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Elfie (Gabrielle Dubois)
Sometimes it just doesn’t hit the mark for me in terms of realistic portrayal or it is so realistic and void of imagination that it bores me. But sometimes it captivates my attention fully and is a joy to read. I can happily say that „Elfie“ by Gabrielle Dubois falls into the latter category 😊…
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The Waking Forest (Alyssa Wees)
Today! Todays this sweet little audiobook is coming out (28th of March 2023). I got to chance to listen to it as an ARC and I did enjoy it. In „The Waking Forest“ we are following the story of a witch in the forest and also the story of a girl, Rhea, wo is living…
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Bewitched Shadows (Autumn Blake)
What kind of genre is this? It has definitely a murder mystery in it. But its also a romance (with some spice!). But it is also kind of a coming of age story. So let’s call it a spicy, romantic murder mystery with a strong coming-of-age trope. (…)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
I will not lie, the first few chapters were hard. And just because of one thing in particular: (…)
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Circe (Madeline Miller)
Greek Mythology and I, thats a story that didn’t go too well in the past. Not that I was not interested, I love mythological tales in itself (although I was more drawn to the nordic gods of my german ancestors in general). But with greek mythology there always was this very prominent stance of misogyny…
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Remi Bone (William L. Myers, Jr.)
In this psychological thriller, we follow our main character Remi Bone, who gets himself a job as a hitman to make sure that his daughter ahs all means possible for when he will not be there anymore.
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Godkiller (Hannah Kaner)
Hannah Kaners ‚Godkiller‘ is an epic fantasy tale that lives off of world building, a page-turning plot as well as likeable and deeply human characters. A beautiful tale about a world where gods were part of the everyday life before they were banished for good, or were they?
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Demon Copperhead (by Barbara Kingsolver)
I got caught up in telling her all this and almost forgot my messed-up life, because in some ways she was worse off than me. She’d never seen a lightning bug. That is just tragic. I told her the different ones. One kind goes totally dark, then they all blink together, thousands, one big sparkly…
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Hello there!
„A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.“ (Chinese Proverb) Welcome, this is it – this is my little place where I will share my bookish endeavours with you, or my bookshelf therapy as I will call it. My name is Jasmin and I live in southern Germany. I like books and…
Bookshelf Therapy 