september: books read + books made.

it’s september! can we smell the fall yet?

working on it over here.

in the meantime, here come all of this month’s weekly reading book review videos: complete with title links to bookshop.org where you can learn more or collect a new favourite book while supporting the local indie bookshop of your choice!

wishing you all the so many happy colourful reads of almost-fall to you,

❤️xo,

*hallie :)

you can always shop my recs by category on my bookshop.org “affiliate: page, too! (trust me, all “proceeds” go right back into collecting more books to read and review for you. yay author support!) ;)

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

🚕 this week, i read:

🐉 A FORGERY OF FATE by elizabeth lim (ya fantasy romance perfectionnnnnnn!!!)

👻 AGGIE & THE GHOST by matthew forsythe (picture book perfection!!)

📚 made some progress in:

🧡 THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD by t.l. huchu

📚 story highlight of the week/month/year/ever:

🎭 seeing TWELFTH NIGHT in central park!!!! (😭😭😭😭😭 more on that in today’s newsletter!!!! 📝)

📚 miiiiiight read next:

☂️ THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST by sachiko kashiwaba (middle grade japanese fiction in translation that inspired SPIRITED AWAY!! 🥹🎬)

🦝 NIGHT CHEF: AN EPIC TALE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH A SIDE OF DELICIOUSNESS by mika song (middle grade graphic novel coming october 2025!! #randomhousekidspartner)

🦎 LIZARD BOY 2: THE MOST PERFECT SUMMER EVER by jonathan hill (middle grade graphic novel)

sequel to a fave: TALES OF A SEVENTH GRADE LIZARD BOY

🥀 THIS PLACE KILLS ME by mariko tamaki & nicole goux (ya graphic novel & shakespeare-adjacent!!)

👉🏽 make sure you’re on my newsletter list for 12N goodness, biiiig september happenings, & a v. colourful happy mail giveaway!! 🥰❤️🖍️🚙📝🥳📬🩵

also: crayon box DouBLE sticker mail this month to celebrate ALL the THINGs! ;D

with all my spectacled valentine glitter heart full of marshmallow goo & stories to tell & art to make,

💖xo,

*hallie 🤓