Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
Friend, I think the draft of this post has been sitting here for well over a year! So I’m going to take my best attempt at finishing it and I welcome more recommendations from you. The idea of this post comes from the Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (百物語怪談会), an Edo-period storytelling game. Essentially, participants sit in a… Read More Book List: Spine-Chilling Books for Hot Summer Months
I’m always very excited when I realise a new Below Stairs mystery is out. In this case, I was even more excited when I got the book because I found out about it before the library bought copies. So once it was available in my local library, I rushed to get it. Speculations in Sin… Read More Book Review: Speculations in Sin by Jennifer Ashley
Hello! I’m poking my head back up from my reading/crocheting hole to talk about what’s been happening in May. First up: I’ve still not finished my smoked tea review post. If I don’t get it done in June, I’m just going to have to accept that I’m just enjoying teas and not writing about them… Read More May 2024 in Review
I chanced upon this book at an online bookstore and immediately bought it because of its title. But when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised to find there was quite a lot of substance in this beautiful book! Broken into five sections, Kimono Now aims to explore the world of the contemporary kimono (at… Read More Book Review: Kimono Now by Manami Okazaki
I’m back with a short review to tell you to buy Gwelf: Into the Hinterlands! If you remember, I really adored the original Gwelf: The Survival Guide for its detailed worldbuilding that made the pictures come to life. The only downside of the original book was that it was all world-building and no story. But… Read More Book Review: Gwelf – Into the Hinterlands by Larry MacDougall
Since I have been reading books that look at culture more broadly (and through a lot of examples of modern art), I thought it might be time to reread How to do Nothing. As it turns out: yes, the book felt a lot easier to read this time, no doubt helped by the difficulty level… Read More Rereading: How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
I have to say that when it comes to Singlit, I definitely am enjoying the older works more. And not just the older works – the stories written by the first generation of Singapore politicians. I previously wrote about reading S. Rajaratnam’s short stories and this time, I managed to read a collection of ghost… Read More Book Review: A Mosque in the Jungle by Othman Wok
I’ve not really done a SingLib post in a while because I’ve been borrowing most of my books from Libby (and also I only go to the same few libraries) but our Central Library has finally finished its renovation! In case you forgot, I talked about this library before in the third installment of this… Read More Singlib #6: the NEW Central Public Library
I have seen the first book of the Emily Wilde series, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies EVERYWHERE on the blogosphere and probably on bookstagram as well. And because I’ve always been interested in folklore and fairies, the book caught my eye. But also because I’m not generally a romance person, I’ve also procrastinated on reading… Read More Book Review: The Emily Wilde Books (Book #1 & #2) by Heather Fawcett
It’s been a bit too long since I last read an Inspector Gamache series – I think I read the previous book in the series in 2021 and one of the earlier books in 2022. But this is a series that I’ve followed for so long that I immediately borrowed All The Devils Are Here… Read More Book Review: All The Devils Are Here by Louise Penny