Monthly Wrap-Up: June Reading 2025

Yes. I’m late again this month. But, interestingly enough, no later than last month with this post, which surprised me a little when I checked. But here it is – my reading wrap-up for June 2025.

My reading in June was abysmal, there’s really no other way to say it. Not only did I only get one book in, but it was a novella at that. My blog activity was also a bit iffy at times, but that’s neither here nor there.

Anyway, let’s just start talking about my StoryGraph statistics from last month!

June Reading 2025

I read 1 book and 162 pages

😐 MOODS: I had three Moods in June, which is less than the month before. The Moods from this past month were: Adventurous, Lighthearted and Funny.

👢 PACE: The book I read last month was fast-paced.

🔢 PAGE NUMBER: The novella I read last month was 162 pages.

📖 FICTION/NONFICTION: It was once again all fiction. As usual.

🎭 GENRES: There was one Genre on the graph this month, and it’s what’s almost always my top one to read – Fantasy.

📄 FORMAT: This pie chart was once again correct. Three months in a row. A miracle.

⭐ RATING: My median star rating for last month was 4.5, which makes sense as I only read one book and that was the rating I gave it.

📉 PAGES READ DAILY: My reading during June, as I’ve said before, pretty much sucked. I didn’t really read anything until the very end of the month, during the last two days wherein I read the entire novella.

The Books I Read in June

★★★★✯ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, last month really sucked in regards to reading books, and my blog activity could’ve been better. So much for hoping that June would be better than May. I’m still gonna hope that my novel reading and stuff is better in July either way.

There’s stuff on my immediate TBR, as well as new books coming out this month that I’m interested in, so I’ve got plenty of options of what to read next. I haven’t fully decided on anything yet though, but I’ll hopefully be reading a couple different things in July at least.

Getting back into One Piece is still the plan, though my spouse is also currently going three a recently acquired stack of books. And that’s not even mentioning the fact that I have a few things that I want to read before starting with some of the post-timeskip stuff, so we probably won’t get back to that until next month. But we’re still gonna do it!

Anyway, as always, thank you for joining me in checking out my StoryGraph stats for my June reading in 2025. Thank you also for reading, and I hope you have a great day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Top Ten Tuesday: Ways in Which My Blogging and Review Styles Have Changed

Hey there everyone! It’s been a couple of weeks since I last participated in Top Ten Tuesday!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It celebrates lovely lists, wonderful books and the bookish community. This week’s topic is Ways in Which My Blogging/Review Style Has Changed. By the looks of the prompt, I’m pretty sure you can either talk about how your blogging has changed, how you’ve changed how you write reviews, or both. So I’ve decided to go with both. I’m gonna try to go back and forth with my top ten list.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s get going!

#1: My Featured Image Graphics for Weekly Wrap-Ups

I used to do more colorful thumbnails/featured images for my Weekly Wrap-Up posts, and honestly, more colorful thumbnails/featured images in general. But after I came back from my break from doing Weekly Wrap-Ups, I decided to redesign my thumbnails/featured images for the post to match the coloration of my blog more. I also made it look… nicer I guess, and gave it a bit more elegant flair.

#2: My Featured Image Graphics for Book Reviews

I’ve also changed my thumbnail/featured image style for when I do book reviews. This one has actually gone through a few iterations, since I first started the blog about two and a half years ago. At first, I attempted to do catchy titles, but they were usually too long and didn’t work super well with SEO, so I put the catchy title in the thumbnail/featured image instead. I’d also put a close up of the book’s cover of the novel that I was reviewing in the background. Eventually though, I kind of got tired of this format and completely overhauled the whole thing, and my new thumbnail/featured image for book reviews matches the coloration of my blog, clearly states it’s a book review and mimics the font of the title on the book cover.

#3: The Original Posts That I’ve Created and Stuck With

I’ve created a few original posts on my blog, though I haven’t really stuck with them. Bewitching Book Covers was actually the first original post I created, and was formerly known as Tasteful Tuesdays, and before that, Majestic Mondays. The post focuses on book covers that I like, and it’s specifically where I gush about them and then attempt to analyze them. Then, I got tired of trying to commit the post to a specific day of the week, and renamed it so it wouldn’t be weird to post it on a specific day.

