Want to Establish a Reading Habit? Start Here
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How to Establish a Reading Habit
We all know there are only 24 hours in a day, and you are currently filling all of them with some kind of activity. Adding in reading time requires subtracting from something else; that’s just math. Unfair, right? That requires intention, planning, and some brutal honesty. Sure, it may seem easy to replace one hour of nighttime device scrolling with reading, but if you’re fried by that time of day, it might not work. What about reading a little first thing in the morning, or during a lunch or coffee break? It’s discouraging to pick up a book and find yourself unable to concentrate, so try to set yourself up for success.
(Probably) All of the Big Comic Book Movies and TV Shows Coming in 2025
Whether you’re thrilled by the constant spandex-clad offerings from DC and Marvel or relate strongly to the term “MCU fatigue,” the superhero adaptation juggernaut juggers on. (Although I don’t think the Juggernaut is in any of these.) Below, I’ve rounded up all of the comic book movies and TV shows that we can look forward to in 2025.
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels Involving Tarot
Many still look to the Major and Minor Arcana for guidance, inspiration, and a way to interpret the events of their lives (and sometimes just for fun). Tarot makes a fascinating device in fiction, where it can be used not only for narrative structure but as the foundation for complex worldbuilding. In the science fiction and fantasy novels below, tarot is a tool for both divination and self-discovery. The cards are used to shape magic systems and plot characters’ journeys, to reveal their destinies, and to make sense of the chaos and uncertainty they encounter along the way.
Real Historical Figures Reign in These January Historical Fiction Releases
These books feature a lot of real historical figures—something I always love in my historical fiction. When I learned in the author’s note after reading The Woman With No Name that it was based on a real woman who worked as the first female saboteur for Britain during WWII, it made me love the book even more. That’s a pretty good argument for reading authors’ notes, as well as my post about the Best Historical Fiction Books of 2024, where The Woman With No Name gets a feature. But in the meantime, let’s take a look at the historical fiction coming out this January. From ancient stories reimagined to icons of the stage and stadium—these new releases are full of remarkable real historical figures you’ll definitely want to read about.
Read an Excerpt of HOMESEEKING by Karissa Chen
He squeezes his eyes tighter, tries harder, and what comes next is impossible: He is peering through her window, gazing upon her as she sleeps. In another moment, he has prised open the panels and is inside her room. She is dreaming, she is talking to him in her sleep. He places a palm against her cheek, strokes a thumb across the soft velvet of her skin. He takes in the fringe of her lashes, the bud of her mouth. A mouth he wishes he had remembered to kiss one final time. He wants to remember every pore, every stray hair, wants to emblazon her into his memory, even as he is certain he will always know her, that even if he is an old man by the time he returns to her, even if she has aged and changed, he will know her. He brushes the hair sticky on her parted lips, his fingers lingering on the warmth of her breath. He is sorry for what he is about to do, what he has done; he will never stop being sorry.
