[...] you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe.

A month already since I Iast posted on here. The last weeks were truly wild. I moved and a lot of problems came along with it. However, on the bright side: I finally have my very own bookshelves! Aaaand they aren't full yet. Great excuse to buy more books :)

I finished it just now. I'm overwhelmed by the feelings it evoked in me.

Hello all!
I'd like to refresh my French by reading in French. My level used to be C1 3 years ago and I think that I still understand quite a lot. Does anyone have any recommendations what I could read to get back on track with my former French skills?

It seems like all my friends on goodreads are surpassing their reading goals for this year. I set myself a goal of 37 books in the beginning, now I set it down to 26 and I still think that I won't manage that number... However I read more pages than last year. That's something, isn't it?
Next year my goal will be quite low. Don't want to feel that disappointed again. 🙄

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Help!
I want to get a book for my mother-in-law to be for Christmas. She is a non native speaker and wants to get better at English. She loves crime novels and "light" thrillers. I thought of a collection of short crime fiction maybe. Anyone any recommendations? :) (So far she hasn't really read in English)

Uni is cancelled today. So I take the time for me to spend the morning in bed reading :)

I really wanted to read that book and did so now. The eloquent writing was pleasant at the beginning but throughout the book it kinda drove me up the wall. (Maybe bc I'm not a native speaker) The constant usage of French and the "name dropping" of famous works annoyed me. But! I really liked the story and was curios til the end what's gonna happen to H.H.

Perfect evening! Mindblowing book paired with self-made Tiramisù. Well deserved after 47km of cycling and 3 hours climbing :)

Wow! That was a fast read (for my standards). I realised how much I missed Harry & Co. Even though the plot is quite thin and at times like fan fiction, I really enjoyed reading the play and learning about the lives of Albus Potter & Co. :) Would definitely recommend :)

Started this one on the train this morning and am already halfway through it. So far I really enjoy it because I always wanted to know how Harry's children would be. I don't really see why so many people around me don't like it..

As I wrote on here earlier, I accidentally started with the second book of the Lecter series... But now I've read Red Dragon (1st) and then the Silence of the Lambs and I must say that you should've read Red Dragon first in order to get deep chills during the Lecter-chapters! Love the character (how it's build up) and can't wait for reading the next book! (Btw Anthony Hopkins is the best Lecter imaginable!)

My #bookhaul from Edinburgh:
Ian Rankin - Knots and Crosses
Alex Honnold - Alone on the Wall
Jon Krakauer - Eiger Dreams
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Call me luggage-master. I travelled to Edinburgh with one backpack for a week (38L) and was able to buy 7 books :D (& the Potter Pilgrimage Map tote bag)

Reading Rankin in front of Edinburgh Castle. Life couldn't be better. Thanks @scripturient for recommending Starbucks' view on the castle :)

Thank you all very much for your recommendations. Today we checked out Waterstones, Blackwell, Edinburgh Books and Southside Books and I only bought two books (so far). It's quite hard for me to leave all the books in the shops but I'm only travelling with hand luggage 😥

Hello lovely littens!
I'm in Edinburgh right now and ask for your advice. Are there any bookshops/ restaurants/ cafés that I have to check out?

Vegan Bolognese Sauce with Spaghetti and Thomas Harris :)

Alright, here I am. It's 9 am in Germany and I just picked up the first book of the Hannibal series after I read 100 pages of the second book. I allow myself one day without studying and hope that I get a decent number of pages in today! :)

What do you do when you realize that you started the second book of a series instead of the first and are already on page 100? It kinda freaks me out that that happened to me... :D Reading the first next and then the third? Or laying the second book aside and start with the first? Internal struggle!

I also finished this one a few days ago. First, I thought I wouldn't be able to get through it because it is deeply philosophical at times. However, once I got used to those deep passages, I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt like I was studying philosophy again. Kinda miss those constant "brain pains" while reading texts :D
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Finished the audiobook yesterday on my bus ride home from Leipzig and it really warmed my heart. A must-read for all cat lovers out there :)
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@elkeo your letter has finally arrived! I'm so excited that we finally manage to exchange postal goodies :)

I had an extremely stressful week and couldn't read a single page. I spent about 13 hours at uni each day. I hope that I'll be able to read again next week. Today I'll allow my brain a break from everything. (Tomorrow I'll be again at uni for "only" 8 hours)... But I can see better times coming!

