The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo von Taylor Jenkins Reid - Review

"You imagine a world where the two of you can go out to dinner together on a Saturday night and no one thinks twice about it. It makes you want to cry, the simplicity of it, the smallness of it. You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The daily peace of loving plainly." - Taylor Jenkins Reid

You Should See Me in a Crown von Leah Johnson - Review

“Just because it could be worse doesn't mean you don't get to acknowledge how much it sucks, you know.” - Leah Johnson

Buchempfehlungen für Frühlingsgefühle

Jetzt wo es draussen wieder wärmer wird und die Sonne häufiger scheint, lese ich gerne die ein oder andere Liebesgeschichte mit grossen Frühlingsgefühlen. Meine Favoriten stelle ich darum heute mal vor. Alle Bücher, die sich um LGBTQ+ Geschichten drehen, werde ich mit einem Regenbogen-Emoji versehen!🌈

To All the Boys I`ve Loved Before von Jenny Han - Review

“When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.” - Jenny Han

Crooked Kingdom von Leigh Bardugo - Review

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.” - Leigh Bardugo

The Miseducation of Cameron Post von Emily M. Danforth - Review

“Everything was heightened the way it always is when summer is slipping away to fall, and you're younger than eighteen, and all you can do is suck your cherry Icee and let the chlorine sting your nose, all the way up into the pockets behind your eyes, and snap your towel at the pretty girl with the sunburn, and hope to do it all again come June.” - Emily M. Danforth

Six of Crows von Leigh Bardugo - Review

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.” - Leigh Bardugo

The Gentleman`s Guide to Getting Lucky von Mackenzi Lee

"Then maybe I should have said it to you sooner--you needn't hide around us. I'm sorry you ever felt you had to. And that the world makes you feel as though you have to.” - Mackenzi Lee

Hold Still von Nina LaCour - Review

"You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons. The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can`t get away from it. Not ever." - Nina LaCour

Tweet Cute von Emma Lord - Review

"A stolen day. The kind of day that ends too fast but stays with you much longer." - Emma Lord

Meine Leseziele fürs neue Jahr

Auf Goodreads nehme ich seit ein paar Jahren jeweils an der Reading Challenge mit. Dort kann man sich ein bestimmtes Ziel setzen, was die Anzahl der gelesenen Bücher angeht. In den letzten Jahren war es meist mein Ziel, fünfzig Bücher zu lesen, letztes Jahr erhöhte ich diese Zahl auf sechzig. Für 2021 habe ich mir nun folgende Challenge gesetzt: dreissig Bücher. Ziemlich wenige im Vergleich zu vergangenen Jahren. Doch auch zu den Genres habe ich mir einige Gedanken gemacht.

When We Were Magic von Sarah Gailey - Review

"Sometimes I don`t know what to say, and it never feels like it`s okay to not know." - Sarah Gailey

2020 Jahresrückblick

Letztes Jahr um diese Zeit war das Internet voll mit Memes, die Vorfreude verbreiteten auf das kommende Jahr. 20/20 Vision. Die goldenen Zwanziger. All das ist bekanntlich nicht eingetroffen. Das Jahr war für viele Menschen eine Katastrophe, hat Pläne durchkreuzt und unsere Leben stark verändert. Heute will ich trotzdem zurückschauen auf das vergangene Jahr, das für mich eigentlich hervorragend begann.

Cemetery Boys von Aiden Thomas - Review

“But belonging meant denying who he was. Living as something he wasn't had nearly torn him part from the inside out. But he also loved his family, and his community. It was bad enough being an outsider; what would happen if they just couldn't--or wouldn't--accept him for who he was?” - Aiden Thomas

Cinderella Is Dead von Kalynn Bayron - Review

“The palace underestimates the resourcefulness of women forced into a dark and dangerous place.” - Kalynn Bayron

Not That Kind of Girl von Lena Dunham - Review

“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman.” - Lena Dunham

The Love Hypothesis von Laura Steven - Review

"We did this. We pushed her away. But when the only way to bring her back is to round off our edges, to turn down our volume... is that really friendship at all?" - Laura Steven

Männer dürfen Röcke tragen - Kommentar

via Vogue

Eine Nachricht, die anfangs Woche grosse Wellen schlug, war die Ankündigung, dass Harry Styles in der Dezemberausgabe der Vogue als erster Mann alleine das Cover zieren würde. Auch die begleitenden Fotos wurden von dem Modemagazin gepostet. Zu sehen ist Styles in verschiedenen Outfits, darunter auch Kleidern und Röcken. Die einen feierten die Bilder und die genderneutrale Kleidung – andere sahen darin das Ende der Männlichkeit und der Welt im Gesamten.

Darius the Great Is Not Okay von Adib Khorram - Review

"`Everyone wants you here. We have a saying in Farsi. It translates `your place was empty.` We say it when we miss somebody.` I sniffed. `Your place was empty before. But this is your family. You belong here.`" - Adib Khorram

The Places I`ve Cried in Public von Holly Bourne - Review

"I`m grieving for me. I`m grieving for the me I was before I met you. The me who trusted people. The me who trusted that love was a good thing. The me who had friends and a life, and was respected for being true to herself. That girl is gone. You killed her. I`m starting to grow her back, of course, but she will never be the same." - Holly Bourne