Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
Someone from my IRL book club recommended this book (highly recommended this book, in fact) and despite the fact that I haven’t really read Sci-Fi recently, I decided to give it a go. And wow, this is such a beautifully written book! Recursion is a story about the power of memory. One day, something called… Read More Book Review: Recursion by Blake Crouch
I’m always on the look-out for fantasy based on non-Western cultures and mythologies, so I was really intrigued by City of Brass. Set in 18th century Cairo, City of Brass follows Nahri, a con-woman who accidentally summons Dara, a warrior djinn and realises that she may not be as human as she thought. Well, I… Read More Book Review: The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
This is where I admit that due to my unmanageable TBR list, I have lost track of how I first came to hear about this book. But, I remember why I read it – I really like to read books about writing! Someone told me that Reflections was good and despite me not finishing Howl’s… Read More Book Review: Reflections – On the Magic of Writing by Diana Wynne Jones
As much as I enjoyed The Corset, this was not a binge-able book. Also, I need to be able to vaguely talk about the ending; I won’t give concrete spoilers but if you’re determined not to know anything, please click away now! The Corset is a novel set in Victorian England, centred around the question… Read More Book Review: The Corset by Laura Purcell
It’s time for another Book Club Book Review! I’m not sure how this book was chosen but since I was told that we would HAVE to meet at a restaurant which has great cakes as a character in the book is a baker, I’m guessing someone was in the mood for something sweet. Or a… Read More Book Review: The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
I chanced upon this book in the library and was immediately intrigued because the supernatural is not something I associate with Agatha Christie. And if you tell me both Poirot and Miss Marple are in a few of these stories, then of course I have to read this! The Last Séance is a collection of… Read More Book Review: The Last Séance by Agatha Christie
Today, I listened to an episode of Cautionary Tales titled “The Online Date That’s Too Good to be True” (listen and find show notes here). I initially thought this was going to be an episode on the dangers of online dating, but it turned out to be an episode on chatbots and what it means… Read More Do you Speak Like a Chatbot?
This is another one of those books where I’m not sure how I heard of it, but have absolutely no regrets putting it on my TBR list! In The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane, Emmy, the daughter of a prestigious parenting guru, is sent to Wellsworth, a boarding school in England so that her mother… Read More Book Review: The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane by Julia Nobel
My boyfriend got this book for me for my birthday, which means that I got to read something I probably wouldn’t have picked up otherwise. While this was no Hamnet, it did provide a lot of food for thought. Interior Chinatown shows what happens when you try to define your identity through its relationship with… Read More Book Review: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
It’s Saturday! And I have to end the rereading week here because I’m going out for dinner tomorrow (and have a pretty full day anyway) so I probably won’t have time to read much. Today was also a busy day, so I chose something short to reread: This is The Girl with the Green Ear,… Read More 2022 Rereading Week: Day 6 (The End)