Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
I’ve been wanting to read this book for a pretty long time (Goodreads says I shelved this as ‘want to read’ in 2012!) but its size has put me off. So before I left for holiday, I decided to download this, thinking that it should last me the entire two weeks. Spoiler alert: it didn’t… Read More Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Subtitle: A response to the Buzzfeed article (sort of) So here’s the thing. Unless I’m following a series, I tend to be really bad at remembering author’s names. In general, I try not to judge books based on their authors either. But, there is one exception: I don’t read anything by Kathleen Hale. Even if… Read More Why I’m Still Uncomfortable with Kathleen Hale
I’m not sure where I heard of this book but I remember why I wanted to read it: Marcelo has a cognitive disorder, which resembles Asperger’s syndrome. Since my brother is on the autism spectrum, I wanted to read more books which had characters that represent him. Marcelo has a pretty comfortable life at the… Read More Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
When I was in Secondary School, we had a class named “Social Studies”, which was basically studying different countries around the world and how that compared to Singapore (as well as how to analyse different texts that you find for bias and reliability). One of the topics we studied was the IRA and the Troubles,… Read More Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
As a non-British person (although I’m from a former British colony), I must admit to not knowing much about Middle England, or even having much of an impression what it was. So it was pretty surprising to realise that I’ve visited, and even lived in, some of the places mentioned in Adventures on the High… Read More Adventures on the High Teas by Stuart Maconie
Some time back, I read The Service of the Dead and really enjoyed it. So I decided to continue, but since the second book was unavailable, I decided to read The Apothecary Rose, which is the first book in the Owen Archer series and also by Candace Robb. Like The Service of the Dead, The… Read More The Apothecary Rose by Candace Robb
I chanced upon this in the library, but the minute I saw that this book influenced none other than Jane Austen, I knew that I was going to read it. According to Jane Austen for Dummies (which is actually really informative), the three novels of France Burney “brought the comedy of manners – in which… Read More Evelina by Frances Burney
I’m finally back in the Fairacre series, and as usual, I wonder what kept me away for so long (probably the fact that this series is only found at the regional library branches). Over the Gate is about the stories told by various Fairacre residents to Miss Read as she goes about her job as… Read More Over The Gate by Miss Read
One of the things I try to be aware of is bias. It was something taught in school (always look at the bias for various news sources to see how they would want things to appear) and it became something that stuck. So when I heard about Biased, a book on implicit racial bias, I… Read More Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
One day, Cher messaged me to ask me to read Hannibal and Me so that she had someone to discuss it. I assumed that she was done and borrowed the book, but as it turns out, we finished around the same time. We’ve had a bit of a chat about the book on telegram, but… Read More Hannibal and Me by Andreas Kluth