After an enjoyable experience reading A Shilling for Candles, I was on the look out for more Inspector Grant mysteries. I happened to find a copy of The Man in the Queue in a second hand bookstore (before the lockdown) and since it was only $2, I snapped it up. The Man in the Queue… Read More Book Review: The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
It’s time for tea (books)! The first of the three that I plan to read is A Social History of Tea by Jane Pettigrew and Bruce Richardson! So far, I’ve read up to the 17th and 18th centuries. I’m going to be pausing my reading of The Tale of Tea for the time being because… Read More Daily Reading: 20th May//A Social History of Tea (Part 1)
Joining in the tradition of “Jane Eyre-inspired books that I liked more than the original text” (scandalous, I know) is My Plain Jane, the second in the The Lady Janies series. This got on my radar when The Orangutan Librarian did a fun review of the book and then got kicked to the top of… Read More Book Review: My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton
I have no idea why I didn’t think of Jacqueline Wilson when I started this rereading project because I realised that I’ve reread both The Illustrated Mum and Lola Rose many times over the years. In fact, I love Lola Rose so much that I own two editions of the book – the English and… Read More Daily Reading: 19th May//Lola Rose
After I made that Earl Grey Gin & Tonic, I was inspired to continue playing with tea and tonic water (that and I still had a bottle of tonic water to finish before it goes flat). So I decided to try out some non-alcoholic versions! I chose six teas and steeped them in 50ml of… Read More Tea and Tonic Experiments
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!
