So, I’m sure I’ve read this book before (especially once I started actually reading the book – it’s all familiar and I’ve either read it before or had a scarily accurate dream about the story). But because I can’t find any review of the book on this blog or on Goodreads, the completionist in me… Read More Book Review: The Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Barnhill
I had every intention of reading the second book in the Chrestomanci series next, but after reading Re-Enchanted, I had the urge to just read Witch Week, which has piqued my interest ever since I read Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones. In Witch Week, one of the students in Class 6B is accused of being… Read More Book Review: Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
While I’m trying to finish some sencha before resuming my tea reviews, I thought I’d try writing some fun tea posts! If you have any topic requests, let me know. Today, I wanted to talk about tea-related activities you can do with friends that isn’t just drinking tea while chatting (though I honestly really like… Read More ActiviTEAS to do with Friends
I used to think of myself as a huge fantasy fan, but nowadays, I have accepted that I probably read more mysteries than I do fantasy. That said, I still enjoy a good fantasy and Maria Sachiko Cecire’s book interested me, given its subtitle: The rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century. Re-Enchanted… Read More Book Review: Re-Enchanted by Maria Sachiko Cecire
Hello, what’s this? A month in review? That’s a first for this blog, but since I’ve started tracking what I read (not just when I post), I have been toying with the idea of doing monthly roundups. Also, I enjoy reading other people’s roundups and wanted to try it myself. What I Read in Feb… Read More February In Review
Did you know that “when played according to its written rules, the typical Monopoly game lasts less than ninety minutes“? As someone who stopped playing Monopoly because the game was too long, that fact blew my mind. However, it wasn’t the most interesting fact in this book because the origin of the game Monopoly is… Read More Book Review: The Monopolists by Mary Pilon
It is that time again when I return with pleasure to the world of Kat Holloway. While I don’t actively follow the series (i.e. I don’t actually know when the books are released), I try to get the next book in this series once I know it exists. The sixth book in the Kat Holloway… Read More Book Review: The Secret of Bow Lane by Jennifer Ashley
It has been a long time, but I finally opened the sencha that I got… last year! That’s later than I would like and I’m just glad it was properly sealed. I got this 星野さつき (Hoshino Satsuki) sencha from Karel Capek, but it actually comes from Hoshino Seichaen (星野製茶園) in Yame, Fukuoka. The Hoshino Satsuki… Read More Tea Review: 星野さつき (Hoshino Satsuki) by Karel Capek
This is a bit of a weird book to read, given that it’s on the academic side and it’s about attachment relationships and cults, but I think by now you know I read weird books. Written by a former cult member, Terror, Love & Brainwashing looks at how totalist groups operate and how attachment theory,… Read More Book Review: Terror, Love & Brainwashing by Alexandra Stein
I picked this up because I wanted something “easy” to read after a fairly taxing nonfiction read. Well, joke’s on me because Sweep was far more complex than what I expected from a Middle-Grade story and pretty much sucked me in and left me in tears by the end of the story. As you may… Read More Book Review: Sweep – The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
