My Bookish Life

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? I started this book on a late evening during work after I finished another one. I haven't read anything from Matt Haig before but heard so many good things about this one and the synopsis sounded really interesting. So I started it, not knowing what I would get and immediately was hooked... It starts with Nora, a young woman who works in a music store where she teaches the piano. The day starts with her, sitting in the school library as a young girl, playing chess with the librarian, Mrs Elm. They talk about glaciers and what she wants to become, when she gets some terrible news. Then we're at the present. A day like everyone else it seems. But it's the day Nora deci...

  “The stars incline us, they do not bind us.” I finished this book about an hour ago and I'm once more ruined. My feelings are ruined by a book. Probably my fav so far this year.  Definitely 5/5 stars!  But let me tell you how it came to this...  I brought this book last November for myself as a birthday present (yes I do that). It sat in my shelve for ages, never coming around to read it, although I just heard good things and the cover is just stunning, it sat there and waited. Waited for the moment I'd pick it up. The moment was this Tuesday, shortly before my parents arrived for lunch. I didn't really get around to read it that day, only the prologue and it intrigued me. Since I had a massive headache on Wednesday, I didn't even picked it up for two days an the madness started on Friday when I finally picked it up again. And I couldn't put it down! It took me a few chapters to get into Chloe Gong's writing style but I absolutely loved it! She's really go...

Welcome to my first official BookTwitter Blog post! Well or more Book Tag post.  I had no idea that Book Tag's are a thing but here we are. Thanks for the tag to Haadiya for the tag on Twitter. Pls go and follow her here and check out her brilliant blog here . Thank you also to Moi at Bookish Blunders for starting this tag and making the wonderful artwork to it :)   Here are the rules :  - Post the rules in your post.  - Answer all the questions and if you’ve never heard any of the songs, listen to them before you answer the questions.  - Link the creator and the person who nominated you (see above). - Nominate 8 people. Only 8. (Why? There’s no Symphony no. 9, so)  - Use the featured image I’ve posted on this tag. (artwork by Moi from Bookish Blunders) Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata: A book you read that had an unexpected plot twist near the end This is a hard question... I guess it'll be a German book here called Gut gegen Nordwind  by Daniel Gla...