Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
I was at the Skye Museum of Island Life when I saw this book – given that I love legends and folklore, I knew that I had to have this as a souvenir of our time in Skye. Obviously, I wasn’t disappointed; this was a delightful book that took me through time and back to… Read More Skye: The Island and Its Legends by Otta Swire
It’s been over two months since my last SEA Reading Challenge book, so I decided to double up my efforts to find one. I made a trip to the Central Library and managed to find a copy of the S.E.A Write Anthology of ASEAN Short Stories & Poems. After all, what’s more representative of South… Read More The S.E.A. Write Anthology of ASEAN Short Stories & Poems
Given that I’m still on a post-vacation high, I decided to start going through the English-history books in my TBR list. One of them is Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood. This wasn’t a period of English history that I heard much of in my trip, apart from… Read More Blood Sisters by Sarah Gristwood
I’m finally back with Part 2 of my SingLib series – a series of posts where I highlight some of the libraries in Singapore that I patronise and love. This time, I thought I’d show you guys the library closest to my home: Clementi Public Library. Clementi Public Library is one of the 26 libraries… Read More SingLib #2: Clementi Public Library
My hold for A Twisted Vengeance came while I was in the UK, so I managed to read this while actually visiting York! While I didn’t manage to wander around, book in hand, reading this while in a Tudor-period house made the book come alive and made me fall more in love with the series… Read More A Twisted Vengeance by Candace Robb
I think I’m warming up to Lord Peter Wimsey. According to Goodreads, I gave three stars to the first Lord Peter Wimsey book I read, four stars to the next, and I think this is either a four or five star read (it’d be 4.5 if Goodreads let me give half stars, but they don’t… Read More Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
I remember hearing about this book from somewhere, but I forgot to note it down so sorry if you’ve reviewed this recently and I forgot to mention that I found the book from your review! (I should probably start following everyone on Goodreads too because it makes it so much easier to see if someone… Read More The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
[There is nothing worse than writing an entire review, only to find out that nothing was saved. This is one of the reviews so let’s hope the rewritten version doesn’t leave anything out – though I doubt anyone but I will care] After reading How to Do Nothing, I was motivated to continue reading about… Read More Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
I first heard this book from the Would Quitting Instagram Make You Happier episode of Why’d You Push That Button. One of the hosts mentioned that How to Do Nothing captured her feelings about social media pretty well, and it got me curious enough to read. This is a pretty difficult book to summarise in… Read More How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
I have refined my shopping on trips to two things: tea and books (well, three if you count the tons of snacks I buy as omiyage). I’ve found out that when it comes to souvenirs for myself, these are the two that I enjoy the most (what am I supposed to do with endless magnets… Read More 2019 UK Trip Book Haul