So this has been on my TBR list for a couple of years. I had pretty high hopes for this because I love histories that focus on one unexpected subject, but I found myself rapidly losing interest in this. I had thought that Paper would be a history of paper. However, it’s really more a… Read More Paper by Mark Kurlansky
Yes, as if collecting vintage teaware isn’t enough (I’ve got my eye on a few things but I’m currently unable to decide which to prioritise :p), I’m starting something new. Or I’m finally starting something new. The world of tea is so huge that even if I concentrated on one area, it’ll take years to… Read More Yet another new tea path
This was a surprisingly deep read. I borrowed this book thinking that it was going to be about murders and haunted dollhouses (which it is), but I didn’t expect the touching depiction of life with a mentally challenged sister that was also inside. In The Dollhouse Murders, Amy temporarily moves to her Aunt Clare’s home… Read More The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
This was the second book that my friend recommended. Since the first was Soul Mountain and I didn’t exactly have the best experience with it, I was a bit hesitant to pick up this. But now that I’ve read it, I feel like I’ve been scared for no good reason – this is a much… Read More The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Yup, exactly what the title says. Very fittingly, I hit the 50k mark on my second write-in. It’s pretty satisfying to start and end NaNoWriMo on the same way. One thought: I just finished Cal Newport’s Deep Work (review to come) and I realised that what he says about regularly using your mental faculties is… Read More I won NaNoWriMo 2019!
I was wondering if there were any Zelda-adjacent books so I did a search and found this! The Psychology of Zelda is a collection of essays that tie concepts in psychology to aspects of the game. The essay titles are: Embodying the virtual hero: A link to the self It’s dangerous to go alone: The… Read More The Psychology of Zelda edited by Anthony M. Bean
My dad had a craving for afternoon tea and since it was raining, we decided to drive to Marks & Spencers. Afternoon Tea is pretty pricey in Singapore (unless you take the local version of teh + kueh) with most hotels offering tea sets for about SGD 45++ per person but to my surprise, the… Read More The Cheapest Afternoon Tea in Orchard (is at Marks & Spencer)
This turned out to be a surprisingly hard read. Not because it was bad (quite the opposite, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time) but because I got too excited about the ending. Even reading the last few chapters didn’t help, the tension was just that high. In Glass Houses, Armand… Read More Glass Houses by Louise Penny
I was going through the tea cabinet, looking for teas for the sipdown challenge that Northern Teaist mentioned. Apart from finding a few white tea flower buds that smelled a bit suspicious (I haven’t quite decided whether to sipdown or throw), I also came across a packet of tea that I’ve never seen before. While… Read More Lavender Tea (?)
I stumbled across this book while browsing through Overdrive and knew that I was going to read it someday because it’s related to the World of Genji project I’m doing. I kind of put it off for a few weeks because it looked a bit intimidating, but I told Pan Pan about it and basically… Read More The Search for the Beautiful Woman by Cho Kyo
