Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
This isn’t really related to the book, but for some reason, I keep getting Kate Morton mixed up with Kate Mosse and that this book is by the same author as Labyrinth (which I thought I had read but apparently not). But anyway, I have learnt my lesson and given how much I enjoyed The… Read More Book Review: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
One downside of having multiple TBR lists in multiple places (so far it’s a Libby wishlist, a google keep note, something resembling a list on Goodreads, and there’s probably a physical list somewhere around the house) is that books tend to languish on the list. I’ve been really focused on reading ebooks since I moved… Read More Book Review: The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
It’s probably no surprise that I heard about this book because it’s by an NPR reporter and Planet Money and The Indicator are two of the podcasts that I listen to regularly. So when Planet Money did an episode on the book, I decided to check it out. The Bond King is the story of… Read More Book Review: The Bond King by Mary Childs
I wanted more historical mysteries after reading The Lady Chapel, so I checked out Death at St. Vedast, a book that has been on my TBR list for a while! Death at St. Vedast starts with a suspicious suicide – a woman, who seems impervious to the cold, throws herself from a great height. Bianca,… Read More Book Review: Death at St. Vedast by Mary Lawrence
Hello friends! Tomorrow morning, I leave on the last school trip in the program, but before I leave, I wanted to post about the three books I bought in my trip to the UK last month. I think I had a lot of self-control in this trip because I only bought three books: From Conwy:… Read More Books I Bought on my UK Trip
Since I was going with my family for a short weekend trip to Paris, I thought it was time to dig this book out of the TBR and give it a read! As the title says, How Paris Became Paris looks at the way the modern city (and reputation) of Paris was shaped in the… Read More Book Review: How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean
I studied To Kill a Mockingbird when I was in secondary school and unsurprisingly, I really enjoyed the book, since it was a stirring portrayal of how we can choose to act against racism even when we’re living in a deeply racist society. When Go Set A Watchman came out, I followed enough of the… Read More Book Review: Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee [Spoilers]
Hi friends! I’m super excited to share with you a new project! I’ve been part of the hanfugirls group for a while (you may remember the posts in my World of Genji series) and we’ve recently decided to write a book, so of course I had to share about it here! The title of the… Read More New Project & Collaboration: the Hanfugirl Book
I read A LOT of Enid Blyton when I was a kid, and I definitely meant to capitalise A LOT. Enid Blyton was the reason I: Wanted to go to boarding school Wanted to live on an island/lie on heather (this stopped when I realised I only like nature from a distance) Wanted to eat… Read More Book Review: The Real Enid Blyton by Nadia Cohen
I heard about this book on Bookstagram and since I’m always on the lookout for non-literary fiction SingLit, this sounded like something I would enjoy! Fear of the Guest stars pretty much all the local ghosts in Singapore, including a few that I hadn’t heard of! There is Lady Pontianak, the marble children, and even… Read More Book Review: Fear of the Guest by Yihan Sim