So here's my October 2023 / #Scarathlon #BucketList 🥳
@BookwormAHN #BlackCatCrew
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So here's my October 2023 / #Scarathlon #BucketList 🥳
@BookwormAHN #BlackCatCrew
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Joining, though I don't know how much reading I'll get done.
But maybe another #20in4 #Readathon boosts my mental health....
@Andrew65 #autumn #autumnreading #October
1. Sundial!!! 🐕🧪🩻💉💊🩸🐺
2. 🧡 #Halloween 🧡 #Scarathlon 🧡 #spookyvibes 🧡 #autumnalvibes 🧡 #pumpkinspice 🧡 #spookybooks 🧡
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView @BookwormAHN
Have you played? @Enchanted_Bibliophile @Stace_Ghost @BeeMagical
🎃🧡Here it is - the TBR for 🎃🧡
#Scarathlon 2023
#Bookspin #Doublespin #BookspinBingo for #October #2023
and the first 13 items also serve as
#Castthedie #TBR 🥳
@BookwormAHN @PuddleJumper @TheAromaofBooks
+20 #EarlyBirdPoints for #BlackCatCrew
#Halloween #autumn #autumnalreading #spooky #thrillers #Gothic #horror #cosyfallvibes
🎃#Scarathlon TeamGetToKnowYou #BlackCatCrew 🎃
#Halloween #Gothic #autumn #spring #winter #October #ghosts #mythologicalcreatures #supernaturalcreatures #Yokai #Japan #YukiOnna #psychologicalthrillers #suspense
@BookwormAHN
see answers below
Thanks to #RushAThon I have made an effort during the weekend & last few days of my holidays and read a ton (for me at least).
I read and finished A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena which was also my #Doublespin for September;
a reread of Hamlet by Shakespeare (#Reread was my #Bookspin of June)
as well as the biggest achievement - I pushed through the last third and annotations of Jules Verne's 20000 Leagues under the Seas 😖
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Not participating in this year's #HHS sadly, due to financial reasons (again 🙄), but a #Halloween themed #thisorthat is always fun, right? 😁
So, even though the answers are completely irrelevant for the swap - simply for my fun and distraction:
*scary ghosts
*ghouls
*pumpkin spice
*classics
*the Great Pumpkin
*chocolate candy
*thrillers
*vampires
*either
*jump scares
🎃 Happy Halloween and swapping! 🎃
I am in one of the most beautiful towns of Germany, full of UNESCO World Heritage sites, a place where I've never been before. So what will I do first? 🤔
...
#culturalheritage #history #surrealism #Bunny #horror #bookhoarders
@BeeMagical @RaeLovesToRead
1. Both. That depends on the circumstances and people I'm going to watch the movies with.
2. 😂 That disclaimer, Sherri! Writing, going out - concerts, bars, clubs, hiking, road trips, - listening to music, travelling, dreaming, animals.
3. I can't cook. That leaves me to convenience food and muesli. When I'm with my boo, it's dining out or he does the cooking.😋
#WondrousWednesday
Wanna play? @BeeMagical @Soytoosaucy @AsYouWish
Ok, this is my check-in for both
The latest #20in4 #readathon that I failed miserably😅
2hrs20min reading time in those 4 days? Even for me and even given the fact that I had zero free time the first 2 days, that's not much. I guess I was just not in a reading mood🤷♀️
&
#WickedWords - As I just joined this month, I try to complete all monthly words for 2023. So far, I have completed #January #February & #March and just found Disney for #June 🥳
20000 Leagues under the seas is the book I'm currently reading.
And - NO. I don't relate to any of the characters in this book. In fact, I passionately dislike most of them. It doesn't matter to me all the characters in this book are men so far. (Wow, I just realised not a single woman showed up or was even only mentioned in this book yet... Talk about patrialism in the 19th century 😅)
But that alone wouldn't matter to me. ⤵️
Next #20in4 - I'm joining! @Andrew65
As usual, the goal is not 20 hours, the goal ist to read as much as possible and enjoy the reading time.
For the first two days (tomorrow and Saturday), I've got an extremely tight schedule and very likely not that much time for reading. Well, but then Sunday is free and my holiday starts on Monday, so those two days look promising! 😊
#readathons #September
A past one, but I do them when I'm in the mood😅😉 #Two4Tuesday
Hope that's ok, @TheSpineView 😊!
1. I keep a tentative, very loose TBR list, but pick my next read based on mood entirely. First I browse the list and see if there's one on there I'm in the mood for in this minute. If not, I browse my shelves and mood pick.
2. There's not a set day. Any day I have some time off from work and am in the mood for reading 😉
#moodreading #summerreading
How to narrow the answers to these questions? 🤯🫠
1. Maybe some characters from The Neverending Story by Michael Ende?
Xayíde, Ygramul the Many, Atréyu, Bastian Bathazar Bux, Carl Conrad Coreander, Grograman etc. have maybe had the greatest impact.
Fantasy seems to be the best & neverending source for weird names... 😄
2. The tagged one, among so many other options...
#names #WondrousWednesday @Eggs
Wanna play? @RaeLovesToRead @kezzlou85
#BookBinge 14. #InvolvesAnimals
#photochallenges #sci-fi #mystery #fantasy #classics #bodyhorror #TheFly
The movie The Fly is based on this 1957 story.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Two4Tuesday #school
1. School in Germany the federal state of Baden-Württemberg starts again on September 11 this year.
University on October 9.
2. Tons!!
The tagged especially,
as well as
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
and
Cat among the pigeons by Agatha Christie.
