When I first saw this, I thought it was a book written by C.S. Lewis about reading and got very excited. Unfortunately, my first assumption was wrong: this is a book about quotes from C.S. Lewis about reading, which is different from what I expected but still delightful. Divided into two main sections, The Reading… Read More Book Review: The Reading Life by C.S. Lewis
After I baked the bath buns yesterday (pictures soon! I just have to write my review of the cookbook haha), the yearning to read Jane Austen was really strong, so once I finished Pollyanna, I switched to Austen. I actually wanted to read Northanger Abbey, but I realised that I did not have a copy… Read More Daily Reading: 5th May//Persuasion Part 1
Hi friends! Since I have been challenging myself with baking and embroidery, I decide to try myself with filming a video as well! I was challenged to do a video during the 15 Minute Magic and it was honestly the hardest task out of three months of tasks. So I decided that I need to… Read More Talking about Books about Tea
May the Fourth be with all of you~ I actually had a lot more work than I expected to do today, but because I managed to read A Little Princess after writing yesterday’s post, and Little Lord Fauntleroy and Pollyanna aren’t too long, I actually have three books to talk about! Three books in which… Read More Daily Reading: 4th May//Good Children
I finished two books today: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and The Painted Garden by Noel Streatfeild. I was initially going to read The Secret Garden and A Little Princess today, but I remembered that The Painted Garden is about a movie adaptation of The Secret Garden and thought it would go well… Read More Daily Reading: 3rd May//Two Gardens
I finished the Secret Island yesterday, so I continued on and finished the next three books in the series: The Secret of Spiggy Holes, The Secret Mountain, and The Secret of Killimooin. Prince Paul, the fifth member of the party, is introduced in The Secret of Spiggy Holes, and thanks to him, the kids are… Read More Daily Reading: 2nd May//More Enid Blyton + Cranachan
I normally spread my Fairacre reads out a little because I want them to last, but it’s the period for comforting reads like this series. Expect one more review of these books coming up soon! At the start of The Fairacre Festival, the village of has been struck by a huge storm, causing major damage… Read More Book Review: The Fairacre Festival by Miss Read
It’s May and we’re in for another month of circuit breaker/lockdown measures in Singapore. Coincidentally, I finished the last of the library books that I borrowed before the circuit breaker started last week. I did think about checking out new books from Overdrive, but I remembered a C.S. Lewis quote that I read recently: “Clearly… Read More May is the Month of Rereading (And the return of amateur blogging??)
In my head, I know that I should be reviewing the last two ‘new teas’ that I bought recently, but I’ve just not been in the right headspace to sit with a tea. Instead, I’ve been drawn to a cocktail recipe from The Book of Afternoon Tea that involves Earl Grey. Here’s the thing about… Read More This may be my favourite way of drinking Earl Grey
After I picked up Malice and realised that there’s still a lot of Higashino Keigo books that I haven’t read, I decided to try and find a few more books. I managed to pick up this copy of Salvation of a Saint in the library, which is great because it’s a Detective Galileo novel and… Read More Book Review: Salvation of a Saint by Higashino Keigo
