So I took a week off from bookish communities lately, to just read and relax without having to think about posting on the blog or Instagram. And you know, it was pretty peaceful! And even though the only thing that I missed in my break was talking to other people about books, actually coming back… Read More Discussion Post: How Important is the Bookish Community to You?
Hello friends! Welcome to the first SustainabiliTEA profile of 2022, and I have another awesome farm to introduce to you today! I talked to Lochan from Jun Chiyabari, a family-run tea farm in East Nepal about how the farm is run and what their ethical and sustainable efforts are. Introduction: Who is the family behind… Read More SustainabiliTEA: Jun Chiyabari
I should have a tag called “accidental rereads”. Before I checked Goodreads, I was very happy about having enjoyed Holy Disorders more than The Moving Toyshop and I was attributing this to finally getting used to Cripsin’s style. But now, I see that I’ve read the book in 2018 and that gives rise to the… Read More Book Review: Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin
Hi friends! For the first tea post of this year, I thought it would be interesting to crack open the Yutakamidori Black Tea that I received from the NPO Agriculture Support Team in Saitama. Well, to be honest, the packaging for this tea was a bit damaged when I received it, so I knew I… Read More Tea Exploration: Yutakamidori Black Tea
I’m fairly terrible at following series, so I didn’t realise that there was another Below Stairs mystery out until Wendy talked about it on her blog, Musings of a Bookish Kitty and I decided to borrow the book before I forgot about it again. Well, on the train back from Nice, I did a bit… Read More Book Review: Death at the Crystal Palace by Jennifer Ashley
Hi friends! I’m back from Paris and ready to begin a new semester and new blogging year! To be honest, I’m pretty glad that I took the first week of January off – not having to worry about scheduling or even writing posts removed a lot of the mental load and that helped me enjoy… Read More Hello 2022!
What a year! I don’t think anyone expected the pandemic to last this long, but despite Delta and Omicron doing their best to make everything go back to early 2020, things still happened. One of the biggest things that happened is that I decided to do an MBA and moved to France to start it!… Read More 2021 Year in Review: Looking Back and Looking Forward
I didn’t think that I read a lot this year, because my reading time has gone down drastically since I started my MBA programme but as it turns out, 2021 was a great year for reading! I reviewed 160 books (and finished rereading The Tale of Genji – more on that later in the post),… Read More 2021 in Books: Favourites + Genji Project
As much as I love tea, it’s a bit hard for me to summarise an entire year in tea because I mostly write tea reviews and I don’t really keep track of my favourite teas like I do for books. Instead, I’ll just talk about three things that stood out this year: First, and most… Read More My Top 3 Tea Moments of 2021
So this was the least intimidating end-of-year post to write because I already did an update in June! And I actually don’t have that much to write for this because thanks to school, I’m more likely to stop a podcast than to start one – I don’t have as much time for podcasts nowadays! Allez-y!… Read More [2021] Year-End Podcast Update
