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A little while ago I was scrolling through my blog posts and they all felt so… uninspired. It was just reviews, some event posts or interviews, and then memes to recap the reviews and other posts. I wondered what my blog looked like without any reviews or memes – and came up with a challenge […]
I recently posted about how I miss libraries, and Kristen from The Book Monsters gently pointed me to their Summer Library Challenge. Yay! For the challenge I’m going to try to read three books from the library, preferably books I don’t know much about. And I’ll try to participate in some happenings that are being […]
About six and a half month ago, I started with the Classics Club. I challenged myself to read fifty classics in three years, keeping track of the list on my blog. Now, it’s been half a year. Am I on schedule to complete the challenge? To finish my fifty books in exactly three years, I […]
Hosted by Michelle of The True Book Addict, The Fantasy Project is a 10-year long challenge reminiscent of the Classics Club challenge, only longer and with fantasy books. A few years ago the members of the 101 Fantasy Reading Challenge voted on their favourite fantasy books to create a list of the 101 best fantasy […]
There has been talk before about me hosting a vlogging challenge, and it’s finally here! For the Bloggiesta at 20-21 July, I’m hosting the Make a Vlog Challenge! To find out more about the awesome Bloggiesta event, make sure to visit their website and participate in all the other challenges this weekend. Here is a […]
I read this book as part of the Classics Club Challenge – I challenged myself to read fifty classics picked by me in the next three years. To find out more, you can see my list or visit the Classics Club website. Title: The Trial Author: Franz Kafka First Publication: 1924 Project Gutenberg The Trial […]
As a Cultural Sciences student, I have to read lots of classics. Maybe a better formulation would be, our teachers assume we’re reading a lot of classics. Most of us however, have never touched a Dickens in our entire lives. But wanting to read more classics isn’t purely an academic goal. As an avid reader, […]
Welcome to the third Review Copy Cleanup! After two successful editions in 2012, we’re back for another month of review copy reading madness. Whether you have a polite pile or a complete mountain of review books to get through, everyone is welcome to join. What is the Review Copy Cleanup? The RCC is a month-long […]
Good morning readathoners! It’s an honour to be a challenge host for the Bout of Books readathon again this year, and I hope you will all enjoy the Bookish Dress Up! You know when in a book an author painstakingly describes what a character is wearing? Not only is this usually quite annoying, it gets […]