Mail Week: 23 + NEW Giveawaywinner!!

Even though there was a national holiday in between, I still received 6 letters and 2 postcards with special cancellations this week :)

But first I'll start with letters I was still owing to people from last week:

To Vicky, Germany.

4 A5 sheets / 8 pages written

 To Edith, Portugal.

2 A5 sheets / 4 Pages written

To Kimmi, Canada.

2 A5 sheets / 4 pages written, plus postcard and stickers.

 

Now to the letters I received and replied to this week:

From Karen, USA.

2 A5 sheets / 4 pages written + postcard

 

My reply.

2 A5 sheets / 4 pages written

 

From Melissa, USA

2 A5 sheets / 2 pages written

 

My reply:

2 A5 sheets / 3 pages written

 

Su Wei, Malaysia.

1 A5 sheet / 1 page written + 2 postcards

 

My reply

2 A5 sheets / 2 pages written + postcard

 

Kwan, Thailand

1 A5 sheet / 1 page written

 

My reply

2 A5 sheets / 2 pages written

 

Fee, UK

1 A4 sheet / 1 page written

 

My reply

2 A5 sheets / 4 pages written + postcard

 

Perla, Spain

1 A4 -ish sheet / 1 page written

 

My reply

2 A5 sheets / 3 pages written + stickers

 

 

And here are the postcards I received from Lily, Finland + special cancellation <3

I gave her the cards to write to me :)

Well, this is all the great mail for this week :D

Just so you know, as the Giveaway winner never replied to me, I pulled a new name out of the hat, and it is Elle !!!!

Please, Please, Please send me a message. 

I'll update my fashion blog tomorrow and on this blog I'll also update my travel experiences of Amsterdam, so stay tuned :3

Lisa ~

P.S. Next week mail will go on a strike (no end announced) so I have no Idea when I'll start receiving mail again, or when my replies reach my dear penpals.
I hope it won't be too long :(

Book Review 16 : A World Without Princes by Soman Chainani

Oh gosh, I am so behind on my book reviews >.< But Uni is so stressy, I had to work a lot and I just didn't want to read... But now I am finally back reading!!! And I hope nothing comes in my way again until I catch up with my goal (I should be reviewing book 22 now ARGH).


But anyway, here is the book I'll review this time:

A World Without Princes (The School for Good and Evil #2) by Soman Chainani

Things to know:

• I read the original English version
• It was published April 2014
• It has 433 pages
• It is set in The School for Good and Evil and Gavaldon of the Woods beyond
• I started: 28th April and ended it: 1st June
• Book 2 of a triology

Agatha and Sophie have returned to Gavaldon and are celebrated like heroes. But after a time, this wears off and Sophie's father is going to get married. During the celebrations Gavaldon gets attacked and wanted posters of Sophie appear. Agatha does her best to protect her friend, but the town eldest give Sophie to the attackers and Agatha follows her. 

They end up at school again, but it is no longer The School for Good and Evil, it is now The School for Girls and Boys. After Agatha decided for her friend and against her prince, something changed in the world of fairy tales. Girls no longer want Boys and the other way around. The Genders have become enemies, not good and evil.

In the school for girls, Aggie and Sophie are celebrated as heroes and role models again. Sophie loves this, Agatha wants to go back home. The problem is, for peace to be restored their story has to finish. There are 2 possible ways for this to happen, either both girls wish for return home together, or Agatha kisses her prince. But Sophie likes to be celebrated, and Tedros wants to kill Sophie to make sure Aggie can't decide for her again...

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I'd like to make sure once more that you know this book is supposed to be for children (around 8-12 as stated on book 1). 

I didn't like book one that much, book two wasn't better in my opinion. First of all, why would Agatha trust Sophie, if the latter tried to KILL her? It doesn't make sense to me. Then, why would good and evil team up even though they hated each other a couple of months ago, to fight people who they were friends with before, or even in love with. And why is it about killing each other? Those are children under the age of 16! WHY?
The only really good thing is, how the sexist view was changed. This book shows, girls can be boys as well, and the other way around. I loved that part actually xD
The rest of this review would be very similar to the one from book 1.

Should you read it? Nahhh... I mean if you read book one already okay, but otherwise I wouldn't recommend it... maybe to pre-teens or something >.<
But I have to say I'll probably read book 3 to finish the triology. Not because I like the series that much, but rather because this book had an open ending and I need a finishing line... honestly I get mad otherwise, I know I am strange!

