Pretty much everyone around me who reads has raved about Billion Dollar Whale online. But it’s popular status also means that it’s been hard to grab a copy in the library (or perhaps I’m just lucky). So when I saw the ecopy in Overdrive, I decided to download it and woah, this is basically Crazy… Read More Book Review: Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
A friend went to Korea and came back with some tea! It’s super exciting because I’ve been wanting to visit the O’Sulloc Tea Museum for the longest time and since I have not made my way there, drinking tea from O’Sulloc is going to be the closest thing I can get to this. Because I… Read More Tea Review: Volcanic Rock Tea by Osulloc
I first heard about The Night Parade when Wendy at Literary Feline reviewed it … in 2016. Yes, this has been on my TBR list for four years! But it’s about Obon and Japanese culture so I was definitely going to read it sooner or later. In The Night Parade, Saki is dragged from her… Read More Book Review: The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary
This will be, I hope, the start of a new series. One of the things I planned to do more of this year was to read in Japanese, and I had the perfect opportunity when I was given a stack of books for the World of Genji project. It was pretty hard to decide what… Read More Reading in Japanese: Family and Sex in the Middle Ages by Takahashi Hideki (中世の家と性）
I’m not a big poetry fan because it’s hard for me to understand but I am a fan of pretty things and I could not resist these books! Obvious State is publishing a series of books where they pair certain poems or text with images and the end result is just gorgeous! I backed the… Read More Kickstarter: Poetry books from Obvious State
I mentioned a while back that for the first time ever, I bought a tea because of the a book – Henrietta’s book, to be exact. Her memoir of her life in tea was so fascinating and her tea descriptions so enticing that I bought the Rare Tea Discovery Box even before I finished reading.… Read More Tea Reviews: Rare Tea Discovery Box by Rare Tea Company
It took me some time to get to Harsh Lessons, but once I started reading, I couldn’t put this down. The second book in the Leeth Dossier series, Harsh Lessons has our heroine (was Sara, now Leeth) move out of the Institute for Paranormal Dysfunction to a covert government agency where she has to learn… Read More Book Review: Harsh Lessons by L. J. Kendall
As I continue pondering the role of technology and social media in my life (basically something I do whenever I have nothing else on my mind), I realised something: The book blogging community works extremely hard. Like, I’m not even joking. I see daily posts from so many book bloggers, I see readathons, I see… Read More You’re Not Lazy, You’re Tired and That’s Okay
This is pretty rare but I borrowed this book because of the author. I’ve heard of Tony Gebely’s tea-rating website Tea Epicure, which meant that I was curious to see what he had to say about tea. The Philosophy of Tea is a slim volume that manages to pack a lot of information about tea.… Read More Books about Tea: The Philosophy of Tea by Tony Gebely
The Golden Age of Murder convinced me that I need to read more Golden Age mystery authors that are not Agatha Christie, so I decided to look for some Josephine Tey (also, my library doesn’t have Anthony Berkeley so I will have to find his books in a bookstore which will take some time). I’ve… Read More Book Review: A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
