I’ve been wanting to reread my books about tea but I needed a palate cleanser after Brave Story. So I ended up reading The Illustrated Mum (I’ve been meaning to read the Sarah Dessen novels I own but I haven’t been feeling it) and it actually has a lot of similarities to Brave Story. Well,… Read More Daily Reading: 18th May//The Illustrated Mum
I’ve mentioned it before, but the work-from-home thing has really gotten into full swing now that the factory is up (and I have work to do) which means that… I’m pretty tired. So I took a break from the daily blogging on Friday and yesterday. I wanted to take a complete weekend break from the… Read More Daily Reading: 17th May//A Short Break
Finding a copy of Trick Mirror in the library is like finding a needle in a haystack. Each library has a copy but that copy seems to be perpetually borrowed and I wasn’t willing to pay to reserve a copy. So when I found out that my local library had a copy available, I decided… Read More Book Review: Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
I managed to read about a hundred more pages of Brave Story today, so I’m now into the Vision part of the series. Vision is basically something that Wataru thought up and because he likes video games, it’s really like an RPG. Although I remember enjoying the adventure the first time I read Brave Story,… Read More Daily Reading: 14th May//How Zelda is Enhancing my Reading Experience
At long last, my Book of Tea from Lupicia is here! It was stuck at the Tokyo post office for a month and I refreshed the tracker page on my phone so often it became one of my most visited sites. I decided to film a short unboxing video for this but realised after editing… Read More Lupicia’s Book of Tea Unboxing!
Today, I started Brave Story which I have been half eagerly anticipating and half dreading. The anticipating stuff is obvious – I remember really enjoying this when I read it and I just finished The Gate of Sorrows (review… will be posted soon) and I loved that too. The dread part, though, is another matter.… Read More Daily Reading: 13th May//The Bad Beginning in Brave Story
I took the unprecedented step of borrowing a Discworld novel recently. I normally buy them because they are great for re-reads, but I was craving something new and funny and hadn’t had the time to go to the bookshop (the nearby library has a lot more books too). In The Truth, Ankh Morpork has finally… Read More Book Review: The Truth by Terry Pratchett
Contrary to my expectations, I managed to finish The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear today! It’s a brick of a book (just over 700 pages) so I was planning to devote the week to it but the book was really just too fun and I flew through it. Also, I started this rereading with… Read More Daily Reading: 12th May//Reading Fast and Slow
It always pays to browse the shelves at the library. I found Tales of the Tea Trade in the tea section and immediately picked it up, especially since Infused by Henrietta Lovell was such a good read and I was eager to read more about the tea industry. Tales of the Tea Trade turned out… Read More Tea Book Review: Tales of the Tea Trade by Michelle and Rob Comins
I read The City of Dreaming Books in 2018 and have been wanting to reread my copy of The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear ever since then! But it’s a fairly long book and I always had new books to read from the library so I never got around to it, until this month… Read More Daily Reading: 11th May//The first 9 lives of Captain Bluebear
