Apparently what my brain wanted after reading fantasy was to go straight into nonfiction, so today, I read Being Mortal by Atul Gawande and Grit by Angela Duckworth. On a tangential note: why do some books seem to grow brown faster than others? My copy of Grit is seriously and unevenly affected by this. There… Read More Daily Reading: 30th May//Nonfiction Saturday
Jennifer from Out of Babel tagged me in this fascinating book tag and I couldn’t resist! What would fictional characters do in quarantine/circuit breaker/MCO/lockdown? Like her, I’m going to imagine the characters in their own worlds! Rules Take 5 or more of your favorite book characters and imagine what they would be doing if they… Read More Book Tag: Fictional Characters in Quarantine/Circuit Breaker/MCO
I managed to find a pocket of time today so I not only finished East, I also finished three short reads! They are: Neil Gaiman’s Make Good Art Speech How Not to Be a Twit by Road Dahl (Quotes basically) Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss (honestly felt like a graduation speech too,… Read More Daily Reading: 29th May//Good End to the Week
I think the Fairacre series is the closest thing that I’ve come to binging nowadays. Although I am reluctant to read them too fast because once I’m done, I’m done! But since I won’t be able to head to the library for a while, I guess I won’t be going back to Fairacre village anytime… Read More Book Review: Village Centenary by Miss Read
I am majorly late to join the “Have Read Harry Potter” group but here I am! The books were so popular by the time I heard about them that I didn’t dare touch the books in case I didn’t enjoy them. Plus, I pretty much knew all the major plot points just by listening to… Read More Finally Read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Short little update today: It’s so weird to think that the month is ending – it feels like I just started this rereading project! It’s getting a bit hard to choose what to read next because there are so many books that I want to reread! I’ll probably do this again soon – maybe every… Read More Daily Reading: 27th May//East (Part 1)
While I’m taking a brief break from The Tale of Tea by George van Driem to reread the other books about tea I own, I wanted to share something that I’ve learnt from what I read so far! One thing that I’ve read a couple of times[1] is that it was Robert Fortune’s 1843 trip… Read More UniversiTEA: The History of the term ‘Camellia Sinensis’
It turns out that the office is still closed today for Hari Raya celebrations, so I had a lot of extra time that I used to finish Empire of Tea! This concludes my reread of three tea books and it means I need to get my thoughts/comparisons down soon before I forget. Despite its title,… Read More Daily Reading: 26th May//Empire of Tea
It probably can’t be said enough but I am a sucker for countryside-themed stuff (I actually enjoyed Escape to the Country and was disappointed when it was taken off Netflix). So when I saw the subtitle “In Pursuit of the Rural Dream”, I thought this would be the perfect read as I’m cooped up at… Read More Book Review: My Good Life in France by Janine Marsh
I’ve finished A Thirst for Empire, as planned, so I’m pretty confident that I can finish the third tea book (Empire of Tea) by the end of the month! The second section ended on a relatively high note for tea, as we see that it had become part of a national characteristic of the British… Read More Daily Reading: 25th May//A Thirst for Empire (Part 3)
