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Thursday, December 25, 2025

13 Christmas Cats

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. The blog host doesn't have any official graphics to display on the Thursday 13 posts, so I decided to whip one up myself. 🙂

It's the last Thursday of this year and it's Christmas. I chose to focus on cats for Christmas. Merry Christmas to you, those who celebrate.

I will be back with the Thursday 13 next year. See you then.

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Thursday 13: Reading for the Rest of the Year

I'm combining The Thursday 13 and Book Discussion Challenge this week. I haven't done a Book Discussion post this month yet, and want to get at least one more this month and year, including a year-end post.

Trying to finish all the books I have out from the library before they close next week starting on Christmas Eve. Plan to read from home for the rest of the year/month.
Thank goodness for my Goodreads account. I took out a book this month that I didn't know I'd already read and didn't want to read again. This has happened more than once this year.
As you can see on my blog, I have been signing up for reading challenges for next year. There are few others I am waiting to see when they post.
I don't have a lot of holiday-themes books at home that I haven't read already, so it looks like the book I'm currently reading will be my last one for the Yuletide challenge.
Even though the challenges for next year have already been posted, the site hosting the Southern Literature and Books in Translation has been down for about a week now. As a result, I decided to call these challenges complete for this year, and am now debating about participating next year, if the site is still down then. **UPDATE (12/24)** The site is now back up.
Have several categories on the Feminist challenge (one I'm waiting to see posted for next year) that I have been unable to find books for. It looks like those will go uncompleted. I'd planned to complete as many categories as possible.
Same for the Cover Lovers challenge. Three categories remain empty, and I don't see any books in my stash at home that fit these categories, except one that fits the "Outdated technology" one, but don't yet know if will get to that one. The rest of time this month will tell.
I was sad last year when I found out that Pick Your Poison will be ending this year. It was always a fun one. I thus wanted to fill as many categories as I could. Some are still open, but these are more I don't yet know about getting to.
I have three monthly prompts left to complete, two of which will be filled by the same book, one I have at home.
I'm debating on whether to join some of the challenges again. Reader Haven hasn't posted a new challenge yet, but I may skip that one. I've been doing that one for only two years, but the categories seemed repetitive each time.
Also unsure about this one again. It's already been posted, but I am unsure about some of the categories.
Deciding on whether to join some new-to-me challenges, since Pick your Poison will be ending. I've seen a few that look interesting.
Not sure how many more cozy mysteries, animal-themed books I will get in the less than two weeks left. Also, I have not read a book-to-movie since October, and have not read a memoir since last month. Not much on my personal stash fits any of these, except some cozy mysteries. Again, it all depends on time.

I plan to rejoin both Thursday 13 and Book Blog Discussion next year. I found a new book blogger challenge while searching for challenges to add to the Facebook group that collects challenges (for which I am a moderator). I don't know about this one, as it calls for specific blogging categories, unlike the Discussion Challenge. But the two might just work well together. Just letting those interested know about this one. Still have to come to my decision.

How are all of your doing with your reading for the rest of this year? I've only planned a few reads for next month, as I like to choose as I go along. Have any of you already planned reading for at least the coming month?