Let’s park this book review under “books that I was influenced to read from podcasts” (which should be a tag on this blog now that I’ve got two such books – the other book is Flawless and I’ll post my review next week!). I heard about Inventing the Renaissance from Ada Palmer’s interview on The… Read More Book Review: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
I chanced upon this book once and thought that it sounded interesting but left it like that. But after a friend of mine raved about the book, I decided to buy it if I ever saw it again – and I did! The Golden Thread is a book about the history of fabric, from its… Read More Book Review: The Golden Thread by Kassia St. Clair
Hello! I’m back from my break (which I talked a bit about in my substack – I’ve been using that space to do quick diary-style entries!). This week, I’ll be sharing some reviews themed around the past, and then next week it will probably go back to regular reviews with set theme. It’s been a… Read More Book Review: The Riddle of St Leonard’s by Candace Robb
It’s been a long while since I read anything by Malcolm Gladwell, but I own What The Dog Saw and Outliers, and I’ve definitely read The Tipping Point a long time ago, so I was intrigued by Revenge of the Tipping Point. As you can probably guess, this is a revisit of why epidemics occur.… Read More Book Review: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
It has been a really long time since my last review of the Waiting for Wednesday, the previous installment in the Freida Klein series, and that’s mainly because my library’s e-copies of the book lapsed and I waited a really long time for them to get it again (guess they noticed I never cancelled my… Read More Book Review: Thursday’s Child by Nicci French
This post has been a loooooong time in the making, and I did consider just enjoying the teas for myself but some things are too good not to be shared (though as a result, I don’t have as many photos as I normally would). If you recall, way back in January, I went to Sayama… Read More Trying 3 Black Teas from Shimizu-en
As I grow older, I realised I missed out on a lot of childhood classics, mostly because I stuck to Enid Blyton (and CS Lewis) when I was a kid. I only read Anne of Green Gables in 2018, after seeing loads of positive talk about her in the blogsophere, and I only started reading… Read More Book Review: Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson
This afternoon tea collaboration has already ended, but I’m still going to write about it because it was pretty good!! And also because I didn’t write about the regular Sofitel afternoon tea that I had, and I low-key regret that because I need it to remember what I ate. Anyway, the Kamakura Mochi collaboration with… Read More Kamakura Mochi x Sofitel Afternoon Tea
I heard about this book in 2020 from Books by the Cup, and it has languished on my TBR shelf since then. But I had a long flight and decided that it was time to read this… and I found myself finishing this a lot faster than expected! Jezebel’s Daughter is essentially a study in… Read More Book Review: Jezebel’s Daughter by Wilkie Collins
I’ve had Man’s Search for Meaning on my TBR since a friend read and reviewed (on another platform), but as you know, my TBR is kind of unmanageable. But then The Orangutan Librarian talked about it in one of her recent posts and that motivated me into borrowing the book. I’m also linking to her… Read More Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
