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
I came across this book while browsing through the library and I thought the author’s name sounded family. Oddly enough, I don’t have any books by Sager on my TBR. But I figured I heard about her through someone’s review and the synopsis of this book sounded interesting so I decided to borrow it. Home… Read More Book Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
I remember hearing about this book around the same time I heard about the Six Stories series. And as you know, I got swept up in Six Stories and didn’t get around to Night Film until very recently. Honestly, this book had a really long time before the payoff but whew, what a ride it… Read More Book Review: Night Film by Marisha Pessl
This got on my radar fairly long ago thanks to a review by The Orangutan Librarian, but I never had the urge to read it till just before my trip to France. Unfortunately, it wasn’t immediately available. Fortunately, it became available while I was still in France The Paris Apartment starts when Jess impulsively makes… Read More Book Review: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Having visited the Cadbury World in Birmingham and Chocolate Story in York, you might think that I’ve had my fill of chocolate museums. Well, my family certainly had their fill but since my boyfriend has never been to a chocolate museum, the two of us decided to visit Choco Story Brussels! To be honest, I… Read More Visiting Choco Story Brussels
After watching A Haunting in Venice, I wanted more Poirot and while going through my library’s collection, I came across Agatha Christie’s Poirot. I’ve heard of the author, Mark Aldridge, on a Christie podcast so I felt fairly confident borrowing this. As indicated by the title, this book follows Poirot through the books as well… Read More Book Review: Agatha Christie’s Poirot by Mark Aldridge
It occurred to me that I never got around to writing about this! So yeah, I know I said next part in the Chinese tea reviews but let me talk about this for a bit. Over the last two or three months (my memory is hazy), I had the good fortune of being asked to… Read More What I Learnt Conducting Two Tea Workshops
It has been a very long while since I read a Genji-related book and I felt the urge to dive into this meaty tome. Subtitled: “Sources from the First Millenium”, Reading the Tale of Genji translates a selection of texts about the Tale of Genji, providing more context for how the tale achieved its present… Read More Book Review: Reading the Tale of Genji edited by Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane
So… it’s been a while. In my mind, I knew it was time for a post on all the tea samples that I’ve been drinking, but somehow I never got around to it and now I have nine teas to write about! That’s probably a bit too much for one post so I’ll share five… Read More Quick Chinese Tea Reviews #3
This is another book that has been on my TBR for a while, and since I saw a review of a T Kingfisher book recently, I decided to move it up the list! And what a fortunate coincidence it was, because Nettle & Bone stars Marra, who’s thirty, and I read this just after I… Read More Book Review: Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
