Author: Halliday
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Reading Recap: Still More January
We’ve reached the third Monday of 2025 already. That means I’m back to recap more January reading I’ve gotten done. This week I was pressed up against a deadline for some work projects, but still managed to sneak some good reading time in. I’ve now gotten everything submitted, and even moved all my bookish TikTok…
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New Blog Post – Getting Back in the Books
Those of you who have followed me for a while likely noticed a shift in the sort of content I put out over the past year. For my January blog post, I figured it’s time to address it directly. Back in the fall, my routine endured some major changes. It meant that my habits had…
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Reading Recap: Another Week in January
It’s hard to believe it’s already Monday again and we’ve completed another week in January 2025! This week really flew by for me. I don’t know if the rest of you felt that too? Because I also had an increase in my workload, I only had enough time to start and finish one book this…
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Woman On Board – Chapter 42
Chapter 42 of Woman On Board is now online and available to read! You can read it either on Archive of Our Own or on FanFiction.net for free. Links lead directly to the latest chapter. Story Summary: Woman on Board is a work of fanfiction for the television show Once Upon a Time. It is…
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Reading Recap: The New Year 2025
We are officially in the new year 2025! This week, I finished the last book that I’d started in 2024. I then picked up and subsequently completed my first full book of the year. I certainly started the year off on a high note with these two reads. One was a comfort read centered around…
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Favorite Reads of 2024
Tonight marks the end of 2024. It’s been quite a year. Not only did I download a new app to start tracking my reading habits again, I started a new series of Tiktok videos and blogs to recap everything I read. My first post in my #InTheBooks series featured every book I had read in…
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Reading Recap: December Holidays
The big week of December holidays has now come and gone. It was a hectic one for sure! There were a few days this week where I found it rather tricky to sit still long enough to get much reading done. There was a lot to do to prepare for all the family gatherings and…
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Reading Recap: More December
This week brought us some more December and – even better – more books! I only finished one book this week, because it was a joy to savor. I started a second book yesterday, and I’m giving my initial impressions of that one as well. While I don’t typically cover the audiobooks I listen to…
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Reading Recap: December Continues
December continues with another week now in the books. This week, I got through two books that both reminded me what a privilege literacy is. The first served as an example of the importance of representation in literature. The second was a close examination of how a type of literature was once suppressed through both…
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New Blog Post – Deep Winter Reset
This year is coming to an end. Once the chaos of the winter holidays passes, I like to retreat for a while. It’s a tradition of mine that I’m calling my Deep Winter Reset. It feels good for me to take this time to assess where I am, and how that relates to where I…
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Reading Recap: Beginning December
Here we are, already beginning December, the month to end the year. Maybe I’m just getting older, but every year is feeling shorter than the last and 2024 has certainly been no exception. This week, I read through two emotionally intense works of fiction. These books absolutely put me through the ringer, and I loved…
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Reading Recap: End of November
We’ve reached the end of November! It’s hard to believe that we’ve already reached the final month of 2024, and yet here we are. Even with all the chaos of Thanksgiving and then falling victim to a migraine the next day, I managed to read another two books this past week. I heard about the…