Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
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
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