happy new year, friends! i cant believe it is actually 2023. i know everyone says this, but it is because it is true – i truly feel like its 2019 still. 2023? i can’t wrap my mind around it! but i am sending you so much love and i hope this year is really safe and happy for you and your loved ones. 

since september, i feel like i have really fallen back into organically picking up books and adding reading to my nighttime routine and its felt so good. i am tempted to make a goals post but i am always so scared to jinx happy things, which is also something i hope i can work on this year. but i would love to read more books this year (not that i am not extremely happy and proud of the 48 i was able to read) and i would love to make more bookish content again on here, and goodreads, and on bookstagram. lots of baby steps while also juggling kpop content and a life that can get pretty busy! the only other goal i have in terms of reading this year, is that i would love to read more anthologies and short story collections again. i have been thinking about it these last few weeks (maybe craving one?) but i miss it and i want to fix that! 

also, i am sure most of you know, but holly black is dropping a new book from faerie in TWO days and then the final last hours books by cassie clare? january is gonna start off and end very happily, i think! so i am extra excited for january reading! and again, not to jinx anything, but i am just excited for this new year, new opportunities, and so many new stories. 

but let’s get into some reading statistics and the yearly book stack picture tradition!  

Thanks to the amazing Brock at Let’s Read, here are some 2022 reading statistics that I was able to gather from his amazing spreadsheet that I use every single year:

My Top Ten Favorite 2022 Publications:
➽ 10.) Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
➽ 9.) Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
➽ 8.) Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
➽ 7.) Her Soul to Take (Souls Trilogy #1) by Harley Laroux
➽ 6.) Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
➽ 5.) Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
➽ 4.) The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
➽ 3.) Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
➽ 2.) Misrule (Malice Duology #2) by Heather Walter
➽ 1.) Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang

okay, friends! happy new year! i really hope this new year is happy and healing for you. i hope you are able to be gentler on yourselves and more forgiving to yourselves as well. i am sending you and your loved ones my whole heart and i am wishing you so many blessings in this new year! and i hope so many stories make you feel seen and whole this year (and always)! 

and thank you all for always being kind and being sweet friends while i have navigated these last few pandemic years. i know it’s still hard on everyone, but my blog has extra always felt so safe and happy and i appreciate all of your friendships more than you’ll ever know. also… please buddy read with me this year for extra happy motivations, hehe! 

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➽ My 2021 Reading Challenge
➽ My 2020 Reading Challenge
➽ My 2019 Reading Challenge
➽ My 2018 Reading Challenge
➽ My 2017 Reading Challenge
➽ My 2016 Reading Challenge
➽ My 2015 Reading Challenge