Hello! It’s New Year’s Eve! 2020 has honestly been such a strange year that I was a bit scared about writing your post. I knew that I had keywords that I wanted to follow for this year, but I have no idea how well I’ve followed them. So I went to my Keywords for 2020… Read More Year in Review: Life as a Whole
We’ve covered podcast, we’ve covered books, now it’s time for tea! This post will be in three parts – my favourite posts, my favourite teas this year, and the last sipdown update of the year. As you probably know, I started really getting into teacups last year, but this post won’t have a teacup update… Read More 2020 Year in Review: Tea
So yesterday, we did podcasts. Today, we’ll talk about one of my favourite things to do: reading! I want this post to mainly be a celebration of my favourite books of this year, but before that, a few stats from Goodreads: Books read: 182 Longest Book: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (which I read for… Read More 2020 Year in Review: My Favourite Books
We’re coming to the end of the year, and as usual it feels weird to do the usual reviews/blog content, so I’ll be spending the next few days reflecting on the year and what I liked from the different things I consumed. First up is the podcast category and can I just say that it’s… Read More 2020 Year in Review: Podcasts (2020)
I first heard about this book when Nicole at Tea for Me Please wrote a review on it. Since scholarly works don’t scare me, I decided to download the free ebook and give it a go. Cultivating Femininity makes the case that women have been involved in the tea ceremony as far back as Edo-period… Read More Tea Book Review: Cultivating Femininity by Rebecca Corbett
How can I end the year without going back to one of my favourite series? While this isn’t a Christmas-themed book, the Fairacre series always warms my heart and it feels perfect for the holidays (and for stressful times, and for light reading times, etc). Village Affairs gives us another year of happenings in Fairacre.… Read More Book Review: Village Affairs by Miss Read
We’re in Christmas week!!! Honestly, I can’t believe it – it feels way too fast. Where did my December go? I’m really going to have to rush if I want to make one more pre-Christmas panettone (and try to get the texture right). The 1872 Clipper Tea Co.’s Advent Calendar Since I’m done with the… Read More Tea’s the Season: Week 4
This is probably my last Classic Remarks for the year (looking forward to the 2021 prompts!) and I joined in, really only because I cannot pass up an opportunity to talk about Fahrenheit 451. But first, the prompt: Tell us about your favorite science fiction classic. Every time someone asks me to recommend a Science… Read More Classic Remarks: My Favourite Sci-Fi Classic
I saw this in the NLB and was very intrigued because I wanted to know what kind of illustrations were inside. And also because I’ve never read The Classic of Tea (茶经) and really need to remedy that. This modern reader was great because it provided both a translation and a commentary on The Classic… Read More Tea Book Review: An Illustrated Modern Reader of The Classic of Tea by Wu Juenong
Given that ‘Christie for Christmas’ was a thing, it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that the Christmas spirit can be increased with the addition of fictional murder. In The Mistletoe Murders, P.D. James gives us four holiday-themed short stories. Since the stories are unconnected, and there are only four of them, I’ll cover them one… Read More Book Review: The Mistletoe Murder by P.D. James
