Happy Friday, everyone, and welcome to August! July was a whirlwind of a month for me: I had exams, had to grade loads of other people's exams, got fully vaccinated, got to know my bed a bit better because of getting fully vaccinated, and spent a bunch of time making angry faces at my computer … Continue reading What I Read in July 2021
Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you've all had a great start to July! For my part, I've arrived in the new month looking like a zombie because I've been watching so much soccer instead of sleeping. Which maybe isn't the best prerequisite for taking exams - my first one is roughly a week from now … Continue reading What I Read in June 2021
Happy Friday, everyone! Another month has come and gone, although I've barely managed to process it because I've been so busy 😂 University started again, I moved, and now that I actually understand stuff, my master's thesis has taken over a huge chunk of my waking hours. Which is probably going to stay that way … Continue reading What I Read in April 2021
Happy Friday, everyone! March is over, and we've finally found our way into Spring! At least that's the case here in Germany. While we still had quite a bit of snow in mid-March, everything is now green and covered in flowers, and I've really been enjoying spending time outside. I actually found the perfect audiobook-listening … Continue reading What I Read in March 2021
Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you've all had a great start to March! Personally, I find it astounding that we're already over two months into 2021. February really seems to have flown by! Although, looking back, I did actually do quite a lot this past month. I had my own exams, and then spent pretty … Continue reading What I Read in February 2021
Welcome to 2021, and a very happy New Year to you all!! I think we can all agree that 2020 has been quite a ride... It certainly wasn't the year I envisioned having when I wrote last year's December wrap-up, that's for sure. But that's not to say it was all bad! Despite online classes, … Continue reading What I Read in December 2020
Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you've all had a great start into December!! ❄️ Or, at the very least, I hope you've had a better week than I have... Between the pandemic and those exams, this year was never really going to make it into the highlights of my life, but these past few days … Continue reading What I Read in November 2020
Hi everyone! I must say: I'm very relieved September is over 😅 Now I just have to make it through October, and then my written exams will be over and I will hopefully be qualified enough to start teaching!!! At least theoretically. Even if I pass, I plan on staying at university at least another … Continue reading What I Read in September 2020
Happy end of the month, everyone! I know there are technically still a few hours left in July, but since I have a ton of non-reading-related stuff that I have to get done by tomorrow, I think it's highly unlikely that I'll finish another book today. So I thought I might as well give you … Continue reading What I Read in July 2020
Hi everybody! This week's post is coming to you from a severely sleep-deprived me, but that's because I just had a reading week so awesome that I feel like this week alone will be responsible for about half of my favorite books of the year. I'm not kidding! Among others, I read one four-star and … Continue reading Mini-Reviews: The Interestings, Allegedly, The Anti-Virginity Pact
With everything that's going on right now, what I read last month really pales in comparison. So I just wanted to start this post by saying: To all my Black readers - I'm with you and support you 100%. What is going on in the US right now, and has been going on there (and … Continue reading What I Read in May 2020
I continued my trend from March and read a ton in April - at least I did in the first half of the month. Now that university has started again, my reading has gone down drastically. With all classes being online and me having to prepare them much more thoroughly beforehand, everything just seems to … Continue reading What I read in April 2020
I can safely say that March 2020 has been one of the weirdest months of my life so far. If you'd told me I'd ever experience a pandemic a few months ago, I would have said you were crazy. I'd have expected to be struggling to find spare time in March, not toilet paper. I … Continue reading What I Read in March 2020
I'm making progress! I read more in February than in January, and since my last exam is on March 6th, I really hope I can keep going along that trajectory. Also, I also read some books this month that I really, really enjoyed, not just classics I was forcing myself to read or anticipated releases … Continue reading What I Read in February 2020
Here's to a new reading year that will hopefully be better than the last one! Or not just hopefully - it'd better be better because I still have hundreds of classics left on my Staatsexamen reading list, and I should definitely have read a big portion of them before taking the exam this summer... Anyway, … Continue reading What I Read in January 2020
Here we are - the last of my finally unprivated 2019 posts! I ended December on a reading high: Christmas break was here, which meant I finally had a bit more time to laze around and read! I also had quite a bit of luck with the books I read this month. Overall, I really … Continue reading What I Read in December 2019
November was a really weird reading month for me. I didn't read much, but out of the three books I did manage to pick up, I absolutely adored two and despised the other. For a bit more clarification, here are my more in-depth thoughts: Heartstopper: Volumes One and Two by Alice Oseman (5/5 Stars each) … Continue reading What I Read in November 2019
Reading-wise, October was a pretty good month for me, especially compared to some of the other ones in 2019. I found a nice balance between reading for fun and reading classics for the Staatsexamen (which was sometimes, but not always, fun too). Also, this month I went to the Frankfurt Book Fair with some friends, … Continue reading What I Read in October 2019
September was probably my best reading month of the year so far. I read ten books in total, all of them for fun, disliked none, and really enjoyed the majority of them. Plus, I read pretty steadily, something I also haven't done in a while. My last exam was in August, so I started reading … Continue reading What I Read in September 2019
After July, August was a welcome relief. Since university was over, I finally had time to read again! I still had two exams to prepare for, but I did read a little during study breaks, and then a lot once my last exam was over. Also, there were some books in here that I genuinely … Continue reading What I Read in August 2019
