I don’t know why but I’m currently facing a lot of inertia for blogging! The nice thing is that I managed to write quite a few posts in advance, which are what you are reading this week but I’m hoping I embrace the blogging and the blog-hopping again soon. Anyway, I realised it’s been a… Read More Quick Chinese Tea Reviews #4
And we are back with another book in the Chrestomanci series! Unlike the previous books, Mixed Magic isn’t one long standalone story, but rather consists of four stories set in the world of Chrestomanci, with three that revolve around the Chrestomanci – both the current one and Cat, the next Chrestomanci. Warlock at the Wheel,… Read More Book Review: Mixed Magics by Diana Wynn Jones
I bought this tea when I bought my 30 Chinese tea samples, but I’ve just been so busy with those and I never even thought about cracking open the Tieguanyin. But I had some time the past week and thought it was time to finally drink and review it! From what I can tell, this… Read More Tea Review: Tieguanyin by 老茶农
I can’t quite remember why this was on my TBR list (perhaps I heard of an adaptation of the book?) but it was on hold and I’m not going to turn down the opportunity to read a Christie when it arises. The Pale Horse is a standalone Christie mystery, belonging neither to the Poirot nor… Read More Book Review: The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
And at last, we come to the end of the Dark is Rising sequence. It’s pretty interesting to look back at the first book and see how Cooper infused the whole series with Arthurian and Welsh mythology, as well as to see the change in tone as the book matures and develops. The first few… Read More Book Review: Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
I found this book while looking for other books that Dorothy Ko was involved in (she wrote the excellent Cinderella’s Sisters) and was instantly intrigued by this memoir by a crown princess of 18th century Korea. Ko wrote the foreward to this translation, which is how I found it. To make things more interesting, Lady… Read More Book Review: The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong translated by JaHyun Kim Haboush
Recently, someone commented on an old review of A Shilling for Candles and recommended that I also read The Franchise Affair. Apart from My Brother’s Killer, I haven’t read a Golden Age mystery in a while so I was eager to do so. And wow, The Franchise Affair was intense! I pretty much gobbled this… Read More Book Review: The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
I can’t believe we’re on the seventh post about Lupicia’s teas. And I just received even more (but probably the final lot of teas) so the end is far but finally in sight. I tried to take a few more photos this time, so here are my thoughts + what I saw at one point… Read More Quick Lupicia Tea Reviews #7
I heard about this book and thought it sounded very charming, so when I saw it in the airport bookstore, I thought it was the perfect time to strike it off my TBR list. Murder Before Evensong is a story about life in Champton, with one or two murders thrown in. Canon Daniel is the… Read More Book Review: Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles
Hello friends! It’s been a while since we had a month-in-review post, since I was overseas at the start of October and well… I’ve actually been overseas too. So this is late but thankfully not so late that I lose all momentum to write this. October in Books After reading only nine books in September… Read More Month in Review: October 2023
