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 spoilers, we simply have to discuss some of the AI’s more bizarre tendencies! In case you need a quick refresher or missed my original quiz post, all of the AI’s commissions were drawn in response to a one-line prompt of the form “Draw some fanart of [characters XXX from a really popul ..read more

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 A2-course without ever having taken the A1 one, while totally forgetting you were also supposed to write a blog post? Well, that’s how we ended up here! Sometime during the chaos of these past few days, my brain thought it would be a ..read more

Look, I didn’t want to complain about yet another Percy Jackson adaptation. If you’re reading this because you think Disney+ did a wonderful job, my advice is: close this post right now. Believe whatever happy and joyous feelings you’re having about finally getting something better than those Gods-awful movies, and try to lead a normal life. Seeing flaws in everything is dangerous. It’s annoying. Most of the time, it will let you down in painful, nasty ways. If you’re a petty Percy Jackson fan, reading this because you think a rant might satisfy your equally disappointed soul, great. Read on ..read more

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 switching jobs and moving yet again, I started the month searching for a new apartment, but then quickly abandoned that after I visited my parents for the weekend only to find out that one of our cats was dying. Leaving Nera behind to return to my own city f ..read more

Gleðilegan laugardag, allir! Once again, it is time for me to keep up the farce of being a book blogger while secretly itching to write about traveling instead. Today, I finally get to tell you all about my recent trip to my #1 bucket list destination in the entire world!! The beginnings of my obsession with Iceland can be traced back to when I was a kid. Somebody had told me about the country’s volcanoes and icebergs and Vikings, and which five-year-old wouldn’t be impressed by that? As I got older, I eventually realized that the Vikings weren’t exactly a contemporary thing, but I guess my f ..read more

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 a volcano, braved an escape room with my university-day apartment-mates, taught stuff, joined nationwide protests against extremism, hiked a ton, taught more stuff, went on a celebratory end-of-our-teacher-training trip to Prague with my fellow trainee teachers, got detained on ..read more

Happy Saturday, everyone! Welcome to what is – inexplicably, I might add, since I have tremendous talent at failing spectacularly to achieve my yearly goals – one of my favorite posts to write every January. It’s time to look at lots of pretty charts, graphs, and stats, and to hold me accountable for all of the reading related things I did and didn’t do in 2023! (If any of you want to check out my full Year in Books, you can do that either on Goodreads or Storygraph.) On paper, my 2023 reading actually doesn’t look all that great. After 2019 – a horrible year we’re just going to put well behi ..read more

Happy Saturday, everyone! The time has finally come for lots of complaining! Not that I don’t grumble and whine about the hardships of my life on a regular basis anyway, but there’s just something so inherently satisfying about writing a wholly negative post and ranting about all of the awful books you’ve read in a year. You finally get your revenge on them for being so incredibly disappointing! You finally get to put to good use all that suffering you endured while desperately trying to get through their hundreds of pages of horribleness! So let’s get straight into the thick of things: From ..read more

Happy January, everyone! It’s time to spread some start-of-the-year cheer and get into my favorite books I discovered these past twelve months! As a proper book blogger, I’m kind of required to make sure your 2024 to-be-read piles get even more insanely overcrowded than they already are, right? Let me tell you, though – curating this list was no easy feat. For starters, I only read 65 new-to-me books and had an average rating of 3.53 in 2023, which places it right behind 2019 as my second-worst reading year of all time. Finding favorites at all was way harder than in previous years! But then ..read more

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 December. Despite me being a snotty, coughing, feverish mess for almost a full week, it feels like I somehow managed to do way more last month than in the entire rest of the year combined. I celebrated my birthday, went to seven different Christmas markets, travelled to the Alps to visit my ex-colleag ..read more