Rachel Mauro
@rmauro2.bsky.social
✡️ culture blogger and fiction writer. Words in Fiction on the Web, Pen in Hand, Main Street Rag, Minerva Rising Magazine and more. blog.rachelmauro.net, jewishdc.wordpress.com & chavalah.wordpress.com. BookTube blabbing @ youtube.com/c/RachelMauro2
Autumn 2025 Quarterly Wrap Up: blog.rachelmauro.net/2026/01/01/a... #amwriting
Autumn 2025 Quarterly Wrap Up
Welcome to 2026! In the writing world, I feel like I’m ending 2025 on a high note because, yanno, NaNo. There’s NaNo 2.0, which gives me all the cozy vibes from yesteryear, and now Nove…
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January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Autumn 2025 Quarterly Wrap Up: blog.rachelmauro.net/2026/01/01/a... #amwriting
December 2025 Book Haul: youtu.be/_JZy4VFydW4?... #booktube
December 2025 Book Haul
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December 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
December 2025 Book Haul: youtu.be/_JZy4VFydW4?... #booktube
Chava's Footsteps Blog Post: #JewishBookMonth Challenge 5786!: chavalah.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/j...
#JewishBookMonth Challenge 5786!
Shalom! We’re past Jewish Book Month (year 100!) and Chanukah now, but with just a few days left in 2025, I’m talking about my year in Jewish reading. (And not even all of it; here are …
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December 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Chava's Footsteps Blog Post: #JewishBookMonth Challenge 5786!: chavalah.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/j...
Authors Answer Series # 105: Topic Wherein to Improve My Knowledge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oo9... #authortube
Authors Answer Series # 105: Topic Wherein to Improve My Knowledge
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December 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Authors Answer Series # 105: Topic Wherein to Improve My Knowledge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oo9... #authortube
2026 Bookish Resolutions: blog.rachelmauro.net/2025/12/23/2... #amreading
2026 Bookish Resolutions
This list is pretty similar to most of my lists of late…though something always seems to come up to change my plans. I guess that’s part of the fun of it! But–more likely than not…
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December 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
2026 Bookish Resolutions: blog.rachelmauro.net/2025/12/23/2... #amreading
Chanukah 5786/2025 Short Stories Reviews: youtu.be/tdVydFjwMUc?... #booktube
Chanukah 2025/5786 Short Story Reviews
YouTube video by Rachel Mauro
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December 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Chanukah 5786/2025 Short Stories Reviews: youtu.be/tdVydFjwMUc?... #booktube
Page 112 Tag + Buzzwordathon: December 2025
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December 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
November 2025 Reading Wrap Up: youtu.be/1aVcWYVPX48?... #amreading
November 2025 Reading Wrap Up
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December 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
November 2025 Reading Wrap Up: youtu.be/1aVcWYVPX48?... #amreading
Rachel’s Literary Newsletter: November 2025: blog.rachelmauro.net/2025/12/14/r... #amreading
Rachel’s Literary Newsletter: November 2025
Book Pic Spotlight / Book Reviews / November ‘25 “TBRs” / Book Video / Book Quote Hello and welcome. November was a crazy month for me, as I transitioned back to work after a six—week s…
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December 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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#NaNoWriMo 2025: Finale!: blog.rachelmauro.net/2025/12/07/n...
NaNoWriMo 2025: Finale!
Nov. 26 – Nov. 30: Total Wordcount=50,486 words! And thus, here ends my 22nd year of NaNoWriMo! I stayed behind over most of Thanksgiving and the aftermath, and then I dashed that finish line on th…
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December 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#NaNoWriMo 2025: Finale!: blog.rachelmauro.net/2025/12/07/n...
JewishDC Blog Post: DC Chanukah Happenings 5786!: jewishdc.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/d...
DC Chanukah Happenings 5786!
Chanukah is imminently upon us! The 2025 dates go from sundown on Sunday, December 14 to sundown on December 22. It’s almost time to fry those latkes and kindle those menorah lights! Check out thes…
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December 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
JewishDC Blog Post: DC Chanukah Happenings 5786!: jewishdc.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/d...
MY DREAM IS REALIZED!!! 🥳🎉🎊✨️🎵❤️ Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson to return for latest Hunger Games instalment | Movies | The Guardian share.google/dpruQkumk8vD...
Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson to return for latest Hunger Games instalment
Currently in production the second prequel in the series, Sunrise on the Reaping, will likely feature the married couple ‘in a flash-forward’
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December 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
MY DREAM IS REALIZED!!! 🥳🎉🎊✨️🎵❤️ Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson to return for latest Hunger Games instalment | Movies | The Guardian share.google/dpruQkumk8vD...
