cozy december reads (& otherwise)

here come all of december 2025’s weekly reading book reviews as they happen every monday morning this month! videos + links to shop the titles & learn more while supporting indie bookstores at bookshop.org


✨📖 weekly reading book review december 2025: episode one!! 📖✨

❄️ this week, i finished:

👻 MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE: A NOVEL IN GHOST STORIES by bora chung

📚 currently trudging through:

🙃 LITTLE WOMEN by louisa may alcott (on pg 330/491; gotta finish in time to lead book club on wednesday!! 🫣)

🎬 watched:

💖 BARBIE (2023)

💜 FREAKIER FRIDAY (2025)

📺 hoping to read next:

🎨 A KNOT IS NOT A TANGLE by daniel nayeri & illustrated by vesper stamper

⚾️ MEET ME UNDER THE LIGHTS by cassie miller (coming march 2026!!)

🇫🇷 THE PEAR AFFAIR by judith eagle

🤎 WHERE THE LIBRARY HIDES by isabel ibanez

my bn edition here :)

🎭 the last FIVE books in the first half of shakespeare’s known canon for my #brushupyourshakespeare2025 quest!

what stories are you loving right now?!?

🥰🎨📖🎬✨📺🎭👻📚🎧🩰📝

to the studio!!

🩵xo,

*hallie 🤓


✨ weekly reading book review december 2025: episode two!! ✨


this week i read:

LITTLE WOMEN by louisa may alcott (only two scenes i wish were added to the movies! v. “telly.” v. discussable!)

THE PEAR AFFAIR by judith eagle & illustrated by jo rioux


RICHARD II by wm. shakespeare (also please go enjoy the conversations on the shakespeare anyone podcast !! )


currently reading:

HAMNET by maggie o'farrell

great podcast episode with the director and author (co-screenwriters!) on the SHAKESPEARE UNLIMITED podcast here!


reading next {perhaps}:

RICHARD III by the bard again (no relation really to R2)

❤️ THE PRINCESS SWAP: SNOW WHITE & THE DRAGON / SLEEPING BEAUTY & THE SEVEN DWARFS by kim bussing

THE FIRST TIME I SAW HIM by laura dave ( !! coming 1.6.26!! )

DINNER AT THE NIGHT LIBRARY by hika hirada

oh, & watched ELF with the family! (because, of course!)

what stories are you loving right now?!

✨❤️✨xo,

*hallie :)


stay tuned for next week’s episode, coming monday morning, december 15!

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