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. 

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Can you believe I've had this blog since 2014? A little backstory on how I even started blogging into the void in the first place-- I took a journalism course in my freshman year of high school, and though journalism didn't end up being my calling, I still like to write little reviews here and there. This blog actually started off as an anime episode review blog, way back when Terror in Resonance was still airing. It's still one of my favorite stand-alone anime to this day. 

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