Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
Lying in Wait hooked me with its first line. I mean, take a look at this and tell me you aren’t curious: “My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it.” This was was really full of surprises. I thought I was going to read a thriller, but it… Read More Book Review: Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
I first heard about the German epic, the Nibelungenlied, from an episode of the BBC In Our Time podcast. The discussion really intrigued me so I sought out a translation of the epic – this time, I found the Hatto translation (though to be honest, I didn’t really do a deep dive into the translations… Read More Book Review: The Nibelungenlied translated by A.T. Hatto
I’m not going to lie, I started Honor wondering if it was going to be similar to A Burning because topically, both books do look at the Muslim-Hindu tension in India (though Honor also looks at the question of gender) but by the time I finished this, I was convinced that this is going to… Read More Book Review: Honor by Thrity Umrigar
I first heard about How to Change when The Indicator podcast re-published their episode on “How to keep your New Year’s resolutions“. It sounded helpful and since I wanted to take advantage of the ‘fresh start’ effect that January provides, I decided to read it ASAP (it may or may not be important to note… Read More Book Review: How to Change by Katy Milkman
This is another book club book, for which I should have a tag on this blog. But while I figure that out, let me tell you about A Burning, which is the tragic tale of Jivan, who is falsely accused of aiding a terrorist attack, and two other characters whose fates are tied with hers.… Read More Book Review: A Burning by Megha Majumdar
I was randomly looking at my Goodreads To Read shelf, arguably my most neglected TBR list, and I decided to pick up the latest addition on the shelf: The Agathas. I like Christie and I was in the mood for something fun. In the Agathas, former popular-girl Alice teams up with her socially invisible tutor… Read More Book Review: The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
I heard about this book from Sumedha over at The Wordy Habitat and since it’s the new year, I thought this would be a good book to help me make the most of 2023. Simply put, Building a Second Brain is a book on how to make the most use of the information we encounter… Read More Book Review: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
This is another book that I got from the book and tea swap last year and one that I’ve heard quite a bit about! I’m always a bit scared to pick up Asian-inspired fantasy because I’m afraid I’ll nitpick at it, but I didn’t have this problem (not sure if that’s good or bad). In… Read More Book Review: Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
This has been on the TBR for a while and like many of the TBR books, it has been languishing on the list until I decided I was finally in the mood for MG fantasy. Fablehaven starts when Kendra and her younger brother Seth are shipped off to their grandparents because their parents have to… Read More Book Review: Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
The Silent Companions was so hard to read! Not because the book was bad, but because it was so creepy that I had to stop and take a break at certain points! The Silent Companions starts with Elsie Bainbridge in an asylum. A new doctor, Dr Shepherd, is visiting and he manages to get Elsie… Read More Book Review: The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell