Bout of books 11.0, day 2 update! + Book Spine Poetry

So I managed to finish my second book and I have started on the third, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, prodigal son. So far it's been interesting, there has been a lot of characters introduced and I hope their relations to each other will be explained more as the plot thickens, which I am very sure it will.

Now I shall try and present my try on the Book Spine Poetry challenge. This was quite hard to achieve as a lot of my books are in different languages and I wasn't sure if I could mix different languages...so yeah, my choises were a bit limited but none the less I came up with this:

There is

Luck In the Shadows

for

This Charming man

with a

Changeless

Heart of Brass

and 

Only Human

Wanderlust

The rules was to pick 6 books and get 6 extra words, I used: there, is, for, with, a and and.

Lets see if I can come up with a OTP to write about or if I'm just gonna head to bed now..

Bout of Books 11, day 1

So much for my resolution to draw constantly these last weeks before my move...instead I got sucked into the allure and festive feelings of the Bout of Books 11.0 readathon.

For those who doesn't know, a readathon is like a marathon but instead of running a lot, you read a lot.

So for this week I decided that I want to try and read 5-6 books, so that I don't have to bring them down to Malmö with me. I might have taken a bigger bite than I can chew considering that I am also reading 5 other books at the same time...
But so far I've finished one book and over halfway with the second.

The first book that I read was Asylum by Madeleine Roux, a YA (young adult) horror novel that was a fairly easy read with a pretty straight forward story and a cliffhanger at the end.

The book after that is the further adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Veiled Detective by David Stuart Davies and I am currently reading it.
Now this book is quite interesting actually. Mostly because Davies made some major changes to the characters and thus the storyline and due to his writing style the overall feeling of the books resembles the Sherlock BBC TV-series a lot. I have to check up when this was released and when the first pilot for the series was made. So far the novel has read like a movie for me, Davies and Doyle has very different writing styles and one  can tell very clearly that one of them is written during modern times trying to emulate an older writing style typical for the 1880s.
I could go on writing about this book, but I think I'm going to save it for a video review instead.

Aperantly there were this daily challenges as well that I missed to do, so I am making one of them below :

Bout of Books Scavenger Hunt

1. A Book that begins with “B”  (for Bout of Books!)

2. A book that has been made into a movie/tv show

3. A series you love

4. An anthology of poems or short stories

5. A book on your TBR shelf, or your full TBR shelves

That's about it for now. I'll be back later with this days challenges and stuff I think! 

July wrap up video is up!

Woop Woop

Uploaded a new video on youtube (finally). This time it is the July wrap up  that most booktubers feels obliged to film. Not saying it's a bad thing, far from it, just getting a recap on the month do help (at least) me personally to see how much time I've spent reading and often on how big books as well.

This month I ended up reading only 2 books and some graphical novels. Although I did finish Dune and some other books in the beginning of August (can't believe it's really August).

It really does feel like summer is over. It's been rainy and not so warm this last week...feels like I can start anticipating Halloween now (not that we celebrate Halloween that much, but I do love a party where I can dress up).
Aaanyway, I did not mean to start rambling about other stuff with this post!

I hope you enjoy the video and I shall write yet again!

Getting back to blogging?

Herm yes. 

Not that I think that my hiatus here left any sort of hole in ones daily life, I will still announce the uninteresting fact that yes, I am going to start blogging again. 

And to make things extra original I will add this phrase as well: This time it will be different! 

Maybe not so trust inducing, now is it? 

But 'lo and behold, I am not writing it for your entertainment/enjoyment/annoyment, I am writing it for me. 

Some might ask "why the f**** don't you write it somewhere else then stupid?" 

And to thee I want to say, because I want to! 

I have already this page sort of set up (yup you got it, gonna make me some graphis design changes!) and I feel that writing that sort of commitments where anyone can read it, puts more pressure on it, and being a person who is most efficient under pressure (yay for day-before-deadline-writing!) this is something good. 

But why start again now? 

Well my curious friend ('cause if you've read this far then curiosity must be one of your biggest traits), I am starting a new chapter in my life. 

I graduated from university with my diploma for computergames graphics, which means that I am now on the jobmarket. Naturally, that means that I'm going back to school to "study" some more. 

This time it will be comics!! (Woop woop childhood dreams coming true woop woop!) 

To study this I'll have to move to another city (from stockholm to malmö), which means leaving all my friends, life and comfort for something completely knew and scary. 

I am a habits based person, something like this stresses me out and gives me tummy aches :c 

But here I am, on my way home on a train from Malmö, where I've been checking up rooms for rent, so that I don't have to live on the street when school finally starts. 

And things are starting to feel real and I oddly enough, am not feeling panick creeping up behind me, latching on to my back for a piggybackride. 

Instead I am thinking on how to make this an oportunity to do more of the stuff that I kinda forget after a while. Like blogging. 

So with this crazy move to another city, I want to finally start blogging and youtubing on a regular basis, draw a lot and paint more, and over all be more active both online and offline (because seriously, these last few weeks I might as well been a hermit with no internet, living on an island on a finnish lake, with only a sauna and the mosqitous as my friends, when considering the amount of socializing I did). 

