Peanut Butter Cookies and Other Things [Daily Photo #1132-1138]

#1132: My first attempt at gluten-free peanut butter cookies was a success. :D

My November and December 2017 Reading

My extremely belated November 2017 reading is introduced to you by Evvi!

Ника Водвуд «Пёся» (Nika Vodvud “Pyosya”) [Russia]

Emmi Itäranta “Kudottujen kujien kaupunki” [Finland]

Лена Климова “Дети-404. ЛГБТ-подростки: в стенах молчания” [Russia]

Maria Turtschaninoff “Maresi” (The Red Abbey Chronicles #1) (translated by Annie Prime) [Finland]

Salla Simukka “Jäljellä” [Finland]

Short stories:

Alex Wells “Angel of the Blockade” [USA]

Rebecca Roanhorse “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” [USA]

Books, Flowers and Chocolate [Daily Photo #1032-1035]

#1032, 27.01.19: I read Orange by Ichigo Takano, and I liked it!

#1033, 28.01.19: Got some winter-spring flowers for us! ^u^

Toys, Roses, and Tea [Daily Photo #1006-1012]

Here's another daily photo digest!

#1006, 01.01.19: Got books from the library to kick-start my year with reading!

My September and October 2017 Reading

My September 2017 reading is introduced to you by Russian Bear!

Sandhya Menon “When Dimple Met Rishi” [India, USA]

Agatha Christie “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” (Hercule Poirot #4) [UK]

Lisa See “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” [USA]

Short story:

Kameron Hurley “Tumbledown” [USA]

When Dimple Met Rishi

My July and August 2017 Reading

My July 2017 (yes… I'm slow ^^;;;) reading is introduced to you by The Pink One!

Agatha Christie “Why Didn't They Ask Evans?” [UK]

Chigusa Kawai “La Esperança, Vol. 1-2” translated by Suvi Mäkelä [Japan]

Sarah Waters “Fingersmith” [UK]

“Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology” [USA, Canada]

A novelette free online:

JY Yang “Waiting on a Bright Moon” [Singapore]

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Nana [Daily Photo #777]

Hmmm, what could be the subject of my daily photo today? Flowers? Food? Books? Ohhh wait a minute. I just finished volume 11 of Nana by Ai Yazawa today, and which number is the Nana number? 7! “Nana” means 7 in Japanese, and you see this number often in that manga series. The heroines live on the 7^th floor in apartment 707, the author was born on March 7^th, 1967, and in the volume I read today the number 777 was mentioned. And today's daily photo happens to be #777! Q.E.D. I HAD to make it Nana-themed. =D

So, here are some simple Nana pics.

Fanart: Isabella from Paradise Kiss

Guess who drew a fanart last year, was satisfied with it, scanned it and then DID NOT post it here? *waves*

But I will procrastinate no more! (about this particular thing, not about others, of course…) Meet Isabella from Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa.

Books and Plants [Daily Photo #581]

Today I came home with a new plant and two books from the library. The plant is called Peperomia ferreyrae, I've never seen it before and couldn't resist buying it… which for some reason surprised my husband? ;p

Kitsune [Daily Photo #570]

Kitsune: “Hello, have you been studying Japanese lately?”

Um...　Does singing in Japanese count?.. No?...

Kitsune: ...

あの。。。 頭が痛いです。

My May Reading: Manga, Mirrors and Mice

My May reading is introduced to you by Samus Aran!

• Agatha Christie “They Do It With Mirrors” (Miss Marple #6) [UK]
• Karuho Shiina “Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 6-8” [Japan]
• Takako Shimura “Wandering Son, Vol. 8” [Japan]
• Graeme Manson, John Fawcett, Heli Kennedy “Orphan Black: Helsinki” [Canada]
• Ambelin Kwaymullina “The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf” (The Tribe #1) [Australia]
• Inverna Lockpez “Cuba: My Revolution” [Cuba, USA]
• Torben Kuhlmann “Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse” [Germany]

My April Reading: Stars, Minds and Robbers

My April reading is introduced to you by Valkopentu The Smol.

