It’s the first day of the lunar new year!! It’s rather weird to be ‘celebrating’ it so far from home, but I spent a good part of the morning doing virtual visits so I have at least seen part of my family. This will be a short post, because my brain is still tired from… Read More Happy Year of the Tiger!
I chanced upon Longing and Other Stories when I was browsing NetGalley and since I like Japanese culture (this might be a bit of an understatement), I decided to request this book! I’ve not read anything by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki before, so this evocative work was an interesting experience for me. Longing and Other Stories is… Read More Book Review: Longing and Other Stories by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
I have been drinking the teas sent to me by the NPO Agriculture Support Team in Saitama and I noticed that they’ve started producing teas made with the yabukita cultivar, which I didn’t see when I bought the teas from them last year! The yabukita cultivar is actually the most common tea cultivar in Japan,… Read More Tea 101: the Yabukita cultivar
I pretty much forgot about January in Japan for the first half of the month (probably because I never continue past January in Japan) but I did want to read at least one Japanese novel so I borrowed There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job. It’s also a rather seasonally appropriate read, because job… Read More Book Review: There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
So, I was going to start this post by talking about how long it’s been since I posted about my trip to Basel and the London Tea Co, but I checked that post and apparently I did not write anything about tea in there. I’m not sure what past me was thinking, but I probably… Read More Visit to London Tea Co. + 2 Tisane Reviews
I’ve had this book on my TBR for quite some time, possibly because I really enjoyed his other book, The Devil in the White City (my Goodreads review); possibly because it’s got a link to Mrs McGinty’s Dead (my Goodreads review). Or maybe because of both these reasons. Thunderstruck is the tale of two men:… Read More Book Review: Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
While we’re still in January, I’d like to share a quick recap of my trip to Paris at the start of the year! I was there for my school’s Hackathon, but really, I had a few different goals for the trip. I wanted to: Go to Paris Disneyland Visit Lupicia and Mariage Freres Eat tonkotsu… Read More A Quick Recap of my Paris Trip
I don’t know if two authors count as the start of a trend, but I find that when it comes to comic series, the first few books aren’t necessarily the best. It’s like that for the first few Discworld books (one of the reasons why I’m not a huge Rincewind fan) and I find that… Read More Book Review: Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
If you’ve been following this blog for the past two years or so, you’ve probably heard me mention Infused by Henrietta Lovell as a tea book I really enjoy (I’ve also recommended it to quite a few people offline as well). So today, I’m really excited to bring you the SustainabiliTEA profile of Rare Tea… Read More SustainabiliTEA: Rare Tea Company
I first heard about The Tudors in Love when Sarah Gristwood went on the Medievalist podcast. The book intrigued me, so I decided to check it out! As you can guess from the title, The Tudors in Love is about love and the Tudors. To be specific, it’s about how the concept of courtly love… Read More Book Review: The Tudors in Love by Sarah Gristwood
