Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
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
This was the second book that my friend recommended. Since the first was Soul Mountain and I didn’t exactly have the best experience with it, I was a bit hesitant to pick up this. But now that I’ve read it, I feel like I’ve been scared for no good reason – this is a much… Read More The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
I was wondering if there were any Zelda-adjacent books so I did a search and found this! The Psychology of Zelda is a collection of essays that tie concepts in psychology to aspects of the game. The essay titles are: Embodying the virtual hero: A link to the self It’s dangerous to go alone: The… Read More The Psychology of Zelda edited by Anthony M. Bean
This turned out to be a surprisingly hard read. Not because it was bad (quite the opposite, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time) but because I got too excited about the ending. Even reading the last few chapters didn’t help, the tension was just that high. In Glass Houses, Armand… Read More Glass Houses by Louise Penny
I stumbled across this book while browsing through Overdrive and knew that I was going to read it someday because it’s related to the World of Genji project I’m doing. I kind of put it off for a few weeks because it looked a bit intimidating, but I told Pan Pan about it and basically… Read More The Search for the Beautiful Woman by Cho Kyo
I normally wait a while between series (although not too long) because I have too many books on my TBR list but I enjoyed Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit so much that I borrowed The Code of the Wooster straight away. In The Code of the Woosters, Bertie reluctantly goes into the lion’s den to… Read More The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse