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WWW Wednesday #6
I have holidays this week, so I have all the time to relax. I spend my time reading books, watching movies on Netflix, finally playing some games on the PS4 that I got at the beginning of the lockdown, and – if the weather allows – some walks. I feel my stress levels are gradually… →
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The Thief of Time
This was my first John Boyne book after The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which is really well-known. His other books are far less popular, but I can’t see why, as John Boyne turned out to be one of my favorite authors. One of the things I like best, besides the style and pacing of… →
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Lady Susan
For my Austen I read Pride and Prejudice in school because I had to, and it has left a bad taste, so I never returned to Austen – even though I know everyone loves the books. I wasn’t really looking forward to Lady Susan, but I was actually very pleasantly surprised by this little novella… →
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A Second Chance
#TimeTravelTuesday Returning to St Mary’s already feels like a long awaited return home, even as I’m bingereading my way through the series. I’ve seldom had so much fun just with the characters as they really are what make the series stand out. And normally, I’m really not much of a bingereader myself (don’t get me… →
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Speaking of Siva
I am sure that a lot was lost here in translation, and on top of that the poetry was very religious in theme. This is something I never really like in the first place, but it also became slightly boring even in this short collection of poems. I think this was not for me. Speaking… →
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Goodreads Monday #2
Last Saturday I asked you to help me decided which book to read during my little holidays, and drum-roll please because it is time to reveal the winner and I will link it to Goodreads Monday, which is hosted by Lauren’s Page Turner, and it is really simple. Pick a book from the TBR and… →
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The Three-Body Problem
A three-body system is chaotic, unpredictable and the tiniest of perturbations can cause massive effects… When I first saw The Three-Body Problem I was immediately intrigued, not just by the synopsis but also Chinese SF. I haven’t really read anything like it. It sounded interesting and I wanted to try it. I’m so glad I… →
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The Madness of Cambyses
History has had its shares of crazy kings/rulers, and the Persian king Cambyses most certainly was one of them. Herodotus was a large part of our end-work for Greek in school, so I read quite some of his histories, but in Greek, before. The Madness of Cambyses is not as famous as for examples Croesus… →
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
Originally I had put this down for 4.5 stars, but I needed some time to think it over and in the end I felt like 4 stars would suit my opinions better. Nevertheless this was a great read and one of the few I was talking about at work (I need to choose my books… →
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O Cruel Alexis
One thing I have learned from the Little Black Classics – Pastoral is not my thing. I can’t stand the naivety and more. This collection of Pastoral poems from Virgil was up against some very bad odds for me to like it. The fragments included were rather random and the poetry didn’t seem that inspired.… →
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Help me decide what to read!
So, I decided to take a week off of work. I didn’t take holidays during summer, since there didn’t seem a purpose, but I felt like I could use a little break, so here I am on a short, last-minute break with all of a sudden rather a lot time on my hands. And in… →
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Dorothy Must Die
A small disclaimer at the start: I am not that familiar with the original Oz stories. I have learned some snippets from the recent movie about Judy Garland and -strangely- You and saw the musical The Wiz during lockdown but I am in no position to catch all the references in this work, so I… →
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Kansyan from the Beautiful Lands
I couldn’t help but think these two stories were rather pointless. It felt to me as if the writer was going to make a point or a plot at some point, but it sort of sizzled out before it could be made. Perhaps this was the aim, to show how many events will not have… →
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Favorite Friday #3
Favorite Friday is a bookish meme which was started a couple of weeks ago over at The Midnight Book blog. Since the prompts posed interesting questions I’ve decided to join. Today’s question is about a favorite Fantasy book. This is so difficult – do I only get to choose a single one? In the five… →
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Redshirts
Redshirts was right up my alley. I want to put the spotlights to the side characters, like in Patrick Ness’ The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and the side characters are usually preferred over the mains in almost any series I read/watch. Why didn’t I read Redshirts earlier in that case? Well, I have… →
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Come Close
It’s me and poetry again. I was quite looking forward to Sappho. While I hadn’t read any of her poetry before, I was curious since it was a name I had heard a lot. Also, it is so rare that it has survived so long and that it was passed down through time to us.… →
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The 7.5 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
When Evelyn Hardcastle started to be the talk of my online book club, I was feeling guilty. It received multiple 5 star rating, and it had been unread on my shelves for the last two years even though I was intrigued a lot by the 7.5 deaths in the title. But I totally get the… →
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The Fall of Icarus
I liked the myths that were included in this collection – much more than just the Fall of Icarus. The particular edition however is rather random as the stories follow each other, which made me wonder exactly who this collection was aiming for as an audience? It might confuse people who hear the stories for… →
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WWW Wednesday #5
This weekend, I was pretty optimistic. I managed to finish three books on a single day – one of which was for book club, which I finished a healthy two hours before it started. However, after Saturday, I am once again feeling rather overwhelmed with books and work, and I feel constantly stressed because of… →
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Miss Brill
A woman sits in a park listening to the conversations of passersby and imagining the rest of their lives, all the while feeling better than them and looking down on them. A pure form of loneliness, and even worse, she doesn’t realize that the other people consider her the strange woman who talks to herself.… →
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The Muse of History
#TimeTravelTuesday This short story from The Chronicles of St Mary’s is one of the few good things to come out of the quarantine. You can read it for free at Jodi Taylor’s blog (click here). It was very short but with all the humor and spirit that I really enjoy in the series. How the… →
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Goodreads Monday #1
Today I was very excited about my latest addition to the Mt.TBR, so much so that I decided to join in on the Goodreads Mondays. It is hosted by Lauren’s Page Turner, and it is really simple. Pick a book from the TBR and explain why you want to read it. My last new book… →
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