I have a couple of other posts that I’ve created since I’ve been blogging. One of these is Popular Books That I’ve Read Never: where I highlight books I’ve never read, don’t plan on reading and why I don’t think I’ll ever read them. Another post that I’ve created but haven’t stuck with was Reading & Recipes: a post where I go over a recipe to something I cooked or baked recently and also do an update about what I read the day I made that recipe.

#4: The Way I Organize the Content in My Book Reviews

This has changed quite a few times since I first started the blog. At first, I kind of spat out my entire review in one huge several-paragraphs-long chunk. Soon after that, though, I’d add a quote I enjoyed from the novel I was reviewing occasionally throughout in order to break up the review a bit.

Eventually, I started breaking up the review even more and I’d talk about specific things from the book – characters, plot, romance, writing – in a specific order complete with headings separating all these sections. At this time, I also started posting the quotes I liked at the end of the review, rather than spread throughout.

Now I’ve gone back to threading favored quotes throughout my reviews again, and unless the book review is longer or it’s a book series review, I tend to leave out the headings dividing the sections of stuff from the book that I discuss in my reviews (characters, plot, etc). Who knows, maybe I’ll go back to distributing headings to sections again eventually.

#5: The Frequency of Specific Posts

I used to try to do a post of all the weekly/monthly posts I created/participated in every week/month, but I’d burn out. So I decided it was far less stressful and much more sustainable to just do them when I felt like it. I also dropped a few posts.

#6: The Weekly/Monthly Posts I Participate In Have Changed a Little

As I just mentioned above, I had created several posts that I used to try to make regular and recurring. I’d do the same thing with every single weekly/monthly post I found and liked. But, as I also mentioned, it just wasn’t sustainable for me, so I had to pick and choose which ones I’d drop.

This wasn’t particularly hard for me to do or anything, as I just kind of naturally stopped doing posts I wasn’t as into. It’s just interesting to me which posts I’ve stuck with, which posts I haven’t and which posts have gone and come back later.

I used to do W.W.W. Wednesdays often, but when I brought Weekly Wrap-Ups back I felt it was redundant, so I stopped doing it. I tried both Spell the Month in Books for a while, before stopping Spell the Month in Books entirely. Something similar happened with Top Ten Tuesdays, as I paused it for a couple of months where I spent time considering whether I wanted to continue with it or not, ultimately deciding to keep with it. And of course Weekly Wrap-Ups left for almost a year before I brought them back. It’s just interesting to me what posts I’ve done throughout my years with this blog.

#7: The Way I Post About New Books Coming Out Soon That I’m Interested In

The format of this post hasn’t changed at all since I started it almost two years and four months ago, but the frequency of it has. I used to do this post quarterly and list and highlight books releasing in the next few months that interested me. But at the beginning of this year I decided to do this monthly instead. And so far, it’s been great – I’ve been loving it.

#8: How Much of My Life Outside Blogging and Reading I Share

I am, and always have been, a very private and introverted individual. This is especially true with how I treat my online persona; I’ve tried my best to obscure my name, age and gender and the names, ages and genders of my loved ones and aquainteinces. I’ve never been comfortable sharing about things in my “real life” beyond this blog and in regards to reading, both because I’m very private about things like that and she to paranoia.

But, in the last few months or so, I’ve decided to be a little bit – just a little bit! – more open about a few things I do outside the blog in my “real life” as well as share a few more of my interests beyond reading and books. I don’t think I’m ever gonna do more beyond this, though. I’m just too private and paranoid and the Internet is scary.

#9: I No Long Post or Reference Everything I Do On My Blog On Instagram

I used to do an Instagram – or Bookstagram – post for every post I did on this blog, save for Weekly Wrap-Ups I believe. Eventually, I started to think that it might be cluttered up my Instagram, so I decided to just do Bookstagram posts on my book reviews, book tags, book hauls, Monthly Reading Wrap-Ups and book pictures I’d take for Instagram posts specifically.

