Tag: 2025 reading goals
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My 2025 Reading Review
It has been a long year full of reading, from the light-hearted easy reads to the novels that took up more of my time and brainpower, and some surprises thrown in for good measure. 2025 has been a year I am unlikely to repeat again, and you’ll see why in a bit, so without further…
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Changing up annafromuni
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…
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Reflecting on my Reading Habits
2025 has been a whirlwind of a year, with many reading goals and habits in mind and most of them implemented, but whether or not they were successful remains to be seen. So, as we are arriving at the yer’s end, I figured now would be the best time to reflect on what reading goals…
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The End of Year Reading Dump
Wow, 2025 feels like it has flown by. My final daily post month has arrived and I honestly can say it could not pass by soon enough. There will be a slight difference in posts this month, but nothing to drastic. As this is the end of the year, I have several discussions to post…
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Reading Books From Around the World
I don’t shy away from reading widely, as many of you know, but one thing I want to make more commonplace with my reading and reviews is the diversity of my reads in terms of their authors, characters, and settings. I don’t just want to pick up an asian author once a month, or when…
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Finishing Off My Physical TBR
2025 is nearing a close, and I have a few series on my shelves that I need to read to clear my physical TBR pile for the year. I have a policy where I aim to read all the physical books on my shelves within the year I buy them, and this practice has had…
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Reading Children’s Books I Missed Out On
I didn’t realise this until a little bit ago, but I actually missed out on a bunch of iconic children’s books growing up. I never read The Books of Earthsea, The Inheritance Cycle, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Chronicles of Narnia, A Series of Unfortunate Events, or the Spiderwick Chronicles. I have, of course,…
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Back to the Basics with Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea
I am going to be honest here and say I have not read The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. Any of them. I had heard of them, of course, but it is only now in my mid-twenties that I possess a copy of them. This copy has already shocked and surprised me…
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How I (Plan To) Balance Reading and Writing
As an academic, a researcher, an avid book lover, a curious reader, and someone who enjoys a lot of different things, there comes a time where a balance must be struck. I need to read academic texts but also books for pleasure, I need to write for my PhD thesis but also these book blog…
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Scholarly Reading Month
September is generally a moody season, what with the schooling semester starting back in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn settling in. It doesn’t really feel the same here in the Southern Hemisphere given its the middle of second semester at university, spring break starting for many, and we’re trying to shrug off winter’s persistent chill.…