Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
It has belatedly occurred to me that as a Singaporean, I have access to J*STOR via the national library. Which is a great way for me to read up on The Tale of Genji without actually having to leave the house. So here are a few papers that I’ve read and what I’ve learnt: The… Read More What I’ve learned from papers about The Tale of Genji
Last year, I read about Bletchley Park and found out about a whole new side to WWII that I never even knew about. This year, I found this book, about the secret American code-breaking operation, and realised that Bletchley Park is just half of the story. Like the title says, Code Girls is about the… Read More Code Girls by Liza Mundy
So lately, I’ve been pretty pleased at myself for being able to stop a book if I didn’t really like it (my current reading model is “life’s too short to waste it on books I don’t like). Which makes Playing Dead a bit of an outlier; there’s plenty of things in the book I don’t… Read More Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin
I have been loving the discussions about libraries at Pages Unbound and wanted to do something to celebrate the libraries we have here in Singapore. So I thought I’d do a series of posts about some of the libraries I frequent and love. Growing up, I kind of took the library for granted. I visited… Read More SingLib #1: Jurong Regional Library
I couldn’t resist picking this up when I found this in the library (found it while looking for The Inheritor’s Poison). Murder by the Book is not only about the murder of Lord William Russel, which is more complicated than the trial might suggest, but also looks at one of the most popular books of… Read More Murder by the Book by Claire Harman
It is no secret that I like spending time online – you can look at the number of communities I’ve been in and the number of blogs I have. But I have noticed that online activity is not necessarily beneficial to mental health (comparisonitis is powerful, even if you try to avoid it). So when… Read More Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
When I saw the Lost Yorkshire Fairytales project on Kickstarter, I knew that I had to back it. I really enjoy folk tales, fairy tales, and mythology, and I haven’t read much (if any) from Yorkshire. So to fill the gap in my knowledge, I decided to pledge enough for the finished book and the… Read More Forgotten Yorkshire Folk and Fairytales by Andrew Walsh
I heard about this from Jane over at the Greenish Bookshelves and I love Pride and Prejudice so I headed down to the library for this the first chance I had. This is a Pride and Prejudice retelling, diverging from the book at Darcy’s original proposal. Instead, the story looks at what might have happened… Read More Unequal Affection by Lara S. Ormiston
I borrowed this on a whim but it turned out to be surprisingly technical and something that I wished I had in university. Subtitled: what physics, meteorology, and the natural sciences can teach us about economics, Forecast is about the weaknesses of current modern economic thinking and how we might be able to overcome them… Read More Forecast by Mark Buchanan
After writing that review of Practically Perfect in Every Way, I decided to revisit my old post on Singaporeans and Nonfiction. This post was originally posted on Dayre on 16 Jan 2017 and it has been edited and updated with 2018 information. On Saturday, I saw this article in The Straits Times. I have so… Read More Singaporeans and Nonfiction