#10: I Generally Post Less Often Than I Used To

This is just something that I’ve noticed has happened. I used to post something almost every day for the first several months after starting this blog, but as the months wore on I started to get burnt out by this. Now, I try to do a Weekly Wrap-Up as well as three or four additional posts of any type every week, and try to give myself about two days off from blogging. Frequently, I end up posting less than this, however, and it kind of annoys me almost every time it happens. I wanna do four to five posts a week, dammit!

How has your blogging style changed if it’s changed at all? How has the way you do your reviews changed if it’s changed at all? What do you think might change about your blogging or review style in the future?

As always, thanks so much for reading, and I hope that you have an amazing day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Monthly Wrap-Up: March Reading 2025

Well this is late. I don’t even have a good excuse for it either; I’m just late with this post. Anyway, here’s my reading wrap-up for March 2025.

I’m happier with my reading last month than I was with my reading in February. Sure it was two books read instead of one, but it was still better. I think my activity on the blog was also higher than the month before last, but I’m not quite sure about that.

Since this is already super late, I don’t really want to keep the rest of the post any longer. Let’s get into my StoryGraph statistics from last month!

March Reading 2025

I read 2 books and 621 pages

😐 MOODS: I had four Moods in March. That’s an extra Mood from February, which is cool. The Moods from this past month were: Adventurous, Mysterious, Dark and Emotional.

👢 PACE: The books I read last month were both fast and medium-paced.

🔢 PAGE NUMBER: The novels I read last month were between 133 and 407 pages.

📖 FICTION/NONFICTION: It was once again all fiction. As usual.

🎭 GENRES: There were two Genres in the books I read in March. They were Fantasy and LGBT+.

📄 FORMAT: This pie chart was once again incorrect – both of the books I read last month were digital. Whatever.

⭐ RATING: My median star rating for last month was 3.5, as I rated both novels I read 3.5 stars.

📉 PAGES READ DAILY: My reading for March basically sucked for the first half. It spiked some on the 16th, but then dipped for the next week or so. Then, during the last week of the month, I read on and off, peaking on the 30th and the 31st.

The Books I Read in March

★★★✯☆ • my review

☆ • did not finish • ☆

★★★✯☆ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, even though my reading for March could’ve been better, it was still better than February, so I’m counting it as a win. I’m also generally happy with most of the blog posting I did, too.

April has at least one new book I’m definitely playing reading, and I’m also hoping to get to one or two of my anticipated new releases from March that I have gotten around to reading yet. We’ll see. At the very least, I’m hoping to read more books throughout this month than I did during the last one.

Anyway, as always, thank you for joining me in checking out my StoryGraph stats for my March reading in 2025. Thank you also for reading, and I hope you have a great day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Monthly Wrap-Up: February Reading 2025

It’s a couple of days later than last month, but I think I’m posting my reading wrap-up for February 2025 at a pretty reasonable time. The contents I’m gonna be analyzing here… are not so great in comparison.

Yeah. My reading last month sucked. I only read one book, and I didn’t even get to reviewing it until this month. But seeing as in February 2024 I only read one book as well, I guess I didn’t do worse than last year. So I guess that’s something. Technically.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s get into my StoryGraph statistics from last month!

February Reading 2025

I read 1 book and 356 pages

😐 MOODS: I had three Moods in February, which was the same as in January. They were all the same size slice. The Moods were: Adventurous, Lighthearted and Funny.

👢 PACE: The book I read last month was medium-paced.

🔢 PAGE NUMBER: The novel that I read was 356 pages.

📖 FICTION/NONFICTION: It was once again all fiction. But when you only read one book and it’s strictly fiction, it’s impossible to also read nonfiction.

🎭 GENRES: There were two Genres in the books I read in February. They were Fantasy and Romance.

📄 FORMAT: This pie chart was actually correct for once. Or twice, since this is the second month in a row this has happened. The only novel I read was a physical copy.

⭐ RATING: My median star rating for last month was 4.0, and it was my only rating.

📉 PAGES READ DAILY: My reading for February basically sucked until the last week. As in, I didn’t read anything. The only reading I did was between the 22nd and the 28th.

