In a new series entitled “Bookstagram Made Me Read It”, I read The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse! To backtrack in time a little, I stumbled across a copy of Jeeves in the Yule-tide Spirit in the library last November. At the same time, I found the Four Weeks of Wodehouse challenge on Instagram. I… Read More The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
I always get excited when I receive tea so when I came home to this package from Em @ The Geeky Jock (she has an amazing book blog you should check out), it pretty much made my day. There were two teas and while both sounded amazing, Mysteaque had peppermint which I love. Plus, I… Read More Notes on Mysteaque Tea + New Owl Tea Set
Death on the Nile is a Hercule Poirot story and one that I have reread often. Spoilers galore in this post because I’m going to be focusing on the characters so skip this if you haven’t read the book! Although the mystery takes place on the Nile, it starts in England when the beautiful, rich,… Read More Re-Reading Christie: Female Characters in Death on the Nile
水浒传, translated into English as ‘Water Margin’, is considered to be one of the Four Great Novels of Chinese literature. It is, along with Dream of the Red Chamber, also one of the two that I know very little about (although I now know a bit more about Dream of the Red Chamber thanks to… Read More Book Review: Water Margin by Shi Nai'an Translated by J.H. Jackson
I was halfway through my New Year Text Messages (which are A Thing if a good number of your friends are overseas) when my mum shouted. “Hong Kong Yeye is dead!” The entire car burst into chatter and tears. My brother, normally the type that refuses to deviate from a plan, especially one that involves… Read More Grief and Gratefulness
I was making goals for 2020 when I realised that most of what I want to achieve belong to two keywords: consume and create. To elaborate a little more, it would be “consume thoughtfully” and “create intentionally”. Okay, I should probably elaborate a lot more but first: Why I’m focusing on keywords instead of goals… Read More Keywords for 2020
It probably says a lot that I wrote tomorrow’s post first, or that I was more excited to look forward to 2020 than to look through 2019. It’s not that I had a bad year (definitely not!) but December has been crazy and I haven’t had much time to comb through the books, podcasts, and… Read More Looking back at 2019
Inspired by Northern Teaist, I spent much of the past month trying to finish as many teas as possible. I dug through cupboards and rifled through the tea drawer at work, stumbled across new teas, and ended up managing to finish X teas. Here are my final goodbyes: The Digester (Bird & Blend Tea Co.)… Read More 2019 Tea Sipdown
Merry Christmas everyone! If I’ve done this right, this post will be going out on Christmas Even and I hope that you’re all enjoying the festive spirit. I’ll be having a sort-of break from tomorrow to the 29th – I’ll be off for Christmas, in camp for the 26th to 27th, and will then be… Read More ADVENTure Week 3 + Overall Thoughts on the Yawn Brew Advent Calendars
Having enjoyed the first two books in the series, The Two Mrs. Abbotts was already on my TBR list. And when Ami from Luvtoread reviewed it, it felt like a sign that I should move the book up the list. So the next time I popped by the Central Library (which is one of the… Read More The Two Mrs. Abbotts by D. E. Stevenson