I also want to find my voice/style in both blogging and vlogging. I've found a couple of blogs that I really love and realized it's been the superb way they have utilized the english language to fit their style. 

It has inspired me to start writing, but sadly I pretty much suck at it. Never the less I wont give up! 

Because, as I wrote in the beginning, I am writing this for me, not you.

The World Keeps on Turning

Hello there~

Haven't been writing much as nothing have really changed that much...

I've been working on my portfolio, granted not as hard as I should (which means I will have to step up my game now if I'm going to have any chance for a internship). 

What I need to do is finish my 3D work and create some new good 2D art. Not so hard right?

Well maybe if one isn't a lazy bum like me...

Anyway, winter is coming....and it is kinda depressing. 

I wanted a more mellow and mild autumn, but no, apparently it was time for some snow in sweden (not exactly where I live, but thanks to some helping facebook updates by friends I am able to know when the first snow landed where in stockholm). Although I don't think many would count is as snow yet if doesn't last long enough to touch the ground. 

(Btw I just started watching Merlin, and I am oh so happy to see Anthony Head and Eve Myles in it!)

Also managed to read some books these months, not as many as I would have liked as I almost fell behind on my reading challenge on goodreads (to read 50 books in a year), but I am getting back on track and hopefully get the booktubing thing started as well! 

Yes I am still into that, and wont be able to get it out of my head until I try it.

Now, I could go on with my anxiety over my future and all the stress I put upon myself, buuut I think that's an entry for another time...

Moving

Yaaaay, I have finally moved!
And let me tell you, there are tons of things left to do and fix. For example, we don't have internet.
Or we have a little bit of internet...we get a very low signal of wifi in the garden, so I need to sit outside on A's laptop if I want to have access to the internet. Which is not that fun when the evenings are getting colder and darker and you just want to sit inside with a cup of tea.

Yes, I admit, I am addicted to the internet.
 The thing is, I don't have an issue with no internet when I have chosen it. Spending weeks in our summer house in finland with no electricity or running water have never been a problem for me. But when I'm home, I want to feel like it too, and that includes internet with all it's glory.
But the lack of internet does have some good points...we are a lot more active and actually go to the gym to have something to do and I have noticed I am a lot more social on my phone because one of the few things I can do is talk to people on facebook and other social sites.

Other than that all is well. We haven't killed each other, but there was some high tension yesterday...but what was to be expected when to females live together in close quarters and the moon takes it's turn? (I hope that was a good poetic term for pms for you guys XD)
Thankfully the simmering rage-filled boredom made me constructive and I actually built my IKEA computerdesk (and yes I managed to get one part wrong and I need to double check the wheels but at least there's a table in my room). I also called out for an impulse hangout with some friends in town. This did dilute the tension between me and A aswell (she tagged along).

School has also started and this year has the big potential of being BORING. Right now my assigment is pretty much reading a research about research..... -__-
Hopefully things will pick up later on and I'll find a good partner to write my big final essay with. I have some fun ideas I'd like to research and write about, but we'll have to see if I get to do that...

Hopefully internet will be fixed next week so I can start to fix the layout of this blog and portfolio (which help from A most likely).

:3

Life update

So there are some major changes going on in my life. Ok. Just one...or maybe two, it depends on how you see it. 

I am moving out! Yes! Finally! 
Out from my parents home and in to a what can only be called, a cabin. 
A bit wierd perhaps but it is what it is, and I am not moving alone so that's nice.
My friend A has already moved in so now I need to move over my stuff and we can finish decorating and such. We have our own rooms to sleep in which is propably for the best, this way I might not end up killing her..at least not in my sleep >.>

So the big decision is should I keep my small and forever-alone-bed or should I aim to buy a bigger one that will literally take up almost all space in my new tiny cabin room? 
A hard one isn't it?

And it's not like I have all the time in the world to dedicate to this moving either. I still have a part-time job that is a couple of days a week. And let's not forget the important days off where I kinda want the time to read and relax with friends. 'Cause since I am working this summer, it means that I have no vacation time at all, unless you count the four days I had in Köln, Germany (I think it might be Colone in english?) at the music festival Amphi (which was awesooooome btw! So going next year again!).  

And yeah, this post might be getting a bit long, but I do have one more subject I want to breach.
I am thinking on creating a youtube channel, or perhaps two, one personal which will mainly be aimed at booktubing (for those who are not aware of this term, it is pretty much a whole bunch of youtubers who talk mostly about books, like reviews and hauls and such). I read a lot of books (you can visist my goodreads page for an accurate overview of what I read). 
I am by no means I writer and thus I have never felt like any reviews I'd write for any book would accuratly cover what I thought about it. But talking about it on the other hand, I have no problem with!
Maybe I'll combine it with like a casual vlog or something...we'll see
The other channel is something me and A have been thinking of. Instead of doing a gaming channel alone we were thinking of doing one together, where we play different games, drink wine and act just the way we do when we usually play (which is pretty redicilous sometimes). This idea came forth when we played through The Last Of Us (great game by the way!).
Now that we will be living together it will be a lot easier to plan and film too~

That was really it for now, but keep an eye out, I will be posting more (and hopefully do something about my banner >.<)