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Nia - is shy but fine
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24 she/her 💫
Rediscovering reading, writing and drawing 🌟
Socially awkward and anxious 💖
Too many ideas in my head battling for supremacy and waiting to come to life✨
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VIllagers who used to live on your island recognise you when they visit the hotel !!!!!!!

I haven't seen Bruce since 2020 but he was one of my first 10 villagers 🥹

#ACNH #AnimalCrossing #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons
Bruce the blue cranky deer. He says "Hey! Nia! Thought I might run into you." Bruce the blue cranky deer says "It’s me! You remember ol' Bruce from when I used to live here ... right?"
January 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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From Storygraph, my December reading wrap up! And an early happy new year (its 31st of December right now)

I'm currently reading Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare. I have also been listening to A Game of Thrones as an audiobook
December 2025 reading wrap up. I read five books. I read two thousand and sixteen pages. The average rating is three point three stars out of five. My highest rated reads are If You Could See The Sun by Ann Liang, Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan, and Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon. Average book length is three hundred and fifty eight pages. Average time to finish was eight days. One hundred percent fiction. Four books were Romance, four were Fantasy, three were Young Adult, one was contemporary and one was magical realism. In the bottom left corner there is a line graph showing how many pages read each day: it peaks at 150-200 pages five times, mostly in the second half of the month. In the bottom right corner, there is a pie chart dividing how I read the books: it was 80% print and 20% audiobook.
December 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Merry Christmas to any who celebrate. Happy winter to those who don't. And I hope everyone has a great Thursday 25th December 2025
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Guess who finished her first audiobook today???

Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon was a very fun romantasy adventure. And don't worry. I know absolutely nothing about Critical Role so you do not need to verse yourself in its lore. Tusk Love stands on its own. Perfect if you're looking for a cosy romantasy
The cover of Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon. It shows the two main characters, Guinevere and Oskar. Oskar is a half orc man with green skin, small tusks protruding from his mouth. He has black hair pulled back into a man bun with a white stripe. His clothes are plain like a peasant from medieval times. He is lifting Guinevere up. Guinevere has brown skin and long silvery white hair blowing in the wind. She is wearing a dress with a white short sleeved shirt and black corset. She has a long orange skirt billowing in the wind and behind Oskar. The two characters are standing in a field of autumnal flowers with a blue sky and cloud behind them. The title, Tusk Love, is written at the bottom of the cover in swooping romantic front. In the bottom right hand corner is the logo for Critical Role which looks like a gaming dice
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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November wrap up on Storygraph!!!

Main takeaway: read An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir.

Also, if you're looking for dark academia vampires, then Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma absolutely delivers. #booksky
Three books read. One thousand three hundred and sixty pages read. Average rating is three point five eight out of five stars. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir has four stars. It is a Y A political fantasy and the first book in a four book series. Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma has three point five stars. It is a Y A dark academia with vampire lore based on Ethiopian mythology and history set in the modern day. Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes has three point two five stars. It is a retelling of the Greek myth of Medusa and the women surrounding the story. Average book length is four hundred and thirty seven pages. Average time to finish is ten days. There is a line graph where I read a lot at the beginning of the month, not as much towards the middle and over one hundred pages a day at the end of November
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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October reading wrap up via Storygraph. Two top tier books in The Familiar and City of Brass
Summary of my monthly reading wrap up. Four books read. Two thousand five hundred and forty eight pages read. Average rating is three point three one stars out of five stars. Highest rated reads were The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo at four point five stars; City of Brass by S A Chakraborty at four point Two five stars; the Vengeance by Emma Newman at Two point five stars. Average book length five hundred and thirty five pages. Average time to finish seven days. One hundred percent fiction and print. All four books were fantasy. Two books were historical. One book was romance and one book was LGBTQIA plus. Average of fifty pages a day with two peaks, one over two hundred pages and the second peak over three hundred pages.
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Animal Crossing New Horizons getting its 3.0 update nearly 6 years after it came out.... I actually got so emotional watching the announcement trailer!!!

15th January can't come soon enough!!

Link for the trailer:
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by Nintendo of America
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October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Curling up to read a book with my blanket and juice bottle because I am a Responsible Adult
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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September reading wrap up (only 4 days late). It was a very YA month but I had fun. I read two books in the Rebel Skies trilogy and I really really enjoyed them so I'm going to wait to read the final book.
Four books read. One thousand two hundred and twenty four pages read. Average rating was three point three eight stars out of five stars. Highest rated reads were Rebel Fire by Ann Sei Lin at four stars; Rebel Skies by Ann Sei Lin at three point seven five stars; A Grave Inheritance by Felicity Epps at three stars. Average book length was three hundred and fifty one pages. Average time to finish was thirteen days. All four books were young adult. Three of the books were fantasy and one of the books was a mystery. There is a line chart tracking pages read each day for September where the biggest peaks were towards the beginning of the month, in the middle, and before the end of the month
October 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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July 2025 reading wrap up from Storygraph
Eight books read. Three thousand three hundred and ninety one pages read. Average rating is four point zero six out of five stars. Highest rated reads were They Called Us Enemy by George Takei at five stars; James by Percival Everett at five stars; Gifted and Talented by Olivie Blake at four point seven five stars. Average book length four hundred and forty one pages. Average time to finish was five days. Three quarters of the books read were fiction, while twenty five percent was nonfiction. Five books were fantasy, four were romance, two were YA, two were memoirs, one was history. The first half of the month I read an average of two hundred pages per day but the second half of the month I read an average of fifty pages per day
August 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Friendly reminder to support your local bookshop (on the left) and to always check for bestselling books in charity shops (on the right)
From left to right. Beloved by Toni Morrison. Normal People by Sally Rooney from a charity shop. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo from a charity shop
July 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Started a book (temptation of the force by tessa gratton). Read one chapter. Almost cried.

