When I was in Secondary School, we had a class named “Social Studies”, which was basically studying different countries around the world and how that compared to Singapore (as well as how to analyse different texts that you find for bias and reliability). One of the topics we studied was the IRA and the Troubles,… Read More Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
As a non-British person (although I’m from a former British colony), I must admit to not knowing much about Middle England, or even having much of an impression what it was. So it was pretty surprising to realise that I’ve visited, and even lived in, some of the places mentioned in Adventures on the High… Read More Adventures on the High Teas by Stuart Maconie
Some time back, I read The Service of the Dead and really enjoyed it. So I decided to continue, but since the second book was unavailable, I decided to read The Apothecary Rose, which is the first book in the Owen Archer series and also by Candace Robb. Like The Service of the Dead, The… Read More The Apothecary Rose by Candace Robb
And we’re at the final tea of the tea haul! I normally wouldn’t buy black tea because I already have so much (black tea being what most of my family drinks), but I’m also testing out teas for my cousin’s tea bar and this tea was one of the contenders. Keemun black tea is a… Read More Trying Keemun Black Tea
I chanced upon this in the library, but the minute I saw that this book influenced none other than Jane Austen, I knew that I was going to read it. According to Jane Austen for Dummies (which is actually really informative), the three novels of France Burney “brought the comedy of manners – in which… Read More Evelina by Frances Burney
I’m finally back in the Fairacre series, and as usual, I wonder what kept me away for so long (probably the fact that this series is only found at the regional library branches). Over the Gate is about the stories told by various Fairacre residents to Miss Read as she goes about her job as… Read More Over The Gate by Miss Read
One of the things I try to be aware of is bias. It was something taught in school (always look at the bias for various news sources to see how they would want things to appear) and it became something that stuck. So when I heard about Biased, a book on implicit racial bias, I… Read More Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
This is one of the teas that I was most excited for in the tea haul! Well, I was excited for the dancongs as well, but I wasn’t as excited as I was for the yellow tea because: I didn’t realise how special dancongs were until after I started drinking and looking into them I… Read More Yellow Tea: Huo Shan Huang Ya (霍山黄芽)
Last week, my cell group had a pretty emotional discussion. Well, I say emotional but really most of it came from me/was me being emotional. Since this involves mental health, which is something I’ve been pretty open about here, I felt like this is a good place to process everything. By the publish date, you… Read More Mental Health and Christianity Shouldn’t Be Complicated
One day, Cher messaged me to ask me to read Hannibal and Me so that she had someone to discuss it. I assumed that she was done and borrowed the book, but as it turns out, we finished around the same time. We’ve had a bit of a chat about the book on telegram, but… Read More Hannibal and Me by Andreas Kluth
