December Wrap Up

Hey there bookworms,
the year is almost over (thank the Gods!) and I managed to get some reading done in December. There's one book in particular I'm actually proud of finally finishing. Here's my last reading wrap up of 2020!

Top 5 Wednesday: Yeet 2020

Hey there bookworms,
I know I'm a day late but even though I haven't posted any T5W entries lately, I didn't want to miss yesterday's topic: Yeet 2020! This topic was proposed by Alex (The Scribe Owl), and I'll be talking about dystopias and post apocalyptic fiction so wild they feel like 2020. T5W is a weekly book blogging meme hosted by the official goodreads group over here.

Greek Mythology Book Tag

 

Hey there bookworms,
long time no see! I'm here with a tag today because I love those and I was looking for something quick and fun to post during holiday season! I hope you all had a great Christmas, or, in case you don't celebrate it, some nice relaxing days! I wasn't tagged to do this, but I saw this tag over at Alex from The Scribe Owl, and since I love mythology of all kinds I just had to give it a go.

Rezension: Der Tag, an dem die Welt zerriss

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Titel: Der Tag, an dem die Welt zerriss
Autor: Anna Benning
Reihe: Vortex #1
Seitenzahl: 477
Verlag: Fischer KJB
ISBN: 9783737341868
Meine Bewertung: ★★★★☆

 

Inhalt: In der Zukunft ist es einigen Auserwählten möglich, mithilfe von Vortexen - mächtigen, plötzlich auftretenden Energiewirbeln - quer durch die ganze Welt zu reisen. Elaine träumt davon, eine Vortexläuferin zu werden und will unbedingt das große, alles entscheidende Vortexrennen gewinnen. Doch die Vortexe bergen eine ungeahnte Kraft, und in Elaine's Welt ist nicht alles so, wie es scheint. Und was ist mit dem mysteriösen Jungen, der sie scheinbar nicht ausstehen kann, aber der Schlüssel zur Rettung ihrer Welt sein könnte...?
 

Rezension: Neon Birds

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Titel: Neon Birds
Autor: Marie Grasshoff
Reihe: Neon Birds #1
Seitenzahl: 460
Verlag: Bastei Lübbe
ISBN: 9783404200009
Meine Bewertung: ★★★★½☆

Inhalt: Im Jahr 2101 verwandelt ein außer Kontrolle geratener technischer Virus Menschen in superstarke, hochintelligente Cyborgs. Das Militär hält sie in Sperrzonen außerhalb der Städte gefangen, aber scheint langsam die Kontrolle über die Situation zu verlieren. Vier junge Erwachsene, die verschiedener nicht sein könnten, versuchen, den Untergang ihrer Welt zu verhindern und sich gleichzeitig ihre Menschlichkeit zu bewahren, aber die Zeit drängt...

November Wrap Up

Hey there bookworms,
November is almost over and I reached my reading goal this month! I'm now at 72 books (my goal was 70), although if I hadn't read that many comics in the last few months I wouldn't be where I am. So, thanks, Marvel and DC. Without further ado, here are all the books I read in November!

Top 5 Wednesday: No Thanks

Welcome back bookworms
to another T5W post! This week's topic is No Thanks. It's Thanksgiving in the United States this week, and hopefully all of us have something to be thankful for, but for today's topic I'm gonna discuss 5 characters who find themselves in a situation they are not thankful for. T5W is a weekly book blogging meme currently hosted by Gabriela in the official goodreads group.

Review: Aurora Burning

General Information

Title: Aurora Burning
Authors: Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Series: Aurora Cycle #2
Pages: 512
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
ISBN: 9781524720926
My rating: ★★★★½☆

This is the sequel to Aurora Rising. If you haven't read the first book, proceed at your own risk.

Throwback: Frankfurt Book Fair 2019

Hello bookworms,

even though I'm not really an outgoing type, I'm missing some things and events like crazy at the moment. One of them are conventions and book fairs, but all that I'd planned to visit in 2020 have been cancelled. So I thought why not post a little throwback to last year when everything was still normal? In October 2019, I visited the Frankfurt Book Fair, aka the world's biggest book convention, for the first time, and here's my little report!

Review: Skyhunter

General Information

Title: Skyhunter
Author: Marie Lu
Series: Skyhunter #1
Pages: 371
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 9781250221681
My rating: ★★★★☆

T5W: Read in Translation

Hey there everyone,
today's T5W topic is Read in Translation, meaning I'll talk about books that I haven't read in their original language. Since I'm German, this is relatively easy for me. I decided to go with really popular books, and I'll be comparing covers for this prompt too. T5W is a weekly book blogging meme hosted by the official goodreads group, and today's topic came from Meira!