This might be an emotional roller coaster of a read...
June 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Monthly reading wrap up for May!
Five books read. Two thousand two hundred and seventy seven pages read. Average rating is three point nine stars out of five. Highest rated reads were American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang at four point five stars. Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland at four point two five stars. The Thorns Remain by J J A Harwood at four stars. Average book length was three hundred and ninety six pages. Average time to finish was five days. All books read were fiction. Joint top genres were fantasy and romance at four books; Young Adult at three books; Graphic Novel and Historical both at one book. Most pages read during the first week of May with four spikes across the rest of the month.
June 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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April's reading wrap up on Storygraph!
Foue books read. 1,527 pages read. Average rating is 3.75 stars out of five. Highest rated reads are Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim with 4.5 stars, Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu with 4.25 stars, and Powerless by Lauren Roberts with 3.5 stars. Average book length is 447 pages. Average time to finish was 8 days. One hundred percent fiction books and physical. All four books were Fantasy. Three books were Young Adult. Two books were Romance. There is a line graph at the bottom of the image which shows how many pages read for each day in April. At the start of the month, I was reading up to 150 pages a day. For the first half of the month, I was reading less than 40 pages a day, or nothing at all. In the middle, there is a rise to 120 pages before going down to about 50 pages. In the last week of April, I was reading between 50 and two hundred pages a day.
May 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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My month wrap up for March on Storygraph!
Nia 82's March Wrap Up. Books read 9. Pages read 4247. Average rating 4.17 out of 5 stars. Highest rated reads are Percy Jackson and the wrath of the tripe goddess with 5 stars; masters of death with 4.5 stars; contender the chosen with 4.5 stars. Average book length is 504 pages. Average time to finish is 6 days. 100% fiction. Genres most read is fantasy, young adult, romance, historical, science fiction. There is a chart showing how many pages I read each day where it ranges from just a couple of pages to 400 pages but the average is 150 pages. 100% print books
March 31, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Spotify said I have the music taste of a "coastal grandmother." What does that even mean???
March 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Door walked into me or did I slam into a door? Pretty much sums up a tired brain turned to spaghetti
February 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Charity shop luck! £2.50 for three classic and famous books

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Three books. Left to right. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Emma by Jane Austen. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Frankenstein and The Handmaid's tale cost fifty pence. Emma cost one pound fifty pence
February 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Lego and ahsoka = perfect combination!!!!
Photograph of a LEGO set: Ahsoka Tano's duel on Peridia. To the left, Ahsoka faces Morgan Elsbeth. To the right, Ezra Bridger faces a zombie storm trooper. Behind Ezra, Grand Admiral Thrawn aims his blaster. Behind Ahsoka (and slightly hidden), is Sabine Wren who is fighting Shin Hati
January 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Finished Stephanie Garber's Caraval series (excluding the novella Spectacular). Really fun fantasy that made me laugh and smile
January 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Stayed up late because I had to finish Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay! It was so good and emotional at the end. I accidentally read its sequel, Wild Song, last summer (which I also highly recommend) so it was great to see where the story started in the Philippines 💙📚
Cover of Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay. The cover is black and white depicting the Tree of Bones featured in the story. A black humanoid figure in a crouching/sitting position stares with white eyes as the tree grows around it. To the figure's left is a dog and rice fields. To the figure's right is a hut. Woven into the tree and caught in its branches are various objects relating to the story. A shield and spear. A horse mid gallop. A water buffalo skull. A rifle crossed with a military sword. A torn US flag. A bird in flight. A snake about to attack the crouching figure.
January 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Storygraph 2024. Proud I got back into reading, especially after the year I had. I am determined to bring this motivation into 2025 !!

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51 books read. 18,404 pages read. Top five genres were fantasy, young adult, romance, LGBTQIA plus, and Science Fiction. Top 3 authors were Sarah J Maas, Anthony Horowitz and Stephanie Garber. First book read was Star Wars The High Republic Adventures. Last book read was She Who Became The Sun. Longest book read was A Court of Silver Flames. Shortest book read was The Blurred Man. Three books were five star reads and they were Star Wars Cataclysm, Star Wars The Eye of Darkness, and Wild Song by Candy Gourlay. My average star rating was 4 point two seven
January 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Happy new year (UK time but an hour late oops)
January 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Literally just finished reading this and oh my god!!! A reimagining of the first Ming Emperor of China!! She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan was amazing and they really captured Zhu's story so well

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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan. The book is orange-red like a sunset with a golden yellow five clawed dragon coiled across the cover and surrounded by stylized yellow clouds. Tagline at the bottom reads: Rebel Warrior Hero. The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Author Samantha Shannon says "Magnificent in every eay." Author Alix E. Harrow says "Epic, tragic and gorgeous."
December 27, 2024 at 5:05 PM