• Estanislao Bachrach “The Agile Mind: How Your Brain Makes Creativity Happen” [Argentina]
• Takako Shimura “Wandering Son Vol. 7” [Japan]
• Karuho Shiina “Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 1-5” [Japan]
• Kameron Hurley “The Stars Are Legion” [USA]
• Nalo Hopkinson “Midnight Robber” [Jamaica, Canada]

My March Reading: Fire, Letters and Girls

My March reading is introduced to you by Little Wooden Mouse! (By the way, we bought her in Tallinn.)

• Jenny Han “To All the Boys I've Loved Before” [USA]
• Stephen King “Firestarter” [USA]
• Takako Shimura “Wandering Son” vol. 6 [Japan]
• Nell Brinkley, Trina Robbins “The Brinkley Girls” [USA]

Short stories available online:

• Kameron Hurley “Our Faces, Radiant Sisters, Our Faces Full of Light!” [USA]
• Nghi Vo “Lotus Face and the Fox”
• Ada Hoffmann “The Scrape of Tooth and Bone” [Canada]

My February Reading: Holmes, Puppies and Refugees

My February books are introduced to you by Gentle Ladybug!

• Anu Holopainen “Viinikauppias” [Finland]
• Sarah Andersen “Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles)” [USA]
• Arthur Conan Doyle “The Valley of Fear” (Sherlock Holmes #7) [UK]
• Nujeen Mustafa, Christina Lamb “Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair” [Syria/Germany; UK]
• Holly Webb “Rascal's Festive Fun” (My Naughty Little Puppy #6) [UK]

Library Addict [Daily Photo #356]

StoneBear: “Excuse me...”

Yes?

December Reading: How I Finished My Bookish 2016

My December reading is introduced to you by Muuks!

Books:

• Farida Khalaf, Andrea C. Hoffmann “The Girl Who Beat ISIS: Farida's Story” [Iraq, Germany]
• Liquid City Volume 2 [the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia]
• Eden S. French “Reintegration” [Australia]
• Ji-Un Yun “Cynical Orange” vol.4-5 [South Korea]
• Kathryn M. Drennan “To Dream in the City of Sorrows” [USA]
• Per Hafslund “Löytöretki luontoon” (Naturens eventyr) [Norway] 
• Holly Webb “Smudge the Stolen Kitten” [UK]
• Agatha Christie “Ordeal by Innocence” [UK]

My November Reading: Unicorns, Africa and Manhwa

My November books are introduced to you by Magnet Mouse!

• Julia Ember “Unicorn Tracks” [USA/UK]
• “10 Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing” [Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt/Sudan/UK, Uganda, Zimbabwe/UK]
• Ji-Un Yun “Cynical Orange” vol.1-3 [South Korea]
• Rebecca Ascher-Walsh “Devoted: 38 Extraordinary Tales of Love, Loyalty, and Life With Dogs” [USA]
• Anni Nupponen “Putoavan tähden prinsessa” [Finland]
• Marissa Meyer “Scarlet” (The Lunar Chronicles #2) [USA]

My October Reading: Feminism, Poirot, Cambodia

My October reading is introduced to you by The Assistant!

• Takako Shimura “Wandering Son” vol.5 [Japan] 
• Roxane Gay “Bad Feminist” [USA] 
• Shamini Flint “A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree” [Malaysia, Singapore] 
• Agatha Christie “Death on the Nile” [UK] 
• Rebecca Solnit “Men Explain Things to Me” [USA] 

Cute Owls and Penguins [Daily Photo #225]

Look what we saw in Prisma!

My September Reading: Monsters, Assassins and Magical Swords

My September reading is introduced to you by Stone Owl Duo (there's a smol owl hiding inside ^^).

• Marjorie M. Liu “Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening” [USA] – art by Sana Takeda
• Мигель Гаярдо “Мария и я” (Miguel Gallardo “María y yo”) [Spain] 
• Sarah J. Maas “Throne of Glass” [USA] 
• Darcie Little Badger, T. Hueston “Shining Ascension” Issues #1 and #2 [USA] – art by Nick Robles 
• Kati Närhi “Saniaislehdon salaisuudet” (Agnes #1) [Finland] 
• H.G. Wells “The Invisible Man” [UK] 61
• Noriko Ogiwara “Dragon Sword and Wind Child” (Tales of the Magatama #1) [Japan]  
• Takako Shimura “Wandering Son” vol.4 [Japan]