This is going to be a short post so let me start with a personal update: I came back from a school trip to San Francisco last Saturday and my boyfriend is coming to visit tomorrow so it’ll be another week of no/sporadic blog updates. But when I do have the time to blog more… Read More Teas Ahoy!
It’s probably no surprise that I heard about this book because it’s by an NPR reporter and Planet Money and The Indicator are two of the podcasts that I listen to regularly. So when Planet Money did an episode on the book, I decided to check it out. The Bond King is the story of… Read More Book Review: The Bond King by Mary Childs
I wanted more historical mysteries after reading The Lady Chapel, so I checked out Death at St. Vedast, a book that has been on my TBR list for a while! Death at St. Vedast starts with a suspicious suicide – a woman, who seems impervious to the cold, throws herself from a great height. Bianca,… Read More Book Review: Death at St. Vedast by Mary Lawrence
Hello friends! Tomorrow morning, I leave on the last school trip in the program, but before I leave, I wanted to post about the three books I bought in my trip to the UK last month. I think I had a lot of self-control in this trip because I only bought three books: From Conwy:… Read More Books I Bought on my UK Trip
Since I was going with my family for a short weekend trip to Paris, I thought it was time to dig this book out of the TBR and give it a read! As the title says, How Paris Became Paris looks at the way the modern city (and reputation) of Paris was shaped in the… Read More Book Review: How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean
In excellent news, my younger sister managed to have her graduation ceremony at the end of March!! She was supposed to graduate early, but COVID-19 pretty much paused that. But since the UK lifted restrictions, her university held a graduation ceremony for her cohort and I managed to find some time to join her and… Read More Day Trip to Conwy
I studied To Kill a Mockingbird when I was in secondary school and unsurprisingly, I really enjoyed the book, since it was a stirring portrayal of how we can choose to act against racism even when we’re living in a deeply racist society. When Go Set A Watchman came out, I followed enough of the… Read More Book Review: Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee [Spoilers]
I have a big, tea-related talk on Saturday so I really, really wanted to have a tea-related post this week. I’ve been drinking sencha made from the hokumei cultivar, so I thought it was the perfect tea to look into! What is the Hokumei Cultivar? The hokumei cultivar was developed in Saitama prefecture by combining… Read More Tea 101: The Hokumei Cultivar
Hi friends! I’m super excited to share with you a new project! I’ve been part of the hanfugirls group for a while (you may remember the posts in my World of Genji series) and we’ve recently decided to write a book, so of course I had to share about it here! The title of the… Read More New Project & Collaboration: the Hanfugirl Book
I read A LOT of Enid Blyton when I was a kid, and I definitely meant to capitalise A LOT. Enid Blyton was the reason I: Wanted to go to boarding school Wanted to live on an island/lie on heather (this stopped when I realised I only like nature from a distance) Wanted to eat… Read More Book Review: The Real Enid Blyton by Nadia Cohen