The Books I Read in February

★★★★☆ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, my reading from last month really sucked. I’m hoping beyond anything that it improves in March. Like, just about anything would be better than my performance in February.

March has a couple new books that I’m particularly interested in, so there’s a good chance I’ll read at least one or two of them. I might not get to one of them until a later month in the year, though. I also have a bit of a backlog of a TBR I’ve been wanting to get to, as well as a sequel series that I’ve been thinking about continuing with for a while. We’ll see what I end up reading.

Anyway, as always, thank you for joining me in checking out my StoryGraph stats for my February reading in 2025. Thank you also for reading, and I hope you have a great day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Monthly Wrap-Up: January Reading 2025

Here we are, on the second day of the month. Once again, a reasonable day to be posting a wrap-up. Also, ❄️ Happy Groundhog Day 🌱 everybody!! Will we or won’t we have six more weeks of winter?!

Regarding January 2025 my reading was… fine. I didn’t end up reading as many books as I’d hoped I would, but I read twice as many as I did in January 2024, so I’m counting it as a win.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s get into my StoryGraph statistics from last month!

January Reading 2025

I read 2 books and 518 pages

😐 MOODS: I had three Moods in January, which was less than I did the month before. There wasn’t one mood that was bigger than the others this time, they were all the same size slice. The Moods were: Adventurous, Mysterious and Emotional.

👢 PACE: My books from last month were all medium-paced.

🔢 PAGE NUMBER: Everything I read was between 198 and 384 pages.

📖 FICTION/NONFICTION: It was once again all fiction in January. Per usual.

🎭 GENRES: There were four Genres in the books I read in January. Like my Moods from this month, all of the Genres also appeared equally. They were: Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult and LGBT+.

📄 FORMAT: This pie chart was actually correct for once. One of the books I read was digital and the other was a physical copy.

⭐ RATING: My median star rating for last month was 3.75. The ratings I gave were between 3.5 stars and 4.0 stars, so yeah.

📉 PAGES READ DAILY: My highest spike of reading occured from the 17th through the 19th. My other reading spike, as well as the only other time I read a novel this month, was from the 30th and the 31st.

The Books I Read in January

★★★✯☆ • my review

★★★★☆ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, even though I wasn’t quite happy with the amount of books I read last month, it was still better than the same month last year, so I’m still satisfied well enough with it. I’d still like to do better for February, this coming month, however.

This month I’ve got a couple novels I’m interested in right off the bat, as well. First off is the last installment of the Emily Wilde series, Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, but I’m also a little interested in Neal Shusterman’s new book, All Better Now. I’ve also still got books from my birthday last year as well as Christmas that I still have to read, and I’d like to get through one of two in February.

Anyway, as always, thank you for joining me in checking out my StoryGraph stats for my January reading in 2025. Thank you also for reading, and I hope you have a fantastic day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Monthly Wrap-Up: November Reading 2024

I know this is super freaking late, but here I am with my November 2024 reading wrap-up. Finally.

I don’t know if I’ve ever been this late in the month with this post, but I hope it never happens again. Ugh, I don’t know what it is about December, but every year my novel reading and (sometimes) blog posting just completely tanks. I hate it.

Last month, I think I did pretty decently with it reading. I technically only read three novels, but it felt like (and is counted as) seven, so I’ll take it. Though I haven’t had the best start with this month (or any start at all really 😆😅), I’m hoping I’ll at least read a few books in December.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s get into my StoryGraph statistics from last month!

November Reading 2024

I read 7 books and 2,732 pages

😐 MOODS: I had less Moods in November than I did during October, but I still had six of them. As usual, the biggest Mood of the pie was Adventurous, but it was very closely followed by Emotional. They were then followed by Mysterious and Funny, and those Moods were then closely followed by Tense and Dark.

👢 PACE: My books from last month were all medium paced and nothing else. I don’t think that’s ever happened before.

🔢 PAGE NUMBER: Everything I read was between 304 and 489 pages.

📖 FICTION/NONFICTION: It was once again all fiction in November. Per usual.

