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
It’s a little weird to read about shopping (or rather, shopping less) right after a book about economics, but Prosperity Without Growth and A Life Less Throwaway actually work together pretty well. Prosperity Without Growth makes an argument about growth and the economy, and A Life Less Throwaway narrows things down to the individual, as… Read More Book Review: A Life Less Throwaway by Tara Button
I was at a bit of a loss as to what to read after I finished all the Jane Austens I had at home. At first, I thought of reading Death Came to Pemberley but I gave up after a few pages – not because the book was bad (I enjoyed it the first time… Read More Daily Reading: 10th May//Some Historical Fiction
I don’t normally see the National Reading Movement SG account share economic books so when it talked about Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson, I made a note to borrow it. It’s been some time since I read a serious economics book and I wanted to challenge my brain a little. In Prosperity Without Growth,… Read More Book Review: Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson
It’s the weekend and I have a lot more time to read (although I did end up working for a bit). With the extra time, I managed to finish Emma and Pride and Prejudice, which makes the end of the Jane Austen rereads for now – I wonder what I should read next… Interestingly, I’m… Read More Daily Reading: 9th May//Emma + Pride and Prejudice
One silver lining about the circuit breaker is that I’m finally cooking from my cookbooks! Among others, I got a copy of Dining with Mr Darcy during my visit to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath. I admired the book greatly when I bought it, but after that I put it aside because I hardly… Read More Stay Home Bakes #4: Dining with Mr Darcy by Pen Vogler
