Category: Reading Challenge

I really looked forward to reading Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and it met all my expectations. I gave it full five stars and will highly recommend it to everyone.

Therapy is hard work – and not just for the therapist. That’s because the responsibility for change lies squarely with the patient. If you expect an hour of sympathetic head-nodding, you’ve come to the wrong place.

It took me over a month to slowly read through this book because the book was so relatable at times that it required me to pause and take some time, some distance even, from the book to digest and reflect the many meaningful topics and thoughts Lori shares from her life as a therapist and as a patient of a therapist.

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Back to fantasy , my original favorite genre! ❤

I really loved the Witcher games, spent something like 300+ hours with Witcher 3 only and just couldn’t get enough of it. And now Netflix has an awesome first season for the Witcher and it really met all my expectations! I’ve also been a fan of Henry Cavill since his role in the Tudors so it’s really nice to see him have the role of Geralt. He and Anya Chalotra were so, so great as Geralt and Yennefer that I almost couldn’t believe it. I highly recommend watching the series on Netflix and of course playing the Withcer games.

So anyway, whenever I get excited about fiction, I want to have it all. So of course the next thing to do was to read more of the Witcher books that the games and the tv series are based on. I had read the short story collection The Last Wish like nine years ago, after I had played the first Witcher game, but somehow I didn’t read the rest of the available books back then. So now I read the next one: The Blood of Elves.

Until you understand what a sword is, and what purpose it serves in a witcher’s hand, you will not pick one up. You are not learning in order to kill and be killed. You are not learning to kill out of fear and hatred, but in order to save lives. Your own and those of others.

I really enjoyed reading Blood of Elves and look forward to reading more of these books.

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I think I’ve mentioned before that I really enjoy mysteries that are cozy and set in the early 1900s. So I decided to try a new series, which is always very exciting, but also a bit daunting: what if you waste your time getting to know a whole new setting and a bunch of characters, when you could’ve been reading something much better? It’s a gamble and unfortunately I think I lost when I read Dying in the Wool by Frances Brody.

So why shouldn’t I take on a difficult task and accept money?

I seriously considered not finishing this book.

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Being sick and stuck at home means there is time to read some books so here’s a mini review of a recent book I read. Cat Among the Pigeons is one of Agatha Christie’s books with Hercule Poirot involved in the case.

“Everybody always knows something,” said Adam, “even if it’s something they don’t know they know.”

I hadn’t read this one before so my knowledge of this story was based on the Poirot tv series episode from 2009.

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