Putting this list together, I realized that I don't have that many 2026 books on my TBR. I'm gonna have to go and do some research to see what's coming out 😅
I was very excited to put this list together because I feel like have read some really good books this year. Last year was rough because I had very few 5-star reads, but it turns out that I only have THREE this year. I have a bunch of 4.5-star reads, so that's great, but more 5 stars would also be great. Lol.
Uh, I thought this post went up last week... it didn't because I didn't actually finish writing it 😂 And so the blogging slump continues 😠But we're pushing through. I at least want to do the mid-year posts, but aside from that... the blog may be quiet for a bit.
I was doing really great on my reading challenges... and then I got into a reading slump 😩 I think I'm still doing okay despite that, but I'm kinda afraid to look 😅
There are so many books I am looking forward to reading this year, I just hope my mood decides to cooperate... and soon! 😠Anyway, here are some of the books I'm excited about that will be released in the last half of 2025.
Continuing with this year's trend of being late with posts, today I'm talking about my favorite books of the first half of 2025 😂 This was oddly diffcult and easy to do this year because as I've mentioned many times before, I feel like I've had a terrible reading year so I haven't actually read that many full-length novels. I feel like most of these are 4-star reads, which isn't a bad thing, but it does make me sad that I've read so few 5-star reads this year 😢 I'll let you know which books below were 5-stars for me though.
So, um, this post was meant to go up last week, and it didn't because I just didn't feel like blogging 😅 Which is shocking because stats is one of my favorite things to look at! So let's look at them now!
I am honestly afraid to be checking in. This is probably one of the worst reading years I have had. Ideally, I would like to be at the 50% mark, but yeah, I don't think so. Lol. Let's see how bad I'm doing! 😃
We are halfway through the year which means it's time for one of my favorite tags! Yay! Last year I smooshed together the questions from the original tag created by Ely and Chami with the revamped version from Jesse the Reader, and I decided to use the same combo I used last year. I honestly don't remember what questions I left out from either place, but this post isn't lacking questions, let me tell you that. Lol.
The way I am always excited to look at reading stats because I love numbers and graphs 🤓😂
It's that time of year to check in on my progress in the million reading challenges I decided to participate in this year 😅 Ideally I'd like to be at 50% with all of these challenges, and I don't think I'm doing too bad, but I feel like there are some that I'm really gonna need to work on
I love numbers, so I'm always excited to look at my reading stats to see how my reading changes throughout the year. Checking in on my stats in the middle of the year is still pretty new to me, but I'm still excited to see how it's going!
It's that time of year to check in on my progress for the reading challenges I decided to join. And I'm nervous. I'm hoping to be at the halfway mark on these, but I honestly don't think I'm doing well at all 😅
It's that time again for one of my favorite tags! The Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag was originally created back in 2016 by Ely and Chami on YouTube. This year Jesse the Reader did a revamped version of the tag so I've added some of those questions at the end (after the original 15 questions) as well. (I didn't include all of the questions because they were either already covered in the OG questions or because I will cover them later in a separate post, so if you want to see all the revamped questions make sure you check out Jesse's video!)
I'm a little scared to check in on my progress... I don't think I'm doing well at all 😅 I'm hoping to be at the 50% mark by now, but I honestly don't know. Lol.
I love numbers, so I'm always excited to look at my reading stats to see how my reading changes throughout the year. I had never done reading stats in the middle of the year until last year though! So, this mid-year check in is still pretty new for me. So far this year I have read 40 books, the exact same as last year!
My hope is that I'll have all these challenges at least 50% done... but honestly I don't even know how I'm doing. Lol. I guess we'll see.
One of my favorite things to do at the end of the year is look at my reading stats. I have never done this before, but I thought that this year I'd take a look at those stats halfway through the year! I am excited. Lol. I wont have anything to compare these numbers to since I didn't do this at the halfway point last year, but I think I'll compare them to the overall stats from last year and see how I'm doing so far.
