I know, I know. I am hopelessly behind getting my year-end/beginning-of-the-year stuff posted. It's been rough, from November to now.
However, Eleanor read a ton of great books in 2025, both YA and not. Out of all her reads, these are the ones she chose as her most, most favorite.
Happy Reading!
Nora and Sarah
Nicely done Nora. Hope things get better for you.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! She's got some great ones coming up for the March edition.
DeleteBetween Grandpa passing, and then both of us being incredibly sick at different times, blogging has taken a backseat. But now we are both getting back into our normal routine.
You can tell she is getting older.
ReplyDeleteRight?! I love seeing her reading taste change, but I do miss when she loved scary books about ghosts. I have to be very careful with the YA she wants to read, so we are always checking ratings and age guidelines. Sometimes it's a book she really really wants, but she's just not ready for it, so it goes on her TBR. I am so thankful she still loves to read as much as she did when she was little.
DeleteIt's always good to read with them. I was lucky that hubby loved fantasy so I could concentrate on the other ones.
DeleteEleanor is suuuuper interested in Tudor Queens now that we've seen Six, so we are reading about them. She started listening to the album before we saw the show, but after, she's OB.SESSED. Big surprise, I also have a lot of individual bios lying around for her to choose from.
DeleteI'm not surprised. Tudor Queens are totally interesting. There was so much going on in that period.
DeleteYes!! I love that she is interested. The Tudors were my first love before I discovered the Plantagenets and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
DeleteTrue, the Plantagenets also have exciting stories.
DeleteOh, very much true! But I could never abandon Catherine of Aragon.
DeleteOf course not.
DeleteOr Catherine Howard, either. That poor baby didn't stand a chance.
DeleteLike most of his other "victims", eh, wives. Except for one who was the reason for all this tragedy.
DeleteI think that one is the hardest for me to accept. She was so young. I just want to give her a hug and tell her nothing was her fault and she didn't deserve ANY of the terrible and traumatic things that were done to her.
DeleteShe certainly didn't. As did none of his wives, well, except for maybe one but she didn't deserve to die, either.
Delete100%, they were all victims/survivors. Anne Boleyn is my absolute least favorite of all the queens, but she absolutely did not deserve to die. But she also had to recognize the fact that if Henry could discard Catherine of Aragon after 24 years, and him fighting to marry Catherine in the first place when his father didn't want him to, then she could easily be tossed aside too.
DeleteI totally agree with you there. I once had a colleague who was the third wife of her husband. She was so jealous and suspected a rival in every woman she met, or her husband met. I couldn't feel sorry for her, she had snatched her husband from wife no. 2.
DeleteEw. Imagine if she put that energy to good use instead of being a freaking weirdo.
DeleteI totally agree with you, Sarah.
DeleteYet one more example of why I like to be inside with my books when Eleanor is at her father's house - people are weird!!
DeleteYes, you are right.
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