It’s about time I paid some well-deserved attention and gratitude to Reese Witherspoon. She will always remain, to a certain degree, Elle Woods, the ambitious smart blonde, underestimated systemically for her good looks and carefree behavior, who showed everyone where to shove their opinions when she graduated valedictorian from Harvard Law School (and solved a…
Category: For the Love of Reading
Reading and Buying Books Are Two Different Hobbies – Part 1
Recently I have found out that I do not own almost any of my favorite books. The realization came as a surprise, as I am a hoarder of books. I am consistently out of book space. “If I go now to a bookstore and buy all of my favorites, I won’t have anywhere to put…
What I Read – What I Am
I hope you had a cozy holiday season with breakfasts in bed, curled up with a book – doing whatever and with whomever fills up your soul. As always – may the new year bring you subtle meanings, clever turns of phrase and a rainbow of exhilarating character arcs! What a glorious year 2018 was!…
Books and Coffee – A Modern Love Story
Nothings stops me in my tracks as often as a gorgeous photo of a book beside a steaming cup of coffee. Kudos to all the patient souls who not only take a brief snap of their cozy moment, but take time to set it up in a lavishly bookish way. You have all been an…
A Year in Books
Happy New Year, fellow book nerds and stray literati! May it bring you subtle meanings, clever turns of phrase and a rainbow of exhilarating character arcs! One of my favourite things to do on the 1st of January (after strolling around a silent hangover-battling city and listening to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra New Year’s Concert…
All I Want For Christmas
As the world bustled in preparation for the warm conviviality of Christmas Eve, I quite literally headed into a bout of migraine. Before the familiar dizziness, pain and nausea managed to settle in, I had enough time to obsess and panic over my ruined plans. It’s not fair, is it – planning for months a…
Underrated Books To Read And Love
It’s been a while since I have done a Top Ten Tuesday post. What luck that the topic for this week – Books I Enjoyed That Have Under 2000 Goodreads Ratings – should be so fun and so different! (Also, tbh I love that I don’t have to rattle my brains to figure out what books…
Pocketbook Ultra 650 eReader Review (long read)
I bought my first ever e-book reader last week. It took my mom less time to catch up on the Facebook fever than me – on the whole e-book thing. And that’s saying something. To me actual books made of actual paper will always be preferable, but I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve wished…
The Season of Love for Reading
Disclaimer: I will talk about the seasons today. Please, don’t think we’ve come to a breaking point in our relationship, so much so that we have to talk weather. That is not everything I have to say to you, I promise! Autumn. Can you think of a better time in the year to snuggle on the…
Top 10 Tuesday – Characters I Didn’t Click With
This week’s Tuesday Top 10, courtesy of Lauren and Julia at The Broke and the Bookish provide ample opportunities to vent. All those times a character made you abandon a book you otherwise enjoyed; all those everyone-loves-me fictional people, who bored you to death; all those heroines you wanted to squeeze the last breath out of in a painful,…
PrettyDoesome Books 