Thank you for being part of my little book corner! Hope 2026 brings you happiness, good health and meaningful moments. And books!
Happy New Year 2026! 🎉
May your home be filled with peace and harmony throughout 2026.
Sending you 12 months of happiness, 52 weeks of joy, and 365 days of success!
For 2025, I’ve been using both StoryGraph and Goodreads to track my reading because I just can’t let Goodreads go! That said, I’m absolutely loving the stats on StoryGraph, especially the monthly breakdowns.
Back in late 2024, I realized I’d need to scale back on my reading goals. With working longer hours and the never-ending demands of adulting, something had to give—and I can definitely say I read less in 2025!
• 80 books read in 2025, all fiction
• 67 books were Fantasy & Romantasy!
• 37,282 pages
• 📱 51% digital
• 🎧 24% audio
• 📘 25% print
• 466 book length
• 4.5 star rating
What were your stats?
I promised myself I wouldn’t do any challenges in 2026… but I’ve caved—because I can’t resist the audiobook challenge! 🎧
I’m keeping it low-key this year and aiming for Weekend Warrior: 5–10 audiobooks. I want to slowly rediscover my love for audiobooks, which somehow slipped away in 2025.
The 2026 Audiobook Challenge is hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer and That’s What I’m Talking About. Grab your earbuds, decide on your goals, and sign up on Caffeinated Reviewer’s blog!
#2026AudiobookChallenge
Challenge Details
• Runs January 1, 2026–December 31, 2026. 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 2026 than you did in 2025.
• Books must be in audio format (CD, MP3, etc.)
• All genres count.
• Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.
• You do not have to be a book blogger to take part; you can track your progress on Goodreads, Facebook, etc. I recommend creating a shelf on Goodreads titled 2026 Audiobook Challenge. You can keep track of and link to the shelf.
• Updates plus a giveaway will be posted twice during the year. The first update will be July 4, 2026, and the last update will take place on December 26, 2026. You’ll have one week to link up and share your progress and enter giveaway.
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+
Will you join in 2026?
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 week!
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas!
We had a brilliant Christmas Day and half of Boxing Day but then I came down with either a stomach bug or food poisoning, couldn’t even keep water down, and I don’t think I’ve ever been sick that many times in my life! A truly festive experience!!!!!
I did manage to finish one book before the Christmas chaos began, but at this point I’m not sure I’ll ever finish Empire of the Dawn — I am still working my way through it though!
Forged in Blood by Sadie Kincaid
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
See my review soon!
Blogmas – Best Books of 25!
Feature – Christmas Memes!
Calendar – Happy Christmas
Calendar – Happy Boxing Day
Feature – Some ‘in between’ fun
Calendar – Happy New Year
Review – Metal Slinger by Rachel Schneider
What have you read lately?
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 that 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:
The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer
We Fell Apart by E Lockhart
Dire Bound by Sable Sorensen
Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer
What have been your best books of this year?
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