The End of Winter Reading 2026

How To Set Up A Book In Reading Journal

1. Write down book title
2. Number the page entry • Example: ① ② etc.
3. Write down a paragraph or so of why you chose that book, where you got it from etc.
4. Count how many chapters there are and write it down as a bullet point
5. Count how many pages there are and write it down as a bullet point

6. Write a bullet point of when you want to finish reading (DUE!! date)

7. Optionally, write down the day you started reading

8. Count how many total days you have to read the book and write it down as a bullet point

9. Total # of chapters or pages ÷ total # of days I have = how many chapters or pages I need to read everyday

Review: Older

Older by Pamela Redmond Satran
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I finished reading this book on Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 5:51 p.m. My last reading session was 135 minutes. I didn't like it throughout, but it grew on me towards the end.

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🕶 Older (Younger, #2) by Pamela Redmond Satran

There were only two quotes that I liked. They are both found in chapter 23.

“I leaned back on the hard plastic seat and shut my eyes. The word now kept echoing in my brain. The time to do anything is now. 

There was something undeniably comfortable for me, I realized, in not doing what I really wanted to do. As long as I was mired in doing something I didn't want to do, my dissatisfaction was justified and my dreams stayed safely on the shelf. Nothing was put to the test. I wasn't failing, I wasn't succeeding, I wasn't even really waiting, because waiting implied something else you were moving toward. I was living as a hologram of myself, my energy and passion in suspension until that day, that faraway day that never seemed to come, when I'd finally be doing what I really wanted. Never making myself find out what that was.

Denying the reality, year after year after year, that all I had was now” (179).

“I'd turned thirty, putting off my real adult life until some point in the future. I'd turned forty, waiting for the future. I could easily turn fifty doing the same thing. And fifty-five and sixty and seventy, waiting and waiting and waiting until it was too late. I wanted to keep waiting and never acting. Because it was less painful than trying my hardest and still not getting what I wanted” (180).

Review: The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 9

The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 9 by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I finished reading this book on Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 12:11 p.m. My last reading session was 54 minutes.

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➰ The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 9 by Cassandra Clare, Cassandra Jean (Artist)

The following pictures are not in order, but I really cannot wait for the next volume! 😃

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I really love Jace's colors! 💛

I love Alec's NYC outfit here! <3

I love how this panel really accentuates the text.

My January 2026 Reads

🧴 Audiobook That I Listen To While Doing Skincare:

1. ✅ 📓 Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) (Vera Wong, #2) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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📖 MY PERSONAL READS:

2. ✅ 👽 Alien Visits: Extraterrestrials, UFOs, and Otherworldly Encounters (The Unexplained) by Stuart Webb, Spencer Brinker

3. ✅ 🍎 Summer and the City (The Carrie Diaries, #2) by Candace Bushnell

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📘 MY OCCASIONAL READ:

4. ✅ 🚲 Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

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🚶🏽‍♀️ Audiobook That I Listen To While Walking:

💼 Audiobook That I Listen To While Working:

My 2025-2026 Winter Reading Badges

Amazing! You've earned 100 points! Earned on 12/16/2025

Hooray! 200 points! Earned on 12/16/2025

Excellent! Earned on 12/17/2025

Keep reading to be automatically entered into weekly drawings! Earned on 12/18/2025

500 points! You did it! Earned on 12/19/2025

Amazing! Earned on 12/20/2025

Just keep reading! Earned on 12/21/2025

Excellent! Earned on 12/22/2025

You've earned 900 points! Earned on 12/25/2025

You've earned 1000 points! Earned on 12/26/2025

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My Year in Books (2025)