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2025 Bookish Goals

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is your bookish goals for this year.. I’m keeping things quite simple over here with my main priority being my happiness and health but here are a few reading/blogging specific goals I have in mind:

I want to get back to blogging every weekday! I have loved my blogging journey yet last year didn’t go as planned and reading really took a back seat for me hence I didn’t have anything to post. So I would love to get back into reading, writing and posting to the point where it becomes the norm for me once again. It has really helped me put a lot more structure into my time and sort of forced me to be more productive in the past and I need that in my life again. I would like to grow my blog a bit more and produce even more fun, detailed, bookish content that you all will enjoy!

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I would like to read more books that I actually interest me. I’ve made a bit of a habit of just buying and reading books because they are super hyped and popular even though the actual book doesn’t interest me. I could be a genre that I don’t usually read from or the premise doesn’t intrigue me but because everyone is talking/raving about it I still pick it up and read it anyway and I usually don’t enjoy it. I just think it’s a waste of time and I could be reading a book that I actually want to read.

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I’ve set my Goodreads goal for 2025 at 50 books. In 2023 I read 127 books and last year I only managed to get to 17.. so I don’t want to go crazy and aim for 100 this year so I figure 50 is a nice middle ground that seems achievable.

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Find a balance between reading/blogging and life. I find that currently my life isn’t as balanced as what it should be. My relationship and social media/doomscrolling has kind of taken over all my time that I used to commit to reading. So for 2025 I would really like to find a way to balance out my life in a way that ensures I am healthy and happy.

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The last goal I wish to set for myself this year is to just be happy. I think if I accomplish the rest of my goals it will make for a great year and that will definitely make me happy!

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Quicksilver Review

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*MILD SPOILERS AHEAD*

I had to see what all the hype was about with this book and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.

Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares…but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.

Saeris came across a little juvenile at times. For the amount of hardship she’s had to face I thought she would act a little more mature rather than a petulant teenager but that’s how she came across the majority of the time. If I was in her shoes sure I would be frustrated with the amount of information everyone wasn’t telling me but she got on my little with all her tantrums.

Kingfisher was so much fun! A tad convenient how he couldn’t reveal any information due to his oath but his overall attitude and charisma made up for it for sure. The witty banter he has with not only Saeris but everyone was very entertaining and I was definitely waiting to see what he was going to do next. Also, he has a filthy mouth and I was here for it!

I really liked the contrast of the two settings and the plot was evenly paced which kept me engaged the whole time. Overall I think there was just enough spice sprinkled onto this pretty typical fae storyline with some fun twists and turns along the way!

⭐️4/5 stars the quotes were quoting with this one!!!

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January TBR

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This month I am hopefully going to be getting back into my reading zone and pump out a few reads … last year was a bit of a wash for me but I think I’m ready to get back into the groove and find some new all time favs in 2025!

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Book Lists, Top Ten Tuesdays

Anticipated Releases 2025

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is my most anticipated releases for the first half of 2025!

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire (expected publication January 7th 2025)

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (expected publication January 14th 2025)

Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett (expected publication February 11th 2025)

Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi (expected publication February 18th 2025)

This Book will Bury Me by Ashley Winsetad (expected publication March 25th 2025)

Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto (expected publication April 1st 2025)

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (expected publication April 22nd 2025)

Silverborn by Jessica Townsend (expected publication 25th April 2025)

With a Vengeance by Riley Sager (expected publication June 10th 2025)

Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab (expected publication June 10th 2025)