Wishing you health and happiness in the New Year ahead. And, of course, loads of fab books!
May your home be filled with peace and harmony throughout 2025.
Sending you 12 months of happiness, 52 weeks of joy, and 365 days of success!
You can join in too – see the new BTB site here.
This challenge is intentionally simple to provide as much flexibility for as many readers as possible. There are two core rules:
• Books read must have been published in the previous year or earlier.
• You must start and finish the book in 2025 for it to count.
The 2025 challenge runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. That’s it! You can stop right there and just read!
I’ve just counted my tbr books, and I have 87 books!!!!
I’m not going to set a goal like I have in previous years, but I plan to show my TBR who’s boss (probably!!!!)
#BeatTheBacklist
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.
I hope you had a great Christmas!
We had a lovely day – we ate, laughed, played games and watched Christmas films! Then, on Boxing Day, we met with extended family and swapped presents and ate more!
I didn’t really read anything but did manage to finish off a book I’d started about 2 weeks ago! Better than nothing, I guess!
I’ve also thought and planned my 2025 book goals, so now I just need to make sure I complete them!
🎧 Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75
Look out for my review soon!
Blogmas – Best Books of 2024
Feature – Christmas memes
Feature – A little in-between fun!
Challenge – Audiobook Challenge 2025
What have you read lately?
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.
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+
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 🤣
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.
“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!
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?
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