Category: life update
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December 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR lists, What I’m Loving
I considered whether to even write a December wrap-up given that I’ve already posted my Best Books Read in 2025 list, but since December was such an epic month I figured why not? The holidays are easily my favourite time of year. I love all the Christmas lights, the family traditions, the excuses to see…
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2026 Bookish Goals and Intentions
Happy new year! As I mentioned in my Best Books Read in 2025 post, last year was fairly transformative for me. I had to refocus a lot of my attention and priorities as my life evolved, and with that came some major shifts in my reading habits. For the most part, I slowed way down…
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November 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and What I’m Loving
It’s hard to believe that we’re already charging towards 2026, but here we are, with only one month to spare before new year’s. The holiday season is single-handedly my favourite time of year, so we spent November soaking in some of our favourite traditions, like decorating our home for the holidays, visiting Santa for the…
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October 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, What I’m Loving Right Now
I’m writing this update from the depths of one of the worst colds that I’ve had in years. Everyone warned us that sending your kid to daycare for the first time would mean an endless round of illness but wow, you really can’t grasp what that’s like until you’re in it. I haven’t been healthy…
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September 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR List, and What I’m Loving Right Now
At the risk of saying this for probably the eleventh month in a row, I genuinely can’t believe how quickly time is moving. September feels like a fever dream that I’m not certain even happened which makes for some unique challenges when it comes to reflection.
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August 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR lists, and What I’m Loving Right Now
What an unbelievably sweet summer we had here on the east coast. I’m always tempted to note how fast it felt like the time passed in retrospect, but this month, I feel like we actually got to savour it a little more than usual.
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June and July 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and What I’m Loving
It feels like I blinked and suddenly, I hadn’t written a blog post in months. I knew that returning to work after parental leave would be a significant shift, particularly as we adjusted as a family to this new normal, but I (very naively) thought it would have little impact on my reading life. Wow,…
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May 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, What I’m Loving Right Now
Wow, what an epic month for reading. May was my last full month of maternity leave, and fittingly, it was probably my best month for total books read in a long time. We’ve had an incredibly rainy Spring, which is likely why I’ve managed to get through so many books lately. Baby girl and I…
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April 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and What I’m Loving
For the first time since I started my maternity leave, it feels like the days are flying by. While collectively it feels like time has moved quickly when I consider I now have a 7-month-old baby, up until recently, each day in and of itself felt extremely long. Sometime around when baby girl began to…
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March 2025 Reading Wrap-Up: Books Read, TBR Lists, and What I’m Loving
I found myself thinking about this quote from A Moveable Feast (one of the few classics I could read on repeat) as March rolled in this year. Living in eastern Canada means that for five months of the year, you’re trapped inside your house or indoors because the air hurts your face. It’s dark when…
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