25 books

I used to consume books like the cookies found at our school store. I was the kid lugging around 10 books in their backpack to sneak back home to read all night, fast forward to high school and my TBR pile has never been bigger, just a neverending list of titles that will never be viewed during their old shelf life. 

Between all the extracurriculars, hours of homework, late-night studying, and the constant doom scrolling has resulted in every desire of reading to go bone dry. 

So my big New Year's goal, which is honestly pretty basic, but also very mature, is to read more books for the enjoyment of myself. Not for an English class or a paper I have to write, but a book that genuinely interests me. 
I have a few ideas on how to achieve this. First, get recommendations from friends who give the best book talks, if I'm immersed enough I will pick it up, second, this is a hard one, but I will delete Tiktok (I mean it's already getting banned on Jan 19th, my addiction will have to fix itself). Third, create time for myself so I can enjoy the books gathering dust on my TBR list. And finally fourth, find the small cute books that can be held in one hand, because they make me feel like a main character. 

In 2025, I will have read 25 books, 25 enjoyable books that take me on an emotional journey. 

Will I stick to it? Hopefully?

If not, you will be seeing the same post next year promising to read in 2026.

Full Length Hibernation #4: Just woke up and decided to start writing. My sleep last night could've been better, I rate it 5/10

My nightmare last night: 





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