My Reading Challenge for 2025 📚🏆 (24/20)

Helloo!

Year three of sharing my reading challenge! 📚 I’ve set my goal of 20 books this year and can’t wait to dive in. I’ll post updates here and, hopefully, on a new Instagram account soon (motivation needed, lol).

You’ll see me using my iPad for pics - all about the aesthetic - but I’m still a Kindle girlie at heart! 💖

How to Let Things Go by Shunmyo Masuno

"There is no day without end. There is no rain without end. No matter how terrible, everything comes to an end."

Engineers Survival Guide by Merih Taze

"Always remember to focus on the long game. You are in this game for life. Focus on having fun, improving yourself, building meaningful relationships, and making every second of your life count!"

The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas

"that I had a delightful accent: what place did I consider home?"

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved."

Becoming The One by Sheleana Aiyana

"Your relationship with yourself sets the foundation for all the relationships you have in your life."

The Wilderness by Aysegül Savas

"And the past, before we set foot in the wilderness, appears so tame in my memory."

The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose

“You belong where you’re loved."

Essentialism by Greg McKeown

"If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will."

Secrets of Adulthood by Gretchen Rubin

"The days are long, but the years are short."

Days at Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yogisawa

"It was about something inside me. No matter where I went, no matter who I was with, if I could be honest with myself, then that was where I belonged."

The Life That's Waiting by Brianna Wiest

"In the same way that you cannot plant a seed and then continually dig it up to check on whether or not it's taken root or is beginning to grow, periods of quiet, rest, and hibernation are also required for our personal growth."

How to Tell if Your Boyfriend is the Antichrist by Patricia Carlin

"Just tell him you're not good enough for him. He won't argue with that."

She is The Poem by June Bates

"I thought I was unlovable - until I realized -

I'd just spent most of my life - chasing the wrong people."

The Lavender Haze by June Bates

"Brave girls

dive headfirst

into love

because we

trust ourselves enough

to survive the fall."

More Days at Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yogisawa

“People forget all kinds of things. They live by forgetting. Yet our thoughts endure, the way waves leave traces in the sand.”

The Bigamist by Felicia Mihali

"You might think migration would let you forget painful memories, especially at night, but you soon learn that memory is pitiless. You don’t miss your family, your friends, streetcorners. You miss your memories of family, friends, and streetcorners. That’s hard."

Lessons for Living by Phil Stutz

"..the nature of reality is this: Life includes pain and adversity. The future is uncertain. Accomplishment of any kind requires discipline. You are not special. No matter what you do, you cannot avoid these aspects of life. This will never change."

Don't Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen

"Our feelings do not come from external events, but from our own thinking about the events. Therefore, we can only ever feel what we are thinking."

Great Callings by Brianna Wiest

"Because often, the things we most avoid are not the things that will harm us but the things that will transform us.

The idea, the move, the relationship, the step-that we resist the most - is the one with the greatest potential to rewrite our future."

Days at Torunka Cafe by Satoshi Yogisawa

"You’re able to see things that way because you’ve experienced true sadness.”

The Little Frog's Guide to Life by Maybell Eequay

"What is currently in your life that you once wished for?"

The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care by Maybell Eequay

"Or have you ever considered how surreal it is that we are able to have animals as companions? Even though we don’t speak the same language as them we are able to find ways to communicate with each other, and sometimes those bonds are even deeper than those with other humans."

Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan

"When I met someone I liked, I wanted all of them, and fast."

Always Remember by Charlie Mackesy

"Be patient with yourself. Shouting at a flower won't make it bloom."

Let me know if you have any must-reads. Here’s to another year of great books and conversations! 🙌🏻