- Category: Notes -

  • Picking up a book from various stacks of books.

    Project TBR Zero

    After a particularly spectacular reading month back in June (you can read more about it in this post), I felt I could conquer the reading world. I saw how much I could accomplish if I…

  • Bent over a stack of books.

    Turning Reading into a Competiton

    I need to start by clarifying that reading is not a competition or that I think it should be. Reading is a hobby, a source of entertainment, therefore, should never be a competition. And in…

  • Book stack of all the books I use to track words in March.

    Reading Experiment: Tracking Words

    The title is very self-explanatory. I decided to experiment for a month to track words instead of books. Yes, I’ve managed to complicate something so simple. Although, I have a good reason. I am a…

  • Holding a phone showing the app Bookly against a background mosaic of books.

    Reading Apps You Should Try

    Some readers don’t care about tracking books and keeping tabs on everything they read. But I am not one of those. And I’m guessing you aren’t either. For that reason, I bring you three mobile…

  • Flatlay of books coming out of cardboard boxes.

    Bookshop alternatives to Book Depository

    For the longest time, Book Depository has been the go-to place for English books at great prices. No matter the reason why you want to shop elsewhere, here are 4 independent bookshops you can choose…

  • Stack of the Divergent Collector's Edition books (1 to 4) on a table.

    Reading Divergent for the second time

    Back in 2018, I gave myself for Christmas the Collector’s Edition of the Divergent series. And since then, I’ve been meaning to do a reread of the series. I was also planning another reading log…

  • Overhead shoot of various books from the sci-fi and fantasy genre.

    Sci-fi or Fantasy: why I keep them apart

    Science-fiction and fantasy. Two genres often presented together. Although they couldn’t be more different from each other. And I’m the one to know that. I love one and dislike the other. I never hide it…

  • Illustrated image of an open book with a clock on top with a gradiant from left to right going from sepia to white.

    Time Travel: my overly specific rules

    Time travel, part science-fiction, part fantasy. The one thing we all wish we could do to prevent ourselves from doing something stupid in the past. Unfortunately, we all have to keep cringing about it every…

  • Pile of books that where adapted to cinema and TV

    From Movies to Books 2021

    Usually, we bookworms are the advocators of “read the book before seeing the movie”. Obviously, this isn’t some sort of law, and it does not improve your enjoyment of said movie – probably will take most…

  • So… I tried Duolingo

    One of the top apps for the past few years to learn any language is Duolingo. People seem to be obsessed with this smiley-faced-but-actually-wants-to-murder-you Owl. While I’m on my long journey to learn Japanese all…

  • Reading Week: the end of the OWLs 2020

    OWLs 2020 is officially over – it has been over for 4 days already – and I decided to compile the last two weeks into one post. After the second week, it started to get…

  • Reading Week: OWLs #2

    Another week of reading books for the OWLs 2020 is done. It wasn’t as productive as the first one, but I’m still reading and that’s all that matter. Wednesday, 8th April 2020 Last night, I…