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
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oh, & watched ELF with the family! (because, of course!)
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what stories are you loving right now?!
✨❤️✨xo,
*hallie :)
stay tuned for next week’s episode, coming monday morning, december 15!