My bookstagram and book blog, both named annafromuni, have been going strong for several years now, but 2025 has been one of the toughest years yet for my creativity and time management. With PhD research and readings taking up a lot of my time, not to mention the added stress of intense reading schedules for my blog posts taking up a lot of my free time, I have found my energy and effectiveness wearing thin. I love making content for you all, but it has been admittedly strained over the last few weeks. In light of this, an idea struck me: why don’t I return to my roots, or rather, the foundations of my name?

I have always admired study content and study-related content creators. I think my guilty pleasure is knowledge, both learning new things and seeing others embark on their own journeys for information. When I started out, I actually attempted to have a YouTube channel where I would post study content and book content, marrying my two key interests and creating a hybrid study-reader account. It didn’t do so well, for multiple reasons, but the dream to juggle the two has always remained. I love helping people find ways to make learning easier, more relatable, and more communal, and I also love sharing my thoughts and feelings about books. So, in 2026, annafromuni will be undergoing a reformation of sorts.

My reasons for doing so are two-fold: one, I want to ease the pressure on my reading by reducing the number of books I review each month, and only posting three months’ worth of daily posts. This way, I can make better reviews for the books I do read, and I can prioritise my PhD research without feeling guilty for possibly missing posts. Two, I want to bring my studies and general reflections on my undergraduate and postgraduate studies to the table and help those who are starting their tertiary study journeys or mid-way through, looking for some guidance. I feel 5+ years of experience in various stages and levels is a good amount of knowledge to have before giving my opinion and thoughts, and hopefully you will find my findings useful.

For my book blog, I intend to dedicate Sundays to discussions. These will largely be study-based, from my current PhD work to my undergraduate and master’s insights, but there will also be room for talk on my manuscripts, opinions about bookish social media, and various other topics. Saturdays I will largely use for series reviews, whether that be consecutive book reviews for a series or the full series review itself. I feel this makes it easier for me to manage and easier for you to gauge what I will be posting over the weekend. The posts during the week will be the eclectic range of novels that you expect from me, and maybe we will see me delve into new authors, genres, and subgenres in 2026.

For my bookstagram, I will be splitting my post schedule in half. Currently, I post on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, and they are all Bookstagram-adjacent posts. This has led me to teeter on the edge of burnout, both as a reader and a content creator, so I will be reducing the number of reader posts I make and adapting my content to be that hybrid studygram-bookstagram content I want to create. Mondays and Thursdays will remain “reader” days, but Tuesdays and Fridays will be my “study” days, where I post content about my plans, desk setup, PhD life, research, and so on. This will halve the amount of book content I post, but it will give me the freedom to post my favourites and not feel like I am forcing book content.

I am eager to get into it, but I promised myself I would wait until the New Year to start. I want to prepare a lot of stuff in advance, so I set off at a comfortable pace and have room to adjust without things falling apart. I have a lot of PhD work I need to tackle in January, so I already have some things in mind for my study content. I am very much looking forward to seeing how it goes, though, and hope you all enjoy the slight shift in content from me. I feel it will be refreshing for both of us and may serve to broaden your perspective or even persuade you to go down your own rabbit hole in search of knowledge and intellectual satisfaction.