It took me a long time to get into this but then I really wanted to know what was happening next. I can‘t help but like this series. Finished it tonight during #hyggehour

I saw so much love for this around here, so I gave it a read and I loved it! I was so invested and rooting for Margo. The characters were so deep, the narration so engaging.

This has been my 2024. I read 57 books. I dove into the year, signing up for loads of challenges. I read loads of books I woudn‘t have if not for them, but in the end it felt like a burden. So for 2025 I set myself only one challenge: to not take part in any and just read what I feel like, whenever I want to. And I am really looking forward to it.

I don‘t know if there‘s a better thing to do at New Year‘s Eve than finish a good book. I saw this around for so long, now finally gave it a go and read it in three days. This is so random and yet so warm and comfortable. Also I am craving cinnamon buns now.

And another one is finished - even though, this book will never truly be finished. I will flip through this over and over again and not only because of the recipes. I really liked her approach in explaining why you do certain things while cooking, so the reader can learn and adapt. Loved it! 5 Stars and a Cesar‘s Salad Dressing. #readouttheold

I finished another one! This was very interesting. Some things I knew already, some things I learned. Sometimes the narration was a bit too simple for my liking. But nevertheless it‘s very important that books like this are being written. And it‘s even more important that they‘re read. #ReadOutTheOld

Joining @TheAromaofBooks #Readouttheold readathon to finish all the books before the new year arrives. Read this one for a bookclub. I had a hard time getting into it and when I got in, it became very heavy.

This was a wonderful cozy book to read! I liked it a lot. It‘s also the last one I read off my #AuldLangSpine list. @JamieArc thank you very much again for providing me with good books throughout the whole year!

It took me so long to finish this book and I don‘t quite know why but it‘s somehow fitting as this is all over the place. There‘s ghosts, a magical healing touch, there‘s drug addiction and animals, there‘s a missing person case, brain diseases, a disfunctional family, a small town, and it still works. It‘s not too much.

Christmas Bookclub Meeting!

I loved The School of Essential Ingredients. And while I still also love the way Bauermeister lets charatcters unfold, this book didn‘t really get to me.

I Marie-Kondo‘ed by TBR-list. I went through every book and deleted all the ones that didn‘t make me want to read them. I‘m still at 130. But I am very excited about all of them.

Liked this a lot. Becky Chambers stories always give me that certain feeling of belonging even though it‘s a weird and foreign world.

A quick and comfortable read. Exactly what I needed. I love me some gay coming of age teenage angst

Read for a bookclub. It was horrible. Tried too hard to be funny or intelligent. Did the exact opposite.

Yep, I am still reading books off my #AuldLangSpine-list. This was last month‘s #bookspin choice and oh, how I liked it. It‘s one of those books that you count the hours that you can go back to it in the evening. I love fantasy-settings that throw you in and you have to figure out a lot for yourself. Also I liked Emily Wilde. So thank you @JamieArc for recommending me yet another gem

Another one I read in my holidays. The story of a guy who steals art all over Europe, just to put it up and admire it in his attic. It took me half the book to realise that it‘s a true story. It was fascinating to get a glimpse into this world, still it didn‘t manage to completely grip me.

Horribly behind with my reviews, so here I go. I read this in my holidays. It was a nice and fast read, though not my favourite in this series. The storyline seemed a bit easy.

Holidays means morning reading sessions.

Holidays ❤️

Bookmail for my holidays! Late Show has been on my tbr for ages - and it‘s this month‘s #bookspin choice. I also started to read Eve as ebook but thought it‘s one if those books that are better read as a real book :)

Another garden book! It is just the wrong time of the year to read this books as I want to sow all the seed but my pots are empty… I liked it as much as I liked Adams first book. This was also last months #bookspin

Enjoying the last warm rays of sunshine in my garden with this. A feel-good-story with a garden. Not too heavy, not too deep. Exactly what I needed this week. #bookspin from two months ago, I think. Still catching up.

Catching up on all my challenges. This one was for #foodandlit Jamaica. Poems just always get me when they‘re this raw.

(longer explanation in the comments 👇🏻. Short version is this:) I wanted to try New Adult for a while. So I gave this m/m-college-sports-romance a go. Good points: I liked the setting and the dynamics. Bad points: The language felt overly cheesy at times and the sex scenes were quite unrealistic. But nonetheless, I am glad that I read it. Soft pick.

