Walking Through The Pages

Books, Weekly Lists

Weekly Lists #192: Fictional Date Locations

I know this is basically blasphemy, probably. But, none the less – here I go: I’m not really a big fan of going on dates. I know you should and…

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August 7, 2019

Books

Series in Review #12: The Baby-Sitters Club

As far as phenomena go, I feel like the Baby-Sitters Club is one that just about spanned the (Western?) world. If nothing else, the numbers speak for themselves: 176 million…

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April 19, 2019

Books

2017 Reading Challenges: May Update

As you may have noticed, I didn’t get to last month’s post in this series. Oops? In my defense, almost no reading was done. And school was seriously kicking my…

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June 2, 2017

Books

About Books #127: The Hate Project

I don’t know why I always do this – I know I’ll love a book, but I just can’t get myself to start reading it. And then I start postponing,…

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September 7, 2021

Books

2016 Reading Challenges: April Update

I promise I’m not going to be complaining about how fast time has been passing me by in this one, I promise! (Even if that’s only just because I really haven’t…

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May 2, 2016

Books, Christmas, Holidays

My 2018 Christmas & Winter TBR

It’s that time of year again! No more hiding away, or pretending I’m fine with just “normal times”. The full-blown Christmas-craziness that is me can finally come forward! As per…

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December 1, 2018

Christmas, Holidays, Lifestyle, Series

Dutch Christmas songs

/ December 3, 2017

One of the absolute best things about Christmas? Has to be the music. As per the usual – we usually listen to US- and UK-songs. Either in their original version or in translation,…

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Christmas, Holidays, Lifestyle, Series

Holiday candles: a wish-list

/ December 2, 2017

So here’s the thing. I love candles. The problem? The bf not so much. Oh, and I’m terrified of forgetting a candle and then getting a fire. Dramatic, I know. None the less, that has…

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Christmas, Holidays, Lifestyle, Series

Find the Calm in December

/ December 1, 2017

I love Christmas. That much should be obvious by now. But here’s the thing about the full-blown preparation: it’s stressy. There’s things to do constantly and everywhere. Either as a teacher or as…

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Blogging, Weekly Lists

Weekly Lists #111: 5 Favourite Blogposts November

/ November 29, 2017

It’s basically Christmas, y’all. And quite frankly – I don’t know that I’m ready for that! I mean, I still have to make exams for the courses I’m teaching. And I have like…

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Books

2017 Reading Challenges: November Update

/ November 24, 2017

So apparently November is already gone-ish? I mean, there’s like a week left, but what with Blog-mas starting next week (aah, I’m making myself going through that again) Anyways, some reading was done this…

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Books, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Weekly Lists

Weekly Lists #110: Books to be Thankful For

/ November 22, 2017

There’s few things in life I’m as grateful for as the ability to read. Books have shaped me in such a major way that it doesn’t do any harm to, once in every while,…

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Books, Christmas, Holidays

About Books #32: Christmas at Butterfly Cove

/ November 19, 2017

So I got this book a while ago, but work and life happened and I never got around to reading it. Then, during fall break just a couple of weeks ago, I wanted…

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Books, Weekly Lists

Weekly Lists #109: Fictional dream-careers

/ November 15, 2017

So here’s the thing about reading all the books. And also, about starting to work this fall. Suddenly, you realise how many jobs there really are out there. And how many of them you might…

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