This is all for now, I'll be glad to answer questions and I am always glad to get nice comments :)

Sorry for the short review >.<

Lisa~

Mail Week: 22 + Giveaway Winner :D

This mail week was great, I received 9 letters and 2 postcards. I wasn't able to reply to all yet (I was working on Saturday and just came home from work today too), but I'll probably reply to the missing 3 today, one is already in the making anyway :D

I'll start with the postcards today:

2 Gotochi cards I gave to Lily to send back to me (FINALLY CANCELLED AFTER 2nd TRY)

Now to the letters:


The first was from Wahnnetta, UK

2 A5 sheets / 3 pages written:

My reply

3 A5 sheets / 5 pages written:

Then came Lily's letter from Finland

5 A5 sheets / 10 pages written:

I totally forgot to take a pic from my reply, which is a shame, but I replies with exactly the same amount / length she wrote to me :)

From Jennifer, USA

1 A4 sheet / 1 1/2 pages written

My reply 

 I forgot to take the pic before closing -.- but inside is a little booklet A6-ish size with 4 pages inside on which I wrote. I also added the German Version of the postcard she sent me xD

From Kezia, USA

1 Greeting card (A5 - ish size)

My reply

a letter card in A6 size written on both sides (back with smaller handwriting >.<)

From Sofiyah, Indonesia

3 A5 sheets / 3 pages written

My reply to her

2 A5 sheets / 4 pages written + loads of stickers :3

From Tina, Slovenia

1 A4 sheet / 1 page written

My reply to her

 again forgot to take a photo (what is wrong with me this week O.o)

2 A5 sheets / 4 pages written

Now come the letters which still need replies:

Vicky, Germany

2 A4 sheets / 4 pages written on typewriter <3

Edith, Spain

 1 A4 sheet / 2 pages written

Kimmi, Canada

1 A5 sheet / 2 pages written + postcard

 

Well this was all the mail for this week.

But now I'll announce the giveaway winner:

After I checked who actually followed the rules, and who didn't, I put all the names on individual note papers, folded them the same way, put them in a empty cup, shaked it and took out one paper randomly. 

The name on this paper waaaaas:

V A

please message me so that I can send you everything, and here is a picture of your win:

5 posters I chose with closed eyes, 6 kitkats in 2 special flavours, green tea pocky sticks, plum candy and a kawaii key chain / mobile strap.

I hope you enjoy this anime / japan surprise win :)

I am probably going to host another giveaway  sometime (not too far away), so don't forget to check my blog every now and then.

See you soon!

Lisa~

Dokomi :)

Yeay, I went to the Dokomi convention in Düsseldorf, Germany yesterday :3
I go there every year for at least one day as it's the cheapest anime/manga convention this size as much as I know. 

If you like, you can check out their handout book here to get more information :)

I won't upload photos of individual cosplayers here, as I didn't always get their OK (as they ran away too quickly xD) but still here are a couple of pics of the "mass".

There are fashion, drawing, shopping and so many more areas. Also this time 4 international cosplayers were invited, some Mangaka and showacts. Honestly it's worth a visit.

Again, I am sorry for not uploading more pictures but I mostly couldn't make sure if the guests, shop owners, etc were okay with the pictures...

But, at the very least I can show you what I purchased (I spend too much money :( )

I'll start off with this great deco tape PEN. It's from PLUS JAPAN and you can use it similar to a pen. 

I also took a closeup from the design. I can't wait to use it for my penpals!

 

 This I bought for letter writing as well I really love the cute design, the paper is nice and thick and the colour is wonderful. It seems to be high quality. You can find the artist here.

At matlens store I bought a lens solution and a chopper lens case.
Now I only have to got to the optician again to check how much worse my eyesight got -.-
 

Then at a small store, where I couldn't find a flyer, I bought this Korean BB cream. I'll use it soon >.<
 

Then, for free, I got these 3 coasters which have great designs front and back.
 

And also these awesome postcards, sadly from most I was only allowed to take one of each design :(
 

I also bought this adorable shirt at madmodesty. I'll review this in a couple of weeks on my fashion blog. (As soon as I get Tascha to take pictures of me again >3<)
 

I wanted these creepy-cute hair bows for ages now. Sadly the store didn't have flyers. Again, I'll review these in a couple of weeks.
 

I also bought a cute short red wig with twin tails. It's in Meirin / Maylin (Back Butler) style, again I'll write a review as soon as I can take pictures :)


And last but not least, all those flyers I collected xD
 

 Lisa~