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Thanksgiving Book Tag 2026

Published on November 9, 2026November 8, 2026 by Celeste3 Comments

Thanksgiving is still a few weeks away in the U.S., but I don’t have a book review ready for today. Instead, I decided to do the Thanksgiving Book Tag 2026. This is now my fifth year doing it (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). My responses for this year’s edition will pull from my 2026 reads. If you’re not familiar with the Thanksgiving Book Tag 2026, the short rules are below.

Originally created by Anna’s Book Nook, here are the rules:

Thank the person who nominated you
Give credit to the author (Anna’s Book Nook)
Answer the prompts
Tag others if you desire!

At the end of my answers I also listed all the prompts to the Thanksgiving Book Tag 2026 for easy copying and pasting into your own post.

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WWW Wednesday: November 4, 2026

Published on November 4, 2026November 3, 2026 by Celeste9 Comments

Those of you who saw my November 2026 TBR won’t be terribly surprised at my reading progress for this week’s WWW Wednesday.

WWW Wednesday was revived and hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. The idea is to answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses.

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

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October 2026 On My Radar

Published on November 3, 2026November 1, 2026 by Celeste9 Comments

I was doing some blog hopping a couple days ago and wow, I don’t know how some of you manage to read and post so many reviews and also work! Kudos to you all! I just cannot juggle all of that as efficiently as I’d like to. Anyway, I admittedly didn’t do as much blog hopping in October, mainly because I spent the last 1.5 weeks of it really hunkering down into Kingdom of Ash. Regardless, I rounded up a few posts for my October 2026 On My Radar. So take a look and see what you might’ve missed!

Reviews

Eleanor by Alice Loxton by Janette at Wicked Witch’s Blog
The Slantwise Histories by Alix E. Harrow by Charlotte at Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
Our Strange Duet by Erin A. Craig by Krysta at Pages Unbound
Written in Starlight by Sloane Brooks by Chris at Biblio Nerd Reflections
ENTITIES TO LOVERS by Mallory Marlowe by Tammy at Books, Bones & Buffy
THE KILLING OF A CHESTNUT TREE by Oliver K. Langmead by Tammy at Books, Bones & Buffy
The Once and Future Queen (The Lives of Guinevere, #1) by Paula Lafferty by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher by Susy at The Road to Hell is Paved With Books
Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher by Matt at Runalong The Shelves

Discussion

Is Everyone Reading the Same Thing? (And Is That Even New?) by Briana at Pages Unbound
How Pages Unbound Is Doing on Substack Seven Months In by Briana at Pages Unbound

Bookish Miscellany

Witchy Books For Halloween by Charlotte at Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
33 Middle Grade “Books for Boys” Ages 8-12 Published in the Last 6 Years by Pages Unbound
November 2026 Book Releases by Chris at Biblio Nerd Reflections

November 2026 TBR

Published on November 2, 2026November 1, 2026 by Celeste9 Comments

I did pretty well with my October 2026 TBR. I finished half of my priority reads and all of my hopeful reads. However, I realized I’d run out of time to read the last book in the Throne of Glass series, so I threw everything else out the door to focus on that. I still have yet to finish it, but I’ve made great progress. So obviously that book is in my November 2026 TBR.

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October 2026 Book Blog Wrap-Up

Published on October 31, 2026October 29, 2026 by Celeste9 Comments

Well, October went by so fast. I think it felt that way because I had work travel in the middle of the month, which threw off my internal calendar. Despite the travel interruption, I still managed to finish seven books, mostly thank to audiobooks. I made a decent chunk of progress with my first reading of Kingdom of Ash (no spoilers, please). By the time this goes live I’ll hopefully only have 250 or so pages left to read.

I also watched a lot of things this month, which isn’t like me. But I guess I just felt inspired, what can I say. And most of it was movies, which I don’t tend to do because they’re long and eat up my free time. Sometimes you just have to mix it up, I guess! Anyway, below is my October 2026 book blog wrap-up. It’s a long one, so just skip around to whatever sections interest you.

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