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Writer's pictureOphelia Stähelin

Weekend-Overview

Ordering books for the weekend has been one of the best ideas I had recently. The whole weekend I found myself curled up in bed with Malorie Blackman's "Noughts & Crosses". As mentioned previously, the reason I came across this book was the BBC's TV adaption which I started watching rather accidentally. A few weeks back I turned on the TV shortly after 9pm and zapped into BBC1, where the first episode of it just started. Timing, I would say.


The plot caught me. It caught me so much I started turning on BBC iPlayer and watched all the other episodes, before I had to wait another week for the next one. I was even watching one episode on my phone while I was riding on the bus to meet a friend (yeah, when we still were able to socialise ...).


After I found out that the series was based on the book, I didn't think long about it - I had to buy the book. It didn't matter to me that I knew the story of it all already, as by then I had watched all 6 episodes on BBC iPlayer.


It turns out that the book is quite different from the BBC adaption, but that doesn't bother me too much. It is still gripping and I am already halfway through the book. I really enjoyed just laying in bed and turning page after page, being in the world of Sephy and Callum.


Not just the book made my weekend so nice. I also wrote a lot on that new story, the one playing mainly in the coffee shop. And even though I was really enjoying reading in the book, I changed my mind and sat on the laptop to write when my boyfriend brought me another oat-milk latte. With that coffee in my hands I couldn't read. Coffee means writing - and so did I. So, thank you, boyfriend! 😊


I have also started with a 6-Minutes-Diary, a book to change habits and bring you on the path to more happiness. It was super interesting to find out that habits start to become a habit after more than 60 days. So if you really want to change something, you got to do it constantly, day by day till you passed 3 months and then it's a habit. So the reason I cannot resist sugary coffees is simple: I've drunken more of them than I passed on them!


I still have two more weeks till Easter and for the sake of it (and because we soon run out of milk again) I tell my boyfriend to offer me tea for the next two weeks rather than a coffee. And then the coffee pleasure is officially allowed back in my life. That habit stays a habit, with or without the sugar syrups!


Well, this to my weekend, I hope yours was as exciting as mine. Share your thoughts in the comments below, while I head back to bed and get to know what happens to Sephy and Callum (as if I wouldn't know ... 😉).


xx




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