October Wrap Up

Hey there bookworms,
another month has passed! Can you believe it? October was a really great reading month for me. I actually set my goodreads goal from 65 up to 70 books because I'm doing so well at the moment. But then, some people maybe would say I'm cheating cause I've been reading a lot of comics. So here's my October reading wrap up!

T5W: Spooky Times

Hey there bookworms,

Halloween is approaching! Because of covid, I had to cancel my annual Halloween party, but I'm still looking forward to the day. I'll have a friend over and we'll dress up anyway and make pizza :) 

Anyway, I didn't want to miss today's T5W topic: Spooky Times! I will be talking about five books that give off Halloween vibes. I don't really read horror, but I do enjoy some creepy elements here and there. T5W is a weekly book blogging meme currently hosted by Gabriela in the official goodreads group!

T5W: Books That Took Me the Longest to Finish

Hey there bookworms,
today's T5W topic is Books That Took Me the Longest to Finish. I used to be a very fast reader, but the older I get, the slower my reading seems to go, sadly. Still, there are some books that took me an inappropriate amount of time to finish! T5W is a weekly book blogging series hosted by the official goodreads group!
 

Review: Stan Lee's Alliances: A Trick of Light

General Information 

Title: A Trick of Light
Author: Stan Lee, Kat Rosenfield
Series: Stan Lee's Alliances #1
Pages: 352
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 978035811760
My rating: ★★★★☆

Review: Sanctuary

General Information

Title: Sanctuary
Author: Caryn Lix
Series: Sanctuary #1
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9781534405332
My rating: ★★★★½☆

 

Top 5 Wednesday: Fairly Local

Hey there bookworms,

today's T5W topic is one I was really looking forward to: Fairly Local! I'm from Germany, but I mostly read books by English-speaking authors, so this gives me the chance to talk about some books by authors from my own country! T5W is a weekly book blogging meme currently hosted by Gabriela in the official goodreads group. 

Meet My New Bookshelves!

Hey there bookworms,

some months ago I spontaneously decided I'd like to remodel my room, and of course that included new bookshelves. Don't get me wrong, I loved my old shelves, but they were in the hallway and not in my living room, and I finally wanted my book collection in the room I spend most of my time in. So I ordered new shelves and some days ago, I had some friends over and we set them up. 

Top 5 Wednesday: TL:DR

Hey there bookworms,

I haven't maganed to post anything for the past week, but I wanted to at least post something for today's T5W. Today's topic is TL:DR (Too long; didn't read), and it's about books (or other source material) I haven't read up until today even though I've already seen the movie/tv adaptation. Watching an adaptation before reading the book is often considered a "sin" in the book community, but with some titles, we just can't help it. T5W is a weekly book blogging meme hosted by the official goodreads group where Gabriela is providing us with weekly topics.

Top 5 Wednesday: Autumn Vibes

Hey there bookworms and blessed fall season! 

The equinox was last week so Gabriela from the official T5W goodreads group took this opportunity for today's topic. I'm in the Northern hemisphere, so I will be writing about 5 books that give off autumn vibes! I can't even explain what I'm looking for in an autumn read, I guess I went for an overall magical (and maybe cozy) feeling. Happy reading!

September Wrap Up

Hey there bookworms,
another month is almost over and I honestly don't feel like I've accomplished much. I feel like I could have read more, but looking at the reading journal I keep it actually doesn't look that bad, and at this point I'm 4 books ahead of my goodreads challenge too. So without further ado, here are the books I've read in September!

Review: Skyhunter - Extended Excerpt

"A broken world.
An overwhelming evil.
A team of warriors ready to strike back."

Marie Lu - aka my favorite author - has a new book coming out soon, and here's everything you need to know!

 

General Information

Title: Skyhunter
Author: Marie Lu
Pages: 384
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 9781250221681
Scheduled release: September 29th, 2020

 

Top 5 Wednesday: Reader Canon

 

 

Hey there bookworms,
here's to another Top 5 Wednesday post, and today's topic is Reader Canon! It's about books that are considered "classics" within a certain genre but that I haven't read. I decided to go with ya fantasy/dystopia for this one since that's still my most read genre. T5W is a weekly book blogging meme hosted by the official goodreads group and Gabriela (here's her YouTube) is setting the topics for us at the moment.

