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January 2025 Reads: What I Loved and Abandoned
January 2025 Reads: What I Loved, and Abandoned Ey up, Bookworms! We’ve made it through January, just about. It’s been a month of dark mornings, broken resolutions, and aggressively googling “When does it start getting lighter?” BUT do you know what got me through? My TBR! I told you that 2025 was to be the year of the bookworm, and the year of the bookworm it is! Let’s get into it. WHAT I READ Icebreaker by Hanna Grace – 4/5 Romance, Sports, Spice. Genre: Contemporary RomanceTropes: Enemies to Lovers, Forced ProximityA spicy, trope-tastic ice-hockey romance featuring a heroine who refuses to wear a coat despite being surrounded by ice (relatable,…
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My Favourite Reads of 2024 (and Vow to Read More in 2025)
Ah, 2024 – a year of unexpected twists, lessons learned, and – I hate to admit it- far fewer books read than I would have liked. If you told me back in January of this somewhat tumultuous year that I would only read a meagre 25 books, I would have snorted in disbelief and eyed my overflowing TBR shelves with a smirk, sure I was going to conquer those towers. Don’t get me wrong, 25 books is still a respectable amount, but I’m used to devouring books like bags of crisps – one after the other, barely pausing to breathe. (Exactly how it should be!) In 2024, though, something shifted.…