So I impulsively borrowed this for the train ride home from Bordeaux but it turned out to have an unexpected connection to the city! Turns out that the trial (or trials) at the Center in this book were held there. The Bettencourt Affair is about Liliane Schueller Bettencourt, the daughter of the founder of L’Oreal;… Read More Book Review: The Bettencourt Affair by Tom Sancton
I find that thriller/mysteries are great for train rides because they are fairly quick to read and entertaining. Taken has been on my TBR list for quite a while and since I had a long train ride back to Nice, I thought this was a good book to kill time with! Taken starts with an… Read More Book Review: #Taken by Tony Parsons
Just before 2021 ended, I saw this post on Instagram from Hachimanjyu (more about the farm here) on a new tea that they were bringing out: Basically, they had a lot of tea flowers blooming this year, so they decided to blend them and make a limited edition flower black tea! I’ve never tried a… Read More Tea Review: 花こうちゃ (Flower Black Tea) by Hachimanjyu
I’m pretty sure that I’ve read this a long time ago, but this was before I started writing down my reviews so I have absolutely no recollection of what I thought about this the first time I read it. And honestly, this felt like a new-to-me book which I loved so much. The third book… Read More Book Review: The Cruellest Month by Louise Penny
Now that I’ve covered the two main things I wanted to talk about for my Bordeaux Trip (the visit to St Emilion and the Wine museums), it’s time to try to cover everything most in this one post. I was only in Bordeaux for two full days, so here’s everything else I did and all… Read More The Bordeaux City Pass + Food Recommendations
I found this book via Rainienutreads on Instagram and have been wanting to read it since! But I held back for a long time because for some reason, this library book doesn’t synch with my kobo! But eventually, the curiosity was too much and I ended up reading the whole thing on my phone even… Read More Book Review: A Baby’s Bones by Rebecca Alexander
I’ve continued drinking more sencha (I mean, it’s not like I want to stop) so here’s another installment in this series on Japanese tea cultivars. There’s not a lot about the Yumewakaba out there, for reasons I’ll explain soon, but here’s what I could find. What is the Yumewakaba cultivar? Unlike the Yabukita cultivar, which… Read More Tea 101: the Yumewakaba cultivar
My friend – the friend that asked me to come along to Eze when I first arrived in Nice – has been recommending books by Mary Stewart to me since I met her. However, because the Singapore library does not stock her ebooks (only paper copies) and because Kobo Singapore was trying to charge me… Read More Book Review: Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
Me: “So it’s pronounced ‘Cité du Vin’?” (mangling the pronunciation) Friend: “The ‘in’ is said like you’re smiling” Me: “I’m not sure that I want to smile when I’m speaking French.” And that, my friends, is why I prefer blogging. At least when I write out the names of the museum, you can read it… Read More Visiting Two Wine Museums in Bordeaux
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have ever found this book, let along read it, but when Mamapan (aka Hanfugirl) asks you to read something, you read it. And I’m glad she recommended this book because I never realised how many women have been unfairly classified as prostitutes throughout history. As the title makes it clear, Freewomen, Patriarchal… Read More Book Review: Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution by Stephanie Lynn Budin