 

Review: Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero

General Information
Title: Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero Vol. 3
Author: Kelly Sue DeConnick
Artists: David López, Marcio Takara,
Laura Braga
Publisher: Marvel
ISBN: 9781302902681 (Paperback)
Year: 2014
My rating: ★★★★½☆

Top 5 Wednesday: Booktube Didn't Make Me Read It

 

 

Hey there bookworms,
I didn't post anything in a while, but now I'm back with another T5W post! This week's topic is "Booktube Didn't Make Me Read It" and it's about books I discovered without the influence of social media like booktube or bookstagram. T5W is a weekly bookblogging meme hosted by the official goodreads group, and thank you to Gabriela (Violet Hawthorne) for the promps!

 

August Wrap Up

 

Hey there bookworms!
August is almost over and I decided I'd like to post monthly reading wrap ups on my blog. I'm already keeping a handwritten reading journal and of course I'm adding my books on goodreads, but blogging about it will hopefully be a fun way for me to once again remember all the books I've read in each past month! So without further ado, here's my August 2020 reading wrap up!

Top 5 Wednesday: Fitness & Training Regimens

Hey there bookworms,

time flies and I'm back with another T5W post. This week's topic is Fitness and Training Regimens, so I'm gonna tell you five characters from books I'd like to know the training routines of - because let's face it, some characters are truly badass fighters and who hasn't dreamt of being just as skilled and athlectic?! T5W is a weekly book blogging meme hosted by the official goodreads group with Gabriela currently giving us new promps every month! So here are five of my favorite fighters, and it'd be certainly interesting to know their workout (and very embarrassing because I couldn't keep up)!

 

Rezension: Life Hack - Dein Leben gehört mir

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Titel: Life Hack - Dein Leben gehört mir
Autor: June Perry
Seitenzahl: 364
Verlag: Arena

ISBN: 9783401512037
Meine Bewertung: ★★★★☆
 

Life Hack ist ein Jugendthriller aus dem Science Fiction Genre, der in mancher Hinsicht aber gar nicht so sehr "fiction" ist, und dieser Aspekt macht das Buch sowohl spannend als auch beängstigend.

 

Tag: Do I Have That Book?

 Hey there bookworms,

I really love tags and I also love doing tags I haven't been tagged in! So today I will be doing the Do I Have That Book Challenge! The challenge was originally created by Tabby on the YouTube channel Keeping Tabs, and I saw the tag over at Alex from The Scribe Owl and decided it looked fun, so here I am! There are 20 questions in this challenge and I will turn my shelves upside down and try to find as many books as possible!

Review: The Hobbit

General Information
Title: The Hobbit
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
There are over 1000 editions, here's the info for two paperback editions.
Pages: 366 / 389
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780618260300 / 9780261103344
My rating: ★★★½☆☆

 

Top 5 Wednesday: Dream Adaptations

 

 

 

Hey there bookworms,
it's time for another T5W post and this week's topic is Dream Adaptations! So this is about books I'd like to see adapted as a movie or tv show. T5W is a weekly book blogging meme hosted by the official goodreads group where Gabriela (Violet Hawthorne on YouTube) is providing us with the topics at the moment.

I'm all for book to screen adaptations, but too many books (especially ya) have been made into movies already that ended up being a huge disappointment. Personally, I don't even care that much about the casting because I don't know that many actors anyway and you can do a lot with wigs, make up and cgi, but in some cases, casting is important for representation. That being said, here are my top 5 books I'd like to see adapted for the big (or small) screen!

Review: Recursion

General Information
Title: Recursion
Author: Blake Crouch
Pages: 329
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509866656
My rating:★★★★☆

 

Top 5 Wednesday: Children's Fiction

 

Hey there bookworms,

today's topic of T5W is Children's Fiction, so I'll be writing about five books (or book series) that I read a a child or that are intended for children. T5W is a weekly book blogging meme hosted by the official goodreads group, and Gabriela (Violet Hawthorne on YouTube) is giving us the topics at the moment!

Review: Black Widow Comic Series

Hey fellow bookworms,

Since I got into the Marvel fandom about half a year ago (the MCU to be precise, and shoutout to my lovely online bestie who introduced me to this world) I've been obsessed with all the characters. One of my favorites is Black Widow, and I recently decided I'd like to get into the comic world too. But the Marvel universe is huge, and where does one start without any prior knowledge? Luckily I got some recommendations and today I want to pass one on to you and review the 3-part Black Widow series by Nathan Edmondon!

