Summer Weekends: 10 ideas to make your summer more bookish

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Summer weekends - 10 ideas to make your summer more bookish

Summer is here! – well, kind of. Even though the calendar has decided that it’s officially fun-in-the-sun time, Denmark didn’t get the memo – as usual. It’s been cold, windy and wet so far, but I’m still hoping that we’ll get the usual three days of summer this year. How Danes are continually rated the happiest people on earth when our summers are so crap is beyond me. I suspect that it’s got something to do with our deep dislike of greasy sunscreen, which most of us need if we don’t want to look – and feel – like a cooked lobster. No summer sun, no greasy sunscreen, no problem!

Anyways, if you’re lucky enough to live somewhere where the weather is great, summer is the perfect time to leave your indoor reading nook and enjoy some bookish activities outside.

Below are 10 ideas to get you started, and if you’ve got some ideas of your own, do share them in the comments! The more fun and bookish summer ideas, the better!    Continue reading →

Happy Birthday! 5 famous authors who were born in June

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Happy Birthday! 5 famous authors who were born in June

I love birthdays – and not just my own. I love celebrating other people, who have experienced yet another year of living life.

Life is such a wonder, and I think birthdays are a great way to keep reminding us of just that. Even when I don’t know someone personally – and never will – I like to take a moment on their birthday to feel grateful for how they’ve enriched my life in big or small ways.

Which leads me to the topic of today’s blog post. As readers, we get to experience the most intimate part of an author’s being – their mind. Authors let us see what they think and feel, they pour their heart and soul into Continue reading →

5 German fairy tales about food – from magical fruit trees to porridge floods

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5 german fairy tales about food - from magical fruit trees to porridge floods

If you are a food-loving bookworm with a fondness for fairy tales, this may just be the perfect blog post for you!

Food is one of the most essential things we need in life (along with books, of course), yet we often take it for granted in the food-wasting western world. Back in the bad old days when fairy tales were everyone’s Netflix, food was not always easy to come by though. Starvation and the desire to eat well are therefore important elements in many fairy tales. Now, this may sound awfully depressing to read about, BUT it’s (usually) not. You see, these stories are filled with magical ways of escaping hunger and poverty, which Continue reading →

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Arthur Conan Doyle

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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Arthur Conan Doyle

Today is a special day! On the 22nd of May in 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Yes, it’s the birthday of Sherlock Holmes’ dad!

In this blog post, I’ll highlight 10 things about Doyle’s life that you may not have known – until now. So if you want to know more about the man who gave us some of the world’s most famous detective stories and took us on an adventure to ‘The Lost World’, do read on!   Continue reading →

Wednesday Wisdom – 10 quotes about the power of reading

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Wednesday Wisdom - 10 quotes about the power of reading

On Monday, I wrote a post about how reading gets me through the potholes of life, and today I wanted to build on that. As I mentioned in the post, books have the power to make you feel and reading them can even change what you feel. But reading isn’t limited to just making you feel something – it’s so many great things wrapped up into one: knowledge sharing, stress relieving, empathy boosting, open-minded enabling, inspiration fertiliser and pure, undiluted happiness.

All of this awesomeness is captured in the 10 quotes below. Some of them are fun, some are philosophical, but all of them will share a bit of wisdom about reading.

And who doesn’t love some bookish quotes, right? Continue reading →

The power of reading – How reading gets me through the potholes of life

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The power of reading - how reading gets me through the potholes of life

It’s been two weeks since I last posted, and if you follow the blog on a regular basis, you’ll know that I usually post three times a week. So what happened? Well, the short answer is life.

Two weeks ago, life decided to be spiteful and difficult. I spent a week not coping with it at all (with a massive amount of feeling-sorry-for-myself thrown in for good measure). As you have probably noticed, life is full of these nasty little potholes. It really shouldn’t come as such a surprise when things don’t go your way – and yet it does, every single time.

However, after a week full of why-me, I grabbed a book and started reading. It wasn’t a grand masterpiece of literature designed to question the big things that life can throw at you. No, it was a reread of an urban fantasy novel, which I knew would make me smile. Continue reading →

DIY Friday – Bookish Cookies

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DIY Friday - bookish cookies

Welcome to a special DIY Friday here at A Little Blue Book. Today I’ve put the glue and the scissors away and instead I’ve been throwing around flour and juggling eggs.

As some of you may know, Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon starts tomorrow, and I’ve been making bookish snacks for this epic event. Reading for 24 hours will require energy and lots of it, which makes these cookies the perfect treat. These little beauties are also perfect for bookish birthday parties, cosy tea parties and anytime you want to spoil yourself with a tonne of sugary goodness! Continue reading →