Hoohoo, guys. Looking at my bookshelves, I have realized that I have not nearly enough diverse reads sitting there. So I went on the Internet and searched and here is what I found…. I shall mark books with a main character of colour with a blue star* and LGBT+ with a red plus +. It’s […]
Category: generally bookish
Book Recommendations based on your Hogwarts House | Slytherin
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 14/04/2019Hoohoo, guys. Today I bring to you the first in a series of recommendations posts based on the Hogwarts Houses. Of course I’m starting with Slytherin because it’s my house. And since I’m reading mostly YA fantasy, that’s making the bigger part of this list as well, but there are contemporaries as well and even […]
Warum ich größtenteils englische Bücher lese
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 11/04/2019Huhu, ihr Lieben. Heute kommt mal wieder ein Beitrag auf Deutsch. Ganz außergewöhnlich, wow. Und zwar möchte ich mich heute mit englischen Büchern beschäftigen, oder besser: warum ich fast nur englische Bücher lese. Ich glaube, ich habe 2013 mit dem Lesen englischer Bücher begonnen. Zumindest aktiv. Davor war natürlich schon Schullektüre auf Englisch, aber in […]
Magical Readathon: O.W.L.s | where everything is magicool
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 19/03/2019Hoohoo, guys. I’m participating in the Magical Readathon to get my O.W.L.s together and become a Hogwarts Professor! If you’re now wondering what I’m talking about, let me explain very quickly. G from Book Roast has put a lot of work into creating a readathon with lots of fun and magic and I am just […]
I let Google translate the synopsis of books I’ve read this year
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 22/02/2019Hoohoo, friends. This is something I’ve recently seen on Kaleena’s blog Reader Voracious and found it to be incredibly hilarious. I actually laughed so hard I cried. As the title already says, I let the Google Translator translate the synopsis of some of the books I’ve read this year. This was originally an idea by […]
the Grishaverse makes my heart burst (with love)
By Kat @ Bookish Blades on 19/02/2019Hoohoo, friends. Today I want to talk to you about one of my favourite bookish universes: The Grishaverse. It consists of several books written by Leigh Bardugo. The first trilogy is called the Grisha Trilogy and its books are Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising. The next duology is the Six […]