I definitely have haha I’m totally guilty! Here are a couple examples:
What about you, do you buy books because of their covers? Leave your answer in the comments, I would love to read it!
If you’d like to see all of my answers to this challenge, click here!
Thank you for reading,
I’ll see you in my next post ♡
Welcome to another Top 5 Tuesday!! T5T is a bookish meme hosted by Bionic Book Worm each week, in which we answer a prompt that she created.
This week is all about creepy characters, in honor of Halloween. Speaking of which, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! I hope you have tons of fun, whether or not it is celebrated in your country – we don’t really celebrate it in Portugal.
I have reviews up for all of the books I’m mentioning, so if you’d like to read my thoughts on the books, just click the title! I tried my best to be spoiler free, and as vague as possible, so I would say it is safe for you to read 🙂
Let’s get right into it, shall we?
Hald Sørensen from The Lost Woman by Sara Blædel
I don’t know if it’s actually the character, or the general cold atmosphere of the book, but something about when Louise talked to Hald always had me super creeped out and scared
Patrick from Into the Water
I hated this guy a lot – besides being an asshole, he was also creepy and scary. If you’ve read the book, you’ll know why I’m intimidated by him!
I could also include Nickie in this list – she’s sort of a medium/witch, and she’s that typical mysterious character that knows more than they say, which not only makes me anxious to know everything, but also creeps me out. I didn’t include her because Patrick is creepier and quite scary, and I also didn’t want to repeat books.
The Bone Carver from ACOMAF and ACOWAR by Sarah J. Maas
This one is self-explanatory, I mean this thing is basically death itself hahaha
However, I actually really love this character, I just can’t forget how creepy and eerie it is, so I had to include it!
Headmistress Torvous from Bad Girl Gone by Temple Mathews
This one you don’t want to mess with. From the moment the book starts, there’s a cold atmosphere, but when this one comes into play, boy does it get creepy!! She’s the freaking worst, I was so afraid of her! Characters that act strange always give me the heebie-jeebies… which takes me to number 1
Jude from The Devil Crept In, by Ania Ahlborn
Jude was one of the reasons I thought this book was so twisted and disturbing. As it says in the synopsis, Jude disappears and then comes back – but he’s different. And that “different” will mess you up. The way he acts throughout the book is progressively more and more creepy, and he WILL give you chills. Just you wait…
So those are my top 5 creepy characters. Are any of them in your own top 5? And have you read any of these books? Let me know in the comments!
Thank you for reading,
I’ll see you in my next post ♡
Happy Tuesday, everyone! Today I bring you another Top 5 Tuesday, a meme created by Bionic Bookworm. This week is particularly exciting, as it’s all about our favorite book quotes!!
This is going to be quite a short post, so let’s get right into it…
“Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll never feel the same way?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
“This is why I like science. Because factual answers are inevitable. But with love, feelings, sometimes they aren’t.”
– Candace Ganger, The Inevitable Collision of Birdie and Bash
He didn’t like lying, but he was coming to realize that the older you got, the more you had to do it.
– Ania Ahlborn, The Devil Crept In
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
“I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.”
– Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
These are just some of my favorite quotes. I tried to select one from each author, otherwise I could honestly write entire posts just full of my favorite authors’ best quotes hahaha
Do you see any of your favorites in this post? Let me know in the comments!
Thank you for reading,
I’ll see you in my next post ♡
Video in Portuguese:
In September, like in every other month, I bought way more books than I read. I guess you could say I have a bit of a problem…
Let’s get to the books, shall we?
Firstly, I placed an order on AwesomeBooks, which consisted of 8 books:
Around its release date, I ordered The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken, because it screams Halloween, and the hardback was on sale on BookDepository – who would pass up on that?
Lastly, there was a sale on the Wook website, which I took advantage of to buy:
The Decipherment of Linear B by John Chadwick – more fun
Os Grandes Mistérios do Antigo Egito by Luís Manuel de Araújo, my professor (a book about the great mysteries of Ancient Egypt)
What about you, which books did you get?