Every year, despite reading predominately backlist titles, I find I've read one book on @stevedonohue.bsky.social's Worst Fiction of the Year list. In 2025, it was THE BOOK OF RECORDS by Madeleine Thien. Overall, I found the reading to be incomprehensible. stevedonoghue.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
The Worst Books of 2025: Fiction
As mentioned, 2025 was a rough year for fiction.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Every year, despite reading predominately backlist titles, I find I've read one book on @stevedonohue.bsky.social's Worst Fiction of the Year list. In 2025, it was THE BOOK OF RECORDS by Madeleine Thien. Overall, I found the reading to be incomprehensible. stevedonoghue.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
November 2025 Book Haul: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFDD... #booktube
November 2025 Book Haul
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December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
November 2025 Book Haul: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFDD... #booktube
Chava's Footsteps Blog Post: Foundation Season Three: Turning Over a New Leaf in More Ways Than One: chavalah.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/f...
Foundation Season Three: Turning Over a New Leaf in More Ways Than One
fourth and final NaNoWriMo post of 2025 Some structural changes: AppleTV Plus is now just AppleTV, and David Goyer has stepped down as showrunner. Many of the other writers and directors are steppi…
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December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Chava's Footsteps Blog Post: Foundation Season Three: Turning Over a New Leaf in More Ways Than One: chavalah.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/f...
Authors Answer Series # 104: Best Advice for Authors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB04... #authortube
Authors Answer Series # 104: Best Advice for Authors
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November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Authors Answer Series # 104: Best Advice for Authors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB04... #authortube
Chava's Footsteps Blog Post: Nostalgic Furlough Viewing Habits: Farscape and Xena, My First(ish) Loves: chavalah.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/n...
Nostalgic Furlough Viewing Habits: Farscape and Xena, My First(ish) Loves
Third NaNoBlogMo Post of 2025 For context, the U.S. government shut down from October 1 – November 13, 2025. As a federal contractor, I was put on furlough, and largely left to my own devices. I’m …
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November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Chava's Footsteps Blog Post: Nostalgic Furlough Viewing Habits: Farscape and Xena, My First(ish) Loves: chavalah.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/n...
NaNoWriMo 2025: Week Three: blog.rachelmauro.net/2025/11/21/n... #amwriting
NaNoWriMo 2025: Week Three!
Nov. 13 – Nov. 19; Total Word Count=30,352 Passing the NaNoWriMo midpoint, I also transition back into the working world and officially fall behind on the word count. :/ Ah well; trying my best to …
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November 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
NaNoWriMo 2025: Week Three: blog.rachelmauro.net/2025/11/21/n... #amwriting
I like that the music sounds different! Consider me properly teased. 😜 youtu.be/MPjxijuBuSo?...
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026) Official Teaser – Joseph Zada
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November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I like that the music sounds different! Consider me properly teased. 😜 youtu.be/MPjxijuBuSo?...
Chava's Footsteps Blog Post: Nostalgic Furlough Viewing Habits: Justice for Drusilla?: chavalah.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/n...
Nostalgic Furlough Viewing Habits: Justice for Drusilla?
Second NaNoBlogMo Post of 2025 For context, the U.S. government shut down from October 1 – November 13, 2025. As a federal contractor, I was put on furlough, and largely left to my own devices. I’m…
chavalah.wordpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Chava's Footsteps Blog Post: Nostalgic Furlough Viewing Habits: Justice for Drusilla?: chavalah.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/n...
JewishDC Blog Post: Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” at Theater J: What’s Old Becomes New Again: jewishdc.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/i...
Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” at Theater J: What’s Old Becomes New Again
Imagine a Washington, DC theater audience falling for a play about a whistleblower who is subsequently stifled and silenced by the powers that be. :P Famed Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen first w…
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November 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
JewishDC Blog Post: Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” at Theater J: What’s Old Becomes New Again: jewishdc.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/i...
Would You Read It Challenge? #BookTubePrize 2022 Fiction Octofinals, Group H: youtu.be/MML2S6D7niE?... #booktube
Would You Read It? Challenge: #BookTubePrize Octofinals 2022: Fiction Group H
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November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Would You Read It Challenge? #BookTubePrize 2022 Fiction Octofinals, Group H: youtu.be/MML2S6D7niE?... #booktube
Chava's Footsteps Blog Post: GoodReads Choice Awards 2025: Predictions and Standouts: chavalah.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/g... #nanoblogmo
GoodReads Choice Awards 2025: Predictions and Standouts
first NaNoBlogMo Post of 2025 The GoodReads Choice Awards for 2025 are now live! As is now the norm, they open in mid-November and promise two rounds, with winners to be announced in early December…
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November 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Chava's Footsteps Blog Post: GoodReads Choice Awards 2025: Predictions and Standouts: chavalah.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/g... #nanoblogmo