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Thanks to whoever posted the tip about using this method on pic collage to get 24 books in one post easily.

This was a weird reading year for me looking back. Not as many 5 🌟 reads as last year. A lot more what I consider fluffy or easy reads and about 35 less books in total. A bonus was increased luck on #NetGalley. I am at 191 for the year and might finish one more.

Looking forward to a great year 2025 in books!

I found this while researching another book on #NetGalley and immediately snatched it up. It‘s weird seeing my name on a book so much, especially when it is such a tough subject.

Can‘t put this down! #arc

This is super fun and a great feminist fairytale retelling. And fantastic cover.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Pub date is 6/17/25
#ARC #Netgalley

The suggested reading for this is as an adventure book - read a chapter a day until Christmas. I'm glad I didn't do that and read it all in one go, I wouldn't have finished the book otherwise.

This didn't work for me. I didn't enjoy the writing, and the plot was predictable.

Thanks to #Netgalley for the #ARC

I read Clytemnestra last year by Costanza Casati, and I thought there was no way she could top that book - boy, was I wrong! Where do I even start talking about Babylonia? The writing is beautiful and lyrical. The characters are so complex, strong, and real. The story is unbelievable.

Can you imagine being an orphan and rising to such fame? Semiramis was this person. No matter how hard life was, or how much it tried to keep her down, ⬇️

If you read The Little Book of Hygge, but still want some tips on finding joy in your work, then this is the book for you!

This was an extraordinarily well researched little book about finding joy and purpose in work, and what you can do if you find yourself in a situation where you can‘t. Some of the financial advice skirted a little too close to “millennials and their iced coffee” for me, but I appreciated the general advice. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Cheers, Littens! Entering this holiday by finishing this one on #netgalley. It had enough ambition for a 500+ page book. The threads came together well and I was entertained each step of the way. Cheers, all!

I was drawn to this on #netgalley as it was blurbed to be a campus, dark academia novel. Perhaps I should have read that blurb better, as it‘s also about magic, which I‘m not a fan of.

It‘s the same-old story of a student from a poor background trying to fit in with the rich kids at Cambridge.

It would have been a so-so but the ending lifted it to a light pick.

Published 16th Jan in the UK.

4.5/5

This was an incredibly interesting book about the history of Christmas monsters and ghosts from how they came to become folklore to their ongoing evolution and popularity. This wasn't something I had thought about much before, but I found it so interesting to find out what we know about these stories origins and what the can tell us about how Christmas, and midwinter in general, was celebrated historically in Europe.

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