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2025 in Reading Blog and Life – A quietly fulfilling year

2 January 2026 / 26 Comments

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great year. A post on 2025 in Reading Blog and Life is my way of closing the chapter on a year that was calm, challenging, and quietly fulfilling.

Looking back, 2025 was not loud or dramatic plot twists. It unfolded quietly through daily routines, half-finished to-do lists, book stacks that kept growing, and content created between school runs and workouts. It was a year where life happened first, reading stayed constant, and the blog and social media learned to coexist, sometimes gracefully, sometimes very messily.

2025 in Reading Blog and Life

2025 in Life

2025 felt like it flew by, and honestly, that usually happens when life is steady. Fewer dramatic highs, fewer exhausting lows. Compared to last year, this one felt calmer, kinder, and more manageable. It had its challenges, of course, but overall it was a good year, and I will take that without overthinking it.

One of the biggest highlights was my kid doing really well in school throughout the year. Her new school follows a lighter curriculum compared to others, but since she is only in first grade our priority was never academic pressure. The focus was on adjustment, emotional regulation, speech, and behaviour.

I was not worried about academics in 2025 and I will not be in 2026 either. What mattered most was that she felt safe, supported, and confident, and I am genuinely happy with how much her speech has improved. The school has been incredibly supportive in that area, and it shows. Social skills are still a work in progress, but I can see small changes, and I trust that she will get there in her own time.

On the health front, I stayed fairly consistent with working out. I tried a new routine, and it worked well until Diwali arrived with its sweets, followed by a month of back to back weddings. The result was classic chaos. I gained back almost as much as I lost.

December was all about getting back into routine, showing up again, and slowly feeling the difference. Visible change will probably take another couple of months, but I am okay with that. Progress is not a straight line, and my body has made that very clear.

I journaled almost regularly this year. I experimented with different formats, some worked better than others, but I still felt oddly unsatisfied. So for 2026, I am thinking of starting a commonplace journal and keeping it simple with a normal notebook. No pressure, no aesthetic expectations, just writing and collecting thoughts. Let’s see how that goes.

It was steady, full of small wins, quiet growth, and lessons that did not need to announce themselves. And sometimes, that kind of year is exactly what you need.

2025 in Blog and Social media

My blog took a bit of a backseat in 2025 as my focus shifted to Instagram and YouTube. That meant I was often MIA, interacted less than I should have, and blog hopping was mostly squeezed into weekends or whenever time allowed. I do not need to check the stats to know they were pretty sad this year. Hopefully, that is something I can turn around in 2026.

Instagram growth was not explosive, but I genuinely enjoyed experimenting with content and trying new ideas. I finally started doing talking head review reels, something I had been planning for a long time.

That helped me slowly prepare for YouTube, and around mid-year, I finally started posting there too. It did not take off in any dramatic way, but ending the year with 50 subscribers feels perfectly fine to me. The real goal was getting comfortable on camera, taking the first step, and learning as I go. I am not fully there yet, but I am proud of myself for trying instead of overthinking forever.

Travel-wise, 2025 surprised me in a good way. We initially thought about an international trip, but plans did not work out. Instead, we ended up doing several mini trips, and honestly, they were just as memorable. We visited Mumbai, the Statue of Unity, Jawai, Pavagadh, and took day trips to Bhavnath Temple, Mau, and Dakor Temple. All our travels were by car, which made the journeys slower, more flexible, and oddly more fun. There were snacks, playlists, tired legs, and small moments that stayed with us.

2025 in Reading

Reading was the one thing I did not compromise on. I set a goal to read 80 books in 2025 and ended the year having read 102. Or 105, if I believe my Excel sheet. The number mismatch remains a mystery, but my best guess is that a few children’s books I received from Indian publishers never made it to Goodreads, so they quietly slipped through the cracks. Either way, I am counting this as a solid win.

One of my main goals was to read at least one classic every month. I ended up reading 11 classics, which is close enough counts. I also planned to read more NetGalley books. While I did read around 20 or so, it did not really shift my overall reading ratio the way I had hoped, so that is a goal I am carrying forward into 2026.

Kindle Unlimited was another intentional focus. I wanted to read at least one or two KU books every month, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that I finished around 21 KU books by the end of the year. Goal officially achieved and then some.

Here are a few more reading stats for the graph lovers and number nerds.

2025 in Reading

Books part of Series – 56
Standalone – 47

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Most read authors in 2025

Looking back, 2025 in Reading Blog and Life was not about perfection or viral wins. It was about showing up, trying new things, sticking with what mattered, and learning where my energy actually belongs.

If 2025 taught me anything, it is that consistency beats intensity, progress does not need applause, and there is always room to turn the page. Here’s to carrying the lessons forward and doing a little better in 2026, one post, one book, and one ordinary day at a time.

Last but not least, wishing all book lovers an amazing 2026 stacked with great reads cozy moments and unforgettable stories.

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Promise Me This shines is fake dating romance that unfolds as a workplace romance layered with Muslim family drama, family pressure, and past trauma, and strong sisterhood. 2025 was a full-on series year. I read 13 series total. Some were completed in one glorious binge, some carried over from last year, and some are still unfinished because they're ongoing series, that means I read all that were released so far and now I am waiting patiently for next books to release. Dark magic. Deadly royalty. Fake engagement with the Queen’s assassin.

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Hi, I'm Yesha, an Indian book blogger. Avid and eclectic reader who loves to read with a cup of tea. Not born reader but I don't think I’m going to stop reading books in this life. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

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