Do you see any of your favorites in my haul? Tell me in the comments below ♡
Thank you so much for reading,
I’ll see you in my next post ♡
Hi loves! I decided, on a whim, to answer the Top 5 Tuesday prompt for today, created by Bionic Bookworm: Most read authors.
Let’s get started…
Huntley Fitzpatrick | 3 books
I absolutely love Huntley Fitzpatrick’s books. They’re contemporary romances, but there’s always some deep meaning in them, so they’re not your typical cheesy YA books. I’ve been waiting for her to write something new for a while now, and I actually got an ARC for it, yaaaay. It’s called Meet Cute, and it’s an anthology of short stories by different authors ♡
Sarah J. Maas | 3 ¼ books
Sarah J. Maas is probably my #1 favorite author. I am a huuuuge fan of her ACOTAR series, which I binge read this year. You can read my reviews for each book here: ACOTAR, ACOMAF, ACOWAR.
I had also previously started her Throne of Glass series, but only got about ¼ of the way through ToG, hence the ‘3 ¼’. I wasn’t in the mood for it, and it didn’t really hook me, so I put it down and still haven’t picked it back up. Since I own the whole series, I will definitely give it a try sometime, and maybe SJM will be my most read author next time haha
Tahereh Mafi | 5 books
Tahereh is one of my favorite authors, hands down. I have read every book she’s published thus far, and I’m SO EXCITED for her upcoming books!!!
I read her Shatter Me series (3 books + 2 novellas), which will now have three new books – can’t wait!!! Warner is my everything ♡
I also recently read Furthermore, which is a middle grade fantasy. You can read my review for it here. There will be a companion to this book called Whichwood, which will be coming out this November!!
Kiera Cass | 5 books
Kiera Cass’s books are sort of a ‘guilty pleasure’ for me. You know they’re the typical cheesy YA romances, with a dystopian feel to them, but once you pick them up, you absolutely can’t put them down. They’re super addicting!
I’ve read the main Selection trilogy, The Heir, and the first two novellas. I’ve yet to read The Crown because I want my series to match, and they still haven’t translated it to Portuguese *cries*.
Jenny Nan | 7 books
Jenny Han is also one of my favorite authors (can you sense a theme here?). I’ve read her To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy, the Summer trilogy, and Shug, a sweet middle grade book.
I still have to read the Burn for Burn series that she co-wrote with Siobhan Vivian, and her short story in My True Love Gave to Me. Considering I own both, I hope I’ll pick them up soon enough.
That’s it for today’s prompt!
I hope you like this kind of post. Let me know in the comments if you’d like to see more of them 🙂
Thank you for reading,
I’ll see you in my next post!
As I write this post, I am in the car, traveling south with my family, and there is a bag of books at my feet.
Since I will be spending a week away from my bookshelf, choosing what books I should bring with me was not very easy, although I do think I made good choices.
As you can probably tell, today’s post is about the books I brought with me, so let’s get to the list…
A couple of these are part of my TBR for a Book Bingo (full TBR here), and the others are just books I think are perfect for reading by the pool or at the beach – which is exactly what I plan on doing during my vacation hehehe
This is a selection of a few books I’ve wanted to read for a long time, or that I have started but never finished. Since it’s a very long drive (around 4 hours), I need a distraction, so audiobooks are perfect for this!
These are just a few of the books I have on my Kindle – the ones I’m most excited to read! I’m dying to read Candace Ganger’s new book, as well as The Couple Next Door, I’m sure I will love both of them ♡
So those are all of the books I brought with me. I think they’re more than enough for a week haha
What about you, what books did you/would you take on vacation with you? Let me know in the comments, I’d love to hear about it!
Thank you so much for reading,
I’ll see you on my next post ♡
Neste momento, enquanto escrevo este post, estou a caminho do Alentejo com a minha família, e tenho um saco cheio de livros aos meus pés.Como vou passar a semana longe da minha estante, escolher os livros que queria trazer não foi tarefa fácil…
Como já se devem ter apercebido, o post de hoje é sobre os livros que decidi trazer para ler durante as férias. Passemos então à lista…
Alguns destes fazem parte da TBR do Book Bingo (vejam a TBR aqui), e outros são livros super apropriados para ler na praia ou na piscina – que é basicamente tudo o que pretendo fazer durante esta semana hahaha
Trouxe esta pequena selecção de livros que quero ler há algum tempo, porque a viagem é grande e preciso de distracções!
