A Year in Review: 2025 in First Lines

 

As usual at this time of year, I review and share my reading/blogging year with First Lines.

Simply put, we share the first line of the first post of each month and see what that overview tells us about our year. Often it can be an uncannily accurate summary.

If you haven't tried this before, give it a go this year; it's a fun exercise, and often summarizes the year quite efficiently. If you do, please share a link in the comments so we can all enjoy!


Here is my 2025 Year in First Lines: 

January: 

And just like that it is 2025!  (from Happy New Reading Year!)

February: 

I haven't been writing many reviews lately - I've been reading but the state of the world is distracting me a lot. (from Let's Move the Needle!)

March: 

This was an intriguing book that I liked for a number of reasons.  (from Colours in her Hands)

April:

I read this quick e-short this week when I discovered it on Hoopla thanks to my library. (from A Sewing Novella: Sew Over It)

May:

I've been finding it hard to read lately, my concentration is off for many reasons. (from Snap by Susin Neilsen)

June:

June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada. (from From the Rez to the Runway)

July:

It's time for the new round of the Canadian Book Challenge! (from 19th Annual Canadian Book Challenge) 

August: 

August brings one of my favourite reading celebrations of the year -- Women in Translation Month.  (from It's Women in Translation Month!)

September: 

I've taken a bit of time away from blogging after my August Women in Translation rush!  (from Forgotten on Sunday) 

October: 

I've missed posting in October (time just got away from me, again!) and so for the last week of the month I am planning to share some seasonal mysteries and thrillers.  (from Crafting with Slander)

November: 

I recently read this for the first time, as part of the Literary Sewing Circle I run on my sewing blog. (from Howl's Moving Castle)

December: 

It's the beginning of a new month, and I have lots of Christmas reading planned. (from Crafting an Alibi) 

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A bit of a funny year in 2025! Lots of pauses in the reading mojo and reviewing, trying to make reading plans, and being inspired to read more and review what I'm reading thanks to reading challenges and readalongs. 

My library came through for me this year, too, with many of the titles I talked about coming from library collections. I read a range of genres, from fantasy to literary, in translation and Indigenous. While reading wasn't as easy this year, I feel like I still got some good ones in. I did read quite a lot of non-fiction that I didn't review but I feel like I still shared some great books. On to next year, where I hope to both read and review more frequently.