Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
This will be, I hope, the start of a new series. One of the things I planned to do more of this year was to read in Japanese, and I had the perfect opportunity when I was given a stack of books for the World of Genji project. It was pretty hard to decide what… Read More Reading in Japanese: Family and Sex in the Middle Ages by Takahashi Hideki (中世の家と性）
I’m not a big poetry fan because it’s hard for me to understand but I am a fan of pretty things and I could not resist these books! Obvious State is publishing a series of books where they pair certain poems or text with images and the end result is just gorgeous! I backed the… Read More Kickstarter: Poetry books from Obvious State
It took me some time to get to Harsh Lessons, but once I started reading, I couldn’t put this down. The second book in the Leeth Dossier series, Harsh Lessons has our heroine (was Sara, now Leeth) move out of the Institute for Paranormal Dysfunction to a covert government agency where she has to learn… Read More Book Review: Harsh Lessons by L. J. Kendall
This is pretty rare but I borrowed this book because of the author. I’ve heard of Tony Gebely’s tea-rating website Tea Epicure, which meant that I was curious to see what he had to say about tea. The Philosophy of Tea is a slim volume that manages to pack a lot of information about tea.… Read More Books about Tea: The Philosophy of Tea by Tony Gebely
The Golden Age of Murder convinced me that I need to read more Golden Age mystery authors that are not Agatha Christie, so I decided to look for some Josephine Tey (also, my library doesn’t have Anthony Berkeley so I will have to find his books in a bookstore which will take some time). I’ve… Read More Book Review: A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
I’ve got to admit, I was drawn to the cover of the book when I first saw it in the library. The synopsis sealed the deal because it sounded like historical fantasy. And while Rotherweird wasn’t quite like what I thought it was, I really enjoyed this. Rotherweird is a town within England that isn’t… Read More Book Review: Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott
Fashionopolis, as you might expect, was eye-opening. Apart from talking about my book to everyone around me (probably annoying my taobao-loving friends and family), I also did a mini-reading binge and found these three books to be very helpful. Fashionopolis: Read this for an introduction to the ethical and ecological problems facing fashion Published just… Read More 3 Books to Change the Way You See Fashion
I’ve wanted to read Annie Dillard for a few years but I’ve always been unable to find a physical copy. Luckily, I was recently inspired to look for her in Overdrive and I realised that the NLB has added a few of her books! I immediately borrowed Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which I hear is… Read More Book Review: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
It should be pretty obvious that I like fairytales and folklore. So when I heard about this book on Netgalley, I was immediately intrigued. It’s supposed to be a comprehensive resource on all things about the Good People and it definitely delivers. Organised alphabetically (duh!), A New Dictionary of Fairies covers subjects like Elf-Shot and… Read More Book Review: A New Dictionary of Fairies by Morgan Daimler
I kind of went into this book knowing that it was going to change the way I was thinking about clothes and I was right. I heard about Fashionopolis from the Dressed Podcast interview (which was great, except for an advert for Fabletics that felt out of place) and knew that this was going to… Read More Book Review: Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas