My Bookish Life

Hello folks! I know it's been way too long since my last post on here. But I wasn't really in the mood for blogging and had not the right words. I hope you all are doing well this year that's obviously a bloody mess. I mean 2020 should have been the year of the roaring 20s with lots of fun, achievements, changes, a better year. But instead it got worse. We've a global pandemic due to Covid-19, thousands of death, political chaos, lockdowns, Brexit, police brutality and murders, #BlackLivesMatter protests, still not enough equality for Trans-People or the LGBTQ+ community... As I said a complete mess. I had lot's of plans at the beginning of the year, but now it's just work that went on like normal even in the lockdown phase we had here in Germany. Since our company is delivering food, we had a huge chaos and then a huge gab in the deliveries.  My job sucks like usual, I've got more and more work. Was out of a job in hospital for a few weeks since my job ...

A question I've been asking myself for quite some time after I nearly quit reading for a few years. I had barely any time with work and somehow every book I picked up it didn't feel good enough to finish. It was me though, not the books. *laughs*  I was completely hooked again a few months ago after starting Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard. A romantic novel I'll hopefully post a review on here soon so no spoilers for now. Anyway I was back to my "book eating". I finished a book a day and was so happy to be back to reading more again. One question is remaining though.  How can I read more?    Well being sick for the third week in a row due to my back, I had a lot of time reading. I finished some books I had started ages ago. I'm trying to get a routine again and get a balance between reading and writing again. So here are my strategies I'm trying to use to read more these days. 1) TBR-pile One thing I hear every time in the book community is the w...

Last Friday I was at the show of a friend. He's the one I often write about on Twitter when we head to dinner and the one who sings and is working with light and audio technique on big shows etc. I often help him with his shows and I also did on New Years Eve. He got himself a new professional camera then and I had the honor of doing one of two cameras that night. When 2020 didn't look that bad of a year.  Well last Friday he had a tiny show with some friends and I promised I'd show up. Due to my back problems I wasn't any help at all but it was nice seeing him. Although I swear wearing a mask in a stuffier room is no fun for nearly 4h *laughs* Anyway I had a talk with his dad's friend - nice older guy who's supporting his firm and him. He got me outside to talk because he said he had something important to tell me.  First he got me 100 bucks for helping all the time with the show and I was surprised. Then he told me that he got the film from New Year to a guy w...