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...
 
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...
 
Update: Life and Books (Jan 2025)

Update: Life and Books (Jan 2025)

I've decided I'm going to focus on positive things for this month's update. So first I have some art! I made fanart for I Was a Teenage Exocolonist. It started in December 2023 when someone posted on Reddit like, "I've never played, but this subreddit keeps showing up on my feed. Ask me about the game, and I'll pretend I know." Someone asked who Noctilucent should end up with, the person answered...
 
Book Review: Fire Spells Between Friends (Fae & Human Relations Book 2) by Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan [Audiobook]

Book Review: Fire Spells Between Friends (Fae & Human Relations Book 2) by Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan [Audiobook]

As the sibling with the most magic in a well-known, wealthy fae family, Emrys is the most eligible bachelor in London, and his mother is determined to find him an appropriate match. But Emrys has secretly been seeing Torquil, half-fae gossip columnist, for years, and the closer Emrys gets to potential marriage, the more the two realize their feelings for each...