Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
I’ve been seeing this book on bookstagram and after reading it, I realised that Do Nothing was what I expected How to Do Nothing to be. Broken into two main sections, Do Nothing looks into the ‘cult of efficiency’ and how we can escape from it. The first section traces the West’s, in particular, America’s… Read More Book Review: Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
I thought that I’ve already read this for a university class a long, long time ago, but apparently not! The Attention Merchants charts the rise of modern attention-grabbers, starting with the first newspapers and posters. While you could probably piece together the story by reading books about the main players (newspapers, Google, Oprah, etc), The… Read More Book Review: The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
We’re at the end of the month! To be honest, when it comes to reading, this month moved pretty quickly. I definitely did not read as much as I wanted or planned. But I had a lot of fun rediscovering old favourites that I’ve decided that I want to do this regularly – I’ll probably… Read More Daily Reading: 31st May//May Rereading Roundup + June Plans
Apparently what my brain wanted after reading fantasy was to go straight into nonfiction, so today, I read Being Mortal by Atul Gawande and Grit by Angela Duckworth. On a tangential note: why do some books seem to grow brown faster than others? My copy of Grit is seriously and unevenly affected by this. There… Read More Daily Reading: 30th May//Nonfiction Saturday
Jennifer from Out of Babel tagged me in this fascinating book tag and I couldn’t resist! What would fictional characters do in quarantine/circuit breaker/MCO/lockdown? Like her, I’m going to imagine the characters in their own worlds! Rules Take 5 or more of your favorite book characters and imagine what they would be doing if they… Read More Book Tag: Fictional Characters in Quarantine/Circuit Breaker/MCO
I managed to find a pocket of time today so I not only finished East, I also finished three short reads! They are: Neil Gaiman’s Make Good Art Speech How Not to Be a Twit by Road Dahl (Quotes basically) Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss (honestly felt like a graduation speech too,… Read More Daily Reading: 29th May//Good End to the Week
I think the Fairacre series is the closest thing that I’ve come to binging nowadays. Although I am reluctant to read them too fast because once I’m done, I’m done! But since I won’t be able to head to the library for a while, I guess I won’t be going back to Fairacre village anytime… Read More Book Review: Village Centenary by Miss Read
I am majorly late to join the “Have Read Harry Potter” group but here I am! The books were so popular by the time I heard about them that I didn’t dare touch the books in case I didn’t enjoy them. Plus, I pretty much knew all the major plot points just by listening to… Read More Finally Read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Short little update today: It’s so weird to think that the month is ending – it feels like I just started this rereading project! It’s getting a bit hard to choose what to read next because there are so many books that I want to reread! I’ll probably do this again soon – maybe every… Read More Daily Reading: 27th May//East (Part 1)
It turns out that the office is still closed today for Hari Raya celebrations, so I had a lot of extra time that I used to finish Empire of Tea! This concludes my reread of three tea books and it means I need to get my thoughts/comparisons down soon before I forget. Despite its title,… Read More Daily Reading: 26th May//Empire of Tea