MerryChristmas!! 🎄🎁❄️🌟 It’s a little bit later in the month than I wanted to do this, but I’m participating in Birthstone Book Covers! I can’t believe it’s been three years since I’ve started joining in on this post. Time really flies!
Birthstone Book Covers is a fun monthly post created by Leslie @Books Are the New Black. Each month, she features book covers that are either the same color of that month’s birthstone or include the color in the title.
December has three birthstones – Tanzanite, Zircon, and Turquoise. So shades of blue and cyan for this month’s books!
Rules:
📚 Mention the creator (Leslie @ Books Are The New Black) and link back to her so she can check out your post. 📚Pick 5+ book covers that match the current month’s Birthstone. 📚 HAVE FUN! 📚 Nominate people if you want!
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Tailored Realities by Brandon Sanderson
How Sweet It Is by Dylan Newton
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos
Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters
What are your favorite books with blue or cyan covers? If you participated in Birthstone Book Covers, which books did you choose this December?
Thanks for reading, and I hope you have the most amazing day/night!
I’m on time this week! Yes! What a great way to start a new week!
So I didn’t really get any reading done, which I am disappointed about, but I do have a nice immediate TBR cued up and ready to roll. My blog activity last week was great though, especially considering it was right after a vacation, even if I did get a bit of a late start with it.
But yeah, without further ado, let’s get on with the weekly wrap-up!
Thursday 6/12: The Most Interesting Looking New Books of June 2025
Last Thursday, I posted a list of the books that I’m looking forward to this month. Or, at least the ones that I think look the most interesting. It was the Most Interesting Looking New Books of June 2025. As always, it’s basically only fantasy and science fiction, as those are the two genres I primarily read. This time I had four books on my list.
On Friday, I participated in First Line Fridays for the first time in a while – like a month. First Line Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers (formerly) hosted by Wandering Words.
This past Friday was also 2025’s Friday the 13th. It doesn’t mean anything, I just always notice it for some reason and like to acknowledge it.
Yesterday, I finally posted my book review for Behooved by M. Stevenson. It’s a new fairytale-esque romantasy novel with a beautiful cover. It took me longer than it should’ve to get this review out (in large part due to going on vacation the week before last), but it’s posted now and I’m happy. I gave it ★★★✫☆.
It was also a minor holiday yesterday – Father’s Day!! 🎣⛵ We didn’t do a ton, just did some breakfast with my mom’s side of the family and then went over to my spouse’s side to spend time with them. My dad was busy, so we’re gonna meet up some time this week instead.
So yeah, my blog productivity last week was definitely up, which I’m very happy with. I didn’t really read any books though, which is something I’m less happy with. I hope to improve this coming week.
Regarding the stuff I want to do this week, I want to definitely read a book. I’m between A Spell for Change by Nicole Jarvis and The Ashfire King by Chelsea Abdullah (yes, I still haven’t gotten around to reading that one. I think I’m probably gonna go with the former, however, ’cause it’s a little shorter. I could honestly go either-or, though.
For the blog, I want to post my monthly reading wrap-up for May 2025. I’m late as hell with it – again, because I didn’t really do anything, especially with the blog, during my vacation the week before last. I also want to participate in my favorite monthly post, do at least one additional weekly post and hopefully finish another book and post a review about it.
As for life outside books and blogging, not much has changed. I’m still watching what I eat. I did finally take the Easter and spring decorations down though, and shifted everything to summer stuff. Not 4th of July stuff yet – it’s still too early for that!
Anyway, as always thank you for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful day/night!
