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BRCA Journey Heart-to-Heart

BRCA Journey | Finally met the psychologist

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BRCA Journey Heart-to-Heart

BRCA Journey | Feeling frustrated

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BRCA Journey | Things are moving along | CT scan for DIEP flap

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BRCA Journey | How I found out I am BRCA1 positive & why have I chosen to get a preventative double mastectomy?

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BRCA Journey | I’ve tested positive for the BRCA gene

January 2, 2024January 2, 2024End of Year Stats

2023 in Books | End of Year Stats and Summary

Hi friends, long time no see – 2023 really woke up and chose ✨breakneck✨! It’s been a whirlwind of a year and I am so …

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January 19, 2023January 15, 2023Bookish Chit-Chat Thursday Quotables

Thursday Quotables | All the Lonely People

Thursday Quotables is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, …

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January 5, 2023January 5, 2023Bookish Chit-Chat Thursday Quotables

Thursday Quotables | A Little Life

Thursday Quotables is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, …

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January 4, 2023January 4, 2023Bookish Chit-Chat

Book Rating System 2023 | What do the stars mean?

Hi friends! I’ve been “seriously” reading books since August 2018 and come a long way since then. It’s been a good few years since I …

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January 2, 2023January 2, 20232023 Challenge Bookish Chit-Chat

2023 Reading Challenge | Getting out of the slump!

Hi friends! Welcome to 2023, I hope this year brings you lots of happy memories and time with your loved ones. The time really is …

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December 31, 2022January 2, 2023End of Year Stats

2022 in Books | End of Year Stats and Summary

Hi friends! I cannot believe we’re already living the very last day of 2022. To say this year has ran away with me is a …

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October 17, 2022October 14, 2022BRCA Journey Heart-to-Heart

BRCA Journey | Finally met the psychologist

Hi friends! After 5 months of waiting, I’ve finally seen the psychologist to discuss how I am feeling about the surgery and make sure that …

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October 13, 2022October 13, 2022BRCA Journey Heart-to-Heart

BRCA Journey | Feeling frustrated

Hi friends! In my last post (read here) I wrote about how things seem to be moving along smoothly – think I may have jinxed …

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September 15, 2022September 14, 2022Bookish Chit-Chat Thursday Quotables

Thursday Quotables | The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Hi friends! How are you? What have you been reading? I have just finished the last book of The Bronze Horseman trilogy, so keep an …

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September 8, 2022September 7, 2022Bookish Chit-Chat Thursday Quotables

Thursday Quotables | My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises

Hi friends! Time for another Thursday Quotable and today I have picked a few lines from My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik …

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Hi there, I’m Kat!

I’m an Estonian bookworm in London, occasionally rambling about what I read and documenting my BRCA1 journey to a risk reducing surgery and beyond.

