My Bookish Life

 Hello guys!  It was time for another post about my writing and this time it'll be about NaNoWriMo !  For all who don't know - because I didn't until last year - NaNoWriMo means National Novel Writing Month. And it's exactly what it sounds like. Every year in November said page announces the big NaNo . A project where you can set your goals for writing a novel/story/ etc.  But you don't only set your goal at 50k words and update it. You also can meet up with friends and write with other's who try themselves on a story.  I got several for example. My novel - i'm working on for years in the dark - and some fanfictions I want to finish. Being sick this week is only a bonus of time although I feel shitty as hell and am in constant pain so fingers crossed I at least get my fanfictions finished for NaNo . The good thing about NaNo is to meet other people interested in writing and having a good statistic how much you've written etc.  I'm trying it for the f...

 Hello!  As you guys can see, I've started updating more regularly. But not with personal stuff but with book reviews. I always loved reading so I'll keep this up. So from now on this will be a blog for book reviews, movie reviews and updates on my writing if I got any. I'll also change the name of the blog and I do hope you'll still keep me company on my journey through different bookish worlds.  If you love reading, feel free to suggest me books and say hello on my Book-Twitter account @TBookcorner Next update will be hopefully up soon! 

Hello to another post about the subject writing! I had two posts about it before and I quite like to write about this theme, so here it is... The title "Did she do it?" refers to the things I wrote in my last posts about this. I haven't postet anything of my writing yet. A question you probably had after reading them "When will she post something?", "Did she post anything yet?" In fact I did. Quite a few things actually. I finally had the courage and since there where none of the horrible reviews I was so afraid of, I decided it was a good idea to finally take the step. I was quite anxious the first few days. Would people even read it? Would they comment how bad it was? Would they say it was crappy and I should quit? Fortunately they didn't. And after posting my first big work "Picking Up The Pieces" I even got good reviews and people wanted another chapter and another. It made me happy. I finally had done it and it went quite we...

Hello guys! It's been quite a while since my last blog post (over a year, holy molly and I'm so soorryyy!!!!!). I thought about blogging a while ago but never had the inspiration to do it. But I guess that it was time for a small update and here it finally is.  2019 was a brilliant year somehow. Had lots of fun on concerts and with my friends on the road, work was not too good but more of that later. Also my progress in writing was pretty good. If you're interested, here's a link to my AO3 page .  So work... Bad news first. No I didn't quit, not yet at least, I just got stabbed in the back by my bosses and transferred to another job after writing applications for different jobs in our company and got denied all of them. Now I'm my bosses boss "secretary" and the idiot of the whole firm. I still don't know what all my work will be but for now it's crappy. Mostly because - not of the work itself - but because no one feels responsible...

Happy New Year 2019! I'm quite looking forward to the new year. 2018 wasn't a bad year for me, it was quite good and successful, but I intent to make 2019 even better. 2018 was - as I mentioned - a good year. Stressful and full of work but good. I finished my training as freight forwarding agent in summer with quite a good score after months of studying and working. It was a very busy time but I also enjoyed it. I started a  job with a permanent working contract in the company that trained me. I helped out in a few departments and sadly I'm stuck in one I don't like at all at the moment. But I hope I can leave soon, so I keep going.  I intent to stop being stressed and work this much. I often did 10h a day and it was simple too much after a while. My resolution for work next year is to be good at my job, working for a promotion, get back into my old department and ignoring everybody's shit. I signed a second working contract for a few hours of work on Sat...

Hello guys! It's been a while since my last post. Sadly my laptop died and I just got it back yesterday. Edit: This was the beginning of the post when it died again!!! aaahhhh.... But now after a while it's back again and (for now) functioning. Well how are things? Good, definitely good... Finished my oral exam on the 5th July and are working as a fully trained freight forwarder since the 6th. I've lots of work and it does not get less. But that's a good thing in some ways, right? We had a few calm days lately but I'm already bored. *giggles* I can't stand when I've nothing to do. Won't have a big time off until October so I'm enjoying every weekend to the fullest or try to. Was at the Sting & Shaggy concert on Friday 13.07. and it was absolutely brilliant! There where so many wonderful classics from the both of them and some songs from their new album 44/876. If you wanna see a thread of pics and videos from this concert, click here ...

