You may have noticed something different about today – I posted my book review much earlier than usual! That’s because for the first half of this week, I have the opportunity to work from home, which means I am going to save a lot of time commuting and during my lunch break. So, to take… Read More Time for some dedicated rereading (2022 ver)
I’ve always had a very laissez-faire approach to punctuation; if it looks right, it probably is. Which is also how I end up using too! many! exclamation! points! The Accidental Apostrophe is supposed to help with those problems. Subtitled “And Other Misadventures in Punctuation”, Taggart uses a conversational tone to discuss the uses and rules… Read More Book Review: The Accidental Apostrophe by Caroline Taggart
Hello tea friends! Things have been slow on the tea front, but I am working on a teapot post that I hope will be useful. Today though, I just want to share about a tea that I tried recently. The tea is Muscat Oolong aka a grape-flavoured oolong! I was really excited for this since… Read More Tea Review: Muscat Oolong by Karel Capek
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
