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Reading Recap 2025!

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Reading Recap 2025!

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful end to 2025 and a lovely new year! I’ve read a lot in 2025, reaching 101 books! Which, according to Goodreads, is actually one of my highest reading years ever! The last time I actually read this many books in a year was back in 2018 – which I was my first year of university!

I don’t usually set goals for myself in the new year (aside from reading ones) but after dabbling in different hobbies in 2025, it made me realise I want to set myself some creative goals for 2026.

  • Continue working with watercolour paints!
    • I picked up watercolour paints as an activity to do during the Summer Hours at work. (which is working extra hours in the week to have Friday afternoon off). I began painting the covers of the books I read and I ended the year having only painted 8 covers. I used a rather small sketchbook which made the painting process less daunting. I too was sucked in by those TikTok ads to buy acrylic marker pens and they’ve surprisingly come in handy for this! It was such a fun and relaxing way to unwind from all the screens I’m looking at constantly during the day for work and also for streaming.
  • Return to blogging (FOR REAL THIS TIME I SWEAR)
    • On the blog, I’ve only been posting my month rewinds for the last year or so. And it’s made me feel pretty guilty. 2025 was a bit lacking in the creative department. And this blog is where a lot of my creative endeavours first began. I do talk about the books I read on stream (twitch.tv/zaheerah) but I haven’t written a full review in sooo long. I swear my Netgalley TBR will be dealt with this year!

I’m not a goal setter as I find that I don’t end up following them so these two goals seem open enough that I will commit to them rather than abandoning them in the future.

My reading pattern for this year has been pretty consistent! I’ve found that I am much more picky with the books I read since I have less time to do so which means I didn’t dislike many of the books I read this year! (Don’t get me wrong, there was a few books I really, really hated but I don’t want to highlight them ahah) I’ve read a ton of fun books this year, especially webtoons!

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Monthly Rewind

Monthly Rewind: July 2025

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Monthly Rewind: July 2025

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A bit late for this month, partially because I’ve been sick the last week or so! But I’m slowly feeling human again. 😅I had a fun month at work in July as Penguin Random House was celebrating its 90th anniversary! The entire year so far has been filled with numerous events for the occasion, but as July 30th was its official date, a lot was happening at work! I volunteered for the ‘Nothing Like A Book‘ event, which was held at the Truman Brewery on July 19th and 20th, 2025. I volunteered on the 19th at the Book Nook, giving out free books to anyone who stopped by. When I initially volunteered, I wasn’t expecting to be given such a front-facing role. The introvert in me was actually dying the entire time. 😅 But it was so lovely meeting everyone who came by the stall!

I know there isn’t much of an overlap between my audience here and on Twitch but I do like giving updates here when I can. I now officially have a new model that will be used for streams from now onwards. I commissioned a lovely artist called artsy_vii who creates these adorable pixel png models! I’ve been waiting since early this year for their commission list to open up so I could have a new model of my OC, Nara. I will miss the models I created myself but I’ve been wanted a new model for consistency for a while now and I love what I got from Vii!!!

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