Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
水浒传, translated into English as ‘Water Margin’, is considered to be one of the Four Great Novels of Chinese literature. It is, along with Dream of the Red Chamber, also one of the two that I know very little about (although I now know a bit more about Dream of the Red Chamber thanks to… Read More Book Review: Water Margin by Shi Nai'an Translated by J.H. Jackson
Having enjoyed the first two books in the series, The Two Mrs. Abbotts was already on my TBR list. And when Ami from Luvtoread reviewed it, it felt like a sign that I should move the book up the list. So the next time I popped by the Central Library (which is one of the… Read More The Two Mrs. Abbotts by D. E. Stevenson
So this was something recommended in the self-help talk at the NLB (I really should sign up for more talks) and since I really enjoyed Digital Minimalism, I decided to read this. Plus, I tend to get a bit reflective around December (or any other trigger, really), and I thought it would be nice to… Read More Deep Work by Cal Newport
I normally try to read the Fairacre series in order, but when I saw this, I knew that it had to be read in the Christmas season. Christmas with Miss Read is a collection of stories that are, in some way, linked to Christmas. Some of them, I think I’ve already read (The Fairacre Ghost… Read More Christmas with Miss Read
I found out about this book from the Public Libraries Singapore’s Instagram and could not resist picking this up. While my English has been steadily getting worse (I used to think that it’s because my brain was replacing it with Japanese but clearly this is not the case anymore), I still enjoy reading about the… Read More The Accidental Dictionary by Paul Anthony Jones
This sounded interesting when I read the synopsis on Netgalley. Faces in the Crowd is a collection of thirty six short stories by Feng Jicai, all located in the port of Tianjing. While I entered this collection with high hopes, hoping to get to know some unusual and delightful characters, I found myself unimpressed. Perhaps… Read More Faces in the Crowd by Feng Jicai
Do you know what I thought of when I read this book? Dressed, the podast about the history of fashion. And I was reminded that I prefer reading to listening, not least because you can insert pictures into a book. As the title says, Great War Fashion is about what the women of Britain war… Read More Great War Fashion by Lucy Adlington
Does anyone have this problem where you have so many books on your TBR list that you end up only reading the most recent additions, and the older books just languish on the metaphorical shelves? Because I have that problem, especially for the Google Keep list (I have my list in two places because why… Read More Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis
So this has been on my TBR list for a couple of years. I had pretty high hopes for this because I love histories that focus on one unexpected subject, but I found myself rapidly losing interest in this. I had thought that Paper would be a history of paper. However, it’s really more a… Read More Paper by Mark Kurlansky
This was a surprisingly deep read. I borrowed this book thinking that it was going to be about murders and haunted dollhouses (which it is), but I didn’t expect the touching depiction of life with a mentally challenged sister that was also inside. In The Dollhouse Murders, Amy temporarily moves to her Aunt Clare’s home… Read More The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright