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June 2026 reading wrap up

Hello friends!! Welcome to the June 2026 reading wrap up. June was a much better reading month than May, even if my Goodreads challenge still insists on reminding me that I’m behind. Rude. I managed to finish six books this month, and while there weren’t any five-star reads, there were plenty of books that reminded me why I love finding authors whose writing just clicks. Laura Ashley Gallagher…

June 2026 reading wrap up

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May 2026 reading wrap up

Hello friends!! Welcome to the May 2026 reading wrap up. Well… this is a decidedly shorter wrap-up than the last few. May was one of those months where life (work, medical stuff, stress?!) seemed to get in the way of reading. I still found time to finish a few books, but compared to the emotional marathon that was April, this month was much quieter. Looking back, I also seem to have accidentally…

May 2026 reading wrap up

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Top 5 cute covers

Hello friends, and welcome to top 5 Tuesday where I will be discussing my top 5 cute covers on books. You know that saying about not judging a book by its cover? I agree with it. Mostly. Ok, fine. Sometimes. Because while a beautiful cover won’t make me buy a book on its own, it will absolutely make me stop walking, pick it up off the shelf, and read the blurb. Covers are a book’s first…

Top 5 cute covers

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Top 5 books that found me when I needed them most

Hello friends, and welcome to Top 5 Tuesday! This week’s topic is a freebie, but I decided to write about the top 5 books that found me when I needed them most. The last few weeks have been… strange. Not bad. Just different. After spending years in a role where every day was packed with meetings, speeches, governance, competing priorities and other people’s deadlines, I’ve suddenly found myself…

Top 5 books that found me when I needed them most

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Sometimes you need the happy ending

If you’ve visited Meeghan Reads over the past couple of months, you may have noticed things have been a little… quieter than usual. That’s not because I’ve stopped reading. Although I have been reading less than previous years. I just haven’t had the energy to read AND blog. The past few months have been a time of enormous change. I’ve been wrapping up a long career (18 years) in the Australian…

Sometimes you need the happy ending

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Blue Prince game review

Hello friends!! Welcome to today’s video game review of Blue Prince!! There is something deeply humbling about a game that quietly assumes you are smarter than you are. Blue Prince is that game. And yes, before we go any further… the title is a genuinely fun little pun on blueprints, which feels both obvious and clever in hindsight, and also very on-brand for a game that is so deeply and…

Blue Prince game review

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Top 5 book with mysterious houses

Hello friends, and welcome to Top 5 Tuesday! This week’s topic is top 5 books with mysterious houses… but I have to admit my brain just instantly turned left and went to magical houses… Some fantasy worlds are memorable because of the characters. Others because of the magic. But sometimes it’s the buildings that linger. The houses that feel alive. The schools that shift when you aren’t looking.…

Top 5 book with mysterious houses

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April 2026 reading wrap up

Hello friends!! Welcome to the April 2026 reading wrap up. April felt like a bit of a reset month. After my accidental vampire era in March (which I’m still not entirely convinced I didn’t subconsciously plan), this month leaned much more into romance and softer fantasy, and, apparently, books that wanted to emotionally ruin me. There’s something about a reading month where you end up crying more…

April 2026 reading wrap up

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Top 5 book boyfriends I could fix

Hello friends, and welcome to Top 5 Tuesday! This week’s topic is a freebie, and I decided to write about my top 5 book boyfriends I could fix. I swear I could!! There are often only two types of fictional men. The ones who are emotionally stable, communicate well, and would probably make excellent long-term partners… and the ones who are a walking red flag with trauma, questionable…

Top 5 book boyfriends I could fix

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Why Pacing Collapses in Act II

Hello friends!! Welcome to The editor’s lens where I talk about things that I see in books that… well, actually, just really annoy me. I pull them apart, study them, and put them back together — hopefully with some tips! Today I’m talking about why pacing collapses in Act Two. There’s a point in almost every book where things start to feel… slower. Not in a deliberate, tension-building way. Just…

Why Pacing Collapses in Act II

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Top 5 books about politics

Hello friends, and welcome to Top 5 Tuesday! This week’s topic is top 5 books about politics. What I find most interesting about politics isn’t necessarily the headlines… it’s the reasoning behind them. The moments where decisions are made, often under pressure, with incomplete information, competing priorities, and no clear “right” answer. I’m far more interested in the why than the what — what…

Top 5 books about politics

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A Book Lover's guide to Greece

Hello friends!! Welcome to today’s post — a travel post with a twist, if you will — a book lover’s guide to Greece. There are some places you visit. And then there are some places you feel like you’ve already been to, long before you ever step foot there. Greece, for me, was the latter kind. Long before I saw the Acropolis, or stood at the edge of a pier watching the sun drop into the Ionian sea,…

A Book Lover's guide to Greece

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Top 5 books about religion

Hello friends, and welcome to Top 5 Tuesday! This week’s topic is top 5 books about religion. Sometimes I want to read about religion… just not real religion. I’ve always been fascinated by belief systems — how they shape societies, influence characters, and underpin entire worlds. But while I was baptised Anglican, I’m now an atheist… and I’ve found that my interest in religion hasn’t gone away,…

Top 5 books about religion

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Top 5 anticipated reads for Q2 2026

Hello friends, and welcome to Top 5 Tuesday! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated reads for Q2 2026. This is one of those quarters where narrowing it down to five books felt… borderline impossible. There are so many incredible releases coming out between April and June that I genuinely could have turned this into a Top 10 (and honestly, I kind of did anyway). Before we get into the main list, I…

Top 5 anticipated reads for Q2 2026

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The Mentor Problem: Why wise mentor characters always disappear

Hello friends!! Welcome to my new series: The editor’s lens! Where I will categorically pull apart things that I see in books that… well, actually, just really annoy me. Study them. And then put them back together! Today I’m talking about the Mentor Problem, and why wise mentor characters always disappear. If you read enough fantasy, you start to notice a pattern. The wise mentor appears early in…

The Mentor Problem: Why wise mentor characters always disappear

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March 2026 reading wrap up

Hello friends!! Welcome to the March 2026 reading wrap up. March was, apparently, my accidental vampire era. I didn’t plan it. Well, I kind of planned it in that I had a TBR*. But I didn’t set a theme. I didn’t even particularly intend to read vampire books. And yet, here we are… multiple vampire romances deep, wondering at what point this became a personality trait. Outside of that, this month…

March 2026 reading wrap up

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Top 5 books that should be modern classics

Hello friends, and welcome to Top 5 Tuesday! This week’s topic is top 5 books that should be modern classics. Some books just feel like they’re going to last. You know the ones. The stories that linger long after you’ve finished them, the characters that feel real enough to miss, the writing that quietly reshapes how you see the world. They might be contemporary, they might be speculative, but…

Top 5 books that should be modern classics