About

Hello and thanks for check­ing out the About page – If it was an acci­dent, you still have the right to close this tab with­out feel­ing guilty about it.

My name is Patri­cia, I am 19 years old and from Ger­many. I have answered a bazil­lion of book­ish and blog­gish ques­tions already over here to make up for putting many read­ers of BE through the hell that was my survey.

A lit­tle sum­mary, though.

She has some awe­some hon­est reviews and a help­ful guide about chang­ing from blogspot to wordpress.

- Jen­nifer M.

I started book­blog­ging in Feb­ru­ary 2011. Back then I still blogged in Ger­man, but the more time I spend blog­ging the more I rec­og­nized that this wasn’t for me. I almost exclu­sively read Eng­lish nov­els, and I wanted to TALK about them with more than 5 peo­ple. So, in June or some­thing BookEx­hi­bi­tion­ism got it’s own domain and I was faced with the ugly truth: I suck at Eng­lish. *le gasp*

I love this self-proclaimed “bit­ter bookblogger”‘s blog. She actu­ally cracks me up with her rants, so I really enjoy read­ing them. Though they’re actu­ally really insight­ful, and it’s nice to read ideas that are stated so bluntly. Patri­cia not only reviews books, but she talks about issues which she’s so pas­sion­ate about.

- Jen R.

As a reader, I’m quite neg­a­tive about many books, because for some rea­sons, I take them (too?) seri­ously. While I know that a novel is fic­tion, I think it also is, to a cer­tain degree, real­ity, in the way that it shapes our per­son­al­ity and makes us expe­ri­ence things our world would never let us do. This, in short, means that I avoid Old Skool Romance nov­els, don’t like jokes about men­tal dis­eases and alto­gether freak out if the pro­tag­o­nists cross over to the dark side and become obsessed about the choco­late their lover eats.

What I like about [Book Exhi­bi­tion­ism] is this:

• I can still learn new eng­lish words from some­one who is roughly 10 years younger than me. YAY!
• I always imag­ine [Patri­cia sit­ting] there in [her] own cave and prac­ti­cally feed[ing] on books. Nice image.
• She actu­ally care[s] about [her] blog

That last part is impor­tant. I came across a few blogs who sug­gested chal­lenges or started give­aways or what­ever nice stuff, and then they gather fol­low­ers like crazy, and then they miss out on keep­ing the blogs updated. And I sit there and go “hm.”

[She] seem[s] to remem­ber all the stuff [she] pro­motes on [t]here, and that’s good. That’s reli­able, and reli­a­bil­ity is some­thing use­ful for blog­gers, I think.

But basi­cally you can for­get all I said … You should like it though. It’s so like­able. Like a bag of warm crois­sants. Oh, for­get that, I’m just hungry again.

- Kix

Things authors should know before request­ing a review: a. My mom is a psy­cho– and soci­ol­o­gist.. Yeah, I am OCDish about research, and not only when it comes to any­thing related to those two fac­ul­ties. b. I have huge daddy issues, so your hero shouldn’t be a crappy father, who dis­re­gards his chil­dren and wife to have a tor­rid affair with his mis­tress, the hero­ine. I don’t care if he redeems him­self, because, well, 400 pages take about 5 hours to read. Five hours aren’t enough to redeem the hero who, yes, will become a place­holder. (Addi­tion­ally, since I often relate to the hero­ine more than I do to the hero, it would be quite awk­ward to read a sex-scene includ­ing the hero­ine and my father… And now I have a visual in my head. Help!)

Things peo­ple should know, so they don’t befriend me – then find out – and unfriend me, leav­ing me in a pit of sor­row and des­per­a­tion: a. I don’t eat cook­ies. b. I’m in an on-off-relationship with veg­e­tarism. c. I know the lyrics to almost every Ger­man Digi­mon song & I still love the Poké­mon Game­boy Games.

And d. I love every com­ment, tweet, mail, click.. Yes, even the anon com­ment I got last week telling me that my accent was weird. (I have never posted a vlog XD)

Thanks for tak­ing the time to read this!

P.S. Yes, I usu­ally fol­low back, and most of the times via RSS Feed­de­mon. I def­i­nitely fol­low back if you have bloglovin or the Linkyfollowerthing. : )

Patri­cia sucks balls. I hate her and her blog and I rec­om­mend you to close this tab instantly.

- Awe­some