january reads 2025

hullo, & welcome a NEW year of NEW stories & adventures! :D

here come every monday’s weekly reading book review video as it happens… complete with title links to bookshop.org where you can learn more, or purchase the book and support indie bookstores across the country while conveniently shopping for books online. (i.e. everyone’s favourite mail: book mail!!)

happy reading, and as ever, let me know what stories you’re loving in the comments!!

xo,

*hallie :)

✨🥳 weekly reading book review january 2025: episode one!! 🥳✨

hullo! & welcome back to another year of reading adventures!

here’s what i read this week:

🐑 A WILD SHEEP CHASE by haruki murakami (more about it in last week’s episode)

💜 HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE by diana wynne jones [re*read for the i dunno how many times, but still even better than i remember even though i’m also hardcore in love with the miyazaki film]

🎭 ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL by wm. shakespeare (my first #brushupyourshakespeare2025 play! go VOTE on my last instagram post on the quote for me to illustrate!)

blog post here: https://www.halthegal.art/artist-blog/2024/12/27/brush-up-your-shakespeare-2025

🌟 MAGISTERIUM BOOK FOUR: THE SILVER MASK by holly black & cassandra clare (slim MG magic school/good/evil battle series from scholaastic!)