Mayim de Vries > Recent Status Updates

“I am Greater Clan Battle Leader”
This is how I’m introducing myself from now on.

All you need to know about this quarantine is: 31 books ahead of schedule.

Reading during the quarantine be like:

Oh, so it's Romance Week on Goodreads. Now I know why I had the sudden urge to reread Burn for Me yesterday. Makes total sense now.

Not a single book worth voting for in Fantasy choice awards. Second year in a row. Well done Goodreads​. Some quality literature you promote.

Oh no! he has heard it!
(just to let you know, I have reached chapter 22 and I am SCARED to read on)

This book is so silly I need to scroll throughout GR every couple of pages to calm myself down.

shoutout to everybody who struggles to find reading time



(I think I have levelled up recently...)

Happy Reading my friends and may all the best books find you in 2019!

I so wish there was a "Don't Want to Read" option on GR!

Oh, I'd like to see Sarah J. Maas' fandom jumping through these hoops.



Although I am also kind of disappointed SE didn't do it either.

Dear Goodreads, why have you butchered my painstakingly engineered notification system? If you wanted to take my attention away from the missing half-star rating option, you failed.

Cup of Jane, anyone?

Well. I haven't been around. But I'm back to business!

My GR life in numbers looks scary:

300 reviews.
10 currently reading books.
68 books ahead of schedule.
99% of reading challenge completed.

How has this happened?

Easter starts for me today, on Maundy Thursday and so I will not be around in the coming days. I wish you all Happy Easter, this most beautiful of all holidays, shining with the light of life conquering night, and death and all that is evil.

What do you need to know about my life right now is: 18 books ahead of schedule.

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

Thank you, Ursula, for all your words.

A special school for wizards assassins. Haven't had those for a while.

This instalment of sevensweaters is not as exciting. Or is it me? Or is it the spirit of Christmas?

Oh, this has been an exquisite ride. I'm already in love with Bujold.

A day may come when there is no Sanderson in my feed, but it is not this day. When it finally comes, I shall start reading his books.

I have over 100 unread books at home and I don't know what to read next. Insanity.

Excuse me but I still love Roland.

„I rode through the night-drenched streets of Atlanta on a mammoth donkey”

One thing is sure, they know how to hurl the first sentence at their readers.

„In the Divine days it was the purpose of the gods to shape the reality of the world’s citizens.
The gods are gone. But this need remains.
Now it is the task of governments to tell their citizens what reality is, to define it for them. For citizens are, by and large, wholly incapable of doing this for themselves”

Current state of world affairs in four sentences. Thank you Mr Bennett.