This is a book that was lost to me for a really long time. The first time I read The Haunting was when I was 14 (almost half my life ago!) and on a school trip to Cambodia. The book belonged to a friend and I never really got the title. For a few years… Read More Book Review: The Haunting by Joan Lowery Nixon
This isn’t really related to the book, but for some reason, I keep getting Kate Morton mixed up with Kate Mosse and that this book is by the same author as Labyrinth (which I thought I had read but apparently not). But anyway, I have learnt my lesson and given how much I enjoyed The… Read More Book Review: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
It has been almost a month since my last Tea 101 post, so we are long overdue for this look into Musashi Kaori! What is the Musashi Kaori cultivar? Created in 1967 as a cross between the yabukita and the intriguingly labelled “27F1-73”, the Musashi Kaori is distinguished by its refreshing scent and umami note.… Read More Tea 101: Musashi Kaori
One downside of having multiple TBR lists in multiple places (so far it’s a Libby wishlist, a google keep note, something resembling a list on Goodreads, and there’s probably a physical list somewhere around the house) is that books tend to languish on the list. I’ve been really focused on reading ebooks since I moved… Read More Book Review: The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
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
