Month: July 2025
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A Sweet 12-Hour Escape to Tallinn
in BlogTook a 12-hour summer day trip from Helsinki to Tallinn, just a short ferry ride, but filled with cozy cafés and buns.
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Bookstore Hopping in Tallinn, Estonia
Bookstore hopping in Tallinn with cozy shops, affordable finds, and places worth the trip from Helsinki. Here’s what I discovered!
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Review and Quotes: The Outsider (The Stranger)
Here, I’m sharing my thoughts and favorite quotes from Albert Camus’ The Outsider (also called The Stranger).
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How I Pick Books to Read
I used to trust book ratings. Now I’ve found a more personal way. Here’s how I choose a book to read based on something deeper than stars.
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Why I’m Angry About School
in BlogA childhood spent chasing academic success, only to realize school never taught us how to really think and never meant to set us free?
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Review and Summary: The Hidden Life of Trees
in Book ReviewTrees talk, help each other, and even form communities. The Hidden Life of Trees reveals their secret world in a way you’ll never forget.
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What’s In My Stationery Pouch
Love journaling or planning on the go? Take a peek inside my stationery pouch and find out the notebooks and tools I carry every day.
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The Emotional Cost of Being a Reader
How reading fiction and nonfiction builds empathy, and sometimes, a quiet kind of loneliness in a disconnected world.
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Review: What It Is
in Book Review“What It Is” by Lynda Barry is part memoir, part writing guide, part poetry collection, and entirely its own thing.
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Review and Summary: It’s Not You, It’s Everything
in Book ReviewFeeling burned out by life? It’s Not You, It’s Everything reveals why modern pressure is crushing us and what that says about our world.
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Review and Summary: The End of Ageing
in Book ReviewThe End of Ageing is a book about living longer that also raises the overlooked questions of retirement, fairness, and the future of society.
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Review: With My Back to the World
in Book ReviewA poetic reflection on Agnes Martin’s art, where Victoria Chang gives voice to emotions we often can’t name.
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Review: I’d Rather Be Reading
in Book ReviewI’d Rather Be Reading explores why some book feel like they were written just for us and what makes reading so personal.
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Review and Summary: On Writing
in Book ReviewReady to take your writing seriously? On Writing is King’s honest, no-nonsense guide that will remind you why your words matter.
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Best Books I’ve Read in 2025 (So Far!)
Here’s a list of the best books I’ve read in 2025 so far that I couldn’t put down, and felt a little sad to leave behind when they ended.
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Review: Good Grief
in Book ReviewPoems and stories on grief, healing, and self-love that remind you you’re not alone. Good Grief speaks to the soul.
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Review and Summary: Humble Inquiry
in Book ReviewHumble Inquiry explores how the way we communicate shifts depending on whether we come from a place of certainty or curiosity.
