My 2025 Reading Wrap-Up :)
I thought it would be fun to compile a list of all the books I read last year for you, with a line or two about why I liked each one. Some of these I’ve written more extensively about, and others I’m considering diving deeper into. For now, I hope my short musings are insightful, and maybe encourage you to check some of these wonderful titles out :)
Masters of Death by Olivie Blake
Maybe I started this, review? collection of my thoughts post read? wrong. Masters of Death appealed to me honestly, because of how gorgeous the cover was. The green contrasting with the purple, and the skelly tightrope? I don’t know, it was so pretty I couldn’t not read it (don’t judge a book by its cover went over my head…). Let’s just say, lesson learned. Death starts us off as the narrator, and he begins to tell us the story of how he was tricked into becoming a father. Death being the narrator is something I should’ve kept in the forefront of my brain while reading, but I let that slip past me and it likely affected how I felt about the rest of the book.
Julie & Julie by Julie Powell
It’s the summer of 2010, before construction wiped out the little forest standing outside our window. A tiny plot just behind my building, left untended to grow all it could, taller than my 4-story walkup. We still had cable then too, with the Starz + Encore channels being my choice of entertainment, my mom and I enjoyed the 90s blockbuster reruns what can I say? It was lunch, or maybe dinner, (summer break blurred my days a bit) and Starz was airing last year’s hit ‘Julie and Julia’.