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Best Books I Read in 2025
First Top 10 Tuesday post of 2026! Happy New Year, everyone!!! This week’s Top 10 Tuesday prompt has us look at our best books of 2025, and I am eager to see what everyone has to share! My own favorites are listed below, and reviews shared earlier by me HERE. My reading list is still heavier on the historical fantasy fiction side, but I am glad I managed to pick up on non-fiction reads as…
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Watchlist 2025: Mini-Reviews [Long List]
Happy New Year 2026! Lots of watches this past year 2025, and here’s a time capsule of everything good that I binged on. Frankenstein (2025) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. Standout watch of the year. This movie is a spellbinding visual feast. To think it is based on a book written by 20-year old Mary Shelley during a writing contest among friends in 1818! This story remains relevant for modern…
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Cool Clicks: Best of the Year 2025 Links
When the world is going grim, you take refuge in the pieces of awe and marvel around you. Sharing some art, photography and music to click for. {Disclaimer: None of the links or images shared here belong to me in any way, and no copyright infringement or commercialization is intended by sharing them here for fair use purposes.} [1] Feast on the photos of the Earth’s most stunning landscapes for…
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Throwback Thursday: Imperial Radch Trilogy by Ann Leckie
Name(s): Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary MercyAuthor: Ann LeckiePublisher: Orbit BooksCover Art: John HarrisAwards: Hugo, Nebula, British Science Fiction Association, Arthur C. Clarke, Locus etc. etc.Audiobooks: Recorded Books (Book 1); Hachette Audio UK (Book 2) Ancillary Justice had (IIRC) won almost every award the SFF genre had to offer, with good reason. It’s no easy feat,…
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Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell WoodsPublished: 2025Recommended for fans of: Patricia McKillip, Juliet Marillier, To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo, gritty folktale retellings, The Gothic, the poem Sea-Fever, The Pirates of the Caribbean This is a retelling of The Little Mermaid (with some elements of other tales besides), set in the coastal city of Saint-Malo, France (see that lovely image…
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Monthly Recap (Feb-25)
A clock to perhaps remind me that it’s time to get back to the blogging time capsule, cough up at least one post a month. So here I am, with a monthly recap :: some reviews of the hits and misses for February 2025. Only the Winds First, music share — I am totally obsessed with this song. If anyone has any listen-alikes, please do share! Twilight of the Gods ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of…
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Top 10 Reads of 2024
It’s time to list our top 10 reads of 2024 (and download massive TBR reclists, of course). Not much of reading this year, but I would not have missed this Top 10 Tuesday theme for the world! 1 / The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo I have not been a great fan or follower of the Grishaverse, so was hesitant in picking this up. But what a marvelous story this turned out to be. We peer into the ages of…
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Mid-Year Check In: Best of 2024 So Far
I am ready to write bad angsty poetry on my never-ending reading/ blogging slump! Still, somehow, pushing myself to do this mid-year 2024 blogpost on stuff I have liked till now. Let’s all pledge to move out of Slump Valley! And just in case these recs reach you, hope you’ll like some of these. 1 / The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo I have not been a great fan or follower of the Grishaverse, so was…
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