Love #DarkAcademia vibes! 🎓
Thank you for the trag, Randall! 😊 @The_Penniless_Author
@TheSpineView
Wanna play? @Enchanted_Bibliophile @hannah_leeloo
#BookBinge 10. #InvolvesDragon
The dragon reference work itself 🐲
#photochallenges #summerreading #dragons #Asia #Europe #Sweden #travel #illustratedbooks #encyclopediae #fantasy
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#BookBinge 11. #InvolvesMarriage
#photochallenges #summerreading #marriage #psychologicalthrillers #wealth
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
Joining. Goals: Read as much as possible and enjoy the time. Relax and read. 😎
For a TBR list to choose from I'll use my #Bookspin list, I think.... 🌴🌊
#RushAThon #readathons
#summer #summerreading #psychologicalthrillers #travel #summernights #August
@Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
August 2023 #Bookspin list with lots of summery psychological/holiday/travel thriller vibes 😎
@TheAromaofBooks
#summer #summerreading #psychologicalthrillers #travel #summernights #August #Doublespin #BookspinBingo
Joining! After work today (Friday), I have a long weekend off from work; so that looks promising. No work tomorrow and next Monday 🥳
After a particularly unpleasant week at work I hope to make some time for pleasant distraction (i.e. reading😁)
#JubilantJuly Check-In: Not as much as I hoped timewise, but got two #EarlyReviewer ARCs finished and my outstanding #reviews done, so: success!!!😉
#20in4 #JubilantJuly #readathons #summer @Andrew65
Thank you so much for the tag, Randall! @The_Penniless_Author 😊
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView #summerreading #summer #heat #authors #poets
1. Close the window blinds during the day, air the flat during the night. Drink lots of water. Fans. Ice cream! 😄😋
2. So many. Haruki Murakami. David Lynch. Sarah Kane. Sylvia Plath. Neil Gaiman. Mona Awad. (If lyricists count:) Neil Tennant. Dave Gahan. Mariusz Duda.
Thanks for the tag, @The_Penniless_Author🧡
1. non-alcoholic: water. coffee. simple as that😋
with alcohol: all kinds of cocktails, depending on my mood 😊
2. as I also burn easily, often inside. on my couch, in cafés, in hotel rooms.
whenever I get the possibility: outside on the balcony or at the beach 😊
Feel like playing? @Hannah-leeloo @Nute @Soytoosaucy
#Two4Tuesday #summer #summerreading @TheSpineView
Not very book related -
Staying at a beautiful little wine hotel with my boo and a group of friends.
Yet I can hardly enjoy my time there due to gastric spasms, cramps and dizziness... 😔
Oh wow 🙄
Couldn't leave the hotel room, couldn't even read in spite of staying in bed the whole day... So #JubilantJuly didn't start well - but then All's well that ends well, right? 😉
@Andrew65
After having had to pass on the last #20in4 #Readathon
I'm super pumped to take part in the next #JubilantJuly hosted by @Andrew65
Although life is still chaotic, I will try to read as much as possible, as always.
Maybe I'll approach this one as a #20in4 again and try to read for 20 hours in those 9 days, which seems doable for me. - But: no pressure😁😎
#summerreading #readathons #July
It's here - on time for my birthday 🥳😎
My July 2023 #Bookspin list
@TheAromaofBooks
#summer #summerreading #thrillers #summernights #June #Junebabies #July #magicalrealism #Maori #MiamiVice
1. Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido, Japan. 100% because of Dance Dance Dance, my fave from Haruki Murakami.
2. Greek Mythology - The Gods, Goddesses and Heroes Handbook by Liv Albert. Yep, a slightly feminist and very entertaining retelling of the major Greek myths!
3. Don't know yet, honestly. In the mood for some domestic/psychological thrillers or true crime.
And @RaeLovesToRead has convinced me to bump up The Secret History a lot on my TBR. 😀
1. Langeoog island for tons of beach reading or Japan - to a run-down cheap hotel in Sapporo, Hokkaido or to Tokyo.
2. To a reading holiday? Not sure whether I'd take anyone with me - with anybody else I'd end up sightseeing, shopping, hiking, exploring - anything apart from reading...
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
#holidays #travel #holidayreading
Would like to read your answers
@BeeMagical @wanderinglynn @StaceGhost
Joining #JoysofJune #Readathon 🥳
My goal is as usual: to make as much time for reading as possible - without pressuring myself.
#readathons #summer #summerreading #June
@Andrew65
3. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
#VolumesandVocals #June #music #rock #summer #summerreading #dark #prison
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
3. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
The movie has some essential scenes set in a prison - following the gruesome murder of one of the main character's wife
#VolumesandVocals #June #music #rock #summer #summerreading #movies #noir #JohnnyCash #DavidLynch
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
First one that came to mind for
2. Every breath you take - Police 🎵
#VolumesandVocals #June #music #rock #summer #summerreading #thrillers
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
The Bookspin list for June ☀️🐝😎
Can you tell I'm in the mood for some light thrillers?
#June #bookspin #doublespin #summer #sun #summerreads #YA #thrillers
@TheAromaofBooks
2: author has three names & 27. girl power & 28. water for #MayMontage
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#spring #readinginspring #sun #YA #water
2: Author has three names & 27. girl power & 28. water for #MayMontage
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#spring #readinginspring #sun #80s #TaylorJenkinsReid #beach
30. International Jazz Day for #MayMontage
Most of Murakami's works have been influenced by music, most notably Classical and Jazz.
It's a widely known fact that music lover Murakami owned and ran a Jazz Bar in the 1970s.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs @Andrew65
#spring #readinginspring #Japan #Japaneseliterature #music #Jazz
#InternationalJazzDay
Also checking in for last weekend's #20in4 #Readathon - which didn't add up to much timewise ⬇️
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