Happy Saturday, everyone! May has arrived, and it's time to wrap up April! Just as the month included every weird weather phenomenon imaginable, from boiling 30°C-heat to a full-on blizzard that hit us a mere three days before I was scheduled to have my car tires changed, it also confronted me with the most chaotic … Continue reading What I Read in April 2024
Category: What I Read
Every month, I briefly discuss the books I read here! You’ll find short reviews of all of them – spoiler-free, unless I explicitly state otherwise. If you’d like more in-depth reviews with spoilers, you can check out my book reviews page. However, I don’t have a full review up for every book I read, so these short ones are a good place to start!
What I Read in March 2024
Happy Saturday, everyone! Can you believe we're a quarter of the way into 2024 already? Here I am, still struggling to remember that "4" when writing down a date, and somehow we're also celebrating Easter and switching to daylight savings time?! On the whole, though, my March was largely unremarkable. I spent the first half … Continue reading What I Read in March 2024
What I Read in February 2024
Happy Saturday, everyone! You know those moments when your life changes completely and you find yourself in this weird melancholy mood, struggling to process what is happening, nostalgically looking back on what you're losing, and yet also eyeing the future in apprehensive excitement? Well, February was one of those for me. On the verge of … Continue reading What I Read in February 2024
What I Read in January 2024
Happy Saturday, everyone! January has come and gone, and just like that, we're already one full month into 2024. Although considering how insanely eventful my start of the year was, it's kind of hard to believe we aren't even further along! Within the span of just 31 days, I stayed in three different countries, climbed … Continue reading What I Read in January 2024
What I Read in December 2023
Happy New Year, everyone! Can you guys believe we're suddenly in 2024, when the 21st century just started, like, a couple of years ago? How are we 25 years in already?! Time is such a weird concept... Especially when you consider how many things I somehow managed to squeeze into a month as short as … Continue reading What I Read in December 2023
What I Read in November 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone! It's December, and I am back among the living! Well, sort of. It's amazing how much paperwork piles up when you're trying desperately to survive exams and neglect the rest of your life completely... At this rate, I'll be lucky if I can see the bottom of my desk again by Christmas. … Continue reading What I Read in November 2023
What I Read in October 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone! We've officially entered the month of horrors - nobody can convince me that October is spookier than November, not with my third teaching evaluation and exams in Educational Law, Political Education, Math, and English looming right around the corner - so I have briefly come to show my ghostly presence here before … Continue reading What I Read in October 2023
What I Read in September 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone! My life is still totally chaotic - all accounts of those final few months of teacher training were unfortunately 100% accurate - but since I have at least successfully passed the first chunk of my exams, I figured I might as well pop in here for my September wrap-up. Seeing as I … Continue reading What I Read in September 2023
What I Read in August 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone! Another month has come and gone, even if, in my case, the coming and going didn't exactly come and go according to plan... The grand mountain tours I had been envisioning fell victim to me being ill at the beginning of the month, horrible weather, and me moving a week early because … Continue reading What I Read in August 2023
What I Read in July 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone... ... and welcome to August! 🌞 Even though I started the month sniffling in bed, it is already shaping to be seriously epic because IT'S FINALLY SUMMER BREAK!!! I can sleep as long as I want to! I don't have to correct any exams or deal with pubescent troublemakers! I have free … Continue reading What I Read in July 2023
What I Read in June 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here I am, sneakily reemerging from the depths of my hiatus with one of the most abysmal reading wrap-ups the world has ever seen! Okay, fine, maybe I'm being a tad dramatic... Considering that I was about 99.9% sure that this post would be called "What I Didn't Read in June 2023" … Continue reading What I Read in June 2023
What I Read in May 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone, and welcome to June! Although I'm technically still on hiatus, I figured I might as well give you my wrap-up on time because a) my May was so chaotically busy that I barely read anything anyway and b) not doing this now would probably lead to me postponing until July and falling … Continue reading What I Read in May 2023
What I Read in April 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone! April has come and gone, and we've made it to May! Which is kind of sad, honestly, because intense paper writing and sleep deprivation and me nearly dying in an avalanche - more on that later 😅 - aside, my April was actually pretty cool! First off, I went to see my … Continue reading What I Read in April 2023
What I Read in March 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone! March is gone! And good riddance, too, because apart from a hilarious crime dinner party I had with some of my friends in Munich and a ton of my highly anticipated TV shows being released in the last few weeks, the month really wasn't all that great... In anticipation of April, the … Continue reading What I Read in March 2023
What I Read in February 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone! You know how February is supposed to be the shortest month of the year? Well, I didn't really notice any of that because mine was both insanely eventful and filled with books that I mysteriously managed to squeeze in somehow. Like, seriously, when I sat down to write this wrap-up, I almost … Continue reading What I Read in February 2023
What I Read in January 2023
Happy Saturday, everyone! Welcome to the shortest month of the year, as well as one of the most abysmal reading wrap-ups you've probably ever witnessed! Some January highlights, featuring: Mountains with no snow, mountains with slightly more snow, and sudden Alpine snowfalls that proved it was January after all and forced me to get up … Continue reading What I Read in January 2023
What I Read in December 2022
Happy Saturday, everyone! Can you believe that there are only a few hours of 2022 left? Or that I am actually here and posting something for a change? Miracles will never cease, I suppose... Anyway, I figured I might as well give you this wrap-up today because a) I don't have another post ready and … Continue reading What I Read in December 2022
What I Read in November 2022
Happy Saturday everyone! Yes, I'm still alive. Barely. You know when you feel like you're a ship seconds away from sinking, narrowly keeping your decks above water, and then somebody comes and dumps a whole bunch of additional cargo onto you? Well, let's just say that that's a pretty accurate description of my November 😅 … Continue reading What I Read in November 2022
What I Read in October 2022
Happy Saturday, everyone! October has come and gone, we've made it to the penultimate month of the year, and at least here in Central Europe, fall has arrived in full force. The leaves have changed color, the valleys are swathed in fog, and the first mountain tops are already covered in snow. Some October highlights, … Continue reading What I Read in October 2022
What I Read in September 2022
Happy Friday, everyone! What a whirlwind September has been! I'm not even kidding when I say this was probably one of the most chaotic months of my life. It's not every day that you move across the country, have your newly bought car break down, and get into a bike accident while trying to navigate … Continue reading What I Read in September 2022