Here’s another tea that I got from the Dayre Tea Exchange! I may have to go slow on the new teas after this because it seems like my gastric is back. Oh well, I had a good few weeks run of daily teas. This green tea is from Tafu and for some reason, I can’t… Read More Tafu’s Green Tea Powder（粉末緑茶）
A little while back, my brother introduced me to the Odd1sOut’s videos. Partly because he wanted me to buy him this book for his Christmas present. Since I ended up enjoying the videos too, I borrowed the book from him when I was done. The Odd1sOut’s book is a collection of comic essays he wrote.… Read More The Odd 1s Out by James Rallison
I have wanted to read this book ever since I heard of it. Although I swing back and forth between reading the Western and Asian histories of tea, that’s because I want to get a sense of the whole picture. A Social History of Tea covers the rise and impact of tea in Britain and… Read More A Social History of Tea by Jane Pettigrew & Bruce Richardson
I heard about this book from The Orangutan Librarian’s Monthly Monkey Mini Review, and it intrigued me enough that I hunted down a copy. And I have got to say, this book broke my heart so many times. I made the mistake of reading it in the mrt and I ended up tearing up for most… Read More A List of Cages by Robin Roe
Recently, I read this article about how our obsession with taking photos is changing our memory* and it got me thinking: What is the point of taking photos? It’s something that I’ve asked myself several times, mostly when I feel like my photo taking has gone overboard. While I’m not a selfie sort of person,… Read More The Photo Habit
I might have mentioned it before, but I’m currently on a tea-buying ban. Unsurprisingly, there are tons of tea that I want to buy so I’ve redoubled my tea drinking efforts. So far, I’ve finished three teas and opened two new ones lying around. One of them was T2’s Lady Esmerelda’s Ultimate Dream Dictionary and the… Read More Two Lemony Teas
I’m not sure how this got in my TBR list, but it looked pretty cool and I wanted a quick read so I decided to read it (it was indeed something you can read in one sitting). Come See The Living Dryad is a novella about the murder of a ‘living dryad’, who is basically… Read More Come See The Living Dryad by Theodora Goss
Since I spent last year doing quite a bit of general reading about tea, I thought I’d take it a bit more in-depth this year. That means taking both a wider look at the issues surrounding tea (hopefully there’s a contemporary book or blog I can read!) and going in depth into the history of… Read More Darjeeling by Jeff Koehler
One great thing about this World of Genji research project is that it’s getting me to read all sorts of books I wouldn’t normally pick up, such as this history of Kyoto city. The Tale of Genji is set during the height of the Heian period in Heian-Kyo (premodern Kyoto). Since the World of Shining… Read More Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan’s Premodern Capital by Matthew Stavros
We’re almost halfway through January and I thought it would be nice to see how the start of the year has been (it is very weird but if I don’t write things down, I can’t seem to properly take stock). So what I’ve realised is that I’m extremely thankful for Christmas and New Year, not… Read More Start of the Year Updates
