Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
Finding a copy of Trick Mirror in the library is like finding a needle in a haystack. Each library has a copy but that copy seems to be perpetually borrowed and I wasn’t willing to pay to reserve a copy. So when I found out that my local library had a copy available, I decided… Read More Book Review: Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
I managed to read about a hundred more pages of Brave Story today, so I’m now into the Vision part of the series. Vision is basically something that Wataru thought up and because he likes video games, it’s really like an RPG. Although I remember enjoying the adventure the first time I read Brave Story,… Read More Daily Reading: 14th May//How Zelda is Enhancing my Reading Experience
Today, I started Brave Story which I have been half eagerly anticipating and half dreading. The anticipating stuff is obvious – I remember really enjoying this when I read it and I just finished The Gate of Sorrows (review… will be posted soon) and I loved that too. The dread part, though, is another matter.… Read More Daily Reading: 13th May//The Bad Beginning in Brave Story
I took the unprecedented step of borrowing a Discworld novel recently. I normally buy them because they are great for re-reads, but I was craving something new and funny and hadn’t had the time to go to the bookshop (the nearby library has a lot more books too). In The Truth, Ankh Morpork has finally… Read More Book Review: The Truth by Terry Pratchett
Contrary to my expectations, I managed to finish The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear today! It’s a brick of a book (just over 700 pages) so I was planning to devote the week to it but the book was really just too fun and I flew through it. Also, I started this rereading with… Read More Daily Reading: 12th May//Reading Fast and Slow
It always pays to browse the shelves at the library. I found Tales of the Tea Trade in the tea section and immediately picked it up, especially since Infused by Henrietta Lovell was such a good read and I was eager to read more about the tea industry. Tales of the Tea Trade turned out… Read More Tea Book Review: Tales of the Tea Trade by Michelle and Rob Comins
I read The City of Dreaming Books in 2018 and have been wanting to reread my copy of The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear ever since then! But it’s a fairly long book and I always had new books to read from the library so I never got around to it, until this month… Read More Daily Reading: 11th May//The first 9 lives of Captain Bluebear
It’s a little weird to read about shopping (or rather, shopping less) right after a book about economics, but Prosperity Without Growth and A Life Less Throwaway actually work together pretty well. Prosperity Without Growth makes an argument about growth and the economy, and A Life Less Throwaway narrows things down to the individual, as… Read More Book Review: A Life Less Throwaway by Tara Button
I was at a bit of a loss as to what to read after I finished all the Jane Austens I had at home. At first, I thought of reading Death Came to Pemberley but I gave up after a few pages – not because the book was bad (I enjoyed it the first time… Read More Daily Reading: 10th May//Some Historical Fiction
I don’t normally see the National Reading Movement SG account share economic books so when it talked about Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson, I made a note to borrow it. It’s been some time since I read a serious economics book and I wanted to challenge my brain a little. In Prosperity Without Growth,… Read More Book Review: Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson