For all that I keep claiming Cathy Kelly is one of my favourite authors, I haven’t ever really taken the time to review a book of hers. So in this first post of mini-reviews: here’s It Started With Paris & 2 more Cathy Kelly books! It Started With Paris: 4/5 A post shared by Saar (@walkingthroughthepages) […]
Weekly Lists #157: 5 Soundtracks To Get You To Relax
You know how, sometimes, you’re taking a rest and you need… A soundtrack? For that moment? Something to get your brain to slow down a bit, to get your muscles away from their current, tense, state? A bit of music, maybe? Well, then… Have I got something for you! Here’s 5 soundtracks to get you […]
About Books #61: Coming Home to Maple Cottage
I’ve been reading a lot of cosy winter books lately… It’d be easy to forget it’s technically still winter. Luckily, there came Coming Home to Maple Cottage to remind me of just that! I was offered an ARC by Netgalley in exchange for a review. All opinions are strictly my own. Story Isla Rosewood is […]
2018 Reading Updates: October Update
October’s come and gone and – you guys… This month was weird. I mean, you know this already if you follow me on Twitter, but I got hit with an actual pile of over 1000 texts to correct. I double checked the math twice. 1000 is the correct number. Suffice it to say: reading was an escape. In […]
Weekly Lists #156: Favourite Blogposts October 2018
October was not fun this year. Well, you know. It was okay. But it just didn’t feel like October. On the 13th, it was 26°C. Those are the kind of temperatures we’re usually hoping for for summer. But, you know, considering just about this entire summer was just one prolonged heatwave, I guess it makes sense that October […]
About Books #60: The Manifesto on How to be Interesting
So you know how in Mean Girls, the popular clique must be infiltrated? Now imagine that as a scientific experiment. Voila, you’ve got The Manifesto on How to be Interesting. Only, you know. Probably not as good as the book actually was! The story Apparently I’m boring. A nobody. But that’s all about to change. Because […]
Weekly Lists #155: Favorite Modern Classics
Fact: calling a book a “classic” has little to nothing to do with the age of a book. It is basically just a way of saying “this one is for the ages”. Sure, that status might be determined by the influence of time, but in general? A classic might be coined as such from the moment […]
Travel Diaries: Cologne 2017
I’m catching up! Finally! This post is only being published a year after I actually went to Cologne (I know, it’s crazy!). So, during the autumn break, the whole family took a couple of days of to visit Cologne and some surrounding cities. I have to admit that, for me at least, the circumstances weren’t […]