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literary dishes: date filled ma’moul

January 29, 2019

Today’s post will be slightly different than anything else on this blog. In lieu of Hafsah Faizal’s upcoming release We Hunt the Flame (May 14th 2019), we (meaning one of the groups of her Street Team) brought a Blog Hop to life. I am extremely thankful for being part of this awesome Street Team and furthermore the #Sarasinners! When it was time to think about my contribution to the Blog Hop, I knew I wanted to make something special – something different.

all the reasons to pre-order we hunt the flame by hafsah faizal

January 6, 2019

This week some incredible news reached me – I was lucky enough to become a part of Hafsah Faizal‘s Street Team for her upcoming novel We Hunt the Flame which will release on May 14th 2019! You can’t imagine how excited I was to be able to support Hafsah and her book. And since I am barely able to contain my excitement about it all, I decided to show you why We Hunt the Flame is so amazing and why you wouldn’t want to miss it!

top ten thursday: 2019 releases

January 3, 2019

It’s this time of the year again – the beginning of … well, a new year in which normal people talk about their New Year’s resolutions while all the readers talk about the books being released in the next 365 days. To be fair – there are quite a lot of books coming out every year and keeping an eye on all of them isn’t the easiest thing. I won’t exclude myself from this group because while thinking about this blog post, I made several lists to keep track of all the releases I didn’t want to miss. And yes, those lists weren’t identical since I always missed one or two books in my enumeration. Still, I picked out my Top Ten of book releases I don’t want to miss in 2019.

NaNoWriMo – Part I (Preparation)

October 31, 2018

Today’s the last day of October, which means tomorrow starts National Novel Writing Month – better known as NaNoWriMo. Yes, it’s *THAT* time of the year again. I know that among the many readers of us there are also aspiring writers and as such taking part in this event. I am no exception of this – for most of the year my head has been filled with many different stories that want to be spilt on pages. I knew I wanted to write them down one time and with NaNoWriMo in the back of my head I decided, to participate once more. But since I planned it months in advance and technically couldn’t start writing, I started to prepare instead.

review: the oddling prince by nancy springer

April 9, 2018

What is a friend? Troth without end.
A light in the eyes, a touch of the hand –
I would follow you even to Death’s dark strand.

A medieval Celtic kingdom – which is normally isolated and has to fear only occasional revolts by one of the vassals – now has to face a bigger threat than ever before. The king is lying on his deathbed, his sickness caused by a mysterious and certainly magical ring, with no hope for rescue. The only chance to save his life seems to be a young man, seemingly not out of this world. The Oddling Prince tells the story of two young men from different worlds with a friendship that defies everything else.

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