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  • Stop the press - I READ A BOOK! 📚 Well it's been a good few months of a complete and utter debacle and my life has felt a bit like an absolute clusterf##k, meaning I've had very little headspace for reading. Things have finally started to calm down and I found myself reaching for Confessions of a Forty-something F##k Up for the daily dose of "believe me it'll get better". It's a story that feels so authentic it's hard to believe it's fiction. Nell has just broken up with her fiance of five years and relocated back to London to start again from scratch. Everything has changed since she left. Her best friends are happily married with kids and seem to have their perfect lives together, whilst she is living in a small room in a flatshare with no partner or kids, writing obituaries for a living. Maybe a podcast will help.. ❤️ I especially loved: The chef's kiss of a relationship between Nell and Cricket, which truly was my favourite part of the whole thing. I'd love a whole new book on just their adventures together. 👎I hated: THAT IT ENDED However, as luck will have it, the sequel is out in August! Can't wait for More Confessions of a Forty-something f##k Up to be published in paperback. (Oh how I wish all formats were released at the same time!) I also started Not Dead Yet on Disney+ last night, and although it's a little upside down and not completely true to the book, I really am enjoying the series, too! It's a two hands up recommendation 🙌 Ps! This book happened to perfectly fit in with @bookshelfraiders May prompt, and I am so glad I could finally recommend a book in our monthly catch up ☺️ Ps2! Thank you G for constantly urging me to pick up this book until I did 😘 #bookskatlikes #bookreview #bookrecommendation #confessionsofafortysomethingfuckup #alexandrapotter #mustreadbooks #notdeadyet
  • If this wasn't the quickest January ever known..?! January reading wrap ups are popping up everywhere and some of you have really gone in this month! 🥹 I managed to finish 3 books, all within the first two weeks of January, and then I went home to Estonia and read precisely 0 pages for the rest of the month 🤣 Anyway, here's what I read: Lights Out in Lincolnwood - Geoff Rodkey (January 2023) 2.5/5🌟 All the Lonely People - Mike Gayle (January 2023) 4.5/5🌟 Baby Doll - Hollie Overton (January 2023) 3/5🌟 All those also fit @bookshelfraiders January prompt - blue book 📘 Here's to more books in February! Kat x Ps! Updated rating system is in my highlights on my profile, if you wondered what the stars mean. #bookskatlikes #eestilugeja #bookstagramuk #wrapup #januarybooks #whatiread #midamalugesin
  • 2022 Reading Recap 📚😳 You may remember from last year’s recap, I anticipated that I will be reading more audio books in 2022. Turns out that I actually listened to 1% less audio books than I did in 2021, comparatively, of course. I read slightly more books in 2021 in general, but proportionately, these figures aren’t actually that different! 65% of all the books I got through this year were paperback, and my love for only enjoying hardbacks sitting on the shelf looking pretty was confirmed by 0 of them being read in 2022. Not surprisingly, 2022 was also the year where I read the least number of pages – just above 8000 in total, compared to nearly 36 000 in 2020! Breaking my reading down into months, it was all pretty much downhill from May onwards, and overall, I read an average of 1.6 books per month. Evidently, 2021 reading slump carried over to 2022. Like last year, there were two months where I read no books. Can’t remember why February was such a slow month, but at the end of the year, I was knitting and watching the whole 1000 seasons of the Walking Dead, so that kept me very occupied. Looking at how I rated the 20 books this year, then it is evident I loved most of them. 80% were 4 or 5 star books. The lowest rating was for Survive the Night by Riley Sager, I gave it 2 stars. If I haven’t already shouted from all the rooftops that A Man Called Ove was my favourite book of 2022, then take this as the last remaining rooftop I’m shouting it from! In conclusion, yes, I read fewer books than compared to previous years. Especially compared to 2020 when I read 93 books. However, the quality of the books I did manage to read was superb! I had a good time reading them, I enjoyed them and some will be held in a special place in my heart for years to come. In 2023, I want to (re)join a book club! Please comment your favourite book clubs below 👇😊📚 Kat x #bookskatlikes #readingrecap #2022books #yearlywrapup #bookclubofinstagram #eestilugeja #raamatusoovitus
  • Had a lovely Christmas day with the out-laws yesterday and was so pleased my little knitting-project-Christmas presents went down a treat 🥰 Now that the rush is over, I look forward to starting to read again. I got gifted a few new books, all of which I want to start straight away 🫠 But first, Boxing Day plans are to binge on the last few Christmas movies and, as an introvert, recover from the very social day yesterday 😄😴 Hope you had a wonderful time at Christmas, if you celebrate it. Bring on 2023 🥹 #bookskatlikes #knittinginstagram #diypresent #madewithlove #bookstagramuk
