Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
I got this book for a few reasons: 1) the cover is cool, 2) it’s a true crime unsolved mystery, and 3) the words “The Case Conan Doyle Couldn’t Solve” was printed prominently on the cover. Put all three together and I basically had to read the book. The Mile End Murder covers the murder… Read More Book Review: The Mile End Murder by Sinclair McKay
It’s a good thing that I read The Dire King fairly soon after Ghostly Echoes because The Dire King picks up directly where The Ghostly Echoes left off. Since this is the last book in the series, this review will have spoilers for earlier books, so skip this review if you’ve not read the previous… Read More Book Review: The Dire King by William Ritter
You might think: another book about fairies? Will you ever have enough? The answer is “no”, because even if I just look at fairies in Western countries, there’s so much variety that no one book can completely cover the topic. Plus, I don’t have a pretty book about fairies (though I do have that pretty… Read More Book Review: Faeryland by John Matthews with art by Matt Dangler
I was in the mood for a thriller and Watching You by Lisa Jewell caught my eye! I quite enjoyed her other book, The Family Upstairs, so I was eager to dive into this. Watching You is told from the POV of many different people: Joey/Josephine: who meets one of her neighbours (Tom FitzWilliam) and… Read More Book Review: Watching You by Lisa Jewell
I loved The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf, but because I don’t follow authors or new releases, I didn’t know that she wrote a second book until Em @ A Geeky Jock reviewed it! Obviously, as soon as I heard of The Girl and the Ghost, I put it on my TBR list.… Read More Book Review: The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf
Thanks to the BBC Player, I found out about this murder mystery series called Midsomer Murders. Since I love a good cosy mystery, I really enjoyed the episodes that I watched and wanted to read some of the books that inspired the show! The Killings at Badger’s Drift is the first book in the Detective… Read More Book Review: The Killings at Badger’s Drift by Caroline Graham
So… I haven’t done any library tours in over a year (thanks, pandemic), but I recently went to Harbourfront Library and it is so pretty I had to share. Located in what was Singapore’s largest shopping centre at its time of opening, Library@Harbourfront was opened in 2019 and is the newest public library in Singapore.… Read More SingLib #4: Library@Harbourfront
It’s a two-fer! My bookclub chose The Ice Princess for our next book, and since the library only had a two-in-one version, I decided to read two stories. So, enjoy two reviews in one post. The Ice Princess The first book in the series, The Ice Princess is about the murder of Alex, who was… Read More Book Review: The Ice Princess & The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg
I would like to introduce you to the book you should be reading instead of Memoirs of a Geisha. Because not only is Memoirs of a Geisha incorrect, it was also based on Iwasaki Mineko’s life (just that Arthur Golden mis-represented things by portraying certain events negatively instead of positively, etc etc. You can read… Read More Rereading: Geisha of Gion by Iwasaki Mineko
I recently realised that I had not read the latest Below Stairs series (which, in my head I call the “Kat Holloway” mysteries because it’s easier to remember the protagonist’s name), so when I found a copy of Murder in the East End in the library, I promptly snatched it up! Murder in the East… Read More Book Review: Murder in the East End by Jennifer Ashley