Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
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
I did not plan out my books properly. If I had, I would have read this right after The Accidental Influencer, since Hype (being about scammers and grifters), also talks a lot about influencers and it would have been interesting to consider the two books in tandem. Hype is an ambitious book, trying to explain… Read More Book Review: Hype by Gabrielle Bluestone
I got this book from Tanvi (@tanvisreadventures on Instagram) at a book swap and I’m so glad I did! Daisy Darker is a mystery-thriller inspired by one of Christie’s mysteries (I won’t say which one because it will be a spoiler). When Daisy Darker and her family visit her grandmother for her 80th birthday, all… Read More Book Review: Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Do you like urban legends? Have you ever played a scary game? I can’t say I’ve tried any of the urban legend games, but I am fascinated by them and how they are used in stories. So when I heard about The Midnight Man, a thriller based around a (fictional) urban legend, I was intrigued.… Read More Book Review: The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell
I had pretty much forgotten why I had this book on my TBR list but I needed a few more books to read and this was available. Turns out, I was fooled by the subtitle “A book of Storytelling” because this is really a book about biographies and people. Facts and Fiction is a collection… Read More Book Review: Facts and Fiction by Michael Holroyd