December Wrap Up

I hope everyone had a safe Holiday Season and squeaked into the New Year safely as well. This was a hard reading month; I just had very little interest in picking up any books. The upside is that I did reach my reading goal for 2025. Woohoo! Small victories and all that. I also really liked the books I did manage to finish, also a plus. I'm sliding into January, currently reading two books. Hopefully, I crawl myself out of whatever reading slump I've slid into. 

Books Read: 5

Pages Read: 1078

 

No updates for 2025 because the year is over, and no I don't want to talk about it. What I do want to talk about is that the 2026 BINGO card is live, and the link is in my Quick Links section to the right! I'm also doing two other challenges this year. One is a second Horror BINGO on my Instagram (@bookish_whispers), and the second is the Beat the Backlist challenge. The latter will hopefully help me knock some of my physical books off my TBR. There is also going to be a January Challenge, but there be a whole post on that in a few days! 

I hope everyone had a safe New Year!

HAPPY READING!!

January Spotlight

 

Meet Alma Timperley. She
- Run a hotel
- Solve a mystery
- Talk to ghosts...?

December, 1914: After the death of her aunt, Alma Timperley is surprised when she suddenly finds herself the heiress to the Timperley Spiritualist Hotel in a pretty coastal town in Cornwall.

But not everything is as it seems... the hotel offers guests a very special chance to communicate with the dead.

When the body of one of the hotel's maids is found, it is considered a tragic wartime accident. But the more Alma and the local police try to fathom what happened, the more they begin to realise this is much more than just a death - there might be a German spy in Falmouth.

With the stakes higher than ever, Alma must grapple with her own extraordinary secret if she is going to have more than a ghost of a chance of solving the mystery.

Being able to talk with the dead is one thing; solving their murder is positively ghoulish...

HAPPY READING!!