As it comes time to take down the decorations, I wanted to look back on the holiday season from a bookish point of view. 

One of my favorite things to do for the holiday season is to decorate my shelves. I first had the idea last year, after I saw someone's decorated shelves on twitter. Last year, my shelves were quite lowkey as I had decorations all over my apartment. This year I moved back to my parent's house, and my shelves are the main focal point of my room so I really wanted to make them shine. I put up tinsel on three different "layers" through the length of the shelves, I put up icicle fairylights at the very top of the shelves to add some mood lighting, and I put random decorations on the shelves themselves, like elves and my Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer candy jar. I also decorated my reading chair by switching in a red throw blanket, a seasonal pillow, and a penguin stuffed animal. To top it all off, I placed my Christmas tree in front of the corner formed by my shelves. I loved how festive the whole area turned out, but at the same time I am ready to take it down and get back to my normal set up now that I've had this up for over a month.  

Like every year, most of the presents I got were books. I've already read a few of the ones I received and I'm hoping to get through the rest of them as soon as possible. A couple of the books were ones I had read earlier in 2020, but didn't own copies of yet, so I'm super glad to add those to the shelves. My aunt got me the two cat themed books (Cats in Snow and Behind Every Great Woman is a Great Cat) because we adopted a new kitten in late November. My mother had planned on buying me the whole Dark Artifices trilogy, but she had accidentally ordered Queen of Air and Darkness in German!