Estes são apenas alguns dos livros que tenho no Kindle – os que mais quero ler. Estou mortinha para ler o livro novo da Candace Ganger e o The Couple Next Door, tenho a certeza que vou adorar os dois! ♡
E são estes os livros que tenho aqui comigo. Acho que são mais que suficientes para uma semana hahaha
E vocês? Que livros levaram ou levariam de férias convosco? Digam-me nos comentários aqui em baixo, gosto sempre de saber estas coisas!
Obrigada por visitarem o meu blog,
Vêmo-nos no próximo post ♡
Hey everyone, happy 4th of July!! 🇺🇸
This month I chose to go for an aquarium-themed setup, in honor of Summer starting at the end of June. I am incredibly proud of how it came out, and I hope you will love it as well ♡
I will explain what I use each spread for, and how I use it, so if you’d like to know how, just keep reading!! The setup video will be at the end.
I have been using the same calendar format for a couple months now, and it really works for me. It’s pretty simple: one column for all day events, one for AM, and one for PM events. Each line corresponds to a certain day, and I will write down whatever events/appointments will be happening on said day.
When I write them down, I put a little dot next to the event, so I know what kind of event it is: if it’s a birthday, I will put a yellow dot, if it’s an appointment, that’s blue, and so on…
On the right I always have a column where I’ll write down the major tasks or goals for the month to keep me focused on them. I also added a tiny calendar of the following month (in this case, it’s August), because it’s useful to have an overview of the month ahead!
I use the tracker for both my habits and my self-care.
I list out all of the days on the top, and then I write down all of my habits. Each day I will make a dot on the things I did that day, and that will give me an idea of what I need to improve on.
For my self care, I rate myself on a scale of 1-10 on each of those five areas. each day I make a dot in the corresponding color, and then I connect the dots to make a graph.
In this page, I write down one line about each day. I usually write down what happened or what I did that day, but it can be whatever you want to write down. That’s the beauty of bullet journaling, you’re totally free! ♡
The gratitude page is pretty similar to the previous, but in this one I write down something I’m grateful for. It’s great to flip back to this page each month and see all of the little things that we should be grateful for ♡
The expenses tracker has one sole purpose: to allow me to see where my money is going. The way I set it up is pretty simple: you put how much you spend on each category that day, and the total on the last column. At the end of the month, you can sum it all up and see where you spent the most, which can be quite helpful!
This page is simply a list of all the prompts for the PlanWithMeChallenge. I am a huge fan of monthly challenges, and if you are too you might want to check this one out. If you’re interested, here’s the link to the challenge for July.
This page is pretty much the same as the last, but it’s a different challenge: RockYourHandwriting! If you’re interested in this one, here is the link to this month’s challenge ♡
Lastly, we have the mood tracker. This is probably my favourite page of this month, I love how it turned out!!
The idea is to color in one feather each day with the color that corresponds to my mood on that day. Then, I add some decoration to the feather, and that’s it! At the end of the month, I will have a beautifully colourful peacock! ♡
Supplies I used:
And that’s all for my July setup!! Let me know if you have any questions, and definitely leave a comment if you have any suggestions for future content.
Thank you so much for reading,
I’ll see you in my next post ♡
Olá a todos! Hoje trago-vos o meu plano para o Book Bingo – Leituras ao Sol.
Há muito que queria participar em desafios da comunidade literária portuguesa, e já que estou de férias, este Book Bingo é perfeito!
O desafio começa dia 21 de Junho e termina às 23:59h de 22 de Setembro, portanto temos bastante tempo (ou não…)
O objectivo é bastante simples: completar uma coluna, uma linha (na diagonal), ou o quadro todo, sendo que quem completar os 16 quadradinhos faz BINGOOOOOO.
