We are just weeks away from one of my favorite reading challenges, Winterween! Winterween is a yearly readathon hosted by GabbyReads and is a way to bring the Halloween vibes to the winter months! This year, Winterween is from January 9th – 15th and you know I’ve been planning my tbr since Gabby announced the readathon.
Grab your favorite beverage, get cozy, maybe turn on a Halloween playlist or film, and let’s talk about my Winterween tbr!
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With the beginning of December comes the start of the end of the year blog posts and I could not be more excited! I have many of these end of the year type of posts planned for the month, but we’re going to start with one of my favorites, my anticipated reads of 2026!
If you’re curious as to which books are at the top of my list for 2026, grab yourself a comforting beverage, a cozy blanket and let’s talk about some 2026 releases!
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Okay, serious question, where did November go? I swear, it was the beginning of November and then I blinked and the month was over. As always, the end of the month comes monthly wrap up time!
Grab yourself the beverage of your choice, curl up with your favorite blanket and let’s review November!
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Love is in the air for the citizens of Shady Palms, but Cupid’s arrow isn’t the only thing striking the town—not with another killer on the loose.
Things are looking up for the Brew-ha Cafe, and Lila Macapagal can’t think of anything that could break the spell, especially with Valentine’s Day coming up—she can’t wait to celebrate with her boyfriend, Jae Park. Adding to the lovey-dovey atmosphere is Hana Lee, Shady Palms’s newest resident. She’s also Jae’s beloved cousin and chocolatier at Choco Noir, the latest addition to the town’s culinary offerings. Everything is coming into place for Hana, who left her old life in Minnesota behind to work at Choco Noir, owned by her best friend.
Unfortunately, beneath the sweet surface of Shady Palms runs a bitter undercurrent, as a series of attacks against women-owned businesses in the area escalates from petty theft to assault and murder when Hana is found knocked unconscious inside Choco Noir, and the chocolate shop owner is put out of business—for good.
With Hana left in a coma, a murderer hiding amongst them, and the safety of the women entrepreneurs of Shady Palms at risk, the Park brothers team up with the Brew-ha crew to put a stop to the villain before they strike again.
Last month I saw someone doing a The Life of a Showgirl readathon that looked so fun, but I wasn’t able to participate because I had so much going on. That then got me thinking that it would be fun to do a Taylor Swift Eras themed readathon and so the Taylor Swift Eras Readathon planning began!
The readathon will be taking place the entire month of December, the 1st – 31st, in honor of Taylor’s birthday on the 13th! There is a prompt for each album, as well as some bonus prompts that I thought would be fun. You can either read 1 book per prompt or try to double up on prompts, really, you can do whatever you would like!
I’ll mainly be hosting the readathon on my Bookstagram @readbycait, so be sure to follow along there and to use the hashtags #tserasreadathon #taylorerasreadathon to see what others are reading! I’ll have story templates that you can use to track your reading progress both highlighted on my Bookstagram, and in this post as well, so be sure to save those to use while you’re reading!
Alright, now that we’ve gone over the basics of the readathon, let’s talk about the prompts!
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Hi friends! Now that it’s November, I’m thinking about my end of the year plans — things I want to get done before the end of the year, the books I want to read and prioritize, and my final blog posts for the year.
I thought it would be fun to take some time and go through those things with all of you. Get comfy and cozy and let’s talk about my end of the year plans.
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I know I say it every month, but I truly can’t believe that this month is over! October really flew by and I can’t believe it’s come and gone already!
A lot was going on this month, so let’s get to it!
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Hello hello, we’re now in October and somehow we’ve gotten through the third quarter of the year! With the end of a quarter comes my stats update which is always fun for me, y’all know I love a good stats post!
Let’s talk about my reading over the course of July, August and September!
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Hello my sundrops! To quote Maisie Peters, “I wake up and it’s October”. As we’re getting towards the end of the year, I’ve started to not only look ahead to 2026 (doesn’t sound like a real year) and what books I’m looking forward to, but also what books on my owned tbr that I’d like to read before the year is out.
One of my big goals for 2025 has been to get my owned tbr down to 100 books. At this moment, I’m at 135, which really isn’t a horrible number considering the amount of books that I buy throughout the year and the books that I get through the library or ARCs that I get. I do wish I remembered what my owned tbr was at when the year started to see how many I’ve already ticked off the list, but alas, I don’t remember. The thing is, I don’t think I’m going to get to 35 of the books on my owned tbr in addition to all the other things I want to read, so I decided to pick 9 books from my owned tbr that I’m going to prioritize.
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We made it to the end of September! I’m gonna be real, at moments this month, it didn’t feel like we’d ever get here, but we did! As you know, with the end of the month comes my monthly wrap up, so let’s get to it!
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