Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
I can’t quite remember how I heard about John Masefield (probably from a book about fantasy), but I’ve had The Midnight Folk on my TBR for quite a while, making it another good Wyrd & Wonder book to read. Written in 1927, almost a century ago, The Midnight Folk is a dreamlike tale about the… Read More Book Review: The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
So a while back, my boyfriend downloaded this free ebook from Brandon Sanderson in an effort to get me more interested in the planes that exist within Magic: The Gathering. Since I was trying to quickly read more fantasy in time for Wyrd & Wonder this month, I finally picked up the book and was… Read More Book Review: Children of the Nameless by Brandon Sanderson
I don’t know about you, but I used to watch so many Hong Kong dramas when I was younger (it did nothing in terms of helping me learn Cantonese though). My favourite dramas were the police/mystery dramas, which I always found really exciting. While reading Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei, I was reminded of these… Read More Book Review: Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei
Here’s another Wyrd & Wonder post! I wanted to join in the readalong but I didn’t get the book and when I got the book, I read it in one day because it was really fun. That I enjoyed the book was quite interesting too – I have distinct memories of DNF-ing the book the… Read More Book Review: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
What do your clothes say about you? Do you even think that your clothes can say something? While I’m admittedly not a fashionista, I was intrigued by Dress Code, which had this promising subtitle: “unlocking fashion from new look to millenial pink.” Divided into four parts, Dress Code covers: The first part of the book,… Read More Book Review: Dress Code by Véronique Hyland
Hello hello Wyrd & Wonder friends! I have been following the event mostly through other people’s blog posts (and also because I have no ideas/no reading plan/am still waiting for Howl’s Moving Castle) but I could not resist today’s prompt, which was “mythology”. I love love love myths and folklore and fairy tales, so today,… Read More Wyrd & Wonder: 7 Fantasy Books Based on 7 Different Mythologies
I first heard about Giambattista Basile and his work The Tale of Tales while reading The Fairy Tellers by Nicholas Jubber. Since I’ve never met a fairy tale I didn’t like, and since I’ve never read anything from The Tale of Tales, I decided to seek out a copy to read. And wow, it’s definitely… Read More Book Review: The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile
After reading A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym, I found myself with the sudden urge to read more of the Fairacre series. Luckily, I had a long weekend and I managed to make my way to the library after many months and borrow another book in the Fairacre series. Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre focuses… Read More Book Review: Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre by Miss Read
As I may have mentioned before, I am more willing to take chances on unknown books when it’s cheap. So like with Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, I bought Jambusters based on its cover (and also its synopsis, which is one more piece of information compared to the former). And the similarities do not stop… Read More Book Review: Jambusters by Julie Summers
I will be frank, I initially had no intention of reading The Man Who Died Twice because while the first book was fun, I had not followed the author and didn’t know the second book was already out, and anyway, I found the ending of the first book rather hard to follow and didn’t fancy… Read More Book Review: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osmand