Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
So it turns out that How to be Bored was the book that I thought How to do Nothing was going to be. I picked it up because of its title and because one of my keywords for the year is ‘balance’ and I like I expected, it was an interesting exploration into why we… Read More Book Review: How to be Bored by Eva Hoffman
This was recommended to me and my classmates on our learning expedition to San Francisco, so I decided to give it a go. Imagine my surprise when in the introduction, Elizabeth Holmes (aka the lady behind Theranos) is mentioned approvingly as someone who has cracked the creator’s code and called “the next Steve Jobs”. Especially… Read More Book Review: The Creator’s Code by Amy Wilkinson
I like the original Grimm fairytales, which is to say, I like fairytales that have a bit of darkness to them. So when I heard of Nightbooks, a story where a boy is captured by a witch and forced to tell her a scary story every night, I was intrigued. Plus, it’s Wyrd and Wonder… Read More Book Review: Nightbooks by J.A. White
I haven’t read Quiet but when I heard about the idea behind Bittersweet, I was immediately intrigued. The subtitle of this book is “how sorrow and longing make us whole” and that is not really an idea that I hear about a lot. Most people, even if they are striving for contentment instead of happiness,… Read More Book Review: Bittersweet by Susan Cain
I said that I wanted to read the next Owen Archer book fairly soon, so I did! I have to say, though, The Nun’s Tale is the darkest book from Robb that I read so far! Owen Archer should be at home with his wife, Lucie, as they prepare for the arrival of their first… Read More Book Review: The Nun’s Tale by Candace Robb
I haven’t been keeping up with Wyrd & Wonder AT ALL, but I really wanted to write this post because I love fantasy but tend not to be a fan of romance – there’s too much instalove and love triangles for me! So I thought it would be fun to look for books where romance… Read More Wyrd & Wonder: 5 Fantasy Books Without Romance
After reading Abi of Pellinor’s review of one of the Famous Five parodies, I somehow ended up in a secondhand bookstore in Manchester where I saw a copy of Five Go Parenting. Almost immediately, I knew that this would be one of my souvenirs from the trip, especially since my interest in the series was… Read More Book Review: Five Go Parenting by Bruno Vincent
I’ve not talked about the Singapore libraries in some time because I’ve not been in Singapore, but Krysta’s post on how We Need to Stop Assuming that “Everyone Knows” about the Public Library reminded me about the wonders of Overdrive/Libby! According to a 2020 post by Overdrive, Singapore is one of the top 10 audiobook… Read More 5 eBooks You Can Borrow From The Singapore Library (NLB)
“in the cold light of suspicion, every kindness became a threat; a goodness made sinister.” Sometimes, you don’t realise that you need to read a book to feel. I’m pretty sure I picked up The Furies because it had spent enough time on the TBR list (thanks Orangutan Librarian for bringing this book to my… Read More Book Review: The Furies by Katie Lowe
This is a book that was lost to me for a really long time. The first time I read The Haunting was when I was 14 (almost half my life ago!) and on a school trip to Cambodia. The book belonged to a friend and I never really got the title. For a few years… Read More Book Review: The Haunting by Joan Lowery Nixon