Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
I’m done with the longest book on tea that I have ever read! The Tale of Tea by George van Driem is a whopping 864 pages and chock-full of information. To commemorate reading this book, I filmed my first ever video review (note: I made a mistake and said that Lu Yu belonged to the… Read More Tea Book Review: The Tale of Tea by George van Driem
“So I believe in heart’s oaths. They are the ones we should live by – for what life is worth living, with a stifled heart? None, that I know of.” One of my friends recommended Corrag to me and wow, this was beautiful! I picked up the book because it’s about the Glencoe Massacre, which… Read More Book Review: Corrag by Susan Fletcher
I first heard about Wilding when I came across an article by Isabella Tree in The Guardian. It was an article about the environmental impacts of eating livestock that was reared in a natural environment compared to the environmental impacts of intensely farmed vegetables, and the descriptions of the Knepp estate caught my eye. When… Read More Book Review: Wilding by Isabella Tree
Yesterday, my friends and I attended an online geisha event. I thought it was very interesting, but while I write my recap of it, I thought I’d share a bit from this book that I’ve almost finished. It’s called 中世の遊女 (Courtesans in the Middle Ages) by 辻浩和 Three Myths about Courtesans In this case, the… Read More Reading in Japanese: 3 Myths about Japanese Courtesans (From 中世の遊女 by 辻浩和)
I’m finally back with a second post in the Classic Remarks meme by Pages Unbound! Although I’m not a huge classics reader (in my opinion), I really liked this week’s prompt: What advice would you give to someone hesitant to read classics? Perhaps I’ve been inspired by today’s Tea Together Tuesday, but I’ve got three… Read More Classic Remarks: Advice for people hesitant to read the Classics
I use Goodreads mainly to keep track of my reviews and it has come in handy again – when I looked up Persuasion, it reminded me that I last read it around the end of 2017, before a trip to England, making this reread a fairly recent one. Although there is one difference – in… Read More Rereading: Persuasion by Jane Austen
This is a reread from the distant past, before I had Goodreads or even the first iteration of my blog. But I own a copy of Brave Story and have been planning to reread it for the past decade (I carried this 800-page brick to Japan and back after all). I just hadn’t gotten around… Read More Rereading: Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe
I was browsing Pinterest when I saw a post on how the Bookish Linguist planned to cut her TBR list into half this year. It was a very cool post (if you’re looking for tips definitely check it out), but it also led me to a question: Should TBR lists be achievable? At last count,… Read More Discussion Post: Should TBR Lists be Achievable?
After binge-reading Jane Austen, I needed a completely different book to get over my book hangover so I decided on a fun, quick read: The Obsidian Dagger by Catherine Webb, the second in the Horatio Lyle series. In The Obsidian Dagger, Horatio is compelled to investigate the murder of two people – a Captain with… Read More Rereading: The Obsidian Dagger by Catherine Webb
I’ve been reading up on business and distraction (most recently Celeste Headlee’s book Do Nothing) and for some reason, I didn’t think to read about how busyness related to Christianity; a glaring omission given that I try to live out Christianity the best I can. Somehow, though, I stumbled upon An Unhurried Life in the… Read More Book Review: An Unhurried Life by Alan Fadling