Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
This book is technically for children but I could not resist keeping it for myself – after all, it’s a collection of 52 folktales and legends from around the world! Beautifully illustrated, A Year of Stories contains one story for every week of the year. At first, I wasn’t sure if it would truly be… Read More Book Review: A Year of Stories by Angela McAllister
It has been a while since I dug into a tea-related book, so when I saw this in the library’s online shelves, I thought it was too interesting to pass over! As it happens, the book is a little dry but no matter, the subject matter of the history of Japanese green tea in America… Read More Tea Book Review: Green With Milk And Sugar by Robert Hellyer
Hi, after writing this review, I found out that I have already read it way back in 2017! But apparently, my experience reading this the second time around is the same and I made many of the same points but in a different way. Still, I’ve not posted a review on this blog specifically so… Read More Book Review: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling translated by Herbert A. Giles
My heart. Oh my heart! I was intrigued by this book after learning about it from The Orangutan Librarian’s mini reviews since it was pitched as a post-Narnia type of book but I did not expect The Light Between Worlds to spend its whole time breaking my heart. We all know what happens in Narnia.… Read More Book Review: The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth
According to Goodreads, the last Shardlake book I read was away back in… 2017. And it’s kind of weird that I never continued because I love historical mysteries (the Owen Archer series is set in the same era and I’m more or less caught up to it, for example)! But no worries, a friend of… Read More Book Review: Revelation by CJ Sansom
I’ve had this book on my radar ever since The Literary Escapade talked about it (the site is currently private but I’ll link to the post in case it ever comes back) but somehow, it escaped my notice when I was doing my binge reading on social media! But it’s never too late to read… Read More Book Review: The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
I am writing this review somewhat handicapped because: 1) I did not write the review straightaway and 2) I had to reset my kobo and lost all my annotations. So here is a somewhat fuzzy review of this book on curry’s diverse history. Curry is the tale of how cultures influence food. In this book,… Read More Book Review: Curry by Lizzie Collingham
While I was looking up Japanese history quite a while back, I came across the Shimane Kodai Bunka centre and its small online library. Apparently, the prefecture of Shimane provides a free PDF ebook (link to download page) called いずも神話/Izumo Shinwa and it’s perfect for people who are learning Japanese and/or who know Japanese and… Read More Reading in Japanese: いずも神話 Izumo Shinwa
I’ve been recommended this book a few times but never got around to it until I was in the library and found a copy! While I enjoyed this book, I do think that it’s a pity it was marketed slightly differently. Billed as a “retelling inspired by the Mid Autumn legend”, Daughter of the Moon… Read More Book Review: Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
I’ve heard about this classic children’s novel for a while and decided to finally pick it up! Swallows and Amazons is the story of two groups of children who are both very good sailors. The book opens with the Walkers, who have received permission to sail to, and camp on, a nearby island for the… Read More Book Review: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome