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Lola’s Ramblings: Reading Goals for 2026

Lola’s Ramblings: Reading Goals for 2026

For 2025 I set some gentle reading goals for myself and I liked this, so I am setting some goals again for 2026. A lot of them the same as previous year, but I changed some and swapped some out for new ones. If you want to see how I did with my 2025 Reading Goals, you can read my recap post here. Reading Goals for 2026 Read 12 Non-fiction Books. Same goal as last year, I only barely made this one last year. So only setting this one a bit higher, I really like to continue to read some […]

Posted January 10, 2026 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 4 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: 12 Books I am Excited for that are Releasing in 2026

Lola’s Ramblings: 12 Books I am Excited for that are Releasing in 2026

Today I am sharing 10 books I am excited about in 2026. This is not a favorites list or my most anticipated list, but it is a list of books that I very excited about in 2026. I only included books that are already on pre-order and have a cover available, so that limited my selection somewhat. I was delighted I actually found some indie books to include in my list as well. I am linking this one up with Books of My Heart their top ten list posts. 12 Books I am Excited for that are Releasing in 2026 […]

Posted December 31, 2025 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 8 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: Which of the 5 books I wanted to read this autumn did I read?

Lola’s Ramblings: Which of the 5 books I wanted to read this autumn did I read?

So at the start of autumn I did a post of 5 books I wanted to read this autumn, let’s see which of those I actually read. 5 Books I want to read this autumn I did not read The Lone Wolf Café yet sadly. I really wanted to get to this one during autumn, but didn’t manage to get to it. I had a great time reading Autumn Tales From Cozy Vales. I read all the stories in this one and enjoyed most of them. Not as much autumn vibes as I had expected, some of the stories really […]

Posted December 20, 2025 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 5 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: How do I decide to get an Audiobook?

Lola’s Ramblings: How do I decide to get an Audiobook?

In today’s discussion post I want to talk about how I decide to get an Audiobook and especially how I decide whether to get a certain book in audio or ecopy. Why I get the audio instead of ecopy There are multiple factors that can influence whether I get the audio instead of an ecopy of a book I want to read. I discuss them below. Narrator/ Sample. One of the most important things for me when deciding whether to get an audiobook is the narrator or sample. If I already know the narrator and enjoyed books narrated by that […]

Posted March 1, 2025 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 6 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: How many Books do you read at the same time?

Lola’s Ramblings: How many Books do you read at the same time?

When I was younger I always only read one book at the same time, I never even considered reading differently. I also didn’t do things like DNF books, both of those have changed. Nowadays I have multiple books going on at the same time and I enjoy reading that way and I can’t imagine only reading one book now. I figured that would be a fun topic to write about. How many books do I read at the same time? I read a lot of books at the same time. I have certain categories (for lack of a better word) […]

Posted February 22, 2025 by Lola in Sunday Post / 8 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: Do you Read Multiple Editions of a Book?

Lola’s Ramblings: Do you Read Multiple Editions of a Book?

Recently I was reading the first book in a reworked series, the first book is new, but some of the later books are reworked versions of previously published books. It made me think of how some books get special editions with bonus content nowadays or stories like in anthologies get republished once they’re out of the anthology and then published with some extra content as an expanded edition. I sometimes struggle a bit with these, but then I also read some books that were new editions or got new editions that I really enjoyed, so wanted to share my thoughts […]

Posted February 15, 2025 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 4 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: 10 Opening Lines From Books I Read

Lola’s Ramblings: 10 Opening Lines From Books I Read

For today’s post I want to share some opening lines I liked from books that I read. Thanks to Kit from Metaphors and Moonlight for giving me the idea for this post. I looked at some of the first lines of books I read in the past year or two and compiled them in this post. For this post I always looked at the opening line of the first chapter and ignored prefaces or prologues if the book had them. It was fun looking at opening lines and finding some that would be fun to share and I also realized […]

Posted February 1, 2025 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 6 Comments