Obviamente, sendo extremamente ambiciosa e irrealista, vou apontar para os 16 livros – não é provável que vá correr como esperado, só para que conste, mas tento na mesma!
Então aqui vai o meu plano…
Since You’ve Been Gone de Morgan Matson
Joyland de Stephen King, emprestado pela minha mãe ♡
The Hobbit de J.R.R. Tolkien
Winger de Andrew Smith
Soundless de Richelle Mead
O Príncipe da Neblina de Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Os Lusíadas de Luís Vaz de Camões… eu sei, eu sei, estou a enterrar-me a cada escolha hahaha
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief de Rick Riordan, que já estou para ler há séculos!
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight de Jennifer E. Smith
The 39 Clues de Rick Riordan
The Black Prism de Brent Weeks
A Casa de Vidro de Anna Fagundes Martino, autora brasileira
Can You Keep A Secret? de Sophie Kinsella
The Red Pyramid de Rick Riordan, que tem por base o Egipto, apesar de não se passar apenas nesse país
Saga, volume I de Fiona Staples
Furthermore de Tahereh Mafi
E são estas as leituras planeadas para o Book Bingo. Eu honestamente penso que pelo menos 10 destas leituras consigo atingir facilmente, o resto é que é pior… mas não há de ser nada! Dream big haha
Se estiverem interessados em mais informações sobre o desafio, podem consultar a publicação original do grupo Leituras Partilhadas no Goodreads.
Vemo-nos no próximo post! ♡
Hi, everyone! June is almost here – crazy, I know! -, so it’s time for another Bullet Journal setup ♡
For June I am going to switch back to my discbound notebook because I miss it, and hopefully I’ll stick to it for a while! (no promises, though)
As usual, I will explain what I use each spread for, list the supplies I used, and link you to my setup video. So without further ado, let’s get right into it…
I randomly saw a picture of a wooden board with flowers acting as a border, so I took inspiration from that and made a cute little plaque to welcome June into my life. Inspiration is everywhere, guys!!
You probably noticed my colossal mistake… 2010, really? hahaha
So for the calendar, I wanted to try Boho Berry‘s layout. I’ve been doing a list-format calendar for a while, and I find that, if I have more than one thing happening on a certain day, I can’t fit everything in that one day, so extending the calendar will definitely come in handy!
Like Kara, I created a column for all-day, AM and PM events, and also a column where I’ll write down my tasks/projects for the month. I’ll be using the same color code that I use for my Calendex, because it’s easy for me to quickly recognize whatever is happening on a certain day. I also added a tiny calendar, because it looks pretty ahahah
I think this layout is going to work very well, but I’ll keep you updated!
Next up is my tracker, which looks pretty much the same as May’s tracker. I prefer to do it vertically instead of horizontally because this way there’s more space, and I don’t have to turn my journal around to fill it in each day.
I’m tracking the same things as always, but now I also track whether I take my vitamins/supplements. Like I did for May, I added the moon phases in the hopes of figuring out how the moon affects me, so I can maybe use it to my advantage??
Last time, I drew 31 flowers with the intent of coloring them in each day. This time, I didn’t feel like drawing a whole page of flowers, so I’m going to draw one every day and fill it in with the color that corresponds to my mood.
I love the Mood Mandala, but I can never keep up with it, and I hate to color in the bigger circles, so I give up for now!
This month I’m going to attempt to actually keep up with this page – I really like doing it, I just rarely remember to! The idea is to write one line about your day, every day. It’s very simple, and you can write whatever you want. It’s also fun to look back on!!
Alright y’all, that’s everything I have on my journal for June. I will be adding more spreads, so if you’d like to see them, definitely follow my Instagram account!
I hope you liked this setup, and don’t forget to watch the video where you can see me do all of them.
If you’re interested in seeing previous setups, here are the posts for February, March, March (mini journal), April and May.
