Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
At first glance, Here She Is doesn’t sound like something I would read or request from NetGalley, given that it’s about the history of the beauty pagent, something that I’ve not been involved in nor follow. But, I do like reading about histories of obscure subjects, I was intrigued by the idea of using a… Read More Book Review: Here She Is by Hilary Levey Friedman
I’m always happy to read books about tea, and finding free books about tea makes me even happier. A Bowl for a Coin by William Wayne Farris is a commodity history of tea in Japan, an angle of Japanese tea history that I’ve not really seen outside my Japanese tea instructor textbook (and even then,… Read More Tea Book Review: A Bowl for a Coin by William Wayne Farris
After my positive experience with Tall Order, I decided to continue reading Singaporean memoirs and autobiographies, choosing Son of Singapore as the second book I’d read. While I hadn’t heard of this autobiography before, it has excellent reviews online and more importantly, is from the voice of an ordinary Singaporean, not a politician or one… Read More Book Review: Son of Singapore by Tan Kok Seng
I have been waiting eight years for this book and it has been so worth the wait. Rewind to 2012 – the year where I was applying for university scholarships and trying to finish as many books in my school library before I graduated. Sometime during the year, I participated in a blog tour for… Read More Book Review: The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani
This is kind of random, but a question just popped into my head: When do you link to other blogs/accounts on social media? We are probably all blogging so that we can take part in a community. Same goes for when you post about books on Instagram/Twitter/other Social Networking Sites. For me, I get lots… Read More Discussion Post: When do you link to other blogs/accounts?
Thank you Em from A Geeky Jock for constantly talking about Jackaby because that kept it on the top of my TBR list, which meant that I managed to read book two only one and a half years after I read book one. As with the first book, Beastly Bones is an extremely fun read… Read More Book Review: Beastly Bones by William Ritter
The Inspector Maigret mysteries were recommended me by my friend, Warren, and since I intend to read at least a few books in the series, I decided to start with the first. Pietr the Latvian was a strange novel. It starts with Inspector Maigret getting word that a notorious conman, the titular Pietr, has been… Read More Book Review: Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon
I must be in a thriller mood* because I’ve finished another one – Perfect Little Children (also known as Haven’t They Grown) by Sophie Hannah. Perfect Little Children has a premise that grabbed me immediately: Unable to resist her curiosity, Beth takes a detour to her ex-best friend, Flora’s, house. It’s been twelve years since… Read More Book Review: Perfect Little Children by Sophie Hannah
Recently, I heard about this website called BookXcess from someone on Bookstagram. BookXcess is a Malaysia bookstore that sells remaindered books – meaning that while you can’t find the latest releases there, you can find a lot of older titles at great prices. Obviously, I can’t pass up a good book bargain so I made… Read More My BookXcess Online Experience
I am terribly late to the hype (as usual), but I finally read Tall Order, the biography of Goh Chok Tong. Goh Chok Tong is the second prime minister of Singapore and Tall Order is supposed to be the first volume in a two volume series. Since this is Volume One, Tall Order doesn’t try… Read More Book Review: Tall Order by Peh Shing Huei