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June month-by-month // Tying up loose ends, traveling, halfway through the year

In summary Guys. We’re now well and truly halfway through the year. What??? Sorry for yet another extremely late post, I really wanted to have at least one review written and ready prior to publishing this but that didn’t happen… Here’s hoping I get my act together enough in the next few weeks though because I do have a backlog I’d like to post! June was an absolute whirlwind. I spent a…

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May month-by-month // In and out of work, summer, and activities

In summary What is this, a wrap-up that’s on time? I’m starting this from Boston, where I’m hanging out for the last few days of this month. May is one of my favorite months of the year, the last month of autumn where I grew up and now the signal of warmer weather in the Northern hemisphere in the season I was born in. (Though, the weather this year has been incredibly weird? It’s fully summer…

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I Am Not Jessica Chen (Review) // I have never felt more seen

Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her flawless cousin. Jessica Chen is so smart she gets the top score on every test. Jessica Chen is so beautiful people stop in the hallway to stare at her. Jessica Chen is so perfect she got into Harvard. And Jenna Chen will only ever be a disappointment. So when Jenna makes a desperate wish to become her cousin, the last thing she expects is for…

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April month-by-month // Presentations, concerts, on and on and on

In summary This was meant to be posted right after my extremely belated March month-by-month but, rather unsurprisingly, I got preoccupied with other things so now it’s mid-May. Anyway, the purpose of this post is really to explain what I’ve been doing while I disappeared from this little corner of the internet, while also summarizing April. April is one of those months that feels like it had a…

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South of Nowhere (Review)

The New York Times bestselling master of suspense returns to his beloved series, adapted for TV (CBS’s Tracker, starring Justin Hartley) as reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a full-fledged disaster, where the culprit lurks in the plain sight. When a levee collapses in Hinowah, a small town in Northern California, Colter Shaw is brought on by his…

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March month-by-month // Work-life balance, self-care, stars aligning

In summary If February was despairing and feeling like the world was out to get me, March was the polar opposite. The phrase that keeps running through my head when I think of March is “you were good to me” (because of the Jeremy Zucker & Chelsea Cutler song, though that’s sadder than intended). It felt like the things that weren’t happening in February did finally happen in March, the stars…

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February month-by-month // Creating, consuming media, severe weather

In summary Welcome to another super late wrap-up in 2025 (time will tell if March is any better, though based on what I already know of events occurring around the end of the month, unlikely 😭). Maybe it’s good I’ve given February some distance before writing about it, because I initially planned to start this post with “I hate February, it’s always the worst month of the year”, lol. It flies…

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Cold as Hell (Review)

New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong returns to Haven’s Rock in Cold as Hell as Casey Butler hunts down a dangerous killer during a deadly blizzard. Haven’s Rock is a sanctuary town hidden deep in the Yukon for those who need to disappear from the regular world. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are starting a family now that they’ve settled into their…

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January month-by-month // Slow, fast, everything all at once

In summary Emerging from my winter hibernation hole to write and post this before it’s more than 3/4 through February (just kidding, it’s not really because of the weather, only how hectic the past three weeks have been 😭). Anyway, back to January, which feels like a lifetime ago. I don’t know if it’s a first month of the year thing, but honestly it didn’t feel like all that much happened in…

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Nemesis (Review) // The best Orphan X book yet

No greater friend. No deadlier enemy. Evan Smoak is a highly trained former government assassin who has survived for years by keeping his circle to a few trusted confidants and a strict code he calls “The Ten Commandments.” But when Evan suddenly finds himself at odds with his oldest friend, all the rules he lives by shatter–and the consequences are murderous. Tommy Stojack might be Evan’s best…

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Year in Review 2024 // Saying goodbye to the most significant year yet

In many ways, 2024 was the year of my dreams. There were so many incredible firsts, as well as “first in x year”s. It wasn’t perfect, far from it; but there were moments that felt like it. This is my final year-end wrap-up post for now, here’s the other ones if you’re interested in checking them out: Continue reading Year in Review 2024 // Saying goodbye to the most significant year yet

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Year in Books 2024 // Overall stats, trends, pretty graphs

Initially I had no idea what to include in this post, but found some inspiration from Goodreads and StoryGraph, lol. This was the first year I used both to track my reading, alongside a page in Notion. Continue reading Year in Books 2024 // Overall stats, trends, pretty graphs

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Live and Onscreen in 2024 // TV, movie, live performance favorites of the year

When compiling everything I watched for this post, I couldn’t help but think about 2023 and how I discovered some shows/movies that made my all-time favorites list. This year was less of that, but maybe it represents a shifting in my consumption of media that will become a larger trend? More on this in a later post, I think, and if I write it I’ll link it here when it exists. Onscreen TV What…

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December month-by-month // Racing to the end of the year, doing everything last minute, album listening frenzy

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Us Against The Likes (Review) // Sisters, traveling, an anxious MC

Happy New Year, everyone! I’m so excited to kick off my 2025 blogging year by reviewing Marie‘s book, Us Against the Likes. I don’t even remember when we first became friends thanks to book blogging, but we actually got the chance to meet up in person for the first time last year. Besides being a fantastic friend, she’s also an incredible writer, and I would absolutely recommend checking out her…

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Revisiting Media // I’ve changed my mind about rereading books and rewatching shows

I’ve been thinking about this topic for months now, so I decided to actually sit down and write a post about it. This is the first discussion I’ve written in forever, but there are several ideas sitting in my drafts now, so hopefully more is coming in 2025? By ‘revisiting media’, I mean rereading books and rewatching tv shows or movies. Continue reading Revisiting Media // I’ve changed my mind…

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Music of 2024 // My favorite songs, albums, artists