Author: Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

• My 2025 in Books + Top 10 Reads of the Year & 2026 Reading Resolutions

  

  2025 marks the 15th year I’ve been tracking my reading — which is so crazy to me! Here’s a recap in books of the year that has passed.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  February 21, 2026

  Annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, Monthly Wrap-Up, Reading Challenge, Year in Books

  2025 Reading Challenge, Annual Wrap-Up, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Bookworm 2025, Month in Books, Reading, Year in Books

• My Month in Books: December 2025

  

  Here’s a recap of my life in books for the last month of the year, December 2025: what I’ve read, what I’m currently enjoying, and what I’m looking forward to.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  January 21, 2026

  Memes / Tags, Monthly Wrap-Up, Uncategorized

  Book Review, Book Reviews, Bookworm 2025, Death and Dinuguan, Glucose Revolution, Month in Books, Monthly Wrap-Up, Reading Challenge, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Winter

• My Month in Books: October & November 2025

  

  Here’s a recap of my life in books for the last two months (October and November) of 2025: what I’ve read, what I’m currently enjoying, and what I’m looking forward to.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  December 13, 2025

  Memes / Tags, Monthly Wrap-Up

  A Magical Girl Retires, Annie’s Autumn Escape, Book Review, Book Reviews, Bookworm 2025, Heart the Lover, Impractical Magic, In the Company of Witches, Love and Lattes at Pumpkin Hollow, Perfection, Reaching Challenge, The Gingerbread Bakery, The Midnight Village

• My Month in Books | Q3 (July – September) 2025 

  

  Here’s a recap of my life in books for the third quarter (July to September) of 2025: what I’ve read, what I’m currently enjoying, and what I’m looking forward to.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  October 3, 2025

  Annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, Monthly Wrap-Up, Reading Challenge

  Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Bookworm 2025, Comfort Eating, fiction, Guilt and Ginataan, Life in Books, Midnight Chicken, Month in Books, Mr. Distinctive, On The Calculation of Volume I, Reading, Reading Challenge, The Passengers on the Hankyu Line, Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man

• Review: Comfort Eating by Grace Dent

  

  4.5/5☕ | If I could summarize my opinion of this book in one sentence, it’s this: Comfort Eating just feels like a warm hug.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  August 17, 2025

  Book Reviews, Reviews

  Book Quotes, Book Review, Books, Bookworm 2025, Comfort Eating, Food, Grace Dent, health, Memoirs, Non Fiction, Recipes

• My Analog Setup: A 2025 Review

  

  If there is one thing that remained constant through the years (aside from the comfort books give me), it’s my love affair with stationery. Here is a fresh look of what my analog setup looks like now.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  August 9, 2025

  Journaling

  Analog Life, Fountain Pens, fountain-pen, Hobonichi, ink, Inks, Journaling, Notebooks, pens, Planner, Planning, Traveler’s Notebook, writing

• My Month in Books | Q2 (April-June) 2025 + A Mid-Year Check-In

  

  It’s that time of the year again for a mid-year check-in! Plus: what I’ve read in the past quarter, what I’m currently enjoying, and what I’m looking forward to.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  July 7, 2025

  Annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, Memes / Tags, Monthly Wrap-Up, Reading Challenge

  2025 Reading Challenge, Book Review, Bookworm 2025, Dream Harbor, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, In Search of Perfumes, Mid-Year Reading Update, Monthly Wrap-Up, The Emperor of Gladness, Tiny Moons, Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mysteries

• (Series) Review: St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery Series (#1 to #6) by ACF Bookens

  

  4/5☕ | Better late than never, here’s my review of the first 6 books of ACF Booken’s St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery Series – a book series that scratched the itch in my cozy mystery-loving heart.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  June 20, 2025

  Annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, Book Reviews, Reading Challenge, Reviews

  ACF Bookens, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Bookworm 2024, Cozy Mystery, mystery, Series Reviews, St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery Series

• Review: How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart by Florentyna Leow

  

  4.5/5☕ | A random find that ended up being one of the most beautiful things I’ve read lately, Florentyna Leow’s How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is my favorite read of 2025 so far.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  April 13, 2025

  Book Reviews, Reviews

  Book Quotes, Book Review, Books, Bookworm 2025, Florentyna Leow, How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart

• My Month in Books | Q1 (Jan-March) 2025

  

  Here’s my months in books for the first quarter (January to March) of 2025: what I’ve read, what I’m currently enjoying, and what I’m looking forward to.

  Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups

  April 1, 2025

  Annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, Memes / Tags, Monthly Wrap-Up, Reading Challenge

  Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Bookworm 2025, fiction, Month in Books, Monthly Wrap-Up, Reading