General Information
Titles: Vol 1: The Finely Woven Thread (ISBN 9780785188193),
Vol 2: The Tightly Tangled Web (9780785188209),
Vol 3: Last Days (9780785192534)
Author: Nathan Edmondson
Artist: Phil Noto
Publisher: Marvel
Year: 2014
My ratings:
Vol 1: ★★★½☆☆
Vol 2: ★★★★☆
Vol 3: ★★★★☆

Rezension: Mytha

 

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Titel: Mytha
Autor: Frank Rehfeld

Seitenzahl: 555

Verlag: Piper
ISBN: 9783492281904
Meine Bewertung: ★★★☆☆

Top 5 Wednesday: Air & Rail Transport

Hey there bookworms,

in today's T5W post I'm gonna talk about books that feature air and/or rail transport. T5W is hosted by the official goodreads group, and Gabriela (YouTube: Violet Hawthorne) is giving us the topics! I may have cheated a little with this topic, but you'll see that when you get there!

Popular Books I Didn't Like

Hey there bookworms,

So I decided I'd make a post about some popular books that I didn't like as much as everyone else. I'm generally someone who always tries to look on the bright side and see at least some positive things in a book, but in general, the following ones just fell short for me. Please note that this is just my personal opinion. If you enjoyed these books I'm glad you did!

 

Top 5 Wednesday: Best Friendships

Hey there bookworms,

I missed out on last week's topic but I'm back again with another T5W post! Today's topic is best friendships in books. T5W is hosted by the official goodreads group you can check out here!

 

Rezension: Space Girls

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Titel: Space Girls

Autor: Maiken Nielsen

Seitenzahl: 429

Verlag: Wunderlich

ISBN: 9783805203319

Meine Bewertung: ★★★★☆

Review: Vengeful

General Information

Title: Vengeful

Author: V. E. Schwab

Series: Villains #2

Pages: 478

Publisher: Tor Books

ISBN: 9780765387523

My rating: ★★★★½☆

Vengeful is the sequel to Vicious. Spoilers for book #1 ahead.

Review: An Anonymous Girl

General Information

Title: An Anonymous Girl
Authors: Greek Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Pages: 375

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

ISBN: 9781250133731

My rating: ★★★☆☆

I've set myself a personal reading challenge this year: to read more books out of my comfort zone. This was one of these books. I'm not quite sure what to think of it.

Top 5 Wednesday: Bookish Songs

Hey there bookworms,

it's Wednesday again and that means I'm here with another Top 5 Wednesday post! T5W is hosted by the official goodreads group over here :)

Today's topic is Songs that remind you of books, so I'll explain why a specific song reminds me of a certain book. 

Review: Starsight

General information

Title: Starsight

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Series: Cytonic Series #2

Pages: 461
Publisher: Delacorte Press (US),
Gollancz (UK)
ISBN: 9781473217904

My rating: ★★★★½☆

Starsight is the sequel to Skyward which I've reviewed here. Reading the books in order is highly recommended! If you haven't read book one, proceed with caution!

 

Top 5 Wednesday: Top of the TBR

Hey there bookworms,

for today's Top 5 Wednesday the topic is five books that you've been meaning to read this year but haven't gotten to yet. Top 5 Wednesday is hosted by the official goodreads group that can find here!

 

Review: Skyward

General information

Title: Skyward

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Series: Cytonic Series #1

Pages: 513
Publisher: Delacorte Press (US),

Gollancz (UK)

ISBN: 9780399555770

My rating: ★★★★★

Working the Dream - A Day in the Bookstore

Hey fellow bookworms,

today I want to tell you something from my life outside of books. I want to tell you about my job at the local bookstore - the pros, the cons, and what I've learned in my time working there!

⬅ This is my home/work place for two days a week. I started working there about a year ago. It was a spontaneous decision, and it was one of the best I've ever made. That semester at uni was kind of boring and I didn't have many classes, so I thought, why not apply for a part-time job?! I was very lucky that they were actually looking for someone at the time I applied, and they told me I could start rather sooner than later.

Top 5 Wednesday: Unexplored Genres

Hey there bookworms,

I decided I want to participate in the Top 5 Wednesday series hosted by the official goodreads group! As for today, the topic is Unexplored Genres and/or Tropes, and here are my top five!

 

TAG: Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag

Hey there bookworms,

today I have my first tag for you! The Mid-Year Book Freak Out tag has been around various social media sites for years (I actually did it on my (now inactive) booktube channel once), and this year I was tagged by one of my tumblr friends, Anni from libri-et-coffea.

So let's get straight into the questions!

Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

 

General information

Title: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Author: Suzanne Collins

Series: The Hunger Games - Prequel

Pages: 517

Publisher: Scholastic

ISBN: 9780702300172

My rating: ★★★★½☆

A New Person on the Internet!

Hey there!

Wow I'm excited, I just created this blog to share my obsession with all things bookish with the world! My name is Anni and I'm an avid reader, book collector and fangirl from Germany. In my first post I'll just tell you some things about myself and my reading tastes so you can get to know this new person on the internet :)