Alright, I'll also join #asidefrombooks :)

Fave hobby: rock climbing
Fave drink: Green Goblin Cider (mostly because of the name :D)
Fave food: over-night oats with banana, apple, honey and cinnamon
Fave colour: green
Fave city: Edinburgh
Location dream house: somewhere in Bavaria near the Alps
Fave accesory: my climber necklace/ my automatic watch
Fave TV Show: Modern Family, Grace & Frankie
Currently Reading: the unbearable lightness of being

Wow! What a plot! Usually, I'm not a big fan of thick books but this one really needed that many pages. Third book by Gaiman that I've read and I think we'll still have many more hours of reading to come. Great author!

Reading on my way back home :)

This is a comic in one of my readers at uni :D

I just signed up :) #litsypenpals
@steverogers

Litsy nearly cropped the bookmark. Thank you so much @DuckOfDoom for these lovely gifts. Actually, I wrote sci-fi as a preferred genre because I wanted to know if it's a genre for me. Now I have two sci fi stories and one fantasy to find out :D #summersantagoespostal
@BookishMarginalia

That's me right now. I have to read an extremely boring book for uni 'cause I have to write a critique on it and it takes me aaaaages to finish it. Not only am I stuck in that one book, it also hinders me on reading other books because I can't read more than one book at once. I'm grumpy!

Woho! My #SummerSantaGoesPostal parcel has arrived! I can't wait to open it!
@BookishMarginalia thanks again dir organizing all this :)

Exactly my face! Found on Facebook.
"If you have to speak to me while I'm reading​, do it fast!"

Sometimes I need months to finish a book but still I don't want to bail it. #slowreaderproblems

Yay! Managed to read 200 pages today and only took a 1 1/2 hour nap 🙈 still 250 pages to go. I hope to finish it in the next three days. 🤓

Just a general question: I always get extremely tired when I want to read for a longer period. Do you also get tired whilst reading? And what do you do against it? I have the impression that you all read so many pages a day and I just can't stay awake 😐 I need help! There are so many books I want to read and I'm just too slow.

Cartoon by the awkward Yeti 😊

Emily Jonathan St. Aubert is definitely my #dramaqueen!

#characters2017
@LibrarianRyan

#MeetTheLittens @maich great idea!

1. Germany
2. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
3. Harry Potter
4. Forrest Gump
5. Modern Family
6. Amon Amarth
7. Green
8. Classic / Travel lit.
9. Universität Duisburg-Essen, I study British Literature M.A.
10. Unfortunately not :(

My #secretsantagoespostal #summersantagoespostal package is ready to be taken to the post office. I hope that my match will enjoy the gifts and that it arrives on time :)
@BookishMarginalia thank you for organizing all this :)

Today's​ my birthday and I got an e-Book reader as a present. Bookworm is very happy 😊

Finished it just now, loved it and now I'm in desperate need of a sequel! I want to know how Nobody Owens' life continues!

Preparing for the upcoming semester but unsure which book I should read next. Have to read all of them for a Gaiman seminar that I'm going to attend from next week til the end of summer :)

My photo skills aren't the best today but: I just finished Blackout! What a ride. It took me some time to dive into the story but what can I say? What a book! The research behind it is amazing and astonishing! At the beginning, I didn't think that I would finish it and now I can recommend it to anyone who's interested in learning sth about electricity and its consequences once it is gone.

I'm so excited!! My first ever postal event ! Can't wait to go shopping!! 😍🤗 #SummerSantaGoesPostal

Photo is quite bad, but anyway: AchtNacht was a very quick read and it didn't really work for me. The twist in the end was very obvious for me, because it's so "fitzek-like". However, I found it great that characters from previous books appeared again :) now on with Black Out!

New in 🌌 and I absolutely adore the cover ❤ #bookhaul

A bit late - my reading list from 2016. The book titles that I've written in red are the ones I had to read for my seminars at uni. 25 books, 8,509 pages - 1 year and a Bachelor degree 🤗🎉

Almost done with this gem 📖❤

Giving Stephen King another chance to convince me that he's worth being read. So far I wasn't blown away by his stories

On to the next book 😍

aaaand almost done with this one.I just can't stop reading! 😍