2025 Wrapped

Happy New Year everyone 🎊 I can't believe it's been a whole year since I've posted. Every post I say I want to read more and update more frequently, but I never follow through with that wish. However, I've been reading here and there and exploring more hobbies throughout the year that I'd love to share. 

September + October Wrap-Up

Over the past few months I recently started Pharmacy school! Which explains the lack of reading I've been doing lately, honestly. I still try my best to read in small amounts, especially since taking little breaks to read definitely helps with my sanity between all the studying I do. I also have been making my way through some pretty hefty danmeis at a snail's pace. 

Books Mentioned:

• A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
• The White Book by Han Kang

May - August Rapid Reviews Wrap-Up

I think I am too much of a yapper to actually do rapid, flash reviews, but I'll try to make them short because there's a lot to get through, and most of it has faded from my memory already.

I went on a trip that spanned May through the end of June, and I thought I'd have so much more to talk about, but I was on a big DNF'ing spree, unfortunately. I am quite sad to say that my reads from these past months were a bit lack luster. Thus, my reviews will be a bit rough today

Books Mentioned

• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
• The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic
• Wind Breaker by Satoru Nii
• Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
• Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
• Severance by Ling Ma

March & April Wrap-Up

I am posting March + April all the way in September because that's just how behind I am on reading and reviewing. I promise I haven't stopped reading!

Books Mentioned

• Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang
• Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat
• Remnants of Filth Vol. 3 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
• Qiang Jin Jiu Vol. 1 by Tang Jiuqing
• Sakamoto Days by Yuto Suzuki

February Wrap-Up

This month's fixation is very obviously danmei. More specifically, Meatbun. I went to the Animate store earlier this month and very spontaneously bought a copy of Bing An Ben, since it's a new release and it looked so pretty on the shelves. Now I wish I had bought a copy of Yuwu too.

Books Mentioned

• Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Remnants of Filth (YuWu) Vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
• Case File Compendium (Bing An Ben) Vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
• Remnants of Filth (YuWu) Vol. 2 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

Catching Up

It has been a very long time since I've yapped about books here! My initial excuse for this was that I haven't been reading, which was true for some point of time, but now that I've written out all the books I've read since the last post I realize that isn't necessarily true. 

However, a good amount of these books I read on vacation, which was way back in June. And I have a very short term memory, so most of these are just going to be flash reviews from the fragments I remember.

Books Mentioned

• Cool Doji Danshi by Kokone Nata
• Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
• Between Us by Mhairi McFarlane
• Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
• The Red Palace by Jane Hur
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
• The Apothecary Diaries by Natsu Hyuga
• Frieren: Beyond the Journey's End by Kanehito Yamada & Tsukasa Abe

May Wrap-Up

Books Mentioned

• Happy Place by Emily Henry
• Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
• Honnou Switch by KUJIRA
• Loving Yamada-kun at Lv. 999 by Mashiro
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
• Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
• Tomorrow, & Tomorrow, & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin