Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
I admit, this wasn’t my first choice for a book about Morocco. What I really wanted to read was Lord of the Atlas, but the library only had In Arabian Nights (unless I wanted to read a travel guide). So although I had some reservations from reading the Goodreads reviews, I decided to borrow it,… Read More Book Review: In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah
I first heard about The Lies of the Ajungo when Lashaan reviewed it over at his blog and the novella sounded so good (plus it’s available on Libby) that I borrowed it immediately! It also helps that it’s a short read so it was easy to fit into my reading time. There is no water… Read More Book Review: The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi
I borrowed this because it was recommended in the Booklist magazine as being a mystery centered around a podcast, and also because I remember enjoying Nicci French’s Freida Klein series (which I need to continue and finish). Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? is, like the title says, about the disappearance of Charlotte Salter, who never… Read More Book Review: Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French
I am very late to this book because it has been hyped as THE book on inequality and poverty in Singapore and in general, I’m afraid of reading books that are too hyped. But my recent devotional series has been focused on inequality and injustice, and that prompted me to start learning more about inequality… Read More Book Review: This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn
In my previous tea post, I talked about the San-Cha Darjeeling tea that I had bought on my trip to India (all the way back in July). But after writing it, I realised that I still had a few packets of the Darjeeling tea by Chayurveda – this was part of a box of various… Read More Comparing Teabag vs Loose Leaf Darjeeling (that I bought in an airport)
Some time last year, I did a bit of a binge read on the Influencer Industry (and I rounded up my thoughts in this post) so when I saw The Influencer Industry, I couldn’t resist picking it up. While a bit more academic than the other influencer-focused books that I read, The Influencer Industry provided… Read More Book Review: The Influencer Industry by Emily Hund
I was at the library when I came across The Big Four and thought “hold on, an Hercule Poirot mystery that I’ve never read?”. I’m used to not having read Miss Marple, given that I focused on the Poirot mysteries when I was younger, so it was a shock to see a Poirot book that… Read More Book Review: The Big Four by Agatha Christie
I chanced upon this book while browsing online and because I cannot resist a folktale collection (and more importantly, because I do not own any folktale books from Korea), I decided to pick it up! A Purse Full of Tales is a collection of twenty one folk tales from both North and South Korea. Apparently,… Read More Book Review: A Purse Full of Tales by Chan Young Kim and David Carter
“Myths are the darkest and brightest incarnations of who we are. They slip into our dreams and underpin our reality.” I can’t quite remember how I found The Library of Legends but I was swept away by this heartbreaking novel that expertly melded historical fiction and folklore. Set in 1937, during the second Sino-Japanese war,… Read More Book Review: The Library of Legends by Janie Chang
It’s pretty hard to look for books about Japan and not come across Lafcadio Hearn’s works. Well, I somehow managed to avoid it until recently, when I was looking for books on Japanese folklore and stumbled across this collection of essays of his. Divided into roughly two parts, Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan comprises of 18 essays… Read More Book Review: Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan