It didn’t take long for Ethel and I to decide where to meet now that I’m back – she sent me a link to the Japanese Afternoon Tea at Pan Pacific and I immediately said yes. I love Japan and I love afternoon tea, so this pairing seemed like a match made in heaven. Since… Read More Japanese Afternoon Tea @ Pan Pacific Singapore
A while back, the In Our Time podcast made an episode on Li Bai and Du Fu, two very famous Chinese poets. One of the guests was Tian Yuan Tan, whose accent sounded rather familiar – and then it hit me, he was from Singapore! So I looked up his work and saw a book… Read More Book Review: 1616 – Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu’s China edited by Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmonson, and Shih Pe Wang
I bought this book because it looked old and it was about myths. And also because it was one euro. So far, I can’t tell if it’s really old (the translation first came out in 1949 but I don’t know when the book came out) but it’s definitely about Welsh myths, which are very interesting.… Read More Book Review: The Mabinogion translated by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t go to an Attack on Titan exhibition, but my boyfriend is a big fan of the series so I thought it would be fun to go with him! I know a bit about what the manga is about, but I don’t know about the details and I figured that this way, I’d… Read More An Attack on Titan newbie goes to the Attack on Titan exhibition
How could I pass up a book about one of Agatha Christie’s books? The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is one of Christie’s most famous works, with its ending stoking controversy over whether Christie had played fair with her readers. So I was very intrigued when I read the blurb of this book, which claims that… Read More Book Review: Who Killed Roger Ackroyd by Pierre Bayard
Does where you come from influence how you think? We know that different cultures have different values – I’m thinking of Lee Kuan Yew talking about ‘Asian Values’ for Singapore and the region – but do our differences go beyond values? Do we, quite literally, see the world in different ways because of the way… Read More Book Review: The Geography of Thought by Richard E. Nisbett
Hello friends! If you noticed that I’ve been posting a bit more regularly than normal this week, it’s because I caught COVID-19 and was stuck at home. It’s not been great, because I was supposed to attend my sister’s wedding this week and I tested positive the day of my flight, but luckily, I’ve had… Read More Update + Short Video
This was a book that I didn’t intend to read. I was scrolling through my TBR list in Libby and saw The Book of Blood and Shadow. The title reminded me of a typical YA Fantasy novel, which I wasn’t in the mood for. I was going to remove this book from my TBR shelf… Read More Book Review: The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman
The book blogging community is probably my favourite online community, mostly because I don’t have to worry about algorithms hiding posts from me. This year, Pages Unbound is hosting a Support Book Bloggers challenge and I could not resist participating in this month’s challenge because I find so many great books from book bloggers! Without… Read More 5 Amazing Books I Found From Bloggers
Recently, I thought about the Trixie Belden books. I first came across them while I was in school and I remember really enjoying the series. So I looked it up in the library and found that the first book (and only the first book) was available as an ebook. The Secret of the Mansion is… Read More Book Review: The Secret of the Mansion by Julie Campbell
