Given that I’m still on a post-vacation high, I decided to start going through the English-history books in my TBR list. One of them is Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood. This wasn’t a period of English history that I heard much of in my trip, apart from… Read More Blood Sisters by Sarah Gristwood
“We’re not getting any more scones and clotted cream. Our vacation is less than three months away and we need to build anticipation for the trip.” Famous last words from my dad. Unsurprisingly, we caved and got more scones and cream about a month before we left. Perhaps that’s why we only managed to visit… Read More Afternoon Teas Around the UK
I’m finally back with Part 2 of my SingLib series – a series of posts where I highlight some of the libraries in Singapore that I patronise and love. This time, I thought I’d show you guys the library closest to my home: Clementi Public Library. Clementi Public Library is one of the 26 libraries… Read More SingLib #2: Clementi Public Library
My hold for A Twisted Vengeance came while I was in the UK, so I managed to read this while actually visiting York! While I didn’t manage to wander around, book in hand, reading this while in a Tudor-period house made the book come alive and made me fall more in love with the series… Read More A Twisted Vengeance by Candace Robb
I can’t find the image now, but just after the Avengers Endgame opening weekend, one of my friends shared an image of the top movie in various countries. Endgame topped them all – except in Japan, where the number one movie was Detective Conan: Fist of the Blue Sapphire. If the fact that Detective Conan… Read More Movie Review: The Fist of the Blue Sapphire (Detective Conan Movie #23)
I think I’m warming up to Lord Peter Wimsey. According to Goodreads, I gave three stars to the first Lord Peter Wimsey book I read, four stars to the next, and I think this is either a four or five star read (it’d be 4.5 if Goodreads let me give half stars, but they don’t… Read More Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
This entire post started when my sister asked me to turn the cup of tea I made for her into cold tea. It was a little late to start cold brewing (given that the tea was already in hand), so I decided to let it cool down naturally instead of adding ice and possibly diluting… Read More Taste Test: Cold Brew vs Iced Dancong Tea
I remember hearing about this book from somewhere, but I forgot to note it down so sorry if you’ve reviewed this recently and I forgot to mention that I found the book from your review! (I should probably start following everyone on Goodreads too because it makes it so much easier to see if someone… Read More The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
It’s taking much longer than expected to write the posts about my UK trip and I’m attributing that to the fact that work has been really busy lately. But, the posts will be written and posted – hopefully fairly close together like the haul posts. As with the book haul, I think I held back… Read More UK Tea Haul
[There is nothing worse than writing an entire review, only to find out that nothing was saved. This is one of the reviews so let’s hope the rewritten version doesn’t leave anything out – though I doubt anyone but I will care] After reading How to Do Nothing, I was motivated to continue reading about… Read More Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
