I stumbled across this book in the library and was very intrigued the subtitle: Searching for the Image of God in the Digital Age. Since selfies and more broadly, social media, is something that we are all affected by, I was curious about what a Christian response would look like. Drawing on art and art… Read More Book Review: Selfies by Craig Detweiler
A while back, I spent some time looking at “Princess” Der Ling, a fascinating figure who lived during the end of the Qing dynasty. Now, I went back a bit further in time to the Taiping rebellion, or as Platt characterises it, “the Taiping civil war”. Although he started this research with the opinion that… Read More Book Review: Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen Platt
As with the past few years, I have another advent calendar!!! While last year’s Fortnum & Mason calendar was disappointing, I remain hopeful that I’ll enjoy this year’s calendar. I’ve been trying to listen to the Palais des Thés podcasts on tea and it seems like they are really serious about it! There were two… Read More Yearly ADVENTure – Palais des Thés 2023 Advent Calendar
This book is technically for children but I could not resist keeping it for myself – after all, it’s a collection of 52 folktales and legends from around the world! Beautifully illustrated, A Year of Stories contains one story for every week of the year. At first, I wasn’t sure if it would truly be… Read More Book Review: A Year of Stories by Angela McAllister
It has been a while since I dug into a tea-related book, so when I saw this in the library’s online shelves, I thought it was too interesting to pass over! As it happens, the book is a little dry but no matter, the subject matter of the history of Japanese green tea in America… Read More Tea Book Review: Green With Milk And Sugar by Robert Hellyer
Hi, after writing this review, I found out that I have already read it way back in 2017! But apparently, my experience reading this the second time around is the same and I made many of the same points but in a different way. Still, I’ve not posted a review on this blog specifically so… Read More Book Review: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling translated by Herbert A. Giles
Hi all, I’m quite determined to finish this series in this post so buckle up because it’s going to be looooong. 桂花红茶 (Osmanthus Black Tea): The tea cake smells strongly of osmanthus and the tea pretty much tasted like it. Somehow the tea wasn’t as sweet as I expected (especially given the strong osmanthus scent,… Read More Quick Chinese Tea Reviews #5
My heart. Oh my heart! I was intrigued by this book after learning about it from The Orangutan Librarian’s mini reviews since it was pitched as a post-Narnia type of book but I did not expect The Light Between Worlds to spend its whole time breaking my heart. We all know what happens in Narnia.… Read More Book Review: The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth
Hello friends!! I actually had a really great reading month in November but that has come at the expense of pretty much everything else – you’ll see that my reading log only has the book and hasn’t been “beautified” with stickers yet. But no worries, it’s time to do a month in review. November in… Read More November in Review + December’s Reading & Tea Plans
According to Goodreads, the last Shardlake book I read was away back in… 2017. And it’s kind of weird that I never continued because I love historical mysteries (the Owen Archer series is set in the same era and I’m more or less caught up to it, for example)! But no worries, a friend of… Read More Book Review: Revelation by CJ Sansom
