This has been on the TBR for a while and like many of the TBR books, it has been languishing on the list until I decided I was finally in the mood for MG fantasy. Fablehaven starts when Kendra and her younger brother Seth are shipped off to their grandparents because their parents have to… Read More Book Review: Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Hello friends! While I’m full of the “new start” energy a new year brings, I want to make a move on this project that I’ve been wanting to do for a while – writing a book about tea! As you may know, I bumbled my way around tea-drinking for a while, but was lucky enough… Read More I need your questions about tea!
The Silent Companions was so hard to read! Not because the book was bad, but because it was so creepy that I had to stop and take a break at certain points! The Silent Companions starts with Elsie Bainbridge in an asylum. A new doctor, Dr Shepherd, is visiting and he manages to get Elsie… Read More Book Review: The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
You may notice that the tea-portion of this blog has had a slower start to the year. But I do have several plans and I decided to kick things with a quick stock-take of what’s in my tea stash and what you might be seeing on the blog in the near future. Right now, I’m… Read More My 2023 Start-of-the-Year Tea Stash
I did not plan out my books properly. If I had, I would have read this right after The Accidental Influencer, since Hype (being about scammers and grifters), also talks a lot about influencers and it would have been interesting to consider the two books in tandem. Hype is an ambitious book, trying to explain… Read More Book Review: Hype by Gabrielle Bluestone
I don’t know if anyone missed my yearly/biannually podcast post, but I missed writing this because I really do like to keep track of how my podcast listening habits have changed over the years. 2022 was a mixed year for podcasts. I had quite a bit of time to listen to podcasts in the first… Read More 2022 in Podcasts
I got this book from Tanvi (@tanvisreadventures on Instagram) at a book swap and I’m so glad I did! Daisy Darker is a mystery-thriller inspired by one of Christie’s mysteries (I won’t say which one because it will be a spoiler). When Daisy Darker and her family visit her grandmother for her 80th birthday, all… Read More Book Review: Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
One thing that I wanted to do (and surprised myself with how much I wanted to do) in Seoul was to wear hanbok! So one fine day, my boyfriend and I set out to try on Korea’s traditional dress and hopefully visit a museum at the same time. Alas, the museum visit was not to… Read More Wearing Hanbok in Bukchon Hanok Village (and a tea museum?!)
Do you like urban legends? Have you ever played a scary game? I can’t say I’ve tried any of the urban legend games, but I am fascinated by them and how they are used in stories. So when I heard about The Midnight Man, a thriller based around a (fictional) urban legend, I was intrigued.… Read More Book Review: The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell
I had pretty much forgotten why I had this book on my TBR list but I needed a few more books to read and this was available. Turns out, I was fooled by the subtitle “A book of Storytelling” because this is really a book about biographies and people. Facts and Fiction is a collection… Read More Book Review: Facts and Fiction by Michael Holroyd
