Helloooooo my friends! I have been offline because of some technical issues with the blog (lesson: never leave migrating hosts to the last two weeks) but today, things have hopefully all been fixed and you are able to see this post. I have an exciting announcement coming up, but first, I want to share a… Read More Rereading: Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan
I actually have the first book in this series trilogy but because the first book is still wrapped while this is unwrapped, I decided to read it first. The Phoenix and the Carpet is a collection of loosely related stories. Holding everything together are the phoenix and the carpet, both of which are brought to… Read More Book Review: The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit
Hello friends! I saw a really interesting post about teapots some time back, and I thought it might be helpful pick out 3 things you should be considering when buying a new teapot. Since there are quite a few ways to brew tea, I’m going to be very general and assume: I’m not really going… Read More Tea 101: 3 Things to Consider When Choosing a Teapot
Thanks to The Last Girl to Die, I realised that I hadn’t read the second book in the D.I. Callanach series. So I decided to let Perfect Prey skip to the front of the TBR series and borrowed it from the library. Perfect Prey starts off with two ghastly murders – a young man eviscerated… Read More Book Review: Perfect Prey by Helen Fields
So, I apologise that this post is coming far too late to be useful to anyone, but I went to the Chado ~ The Spirit of the Way of Tea ~ exhibition on Saturday (which also happens to be the last day it was open). It was pretty interesting, so I thought I’d just write… Read More Visiting a Chado Exhibition @ Japan Creative Centre
Here’s another book that has been on my TBR list for a while! I heard of William Dalrymple when This Nook Is For A Book posted about From the Holy Mountain, also by Dalrymple all the way back in 2020! I thought it sounded fascinating and finally borrowed City of Djinns from the library. Subtitled:… Read More Book Review: City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
Earlier this year, I read Kamusari Tales Told at Night and was charmed by the gentle rhythm of life in the forest. Obviously, I had to go back and read the first book in the series: The Easy Life in Kamusari. The Easy Life in Kamusari starts with our narrator, Yuki, being packed off to… Read More Book Review: The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura
Last month, I talked about the many stories we hold and mentioned that I want to talk about the need for space for people to make (writing) mistakes. This is mostly because my own writing is filled with things that, if I did them again today, I would do differently. This is really a view… Read More In Defence of Writing Mistakes
I’ve forgotten what I expected when I bought this book – probably a witty book of Wodehouse Quotes, à la The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld. Well, this was a little different. P. G. Wodehouse In His Own Words tries to tell the story of Wodehouse’s life mainly through his own writings, with Barry Day… Read More Book Review: P.G. Wodehouse In His Own Words edited by Barry Day & Tony Ring
Earlier this year, I read a book about the history of English magic and wondered, not for the first time, about the relationship between magic/folklore/fairies and the Church. So I was really excited when I found out that my questions have been at least partially answered in this book: Elf Queens and Holy Friars by… Read More Book Review: Elf Queens and Holy Friars by Richard Firth Green
