 🤣

Did you join any challenge for 2024? How did you do?

Happy Blogmas!

I thought it might be fun to look back at my tbr books that were added this year but I didn’t get a chance to read.

I thought I’d done really well at reading books I’d bought this year but I counted 40 books that I haven’t read, bought tears to my eyes!!!

So I have added only 6 here, I won’t bore you with the full list!

What about you, have you got a lot of books left over?