A Christmas Sunday Sum-Up!

Happy Sunday, readers, and Merry Christmas! 🎄 Welcome to a long-due Sunday Sum-Up!

I have been pretty quiet the past few days since I moved to Melbourne to spend time with my extended family before I start work in Queensland. With all the packing, moving and all the work that goes into international travel these days, I haven’t really committed much to my blogging and Instagram.

I even had a tech mishap and needed to get my hands on a new phone, which caused me a great deal of anxiety since the last time I actually bought myself a phone was around six years back!

But otherwise it has been a pretty exciting experience so far. I am still adjusting to cold summer days after growing up in a tropical island for most of my life. I have been working out again since I settled. And now I am finding myself working on more and more adult tasks, like renting a house/apartment, bank stuff and everything else that happens in between.

Though I haven’t had much time to read I still managed to finish reading and review Omens of Death by Nicholas Rhea. I have also made some progress in reading The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang as well as a few chapters of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.

Though I don’t have really any Christmassy updates this week, I am still feeling the Christmas spirit in my aunt’s neighbourhood. Our Christmas was made up of a long wait for a PCR test, some amazing biryani for lunch, and a nighttime movie: Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings! It was a great day!

And that’s Christmas on my end! I hope everyone had a great Christmas day and are still enjoying their holidays! Let me know what was the best thing that happened to you this Christmas in the comments below!

• Ellie @ Curiosity Killed The Bookworm reviews A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske
• Hayley @ On This I Ponder reviews Landline by Rainbow Rowell
• Brandee @ The Quill To Live reviews Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• Nick @ The Infinite Limits of Love reviews The Red Palace by June Hur
• Dilly @ Read Between The Lines reviews The Mistletoe Motive by Chloe Liese
• Saima @ Stories With Saima reviews When You Get The Chance by Emma Lord

• Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy shares her favourite book covers of 2021
• Mehek @ The Critiques of a Fangirl takes part in the fun Christmas Songs book tag
• Charvi @ Not Just Fiction spills the beans on her biggest bookish disappointments of 2021
• Dini @ dinipandreads shares the Christmas spirit with The Joy of Christmas Book Tag

Hannah @ hansbooks_

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I posted two installments of my new January 2022 Book Releases: adult romance books and young adult romance books!

I had two book reviews up since my last Sunday Sum-Up: The Push by Ashley Audrain and Omens of Death by Nicholas Rhea!

I discussed my thoughts on illustrations in books (spoiler alert: I love them!)!

Merry Christmas, guys! I hope this holiday season brings you some happy memories for next year!