Rainy Sunday afternoons #summerisover

Magical reads for a magical, late summer night 🌟

LOVE LOVE LOVE Alexandra Bracken's The Darkest Minds series and now that the final volume is finally published in Italian as well it's time for a reread. The Darkest Legacy does a great job of taking the series one step further and introducing interesting new characters. I'm still crushing hard on Liam Stewart though 😍

Starting the summer holidays with my new reading buddy sound asleep in the background ❤️

Reader, I married him

Starting this beauty today!

"Since the thing perhaps is
To eat flowers and not be afraid."

Healthy breakfast, trying to think happy thoughts and get through the week...

This is a lovely little book based on the premise that depressive illness (stress induced depression rather than manic- depressive or bipolar disorder etc) affects people with a strong character because they take on heavier loads, again and again, until something snaps. Then it illustrates some ways to break that cycle.

Lots of rain, lots of tea, lots of translating, lots of Beethoven. #winter

Lovely read for a lovely afternoon in New Delhi

So excited to start reading this - and a signed copy, too!

Last shreds of summer

Sudden rainstorm forced us in Amsterdam's prettiest bookstore. Now that's what I call good weather.

Word.

Gengis really has the best taste in books - reading my Italian translation of Alexandra Bracken's Passenger! #catsoflitsy

After a long, grey winter at last some quality time with the Boss.

Being stuck in bed with the flu doesn't mean I can't travel by other means...

Sunday night blues? Not anymore!

True love is... a homemade literary subscription box by a "secret admirer" (aka bf) to cheer me up after an awful day at work.

A quick look outside my window while I reread the Silmarillion... and yes, even as I look up from the page, I'm still in Middle Earth.

Can't wait to start reading this! Carrie, you are sorely missed.

But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren't chosen, when there was no royal blood in our veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.

A heavy snowfall in Kabul means hard work for us in New Delhi - organising a training course on the promotion of youth-inclusive and gender-balanced employment policies in Afghanistan. With a little free time for reading this lovely little travel book on India! Incredible country full of wonderful people and spirituality.

Got my first #prudenceandthecrow package in the mail today.

Opening this hand-picked, specially assembled bag of bookish goodies is one of the best feelings in the world. Thank you Prudence and the Crown for making my Sunday even more special.

Reader, I'd marry him
#christmasgifts