🎭 GENRES: There were four Genres in the books I read in November, which was less this past month than the month before, but still decent. Somehow Romance is at the top of the bar graph this time, even though I read just as many Fantasy books. I dunno, I guess I thought they’d organize them in alphabetical order if they had the same amount? Anyway, the two other Genres here were LGBT+ and Young Adult (which aren’t genres they’re demographic, but I’ll shut up about that from now on).

📄 FORMAT: This particular pie graph is once again wrong. (As it always is.) The majority of books I read were physical copies, but two of them were digital.

⭐ RATING: My median star rating for last month was 3.96. The ratings I gave were between 1.75 stars and 4.5 stars, so yeah.

📉 PAGES READ DAILY: I did most of my reading during the middle of November. I read between the 8th and the 15th, as well as during the 21st and 22nd. My highest reading spike was on the 13th.

The Books I Read in November

★★★★✯ • my review

★★★★✯

★★★★✯

★★★★✯

★★★★✯

★✫☆☆☆ • my review

★★★✯☆ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, I wish I had read more books than I ended up doing, but it is what it is. And yeah, this wrap-up is rather late, but for some reason I wanted to get my MDZS review out first. I dunno why. I did want to post this yesterday, but, well life got to me.

I’m really hoping that my reading for December will pick up this week, but I’m honestly not sure. Like I mentioned earlier, for some reason I find it harder to read books and blog about them in December. (If I’m being honest, I think it’s probably a winter thing, because it happens in January and February too. Hopefully they’ll be better, as well.)

Anyway, thanks for joining me in checking out my StoryGraph stats for my November reading in 2024. Thank you also for reading, and I hope you have an awesome day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Monthly Wrap-Up: August Reading 2024

So I dropped the ball a little bit last month, regarding my reading in August 2024. I read a little bit less than I did in July.

But I’m hoping to at least match my reading (of books, specifically) from last month, this month. Especially since September has a couple books coming out that I’m looking forward to in particular.

Well anyway, without further ado, let’s get into my StoryGraph statistics from last month.

August Reading 2024

I read 4 books and 1,430 pages

😐 MOODS: The Moods for August definitely varied more than the last couple of months. Adventurous was of course the biggest slice of pie on this particular pie chart, because it always is. But the secondary most Mood was Mysterious, which isn’t always the case. The other Moods included were Reflective, Lighthearted, Funny, Emotional and Challenging.

👢 PACE: My books from last month were split between fast and medium paced.

🔢 PAGE NUMBER: Everything I read was between 160 and 477 pages.

📖 FICTION/NONFICTION: It was once again all fiction in August. As is my usual.

🎭 GENRES: There were about as many Genres in August as there were in July. The Genre king for last month was once again Fantasy as is basically always the case – I don’t think I’ve ever had a month where it wasn’t. The other five genres were Young Adult, Shirt Stories, Science Fiction, Manga and Literary. (Once again – and I’ll probably keep saying this – it really bothers me that StoryGraph lumps in reading demographics with genres though – they’re not the same thing!!)

📄 FORMAT: This particular pie graph is once again wrong. (As usual.) Nearly all the books I read were digital – only one was a hard copy.

⭐ RATING: My median star rating for last month was 3.94. The ratings I gave were between 2.0 stars and 5.0 stars, so yeah.

📉 PAGES READ DAILY: I read a lot during the end of the first week and then first half of the second week of August. It was my biggest reading spike of the month, as well. Then I dropped off for a bit. I then read between the 20th and the 24th, paused again, and then read from the 26th all the way to the end of the month on the 31st.

The Books I Read in August

The Girl With No Reflection by Keshe Chow

★★☆☆☆ • my review

★★★★★ • my review

☆ • did not finish • ☆

★★★★★

Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction by Ann Leckie

★★★✫☆ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, once again – even though I read several books in August – it wasn’t as many as I might’ve liked. I mostly enjoyed the novels I did read and did end up finishing, however, so I count that as a huge win for me.

I think I have a better chance of reading more books in September than I did this past month. For one thing, my husband and I are gonna start up with another arc of One Piece again (which means at least two super volumes). But also, there’s a couple of books coming out this month that I’ve been anticipating all year. Not to mention what I’m currently reading and all that.

