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Tag: Mid-Year Freak Out Tag

Y’all know what time it is! It’s mid-year freak out tag time! I love doing this tag every year because it’s so fun to look back at everything I’ve read so far and see what the standouts were, new favorites, ones that didn’t deliver and what I’m looking forward to for the rest of the year!

From January to June I read 109 books and for some categories it was easy to find a clear winner and others were a little tricky. I also tried as hard as I could to not repeat books but…when it’s good it’s good and there are a few books that appear in multiple categories for multiple reasons because well, it’s my mid-year freak out tag and I can assign winners as I want to. (I was trying to make a “it’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to” reference there, not sure if it worked the way I wanted it to…)

Anyway! Let’s get into the tag!

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Wrap Up: June 2025

To quote Harry Styles, “baby you’re the end of June”! I can’t believe we’re at the end of the month; June truly flew by. I hope that you had an amazing June and an amazing Pride! It’s the end of the month so of course it’s time for a monthly wrap up! What a month June was both reading wise and life wise, so let’s get into it!

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TBR: Summerween 2025

Friends, can you believe it? Summerween is almost here and I am thrilled! If you don’t know, the Summerween readathon is hosted by Gabby from GabbyReads on BookTube, and it’s a readathon that takes place every summer specifically to read thriller and horror novels. This summer the readathon is running from July 5th – 12th, so there’s still plenty of time to prepare if you want to participate! This will be my 3rd Summerween and I am so excited. I look forward to it every summer (especially all the cute merch!) and I wanted to share my — not at all ambitious… — tbr with y’all!

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TBR: Recent Netgalley Approvals

Hi friends, I hope that you’re doing well! This month I’ve gotten an insane amount of Netgalley approvals, so I thought it would be fun to do a little Netgalley TBR and show y’all my list of ARCs! I’m gonna list these in order of publication date, because why not 🤷🏻‍♀️

Get comfy and cozy, and let’s chat! 

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Review: Smile and Be a Villain by Yves Donlon

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark… and that ‘something’ is magic.

HELSINGØR, 1536.

Ophelia is a disgraced handmaid to the queen, the cast-off lover of Prince Hamlet.

She is also a witch, and a good one at that. And she can see that Denmark is rotting from the inside out, afflicted by dark magic.

WITTENBERG, 1536.

Hamlet is a useless son, a failed heir. He is the prince of a nation about to fight a war they won’t win.

He doesn’t know about magic, but if he did he would use it to destroy their enemies—no matter the consequences.

As Hamlet and Ophelia find themselves increasingly torn apart, they must decide: how much are they willing to sacrifice in order to save Denmark?

And, by the end of it all, will they be beyond saving?

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Let’s Talk: Tier Ranking Retellings, Reimaginings, and Books Inspired by Shakespeare

Happy birth/death day to my favorite old white man, William Shakespeare! If you’ve been on the blog or talked to me for like 5 minutes then you’ll know that I absolutely adore Shakespeare, it’s maybe a little unhealthy.

Back in July of last year — yes, you read that correctly, July last year — I got the idea to do a ranking of every book I’ve read that is either a retelling, reimagining, or heavily inspired by Shakespeare. Some things I’m not including here are some of the graphic novels that I’ve read — I’ve read some that were the story told as is just in graphic novel format, graphic novel retellings are included in this list. I’m also not including plays, as I feel like that is its own category and maybe will do a post on those ones day. 

This is gonna be a long one, besties, you know me once I start talking about Shakespeare related things…grab your favorite beverage and a snack, get comfy and let’s talk about all (well most) the Shakespeare inspired books I’ve read!

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Quarterly Stats: January through March 2025

Who else is in denial that we’re already through the first quarter of 2025? Honestly, what the hell, how is it April? Anyway, I decided that this year instead of adding my quarterly stats in my monthly wrap up at the end of each quarter, I would dedicate an entire post solely to my quarterly stats.

Get comfy, and cozy and let’s talk about my stats for January through March!

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