See you in my next post!! ♡
Hello, everyone! Since April is coming to an end, it’s time for another Bullet Journal setup ♡ In today’s post I will talk a bit about each spread, and also share with you my setup video. Hope you like my BuJo as much as I do!
I decided to set up in my Leuchtturm because I am almost up to page 200, so I wanted to use up the rest of the pages during the remaining of my semester – translation: I want to get a new Leuchtturm but will feel bad if I don’t finish this one, so that’s what I’m doing…
For May, I decided to do an Egypt-themed monthly page, because next week I’m going on a field trip related to Egyptian culture with my Pre-Classical History class, which I’m EXTREMELY EXCITED ABOUT!! Also I just really love Maat, so it’s an excuse to draw her hahaha
Aside from the themed monthly, I also added a different spread and changed how my trackers were, so if you’re interested in seeing that, let’s get to it!
First up is my monthly spread, which includes the drawing of Maat, and a calendar in list format, which is the most functional for me.
Here, I write down all of the upcoming events, holidays, birthdays, appointments etc. for the whole month, and I will add more stuff during the month if anything comes up. On top, I wrote my name in hieroglyphic writing, which I know by heart since my professor wrote it on the board once – cool as hell, I know!!
After my calendar comes the ‘One Line a Day‘ spread, which I keep setting up each month but never keep up with… But I think I might be able to fill it up this month, we’ll see!! This page is pretty self-explanatory: you write one line a day, which could be just about something that happened that day, a thought you had, how you felt, etc. It’s up to you, really.
Next up is my favorite page, because it looks absolutely beautiful and I can’t wait to start using it!! So for the last couple months I tried to do a Mood Mandala, but I kind of think it’s not for me… I get tired of having to color in the circles, and then when I draw out the mandala I never like it, so then I stop feeling like coloring it and never use it again.
Since that wasn’t working, I decided to make a mood tracker similar to Malin Olivia‘s, because it’s very functional and you don’t have to color in a huge thing, it’s just a little flower. I saw her spread on Instagram one day and I fell in love. I really think I will be able to keep up with it, and it will look sooooo pretty in the end.
The next page is where I am able to see how bad I was during the month… I really like to keep an expense tracker because I can easily see where my money is going, and where I need to be more careful, etc. It’s quite a helpful spread, and it only takes a minute to update whenever I spend any money.
This next page is for the #PlanWithMeChallenge, which I have a hard time keeping up with, unfortunately. I always forget to see what the prompt for the day is and when it pops up in my mind I’ve already gone like two weeks without posting anything… it’s annoying and totally my own fault, so I decided to add it to my journal. Maybe this way I won’t forget?! Hopefully not haha
And lastly is are my habit and self-care trackers, which I decided to combine and do vertically because this way there is more room. I really love how this turned out, and if it works I’ll probably keep this format in the future!
If you’re not familiar with trackers, basically they help you track when/if you do certain things you want to do (e.g. exfoliate) or not to do (e.g. no spending). If you do them that day, you color it in, and at the end of the month you will have a visual of how often you did/didn’t do those things. On my self-care tracker, I rate things from 1-10 (e.g. from 1-10, how good was my mood today). At the end of each day, I reflect on everything I did/felt that day, and I draw a little dot on the number I give myself. I also connect the dots, so at the end of the month I have a little graph.
These trackers are very helpful to me, so I do them every month (even if sometimes I forget to fill them in… oops!)
Leuchtturm A5 dot-grid notebook
Staedtler Pigment liners in various sizes
Staedtler watercolor palette
Paint brushes from Portuguese brand – any brush will do
Tombow Dual Brush Pens in 772 (pink), 623 (purple), 373 (teal), 991 (yellow), 761 (lighter pink), 873 (coral), 761 (carnation pink) and 451 (light blue)
Zebra Mildliner: mint green and purple-ish pink
Circle template from AliExpress
And that’s all for my May setup, I really hope you liked this post, and don’t forget to watch my setup video, where you can see me do all of these spreads.
If you’re interested in seeing previous setups, here are the posts for February, March, March (mini journal) and April.
See you in my next post!! ♡
The Bookish Deer 