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 …