Nothing much to say except that I got two new teacups and one teaset recently and they are ADORABLE. I’ve been wanting to share pictures of it but the traffic’s been terrible lately and I have not been able to be at home during daylight hours. But the sun rose a little earlier today so… Read More This Teaware's a Hoot
So this was something recommended in the self-help talk at the NLB (I really should sign up for more talks) and since I really enjoyed Digital Minimalism, I decided to read this. Plus, I tend to get a bit reflective around December (or any other trigger, really), and I thought it would be nice to… Read More Deep Work by Cal Newport
I normally try to read the Fairacre series in order, but when I saw this, I knew that it had to be read in the Christmas season. Christmas with Miss Read is a collection of stories that are, in some way, linked to Christmas. Some of them, I think I’ve already read (The Fairacre Ghost… Read More Christmas with Miss Read
I can’t believe that we’re through with the second week of advent because that means I have slightly over a week to Christmas! Where has the time gone?? Did I do this same panicked lament last year? (Possibly) I’ll have to start writing my year in review posts soon because the rest of December is… Read More ADVENTure Week 2
When I was a kid, going on a holiday overseas meant going to Genting (Johor was too close to count). Apart from rare trips to Hong Kong and once, Dubai, my family always chose to take a five hour drive up north for our holidays. We were in Genting so often we were members. But… Read More Going back to Genting in 2019
I found out about this book from the Public Libraries Singapore’s Instagram and could not resist picking this up. While my English has been steadily getting worse (I used to think that it’s because my brain was replacing it with Japanese but clearly this is not the case anymore), I still enjoy reading about the… Read More The Accidental Dictionary by Paul Anthony Jones
This sounded interesting when I read the synopsis on Netgalley. Faces in the Crowd is a collection of thirty six short stories by Feng Jicai, all located in the port of Tianjing. While I entered this collection with high hopes, hoping to get to know some unusual and delightful characters, I found myself unimpressed. Perhaps… Read More Faces in the Crowd by Feng Jicai
Do you know what I thought of when I read this book? Dressed, the podast about the history of fashion. And I was reminded that I prefer reading to listening, not least because you can insert pictures into a book. As the title says, Great War Fashion is about what the women of Britain war… Read More Great War Fashion by Lucy Adlington
I had so much fun with my advent calendar last year that I got two this year! As you can imagine, I wasn’t sure if I could handle two tea calendars (that’s a lot of caffeine, even on a workday) so I got a tea calendar and a hot chocolate one, with the reasoning that… Read More ADVENTure Week 1: Tea & Chocolate
Does anyone have this problem where you have so many books on your TBR list that you end up only reading the most recent additions, and the older books just languish on the metaphorical shelves? Because I have that problem, especially for the Google Keep list (I have my list in two places because why… Read More Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis
