It’s time to start making plans for 2025. I don’t do a lot of formal challenges. I’m too much of a mood reader to formally commit myself to year long challenges. For the past few years I’ve given myself challenges of reading from South of the Equator and reading my TBR. In 2025 I’ll be continuing the South of the Equator challenge but giving up on reading my TBR.

I link up my discussion posts with the discussion Challenge at It Starts at Midnight and Feed Your Fiction Addiction but I never really formally sign up. I’m actually ahead of the game this year.

The Levels:

1-10 – Discussion Dabbler
11-20 – Creative Conversationalist
21-30 – Chatty Kathy
31-40 – Terrifically Talkative
41+ – Gift of the Gab

I try to do at least one a month so that would make me a Creative Conversationalist.

Foodies Read is the monthly link up hosted right here for reviews of books featuring food. You don’t have to do a formal sign up to join in. Just link up anything you post about a food-related book. It can be any genre – cookbooks, memoirs, nonfiction about ingredients or restaurants, cozy mysteries, fantasies or science fiction set in tea shops, romances in bakeries – you get the idea. The link up goes live on the first of each month. There is always a link in the menu at the top of the page. There is a drawing for a gift card from all the entries every quarter. You can win once a year. Feel free to snag the graphics if you want for your posts.

We have a great group of people who participate but I’d always love to find more! Here are some foodie books to give you ideas.

Christmas Book Haul

These are the books that I got for Christmas. I’m especially excited for Interstellar Megachef because, obviously, I have a thing for books about food. (See above). My family did not understand the concept when they gave me this. They assumed it was a cookbook. I had to explain that it was sort of like the Great Martian Baking Show but not really.

These are the books that the husband got.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and that there were some books involved!