11/08/2020

Weekly Book Wrap-Up #138 – What A Week

With the Weekly Book Wrap-Up, I give you a bit of an insight into all the new books that have arrived at my place. No matter if I won a giveaway, got approved for a reviewer´s copy, an ARC, or just bought one myself. Everything that I add to my shelves, in what way ever and read during the past week or am still reading, I will write about it. And maybe I tell you a bit about the upcoming things on Inkvotary, that is if I don´t forget it and have something to share with you *smile*

I am linking up with Tynga´s Reviews and Caffeinated Reviewer and hope you´ll have fun reading it and maybe get the one or the other book inspiration.

Stacking The Shelves #138

I am participating in a reading round at Lovelybooks. Found that out by surprise on Saturday, when I picked this book up at the postoffice.

Sunday Post #95

The past seven days have felt as if I was living in a parallel universe. The second lockdown feels completely different from the one we had to do in Spring. And the presidential election thriller did its part too, to make things strange. Thank god Biden has won!

Our corona numbers went up into the air daily and by the end of the week, we hit the record-breaking number of over 20.000 confirmed new corona infections. Not much if you see the numbers in other parts of the world, but for Germany, this means one big crisis. Now we mourn the death of over 11.000 people and the way how people behave has changed. Not everyone is happy with the new guidelines and stricter rules but most of us believe that it is necessary. But I can see and feel that things are different this time. Maybe that is because Christmas is coming closer and we already know that most of the Christmas markets around the country have been canceled. And those who will take place will be happening without any mulled wine, punch, or the typical things to eat like waffles or toffee apples. 

I tried to split my time between blogging and doing some garden work during the afternoon. Does not work every day and I am way behind with writing and publishing reviews. Not to mention reading a book. Somehow, I´ve got a bug that screwed with my blog's homepage and some posts, and therefore I had to deal with some technical issues too. Thankfully, my template designer was able to find the problem and could fix it. But of course, that and the time I spend in the garden have put me behind my schedule. I am just too exhausted when I go upstairs into my apartment when it gets dark and mostly fall asleep while lying on the couch. The garden looks as if a bomb has exploded but I don´t see a point covering the plain soil yet with some bark mulch. I still got some work to do before I can call it done for spring.

At the beginning of September.  

How the garden looks today.

During the first week of this new lockdown, even though it is only a partial one I noticed that my use of hand cream and soap has quadrupled. My supermarket had the small sanitizer bottles you can easily carry around in your handbag on sale and I bought some. It sounds weird but not all shops or buildings offer you hand sanitizer during this second lockdown. 

Saturday morning, when I walked to my post office, I noticed that I could see the moon. Doesn´t happen very often that I see this, so I was thrilled when I saw it. The tiny white dot in the picture is the moon. On the left side of the tree, you can see in the right corner of the picture. Something positive. 

How was your week? Stay safe and healthy.



Happy reading

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