A long time ago, before this blog and even before I joined Goodreads, I tried reading Dostoevsky. I had this weird habit where every National Day, I’d spend the time leading up to the evening NDP parade tackling a long Russian book. I read Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, and a few others, but to… Read More Book Review: The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I cannot believe that we’re in Week 3 of Advent AND I’ve finished one calendar. It feels like the time is going by way too fast, but on the bright side, I see COVID-19 vaccinations being approved – hopefully that helps the global pandemic. I’ll not waffle on about the state of the world because… Read More Tea’s The Season: Week 3
I have referenced my book haul far too many times, but I’ll probably continue to reference it because I’ve not finished reading! One of the books I bought was A Study in Scarlet, the first Holmes and Watson novel. While I was reading this book, I kept thinking back to the first episode of Sherlock:… Read More Reading A Study in Scarlet after watching Sherlock
Since this is the advent season, I thought it would be timely to read this beautiful manuscript edition of A Christmas Carol. To my surprise, I realised that I don’t remember the last time I read the original. I’ve definitely got some impression of Scrooge McDuck as Scrooge and I remember the Phua Chu Kang… Read More Book Review: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
We’re continuing the Georgia tea reviews with my second Georgian tea from What Cha! I think this finishes up most of the What Cha haul (except for the mystery tea) and I’ll probably take a mini-break from opening new packets to focus on finishing the teas that are already open after this. I was looking… Read More Tea Review: Georgia Manna Black Tea from What Cha
I bought this because I am a fan of the Golden Age of Mystery and I like true crime and this book fits into both these categories – it’s a collection of true crime stories written by authors from the Golden Age of Mystery. While Agatha Christie is not in this book, unlike Ask a… Read More Rereading: The Anatomy of Murder by The Detection Club
As corny as it sounds, I’ve literally been waiting to read this Literary Christmas anthology since March, when I got my sister to bring it back to Singapore from the UK for me. So you can just imagine my excitement levels when I finally got to crack open this book (some things need to be… Read More Book Review: A Literary Christmas by the British Library
So, I’ve started the on my Bird & Blend matcha advent! And I received a new one! (No, I did not buy it) This advent is The 1872 Clipper Tea Co.’s advent calendar and Bekah came by the day before Dec 1st to give it to me! Honestly I was really surprised and since the… Read More Tea’s The Season Week 2: I have a new calendar??
It’s not that I’m looking for feel-good books for the Christmas season, but this I bumped up The Blessed Child in the TBR stack because: 1) it’s a physical book and 2) I wanted to read it before I finished all the teas in the Quaintly & Co. Tea and Book Box. And also because… Read More Book Review: The Blessed Child by Rosie Goodwin
It’s time for me to start on one of the teas that I’ve been looking forward to the most in my What Cha Haul – the Georgian teas! I’ve been eyeing the teas from Renegade Tea but the shipping cost has been a pretty big deterrent. So when I realised that I could try two… Read More Tea Review: Georgia Davit’s ‘Phoenix’ Black Tea from What Cha
