I set a goal of reading 15 non-fiction books this year, which is the amount of non-fiction books I read in 2025.

AND FRIENDS GUESS WHAT? I’M ALREADY AT 5!!! I’m totally slaying this😌✋🏻 (Three of them are poetry collections but still)

Realistically, how many angry gingerbread do you think you could fight AND WIN?

Once again, I devoured a book and now stand before the question: What to read next? I am currently trying to only read one book at a time (which is so hard omg) but that also means, that I am really thinking about my choices, when picking the next book. How do you do it? Do you just grab whatever book you have in your shelf? Do you make specific plans for the month/ year? (How do you deal with new releases or surprise finds in your local bookstore or library if you have your whole year planned already?)

I usually try to balance it out, when I read a particularly heavy book I try to find something more lighthearted (tbf, that doesn’t always work out because my taste is rather specific and most books end up breaking my heart and soul)

I just finished Holly by Adalyn Grace, which was amazing but also rather soft. (Very much needed after Babel by R.F. Kuang destroyed my very being.) But what do I read next?

• Katabasis - R.F. Kuang (most likely gonna break my heart again) • Yellowface - R.F Kuang (can’t say much about this) • Blood On Her Tongue - Johanna Van Veen (Don’t know much, because it was a gift but it is part of one of the quests I joined) • Blood Over Bright Haven - M.L Wang (I only know that it has magic oop)

My personal sweet spot is 200-400 pages, though certainly I read and love books that don't fall in this range! But I think this is a good length to get engrossed in a book without it becoming too much of a time commitment.