Bookish 2025 goals:
✔️ Continue slow daily Bible study
✔️ Read 50 YA/middle grade novels
✔️ Read one book set in a state not already on my location list (I read Hawaiian Quilt which was of course set in Hawaii)
✔️ Start nightly bedtime books back up. (We've missed a few nights here and there when Baby was exhausted and over it but otherwise we've read a board book or two each night )
General bookish favorites
Favorite bookish blog: All my old favorites but also discovered Faith Fiction and Fairytales
Favorite bookish podcast: I don't think I listened to any podcasts this year!
Favorite bookish YouTube channel: All my old favorites + Kay's Library
Favorite bookstore: I went to 13 bookstores this year, in 3 different states and in 7 different towns. My favorite for its collection was The Sower Christian bookstore in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho but my favorite for atmosphere/esthetic was Auntie's in Spokane, Washington (video here!)
Favorite book-to-movie (or show) adaptation: I guess I'll say The Hobbit!
Grown-up Favorites
Favorite 2025 release: The Christmas Book Flood? I didn't read many 2025 releases.
Favorite author: Susan May Warren or Nicole Deese... I think I'm leaning towards SMW just because I'm loving the Christiansen books so much but I did really love the ND books I read, too.
Favorite Bible study resource: How to Study the Bible Intentionally
Favorite Christmas book: Evergreen
Favorite cookbook: Sweet Indulgence
Favorite general/contemporary fiction: The Roads We Follow
Favorite health book: The Aging Brain
Favorite historical fiction: I didn't read very much historical fiction this year! Im torn between Bespoke and The Christmas Book Flood.
Favorite history: Bomber Mafia
Favorite homeschool book: Pocketful of Pinecones
Favorite marriage book: In Unison
Favorite memoir: I Still Believe
Favorite mothering book: The Wonder Weeks
Favorite nonfiction: Habits of the Household
Favorite pregnancy/postpartum book: The First 40 Days
Favorite Romance: The Lost Manuscript
Favorite secular fiction: Didn't read any this year!
Favorite secular nonfiction: Disease-Proof Your Child
Favorite series: The Christiansen Family books... I read the prequel and then books 1-3.5
Favorite suspense: I Think I Was Murdered
✔️ Continue slow daily Bible study
✔️ Read 50 YA/middle grade novels
✔️ Read one book set in a state not already on my location list (I read Hawaiian Quilt which was of course set in Hawaii)
✔️ Start nightly bedtime books back up. (We've missed a few nights here and there when Baby was exhausted and over it but otherwise we've read a board book or two each night )
General bookish favorites
Favorite bookish blog: All my old favorites but also discovered Faith Fiction and Fairytales
Favorite bookish podcast: I don't think I listened to any podcasts this year!
Favorite bookish YouTube channel: All my old favorites + Kay's Library
Favorite bookstore: I went to 13 bookstores this year, in 3 different states and in 7 different towns. My favorite for its collection was The Sower Christian bookstore in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho but my favorite for atmosphere/esthetic was Auntie's in Spokane, Washington (video here!)
Favorite book-to-movie (or show) adaptation: I guess I'll say The Hobbit!
Grown-up Favorites
Favorite 2025 release: The Christmas Book Flood? I didn't read many 2025 releases.
Favorite author: Susan May Warren or Nicole Deese... I think I'm leaning towards SMW just because I'm loving the Christiansen books so much but I did really love the ND books I read, too.
Favorite Bible study resource: How to Study the Bible Intentionally
Favorite Christmas book: Evergreen
Favorite cookbook: Sweet Indulgence
Favorite general/contemporary fiction: The Roads We Follow
Favorite health book: The Aging Brain
Favorite historical fiction: I didn't read very much historical fiction this year! Im torn between Bespoke and The Christmas Book Flood.
Favorite history: Bomber Mafia
Favorite homeschool book: Pocketful of Pinecones
Favorite marriage book: In Unison
Favorite memoir: I Still Believe
Favorite mothering book: The Wonder Weeks
Favorite nonfiction: Habits of the Household
Favorite pregnancy/postpartum book: The First 40 Days
Favorite Romance: The Lost Manuscript
Favorite secular fiction: Didn't read any this year!
Favorite secular nonfiction: Disease-Proof Your Child
Favorite series: The Christiansen Family books... I read the prequel and then books 1-3.5
Favorite suspense: I Think I Was Murdered
Favorite time slip: These Tangled Threads
YA & Middle Grade Favorites
Favorite 2025 release: The Bug Bandits
Favorite author: Kathy Kacer, I think?
Favorite Bible Study resource: Not Consumed
Favorite biography: Bonhoeffer
Favorite Christmas book: The Paper Bag Christmas
Favorite dystopian: The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted
Favorite general/contemporary fiction: Emmy in the Key of Code
Favorite fantasy: Beyond Mulberry Glen
Favorite graphic novel: The Mythmakers
Favorite historical fiction: Kate and the Spies
Favorite history: A Weird and Wild Beauty: The Story of Yellowstone, the World's First National Park
Favorite nonfiction: The Case for Heaven: Young Reader Edition
Favorite read-aloud: The Misadventured Summer of Tumbleweed Thompson
Favorite series: Life Behind the Wall series
Favorite suspense: A Game Most Foul
Favorite TGTB book list selection: The High Cheese
Bookish 2026 goals:
- Deep Bible study of two books of the Bible (maybe more? But I'm so slow and plan to go for history & details so we'll see!)
- Read at least 52 physical/Kindle (not audio) books this year
- Complete 50+ YA/middle grade novels
- Read more (5+) historical fiction/timeslip novels
- Write a Christmas read-aloud for my kids
I love Susan May Warren and Nicole Deese's books as well. I found your blog through Carla's Book Crush, it was nice visiting you! Good luck with writing your own Christmas read aloud for your kiddos, my husband wrote several books for our kids when they were younger, definitely a labor of love.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy you introduced yourself! I'm following your blog now :)
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