Bookish Musings: Top Ten Books/Series I Read in 2025 + Some Non-Bookish Things!

Bookish Musings: Top Ten Books/Series I Read in 2025 + Some Non-Bookish Things!

I read fewer books this year than I have probably since I started blogging ten years ago, so there's actually not ten books here. That felt like too many, and there were only six books that I rated 4.5 or 5 stars. Two of which are a duology and three of which were rereads (though I do still count rereads because if a book was that great more than once, it deserves recognition more than once). I...
 
Bookish Musings: Top Ten Characters from Books I Read & Games I Played in 2025

Bookish Musings: Top Ten Characters from Books I Read & Games I Played in 2025

Next up on my end of the year lists: characters from the books I've read and games I've played! I also sneaked one podcast in here, but the title stays because it's not worth the work of changing the graphic. I also sneaked more than ten characters in here, technically, but that's ok. And I may have talked too much about some of them when these are supposed to be quick descriptions, but I...
 
Update: Life and Books (Nov 2025)

Update: Life and Books (Nov 2025)

Yes, I'm doing my monthly update like two weeks late, on a Thursday. It is what it is! Would've felt weirder to not do one at all. I don't have much to report though. I've just been surviving and, shockingly, taking a break from Baldur's Gate 3 and playing Palia instead. Also shockingly, it turns out Palia doesn't give me motion sickness, so I've actually been able to play it. It is harder on my...
 
Book Recs: 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books with Nonbinary Characters

Book Recs: 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books with Nonbinary Characters

I promised this post a few months ago, and here I am, finally delivering! Honestly, it's just a list of books I've enjoyed that happen to have nonbinary characters. In some of these, it's really discussed and a big part of things, in others it's very casual and maybe just mentioned offhandedly or implied. (In real life, they/them pronouns do not automatically mean someone is nonbinary, but for...
 
Book Recs: My 10 Favorite Books in 10 Years of Blogging

Book Recs: My 10 Favorite Books in 10 Years of Blogging

Happy 10th blogiversay to me! It was actually last month and I forgot, but ten years is a long time and feels like an important number to celebrate. There are not many things in my life that I've stuck with for ten years or more. Gymnastics, visual art, writing stories and poems, and, of course, reading. (Some I can't do much or at all anymore, but they still lasted a long time.) And now writing...
 
Cover Love: Book Covers with Summer Vibes

Cover Love: Book Covers with Summer Vibes

Blogging has been difficult for me lately, I haven't done much more than reviews and monthly updates, so here I am to humbly present to you all a cover love post! It's summer now, so let's all enjoy some summery book covers. I feel like there are a ton of books out there with very tropical, poolside, summery covers, but those are usually not sci-fi/fantasy, which is what I focus on here. You...
 
Bookish Musings: Top Ten Books/Series I Read in 2024 + Some Non-Bookish Things!

Bookish Musings: Top Ten Books/Series I Read in 2024 + Some Non-Bookish Things!

This list is maybe a little different than usual because it only has six new books, and the other four are rereads. Turns out I did more rereading this year than I thought! But I feel like any book good enough to make me love it multiple times deserves to be praised multiple times, and these were my genuine ten favorite books this year. So without further ado, here they are, plus a few...
 
Bookish Musings: Top Ten Characters from Books I Read & Games I Played in 2024

Bookish Musings: Top Ten Characters from Books I Read & Games I Played in 2024

I wasn't going to do a top ten characters post this year, but then I remembered it would be a great excuse to talk about Gale from Baldur's Gate 3... So I'm doing a top ten characters post! I only have seven, it's just easier to keep the title and picture consistent each year. Also I'm going to be a bit lazy and copy+paste quotes from my reviews for some of the character descriptions. Work...