Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
This was one of the new ebooks in the NLB and the title sounded pretty cool. Hacking Life is not a manual or tips on life hacking. Instead, it’s a critique of the life hacking movement as a whole. I’ve heard bits and pieces about life hacking – I’ve heard of people tracking their entire… Read More Hacking Life by Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
Since the library is having a reading competition, I’ve been visiting every week to borrow a book or two. And in the interest of being able to finish books fast enough (while making progress on my book haul), I’ve been trying to borrow mostly books that I know I’ll enjoy – like the next book… Read More A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
I thought I’d read most general histories on tea but clearly, I am wrong. I came across A Brief History of Tea while having a session at Cher’s house and immediately asked if I could borrow it because, well, I haven’t read this particular history yet. So the thing is, I’m probably a bit biased… Read More A Brief History of Tea by Roy Moxham
Now that I’m doing a smartphone detox, I’m more curious than normal about how the internet and social media work, as well as how using them affect our brains. So when I heard about The Shallows, I was extremely interested since the subtitle was “what the internet is doing to our brains”. The Shallows covers… Read More The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
I might have mentioned this before, but I’m harnessing my current momentum/desire to read books about or inspired by the history of the UK to make a dent in my TBR list and A History of English Food was one of these books. (I have this very bad habit where I’ll put a book on… Read More A History of English Food by Clarissa Dickson Wright
I was at a secondhand book fair when I saw this and despite the fact that it’s been six years since I read The Mysterious Benedict Society, I remembered enjoying the first book enough to pick up the prequel. Plus, there’s something fitting about the fact that I found both books at second hand stores… Read More The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
In June, I managed to meet one of my AC friends – a really fun meeting, even accounting for the fact that we had to catch up on about 8 years of news in two hours. And during the meeting, he recommended me two books. One of them was Soul Mountain. To be honest, if… Read More Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
This is another timely book that, oddly enough, helped me to further develop the ideas sparked by Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism. In The Year of Less, Cait Flanders embarks on an ambitious project: Not to buy anything outside what is approved. This doesn’t just impact her savings, it helped her to identify triggers for her… Read More The Year of Less by Cait Flanders
I’ve had this on my TBR list for quite some time, and like so many books recently, borrowed it because of it’s a novel set in Medieval England and I’m trying to prolong the post-vacation high as long as I can. But to my surprise, I was hooked the minute I started reading Shadow on… Read More Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell
I found this while searching for How Not to Fall Apart in Overdrive and the book sounded pretty intriguing so I picked it up. I’m not quite sure how to classify it – it’s not self-help and I’m not sure if it’s memoir because at least half the book consists of her interviews with others… Read More The Art of Not Falling Apart by Christina Patterson