Life in a Cold Climate

7 min read 2022-02-11 04:26:27

Best of 2021: Science Fiction & Fantasy

I didn’t do a separate ‘best of SFF’ post for 2020 and now I regret it, as I don’t have a good reference point for my favourites and I feel

3 min read 2022-02-09 05:37:30

Very broadly speaking, I read equal amounts non-fiction and fiction, but as my fiction reads further branch out into different genres, literary

5 min read 2022-02-06 22:29:40

2021 was a stellar non-fiction year for me. I read almost 70 books in this category, which made this list very difficult to put together. Even after

4 min read 2022-01-19 04:43:48

I occasionally like to write down things I am lusting after: partly as an exercise in wish-fulfilment and aspirational daydreaming, but also as a way

3 min read 2022-01-12 03:36:55

[As you can probably tell, this is a post for my Estonian-speaking readers. I will follow up with something more widely accessible in the coming

4 min read 2022-01-05 18:25:33

Ma It’s been a weird start of the year for me. I had a good break: celebrating with family, visiting the snowy Estonian countryside, reading,

5 min read 2021-12-31 04:47:32

This has been a great reading year for me: I am currently finishing my 149th book and there’s more than a day still to go! This is a lot of books

5 min read 2021-12-31 04:47:32

This has been a great reading year for me: I am currently finishing my 149th book and there’s more than a day still to go! This is a lot of books

4 min read 2021-12-30 04:52:25

In the two years of the pandemic, my makeup, perfume and clothes purchases have slowed down – although not stopped by any means. Perhaps most

3 min read 2021-12-28 05:37:04

For years, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Christmas – I guess I found it too bourgeois or something. I was never a hater either, though, and the

3 min read 2021-12-25 22:00:36

I am happy to report that in general, I have been buying fewer things. Well, with the notable exception of books – things seem to be getting worse

6 min read 2021-12-20 07:06:31

When I first received the pictures from this photoshoot (which, for the record, I absolutely adore), I momentarily considered asking the photographer

3 min read 2021-12-07 01:29:40

I picked Akala’s memoir-slash-searing social analysis up almost accidentally. It was included in a couple of 2020 round-ups and although I hadn’t

1 min read 2021-11-21 18:00:13

If there is one thing that being obsessed with clothes gives you, it’s a good understanding of what works for your body and your style and what

1 min read 2021-11-09 04:44:43

Sometimes I buy beauty stuff even if I don’t need it, or just out of curiosity or because I want to cheer myself up. I know I shouldn’t do that