Happy Saturday, everyone! Two weeks after I confronted you with bookish fanart drawn by the AI image generator Microsoft Designer and asked you to guess which books the corresponding scenes were taken from, it is now time for the grand reveal! As well as some commentary on the art, obviously. Now that I can talk … Continue reading The Grand Reveal || Could you guess the book scenes from AI-made fanart?
Happy Saturday, everyone! You know how you sometimes fall into the weirdest rabbit holes when you've spent the entire week recovering from accidentally stabbing yourself in the leg with a razor blade, analyzing algebraic varieties, rediscovering childhood favorites on your bookshelf, and cramming for a Swedish placement test so you can sneak into your university's … Continue reading Quiz! || Can you guess these iconic book scenes from AI-made fanart?
Happy Saturday, everyone! First off, please, please, please tell me this post is showing up in your readers??! I'm still at an absolute loss as to why WordPress has been boycotting my Iceland content - Surely, it can't be that mad about me suddenly switching to travel blogging, not when I snuck in some books … Continue reading Summitting Hochgern || My Journey to the Peak & Mountainous Reading Recs
God jul, c Рождеством, nadolig Llawen, joyeux Noël, fröhliche Weihnachten, merry Christmas, everyone!! I'd love to say that me being here a day later than usual was part of my grand plan to post on Christmas Eve, which is the most important day of Christmas celebrations here in Germany, but the reality actually has much … Continue reading Recommending Books Based On Weird Duolingo Sentences || Christmas Edition
Happy Saturday, everyone! After dragging all my stuff back up north last weekend, I'm currently facing serious mountain deprivation. Everything is so flat and boring here! I can no longer wake up to beautiful mountain sunrises framed by my bedroom window! All of my favorite hiking spots are hundreds of kilometers away! 😭😭😭 However, the … Continue reading Goodbye, Bavarian Alps! 😭 || Fantasy Recommendations Based on My Favorite Hiking Spots
Trevlig lördag, alla! It's me! And unless I manage to colossally fuck things up within the next 24 hours, I am currently one day away from hitting a two-year streak on Duolingo!! Which obviously means you're getting another Duolingo post to celebrate. I've got to make use of my two-year-streak-week while I can! (Am I … Continue reading Recommending Books Based On Weird Duolingo Sentences || Fantasy Edition
Happy Saturday, everyone! Being the math-loving literature nerd that I am, I have always been OBSESSED with artificial intelligence. Like, there is so much theory behind it! 🤗 The geeky computer aspects of these systems are fascinating, there are so many parallels to language learning involved, and eerily sentient AIs are inarguably one of the best … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence Meets Literature || Rewriting Synopses of Popular Books with ChatGPT
Happy Saturday, everyone! Remember that time when I reacted to my ten-year-old self's highly questionable fiction writing skills? Well, evidently, I haven't embarrassed myself enough on this blog because while trying to get the mess of files on my laptop into some kind of order, I recently came across some of eleven-year-old Naemi's old book … Continue reading Book Blogger in the Making? || Reviewing My Sixth-Grade Self’s Book Reviewing Skills 😅
Καλή Παρασκευή σε όλους! Yes, I'm aware that isn't Swedish. However, since I am currently in Greece and not Sweden like I'd originally planned, I thought it'd only be fair to greet you in the local language. After all, there's still going to be plenty of Swedish in the rest of this post! Some impressions … Continue reading Recommending Books Based On Weird Duolingo Sentences || Swedish Edition
Happy Friday, everyone! Today, we have a cause worth celebrating: Because as of last Sunday, I have finally achieved my long-time goal of reaching a one-year streak on Duolingo! For those of you who don't know, Duolingo is a free learning app that allows you to dabble in a whole bunch of different languages. And … Continue reading Recommending Books Based On Weird Duolingo Sentences
Happy Friday, everyone... ... and welcome to a new, still ugly, but at least slightly prettier version of A Book Owl's Corner! I know, I can hardly believe it myself, but AFTER YEARS OF BEING INCREDIBLY LAZY, I HAVE FINALLY UPDATED THE LOOK OF MY BLOG! I mean, it's definitely not a masterpiece, but at … Continue reading What if… ? || What Synopses of Popular Books Would Look Like If I Were the Protagonist
Happy Friday, everyone! You're in for a treat, because today, I am once more going to bless you with my all-knowing graciousness! You see, while discussing the merits of international book covers, Marta @ Monogamist Reader and I happened to stumble upon the absolute gem that is the Italian edition of Daughter of Smoke and … Continue reading The Ultimate Step by Step Guide to Designing a Bestselling Book Cover
Happy Friday, everyone! Again, this week has been an extremely busy one for me, but things are getting better! For one thing, my best friend and I knuckled down last weekend and went through all our lecture notes on Mori theory - and we understand stuff now!! I mean, it's still not a lot, but … Continue reading Stuff That Happens in Books But Never in Real Life
Are you struggling to talk to your crush? Are you still single and wondering why? Or is your current relationship not the one you've always secretly longed for? Well, after extensive literary research, I may have got the answer for you: you're simply going about dating and relationships the wrong way. All you need to … Continue reading Dating Tips for Book Nerds
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