Hello guys! I'm sorry I was away for so long but I simply had lots to do and work is kinda stressful atm and then I had no inspiration/ motivation to write a blog post. I'm sorry. Well, exams are done, I've my results and now I'm preparing for my oral exam in about a month. As I said work is kinda stressful atm because of all the official holidays we had this month. I work half time in another department and half in my own. I sometimes feel like I have to clone myself to get all the work done. I hope it'll be better in the upcoming week but I doubt it. Probably have to work on TUE (another official holiday here) too... Alone. And I'm worried that there will be some crap I have no clue how to handle. But well we'll see about that very soon.... Everything else here is fine, it's getting summer and very warm some days. It's beautiful but I prefer the rain due to my hay fever. My back is killing me again and I'm just working on pain killers ri...

“You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.” ― Jodi Picoult While writing I had the idea of creating a blog post about this exact theme. You know I think some people might ask themselves how to write best. I did too when I started a few years ago... Was there a recipe? A plan? A structure? For some, maybe. For me there really isn't. I just do it.  Most of the time I truly say "I write now", it doesn't fully work. Then there are those moment's when you can't save yourself from ideas and scenes that pop into your head.  Where I always have ideas is, when I take a long hot shower or bath and think about my stories or possible scenes that could happen with some characters. Most of my Sherlock fanfiction happend like this to be honest. And they are rather good - yes I know I haven't published something yet but oh well... What I wanted to say is, that you have to do it after your own concept. There's no book titled ...

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison I said it myself and I hear others say it: I write. Some will now say "Any idiot writes these days!" others might say "Not everyone can write!" and then there are the ones - like myself - who say "Everyone CAN write." It doesn't matter if you publish it, or where you publish it. I doesn't even matter what you write. It can be a fanfiction, a novel, a short story, a poem, a children story etc. It doesn't matter! If you want to write, if it makes you truly happy, if you feel good while doing it: do it! Keep going! Is it art? It is in my opinion. Books are art. Like paintings. Like music. Over centuries the human race created stunning things. Amazing things no one could have thought of at the beginning. The Colosseum in Rome, the Seven Wonders of the World, La Gioconda, Van Gogh's Sunflowers, L'Opera ...

“The city takes a breath on Sunday. Of all that’s lost with the pursuit of what’s next, I hope we don’t lose that…”  ―  Hawksley Workman ,  Hawksley Burns for Isadora Sonntag. Domenico. Dimanche. Domingo. Sunday... Always loved those to be honest. It's like an official holiday. You don't have to work, no shops are open, you can go and have dinner tho and the world seems calm and a bit asleep. Sunday is my day. The day I usually do nothing except the things I love. (Well except I've a huge and important test in school but that's a different story.) Sometimes I'm at my parents and my mum and I cook together. But when I'm alone it's mostly lazy. But there are some things I always do on a Sunday. Things that I enjoy and that got a bit of a ritual like making myself a nice cup of tea in the morning. Wandering from my bed to my comfortable sofa to enjoy my cuppa and read or write or watch a show/movie. Sometimes I also enjoy a long hot shower or a nice ...

Hello everybody! I don't really know how to beginn... All you need to know is in my bio but well... I'm a 25 year old girl from Germany. I'm working as a freight forwarder in a quite big European company and I really do love my job. I'm still in training but just until April, then we'll have our final tests. Anyway... I love books, my car, archery, writing, taking pictures and all things "England". I'm addicted to this country and truly fell in love when I visited it once in 2009. I miss it and hope, I'll be back soon. I'm pretty active on Twitter and I have found some amazing people there I can call friends. One also has a blog here, please follow her if you're interested. You can find her blog  here . The idea of a blog existed years ago and that was the reason I started a Tumblr blog. I kinda used it for fandom things and not too much for personal ones so I decided to start this one. I'm not very strict with posting stuff s...