Another bookclub-read I had a really hard time getting into. It started to pick up with 50 pages to go… 🤦‍♀️

This was a hard one. I only read it because it was for my bookclub and I knew that there will be Tapas at the end of it 😋

Once I started I couldn‘t stop. Now I am very interested what everybody else at #camplitsy thinks about it.

This should have been a fast and easy read. But then the Olympics happened, I worked for 7 days straight and I fell into a hole named fan-fiction. So this took me way longer than it should have. Felt like the storyline was a bit blunt. Soft pick.

Jumped on the #naturalitsy train again and this was a good one. Very interesting and well narrated (even though at times it felt as if he tried a bit too hard to be funny). I will definitely look at the sky more closely now. Clouds are fascinating. I might also re-read this with a pen and paper and not right before my bedtime as I fear I have already forgotten half of all the interesting facts.

No, YOU got all teary eyed reading about three unlike teenagers experiencing a solar eclipse… oh man, this was so wonderful and quiet in a very non-dramatic way, I loved it very much. Thank you, @JamieArc for putting it on your #ALSpine-List. #bookspin

It‘s my pick for this month‘s #foodandlit Turkey. Also no cooked meal but my new favourite snack: salty, roasted chickpeas :) The book is YA and while I love the idea, it felt a bit too preachy for me.

My #bookspin for June. An interesting concept but for me this was way too long.

I have to skip July in #camplitsy as I really should start with the tagged book for my irl bookclub. I have been putting it off for ages, even bought a copy in my new favourite edition but ugh, I have a hard time getting into it…

After I loved Clear so much, I picked this up. It starts just as beautiful but then it didn‘t hold my fascination until the end. It‘s still a soft pick with an interesting and beautifully written story.

I now have read all the three books I have packed for my five-days-holiday 🙈 Audiobook on my phone it is for tonight.

A woman who doesn‘t want to accept what society in Iceland in the 60s wants her to be. A man who doesn‘t want to be different just because he‘s gay.

This book has heavy undertones but it still manages to have a tenderness, that‘s delightful. Read for this month‘s #foodandlit

Next #camplitsy book! And what a book it was. My feelings changed every few pages and I can‘t really put into words whether really liked it or not (apart from all the food and all the cooking).

An interesting book. I didn‘t conntect with any of the protagonists, but kids being made influencers by their parents is a subject I never really thought about. This book threw me into googling a lot of stuff. It‘s a fascinating but sad world.

Very late to the party and it also took me very long to finish this book. It was April‘s #doublespin. I liked the characters but the story itself could have been a bit deeper for my liking.

How is it that every time I post a #bookspin-List I want to start with: „How is it [insert month] already?“ But seriously, how is it June already?!? @TheAromaofBooks

A book for when you need something light. Something with normal people with nothing really happening but still engaging enough for you to keep on reading. Now that I‘m finished, I kind of miss going back to this family tonight.

Library haul! I cannot remember the last time I did a proper one for myself. One for #camplitsy, one for an IRL bookclub and one because I loved the first #camplitsy so much. I am very excited ☺️

What a wonderful book! I won‘t say too much as I dug in too early in the first #camplitsy read. But I just couldn‘t stop. And it‘s once again a book I never would have picked up myself but now will stay with me for a long time.

I flew through this book (hehe pun!) while travelling to Malmö for Eurovision. It‘s for this month‘s #foodandlit Spain. Written by a spanish author, it tells the story of an archeologist who moves from Barcelona to London to find her luck and ends up in a bookstore. It has a very cozy atmosphere in this rainy London but I guess not much of the story will stick with me.

Found this in search of #Camplitsy nominees. It‘s also this month‘s #bookspin.

Despite the title, this is not a crime story. People go to this restaurant to find that one special meal from their life. It felt very japanese. I liked the pace and found the detuction fascinating. I would have enjoyed it even more if I knew more about japanese food.

A very slow, fascinating and hopeful read.

My TBR got so long scrolling through all the posts with nominees for #camplitsy24 🙈 So here are mine!

This was.. ok I guess? I did finish it. But I didn‘t connect with any of the characters and the story was very far from being relatable or meaningful. It was more some kind of emotionless reading. Which was ok as well, as it still soothed my forever-thinking head for a moment. #bookspin

I picked a picture book for this month‘s #foodandlit for Venezuela. While it was a nice story, I felt like the history in it wasn‘t really explained but just implied, assuming the reader just knows. And especially for children‘s books, I don‘t like that.

Definite pan. Read this for a bookclub, that‘s also the only reason I finished it. It was way too gory for my liking and when the homophobic undertones started, I was out.