Another thing in my favor, is that I tend to really get into novels in the fall, for whatever reason. It might be kinda weird, and I don’t know why it happens, but I pretty consistently seem to do the majority of my novel reading in autumn. Maybe it’s the atmosphere? The vibes? I just don’t know.

Anyway, thanks for joining me in checking out my StoryGraph stats for my August reading in 2024. Thank you also for reading, and I hope you have an wonderful day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Monthly Wrap-Up: July Reading 2024

So even though I didn’t read quite as many books as I’d hoped, I was at least somewhat happy with my reading for July 2024. Like, I read six books – that’s not too bad.

I also still have a bit of a solid TBR going on (that I still haven’t touched, lol), and there’s some books coming out in the next month or so that I’m into, so hopefully I’ll be reading way more in August.

Anyway, without further ado, let’s get into my StoryGraph statistics from last month.

July Reading 2024

I read 6 books and 3,153 pages

😐 MOODS: There were about the same amount of Moods as in June. Adventurous was of course number one, as it always is. The other three Moods were Lighthearted, Funny and Emotional, and they were actually pretty equal on the chart, except for Emotional.

👢 PACE: My books from last month were fast, medium or slow paced.

🔢 PAGE NUMBER: Everything I read was between 200 and 700 pages.

📖 FICTION/NONFICTION: It was once again all fiction this month. As is usual.

🎭 GENRES: There were about as many Genres in July as in June. The Genre king for last month was once again Fantasy as is pretty much always the case – I don’t think I’ve ever had a month where it wasn’t. The other five genres were Manga, Romance, Graphic Novel, LGBT+ and Young Adult. (It bothers me that StoryGraph lumps in reading demographics with genres though – they’re not the same thing!! And these last five are definitely reading demographics.)

📄 FORMAT: This particular pie graph is once again wrong. (As usual.) About a third of the books I read were ebooks, while the rest were physical copies.

⭐ RATING: My median star rating for last month was 4.17. The ratings I gave were between 3.0 stars and 5.0 stars, so that pretty much tracks.

📉 PAGES READ DAILY: I read a ton during the second week of July, but that’s what happens we hen you read an entire arc of One Piece. It was my biggest reading spike of the month, as well. I also read some between the 17th and the 28th.

The Books I Read in July

★★★★☆

★★★★☆

★★★★✯

★★★★★

★★★☆☆ • my review

★★★★✯ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, even though I read six books last month, it still wasn’t quite as many as I’d have liked. I really enjoyed the books that I did end up reading, however, which was pretty nice. Hopefully I’ll read more in August, though.

I did end up having a bit of a minor slump during July, and I think it’s ’cause my husband was ready to continue buddy reading One Piece, and I wanted to read something else first. We ended up doing the buddy read of the next OP arc, and by the end of it I was kind of no longer into reading what was originally next on my TBR. Like, don’t get me wrong – I really enjoyed the Water Seven arc, it just all kinda messed up my reading moods for July. A little.

Anyway, thanks for joining me in checking out my StoryGraph stats for my July reading in 2024. Thank you also for reading, and I hope you have an wonderful day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Monthly Wrap-Up: April Reading 2024

It’s once again another month, which means it’s time for another wrap-up! This is a few days later than I had wanted – I’d originally wanted to get this out last weekend. Buuut… I was out of town, you know? Anyway, this monthly wrap-up regarding my reading for April 2024 features my reading stats from The StoryGraph, as per usual.

My reading has been much better than the previous few months – even March. I read 6 books! Which is such a big improvement compared to one or two or none at all. So yeah, I’m kind of satisfied with my reading last month.

Anyway, let’s get on with the reading wrap-up!

April Reading 2024

I read 6 books and 2,658 pages

😐 MOODS: The reading Moods were varied this past month. Adventurous was of course the biggest chunk of the pie in April, but Lighthearted, Mysterious and Dark were also pretty big slices. Tense and Funny were the smallest parts though.

👢 PACE: My books from last month were all three kinds of paces: fast, medium and slow.

🔢 PAGE NUMBER: I read a lot of books with different page numbers. But everything I read was between 100 and 650 pages.

