Tag: Url Phantomhive

  • Favorite Friday #5

    On a Saturday – I know. But it has been a rather crazy week. Very short COVID-update. My friend has tested positive and therefore I am currently in quarantine, dreading the moment I might start developing symptoms. I just had my appointment for the test, and will have to stay in quarantine until Monday regardless… →

  • WWW Wednesday #7

    My week has not been great so far. I am currently at home in quarantine awaiting the results of a COVID test from one of my close contacts. If they test positive I will have to do the full quarantine and get myself tested as well. Besides, they are sort of literally breaking the apartment… →

  • Sunshine Blogger Award – I got nominated three times!

    Recently I got nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award – not once, not twice, but three times by wonderful people. The first time was a month or maybe it bit longer ago by Alex from PA Reads, they write great reviews and other posts. Then I was nominated by Becky from A Couple of B’s… →

  • Favorite Friday #4

    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 spot or time to read. This is another difficult question because I have no definite answer to it. Usually… →

  • September 2020 Wrap-up

    Time is flying by. It was only just summer and now it’s autumn already! It has also been extremely busy and stressful last month, so I have another month with not as much reading as I would have enjoyed. Besides, I notice I am always a little reading slump-ish around the equinoxes. Coincidence? For now,… →

  • 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… →

  • 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… →

  • 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… →

  • 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… →

  • How I Read – tag

    I came across this tag over at Lost Girl’s Books, and it looked a lot of fun, so I wanted to give it a try as well. I do not know where it originated though. Do you have a certain place at home for reading? There isn’t really a place where I wouldn’t read. I… →

  • WWW Wednesday #4

    I feel like I start these posts every week with the same message. It’s been a very busy week and I didn’t get much reading done. These words also perfectly described last week. The last couple of days were particularly busy, with very long hours. Besides I think I might have to admit to myself… →

  • If only I could finish a book – Halloween Bingo Update

    It might be clear by now that my September and October reading is dominated by Halloween Bingo. We are about two weeks in and my reading is not really what I had hoped. I feel like I have a light reading slump. Still finishing some books, but it takes much more time than usual. I… →

  • Favorite Friday #2

    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 decided to join last week, discussing how my favorite genre is constantly evolving (read the discussion here). This week it is all about an underrated favorite book. I… →

  • #6degrees of separation #1

    I saw this bookish meme popping up all along the feed, but I first saw it last month on Bookstooge’s Reviews on the Road. It looks like a lot of fun, so this month I decided to join. #6degrees is hosted by Books are my Favorite and Best and it is based on the principle… →

  • WWW Wednesday #3

    Reading is still slow. Last week I said I was hoping to do nothing in the long weekend, but it was not to be. My television was delivered and I spent the Saturday installing and playing with it. The I had sort of forgotten the online conference that I was taking part in, so I… →

  • Favorite Friday #1

    Midnight Book Blog recently started with these Favorite Friday posts and they are a lot of fun to read, so I wanted to give it a try myself. This week’s prompt is favorite genre. This is a question I get asked a lot and still I don’t have an answer ready. Or, well, the answers… →

  • WWW Wednesday #2

    It’s 10.30 PM already, and I am finally done working for the day – so this will be a rather short update. It’s still very busy out here, so not that much time for reading. I hope to spend the long weekend doing absolutely nothing though! WWW Wednesday is a bookish meme which is currently… →

  • August 2020 Wrap-up

    Where did August go? It feels like the month is only just starting and now it is over again. I didn’t get much reading done, only fourteen books and a couple of those were either graphic novels/comics or short stories. The reviews for each of the books will be up shortly, if they have not… →

  • The Rainbow Book Tag

    I stumbled upon the Rainbow Book Tag over at The Bookish Mutant and it was first created by Le Book Chronicles. I really like beautifully colored covers and my shelves are ordered based on color, so this was really something for me to do. In the original tag, one is supposed to choose only favorites… →

  • #BoutOfBooks 29 Wrap-up

    Or: how I failed at reading. So, I had great expectations for Bout of Book #29 – you can revisit my enthusiasm at the start here. However, once the event started I immediately felt this was not going to be a great week for reading. It is so typical because this is what usually happens… →

  • Book Spine Poetry #BoutofBooks

    Today’s mini challenge featured Book Spine Poetry. During the quarantine I already once had a stab at it (there are not nearly enough verbs in book titles) and I came up with this little poem called: Baking with Kafka (a real recommendation by the way – my favorite cartoonist Tom Gauld writes about science and… →

  • Great expectations for #BoutOfBooks 29

    I felt like doing another read-a-thon this month and signed up for Bout of Books, which is a week-long event (17-23 August) that is more relaxed compared to Dewey’s 24h read-a-thon. The idea however is similar, reading books together and having fun. As always I will mainly be interacting on Twitter (@Urlphantomhive) with maybe some… →

  • The Anonymous Bookaholics Tag

    Thanks to Introverted Thoughts for tagging me, make sure to check out their bookish posts. I am new to all this tagging, so whoever also wants to answer these questions – please feel yourself tagged! 1) What do you like about buying new books?Everything. From the planning (I usually have a couple of books on… →

  • 2020 Reading Challenge – A Little Bit More

    Even before I finished the challenge I started thinking: what will I do for the rest of the year? The most simple solution would be to just increase the number to 4 or maybe 5 books a week and keep on the same path. I wanted to do things a little differently, and I really… →