I’ve been procrastinating a lot! I’ve wanted to post my results for a while, but the holidays and work got the better of me, so here I am, trying to put all of this into one post, although I know I really shouldn’t. So judge me. But here it goes. First of all, since I enjoyed the last readathon I…
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50 000 reasons to read Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft ...I don't literally have 50 000, but that's the equivalent sum of their weight
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars So I’ve just finished this very awesome read that I am dying to put into a review. Like RIGHT NOW. NAO. (It’s the middle of the night.) I liked it so much I literally found the author’s website, clicked “email” and wrote a message basically along the lines of PLEASE…
Continue Reading→Reading Resolutions for 2017 Let's join more of 'em reading challenges, shall we?
So I’ve been participating in a reading challenge this week and I’ve noticed it’s surprisingly very motivating (and not intimidating at all). And since I’ve stumbled upon another challenge this week, I’m going to, drumroll… …Commit for an entire year. These lovely people over at Herding Cats & Burning Soup are organizing a Blogger Shame yearly challenge, and you know…
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Lantern by Chess Desalls, ★★★★☆ 4 stars Or my first finished #BICOthon read
A stunning cover and the promise of a heart-warming story – who wouldn’t want to get their hands on this? That’s precisely how I’ve felt ever since I saw this book on NetGalley back in autumn. Unfortunately for me, the book was already archived when I found it – which meant I couldn’t request the ARC anymore. I was disappointed,…
Continue Reading→I’m participating in The Baby It’s Cold Outside Read-a-Thon! And you should too <3
Now I know it’s a little bit late, but I’ve stumbled upon Read.Sleep.Repeat’s Baby It’s Cold Outside Read-a-thon today, and it seems so much fun that I can’t stop myself from taking part – even if I’m a day late! Basically, it’s a year-end holiday challenge to catch up with your reading and just generally go crazy on these last snowy…
Continue Reading→The Smashing & Dashing 2016 Character Awards #BookTag! Which is my first tag from another blog <3
I know I must be slightly late for this, and I haven’t posted a lot in general, lately, but you know – real life stuff. But I saw this on Paperfury’s blog and I thought it was really fun, so I’ve decided to do one of my own. Thanks for the tag idea, Cait! For those of you who haven’t…
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Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Or a famous sci-fi classic you should consider reading
I’ve been so happy about November being #RRSciFiMonth that I’ve only noticed now that I haven’t actually posted (haven’t even considered joining… ah, problems of a new blogger). That might be something to do with the fact that scifi is a normal part of my life, not just a one month in a year thing, or that I found out about…
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The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick A magical book for the winter season
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★✬ 4.5 stars In short: The Comet Seekers is a wonderful book. I loved it. Main feel: layered, nostalgic, deep and emotional. Slow, will focus on feelings, coping with them, family events, and not action or developments, will also jump around timelines. However, very magical, very warm and personal. I loved this…
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Blindness by José Saramago Or a nightmare in book form
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★☆ 4 stars So this book has been lying in my TBR for a looooong time. Pretty much till I forgot why it was I even wanted to read it. Then one of my Goodreads reading groups decided to pick it up, and I decided, hey, why not? I didn’t know the book…
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A Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet Or the sweetest and most fangirl-provoking scifi read I've enjoyed this year
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars So I’ve been putting this one off for quite a while. Because sometimes, when you read a really, and I mean REALLY good book, you’re just afraid your review will not do it justice. I still think that. But, despite that, I have decided to finally get to it…
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What do fried potatoes have to do with books Or The Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars So I read a really enjoyable book this week. It was one I got for a voucher my friends gave me for my birthday, which was ages ago, but I only spent it last week. I got two books, one of those was The Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. This…
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Isle of Larus by Kathy Sharp Or the cozy fairytale for adults
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★☆ 4 stars Do you know that feeling when it’s raining outside and you curl up with some tea and read? The day is gloomy and silent, there’s no one else at home, but you like it that way. You don’t need good weather to read. On the contrary, seeing it rain…
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Liu Cixin’s Death’s End I'm thinking it's the best scifi I've read this year
So here I am, thinking about how to start a blog post about a book as good as this one. As one of my Goodreads friends says, the better the book, the harder to write a good review of it. This is precisely the case. So first things first. Quiz time! a) Do you enjoy scifi at all? if No, well. Well.…
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Middlemarch and Miscalculation Or realizing it's 904 pages long only after you've been "progressing so slowly"
Now when I think about it, including Middlemarch in my selection of 11 books I was going to read during October *might* have been slightly silly. You see, when an ebook is all you’ve got, you tend to slightly disregard the size of it. For those like me who do not know what kind of book Middlemarch is….. Well, it’s… And…
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The more you #blog, the less you #book Or how the time you spend blogging is its own Ouroboros
So before you become a book blogger, you always think that book blogging is the fun stuff unicorns are made of, writing about the thing you love most – books. What could be better, right? Initially, that’s what I thought too. And I still think it’s awesome, don’t get me wrong. But there’s one strange thing that happens when you…
Continue Reading→Biting off more than you can chew Or how NOT to get into reading 11 books in a month
So last month, nearly all of the groups I’m in on Goodreads decided to read the books I’ve wanted to read for a long time. I was faced with a dilemma – should I try to put myself through hell to read and discuss all of them while doing my regular job, having a boyfriend to spend time with, building a…
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