I heard about this book from Rosamunde_Reads on Instagram and as someone who generally enjoys English history, I thought I would enjoy this book! Mantel Pieces is basically a collection of essays – mostly book reviews but with at least one memoir piece – written by Hilary Mantel for the London Review of Books. Most… Read More Book Review: Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
So after reading Blue Monday and being in two minds about how I feel about the ending, I decided to read the next book in the series, Tuesday’s Gone, and decided that… yeah I’m liking these books so far! Tuesday’s Gone starts off with a very strange case: a woman with mental illness is found… Read More Book Review: Tuesday’s Gone by Nicci French
This is quite unlike me, but I actually went and borrowed another Nicci French book after finishing The Unheard. I’m not sure why I did it, because I’ve got so much on the TBR (and physical books to read too!) but I guess I was really in the mood for a thriller. And that may… Read More Book Review: Blue Monday by Nicci French
Hello friends! This is the last post in the tea 101 series for a while, and I’m excited to share a cultivar that’s completely new to me – the Tsuyuhikari (つゆひかり)! What is the Tsuyuhikari cultivar? The Tsuyuhikar was created by the Shizuoka Tea Experiment Station (静岡県茶業試験場) in 1970 by crossing Shizu7132 (静7132) as the… Read More Tea 101: Tsuyuhikari
I am doing a good job making a progress on the mystery-related stories on my TBR! I saw mystery-related because I didn’t think this really had the tropes of a mystery or a thriller, it was more like a character study in the guise of a mystery to me. What the Dead Know starts when… Read More Book Review: What the Dead Know by Laura Lipman
So this is one of the books that I bought as a souvenir of my 2022 trip to England and Wales! Though we never made it up to Snowdonia (the train up the mountain wasn’t running, so we didn’t really feel like driving some more), I love folk tales and thought this would make a… Read More Book Review: Snowdonia Folk Tales by Eric Maddern
I was in a bit of a reading slump (though with the way I’m posting, you can’t guess it by when this review comes out!) and wanted to read a thriller because I find this genre to be easy to read and it tends to pull me out of reading slumps. As I thought, I… Read More Book Review: The Unheard by Nicci French
Is there such thing as a “happiest place on earth?” (no, not Disneyland) In The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner travels to both the supposedly sad and happy countries in the world in order to find out what the secret of happiness is. The countries are: Netherlands (for research) Switzerland (supposedly very happy) Bhutan (for… Read More Book Review: The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
Recently, I’ve been seeing some discontent on Instagram about their new layout because it’s prioritising video (or as someone else put it: turning Instagram into another TikTok) and making it hard for Instagrammers to read captions. That got me thinking: Are book blogs poised for a comeback? In general, I think there are two ways… Read More Discussion Post: Are Book Blogs Poised For A Comeback?
Since today is 端午节 (Duan Wu Jie; dragon boat festival), I thought it would be fitting that I review a rather dark and watery book. If you haven’t heard of Duan Wu Jie, one of the legends surrounding it involves a man named Qu Yuan, who was a minister during the Warring States period. Qu… Read More Book Review: House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