📖 FICTION/NONFICTION: It was once again all fiction this month.

🎭 GENRES: So many Genres in April. Of course, Fantasy was the biggest one – it was the only Genre that was applied to every book I read. Manga surprised me at being the second biggest one, though I probably shouldn’t have been. The third biggest Genre was Young Adult, and then the rest of them were all applicable to one book each and were therefore the smallest lines.

📄 FORMAT: This little StoryGraph pie chart is almost correct for April. I only read one ebook though.

⭐ RATING: My median star rating for last month was 3.42. The ratings I gave were between 2.25 stars and 4.25 stars, with two of the ratings being 4.0 stars.

📉 PAGES READ DAILY: I didn’t read as much as I’d have liked during the first week or so of April, but I really started reading after that. My highest reading peak was during the 9th thru the 16th, but I had little reading spikes after that for the rest of the month.

The Books I Read in Aprll

One Piece: Skypiea Arc (Volumes 25, 26 & 27) by Eiichiro Oda

★★★✯☆

One Piece: Skypiea Arc (Volumes 28, 29 & 30) by Eiichiro Oda

★★★★☆

One Piece: Skypiea Arc (Volumes 31, 32 & 33) by Eiichiro Oda

★★★★☆

★★★★✬ • my review

★★✬☆☆ • my review

Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco

★★✯☆☆ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah, I improved my reading stats for April! Just like I had intended to do. I’m hoping I read even more this month, and the months that are coming up the rest of 2024 too.

May has a couple of books releasing that I’m interested in, but I still have a couple new releases from April that I haven’t read yet that I still might check out as well. My spouse and I are still making our way through One Piece, and are planning on reading the next arc this month too. I’m so glad we started reading it again – it’s a fun and easy read and it got me out of my slump! Though… I’ve had a bit of a mini-slump happening for the past few days, but I’m chalking that up to reading two 2.5 star novels in a row plus the going out of town thing last weekend.

So yeah, thank you to everyone for reading, and I hope you have an awesome day/night!

See ya ~Mar

Monthly Reading Wrap-Up: February 2024

I’m a little bit late with the Monthly Wrap-Up again, but thankfully still not as late as last month, lol. I’m not literally posting this on St. Patrick’s Day (unlike February’s prominent holiday). I still didn’t read as many books as I’d have liked last month, but we can’t all get what we want sometimes.

So yeah, even though my reading goal was a measly two books in February, I still didn’t make it, unfortunately. But I still read one book, so I’m still doing this!

So here’s my stats from The StoryGraph from February 2024.

February 2024 Reading

1 read 1 book and 152 pages

So, once again, there’s not a lot here, unfortunately. I only read one book, and my StoryGraph statistics reflect that.

I still have three different Moods though – Tense, Mysterious and Dark. It’s not my usual Mood graph, so that’s pretty cool. My pace was pretty medium, the book I read was sub 300 pages, and it was fiction (as seems to be the usual with me).

Still not a lot here – courtesy of my reading habits last month. But there is stuff here. The novel I read – What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher – had two genres applied to it: Horror and LGBTQIA+.

The format of this novel was digital – as in, an ebook – so the Format chart is once again wrong, as it tends to be. I rated the three and a half stars, and my reading was split between both ends of February.

The Book I Read in February

★★★✯☆ • my review

Wrapping Up the Wrap-Up

So yeah. I didn’t really do a lot of reading last month. Again, ugh. (Well, technically I read a lot of fanfiction, again, but I don’t count that here.) The only thing that I really want to do for March is read at least two books. Hopefully one book a week even, but that would be kind of a miracle. Anything’s better than the last few months.

Regarding my poor, neglected reading blog, I’m hoping to post a little better. I’m planning on posting some Tasteful Tuesdays again, hopefully starting today, I’m planning on participating in my monthly posts, and I have a St. Patrick’s Day post I’m thinking about. I’m also hoping to post a few book reviews, if I can manage to read more than one book in a month. Fingers crossed. 🤞🍀

Anyway, thank you to anyone who still checks out my blog. I hope you have a wonderful day/night!

See ya ~Mar