I always love a good historical mystery and with such a fun name, how could I not request a review copy of A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons? There are, sadly, not as many parties as you would expect in this book. But there is a lot of poison. When Saffron Everleigh attends a… Read More Book Review: A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari
It’s funny that I went to America and ended up buying a book about England, but it is what it is. I am always fascinated by myths and legends and thought that this book was going to be a history of how magic was treated throughout English history, and I was sort of right. The… Read More Book Review: The Book of English Magic by Philip Carr-Gomm & Richard Heygate
Hello friends!! Guess who is almost at the end of her MBA? It feels like time has just flown past – I was just getting used to France and here I am back in Singapore again! I will be spending this week finishing up my thesis and then re-starting my work, so I think that… Read More What’s Up?
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