  • Book post days are the best days, am I right? The team at @simonschusteruk have sent me a nice stack of little Christmas presents 🎁👏 🎅 End of the world/apocalyptic tropes are really up my street, and there are two books in the pictured stack that immediately caught my interest: Lights Out in Lincolnwood by Geoff Rodkey Cold People by Tom Rob Smith I look forward to diving into both of them during holidays. I haven't picked up a book for some weeks now, and I'm excited that I am excited about reading these! Hope you're all well x #bookskatlikes #bookmailisthebestmail #simonandschuster #bookstack #gifted
  • Hello from snowy Estonia! I'm sooo happy snow arrived in time before I'm due to fly back to the UK. Anyway here's a quick update- I haven't really been reading recently in my free time and instead have been binging on the Walking Dead and knitting Christmas present(s). However, I did listen to Matthew Perry's Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing earlier this month. 📖 book review Perry's story is heartbreaking and shocking, yet perhaps not surprising. He isn't the first, nor the last, who has suffered with this crippling and devilish disease that is addiction. I know there's controversy around the book, and I get it. There were unnecessary, even outright mean, comments and digs against other actors and I agree all of that would've been better left unsaid. Absolutely. But honestly, I don't believe Perry wrote this book with a goal of becoming Mr Popular, nor that the book should be "enjoyed" by the readers. The essence of his memoir is not exactly a delightful topic! But whichever way you feel about him as a person/actor, Perry's brutal honesty about himself, his addiction(s) and struggles that came with it makes this memoir a truly harrowing read, and you ought to admire him for not sugar-coating nor holding back throughout the whole thing. Really. Perry's book is a warning. It's a "be careful what you wish for". It's a "this is unapologetically me". And most importantly, it's a "you're not alone". I'd recommend it. #bookskatlikes #snow #bookreview #eestilugeja #minaloen #raamatusoovitus #friendsloversandthebigterriblething
  • A slightly belated August and September wrap up 🤫 Although I didn't read many books, I'm just grateful I am reading. They were all quite chunky and some have been on my list to read for a long time.. A Time to Kill - John Grisham (August 2022) 5/5🌟 Sycamore Row - John Grisham (August 2022) 4/5🌟 Wrong Place Wrong Time - Gillian McAllister (September 2022) 4/5🌟 The Summer Garden - Paullina Simons (September 2022) 5/5🌟 In the last quarter of the year I'm going to try and concentrate on the remaining books that I challenged myself to read this year for #bookskatlikes2022 What are your year end reading plans? 📚 #bookskatlikes #bookstagramuk #chunkybooks #johngrisham #gillianmcallister #paullinasimons #readingwrapup #autumnreading #eestilugeja #minaloen
  • Finally managed to sit down and write a bit about the books I read in the first half of 2022. Better late than never 🤭 I read through a respectable 12 books, across 4456 pages. Although comparatively it's not t h a t much, I have enjoyed the majority of them. So if you want to know how many new vs backlist books I read between January and June, which formats I picked up the most or how I rated those 12 books then head over to: 👩‍💻 www.bookskatlikes.co.uk 👩‍💻 (link in bio) Pictured are my monthly favourites 📚 #bookskatlikes #whatiread #bookstagramuk #bookblogging #eestilugeja #midamalugesin #wrapup #readingstats
  • 🎉 4 YEARS ON BOOKSTAGRAM 🥳 Feels like it was only yesterday that I had just finished two books in two days for the first time in my adult life. The books were Shari Lapena - A Stranger In The House and JP Delaney - The Girl Before. I remember posting the photo on my personal feed of the third book I had immediately picked up, talking about how I adore books and blame my nana's humongous collection I was raised with for it. It was 10th August 2018 and I had no idea "bookstagram" was a thing, but I wanted to create a separate account where I could post photos of the books I read so that they wouldn't spam my friends' feed. I also wanted to start a blog where I could perhaps write a little more about books. So I decided to keep it simple. My name is Kat and I like books 💡 and as Katlikesbooks was already taken I just switched the words around - and voilà Bookskatlikes was born. The Girl Before was also originally the very first review on my bookstagram - posted August 12th, 2018. Bookstagram in 2018-2019 was great! I discovered there were so many other bookworms out there with incredible book recommendations, photos and reviews! It felt natural and fun and whole. Over the years, my enthusiasm has definitely died a quiet death because good old Instagram algorithms meant that I was seeing less and less of my book friend's posts and more of the suggested/sponsored posts and reuploaded tiktok videos regurgitated as those cursed reels. I miss when bookstagram was all about pretty photos, genuine conversations and meaningful comments between book lovers. Now it's all about those mindless engagement-chasing bots commenting "post it here, send pic there" and the algorithm pushing videos on an app that was always meant to be a photo app 🥴 Despite having to update my "hidden words" list each time I post, I still like taking photos and talking about the books I read. As long as there's at least one of you listening, i'ma go ahead and keep going. I guess what I want to say is thank you to each one of you who have stuck around for so long. I appreciate you. Continued in comments...
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