Monthly wrap up | February 2021

Two months down; ten more to go. And I really really really wish time would slow down. February was an okay-ish month. Not too bad, and not exactly awesome either. Well, maybe a little bit leaning to the bad side. The last days were spent me staring at the blank screen and blinking cursor, or …

Some of my old drawings | ft. very ugly self portrait

I rummaged through some of my old dusty files and journals to find these oldies. They aren't all good, but to me they are golden, because I'm proud my thirteen-year-old self managed to come up with these stuff😊. To start with the worst of the lot: paddy field (2014/15???) I haven't spent much energy on …

Books as first dates tag

Hello everyone! I'm gradually trying to cut down the time I spend for blogging and writing and the thousand other things I do other than studying. Notice there's only a week left for February? Time really flies too fast for my taste. On a completely unrelated note, my pet cat gave birth and there are …

Book review + moodboard: My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Warning: I'm about to shower you with quotes. Synopsis Sometimes it's pretty hard to tell them apart...my family and the animals, that is. I don't know why my brothers and sister complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions in the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit …

End of 2020 Superlatives

I am a LOT late for this tag; it's already halfway through February. And I only started to keep track of the books that I read only at the beginning of this year, so my memory is also a bit hazy 🙂 I was tagged for this by lovely Cherry Blossom @ Letters to the …

Top 5 Shakespeare’s Plays: a totally biased ranking

I guess this is one of the facts about me you don't know: I've acted in five of Shakespeare's plays and have watched many more. The characters I played in order were: little boy, servant, pickpocket, tree, and cursed half demon. Only one of those were speaking roles and guess which 😉 some of my …

Top Ten Tuesday | books written before I was born

Hi guys! Today I’m featuring Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. This Week’s prompt is Books written before I was born. Since I mostly used to read classics before I got introduced to YA, this one’s gonna be easy. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Let’s start with …

Monthly Wrap up: January 2021

Hi peeps! Welcome to the doodlecrafter, where I'm just sitting and wondering how the heck January went by so fast. In terms of productivity, January was a bad month for me. I mean, it just went by and I wish I'd done something more useful while it was there. Don't you all get that feeling …

Book review | The Tower of Nero

After spending six months as a teenager named Lester, Apollo is now reaching his endgame (thank the gods). The battle for Camp Jupiter is over. New Rome is safe. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated. And somehow Apollo has made it out alive. But though the battle may have been won, …

Book review | The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

There are some books you randomly pick up and read without having any idea about who the author is or what the book is about. And in the end, they turn out to be unforgettable. The Changeling is not the best book I've ever read, but it blew me away by the way it was …