Friend, I think the draft of this post has been sitting here for well over a year! So I’m going to take my best attempt at finishing it and I welcome more recommendations from you. The idea of this post comes from the Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (百物語怪談会), an Edo-period storytelling game. Essentially, participants sit in a… Read More Book List: Spine-Chilling Books for Hot Summer Months
Hello hello Wyrd & Wonder friends! I have been following the event mostly through other people’s blog posts (and also because I have no ideas/no reading plan/am still waiting for Howl’s Moving Castle) but I could not resist today’s prompt, which was “mythology”. I love love love myths and folklore and fairy tales, so today,… Read More Wyrd & Wonder: 7 Fantasy Books Based on 7 Different Mythologies
I high-key adore Christmas so I thought that it would be fun to come up with a list full of Christmas-themed books, based on the mood you might be in! I don’t think the post needs further introduction, so here it is! Mood: Stressed Is the impending holiday season stressing you out? Does your blood… Read More Christmas Themed Books for Various Moods
The book blogging community is probably my favourite online community, mostly because I don’t have to worry about algorithms hiding posts from me. This year, Pages Unbound is hosting a Support Book Bloggers challenge and I could not resist participating in this month’s challenge because I find so many great books from book bloggers! Without… Read More 5 Amazing Books I Found From Bloggers
I haven’t been keeping up with Wyrd & Wonder AT ALL, but I really wanted to write this post because I love fantasy but tend not to be a fan of romance – there’s too much instalove and love triangles for me! So I thought it would be fun to look for books where romance… Read More Wyrd & Wonder: 5 Fantasy Books Without Romance
I’ve not talked about the Singapore libraries in some time because I’ve not been in Singapore, but Krysta’s post on how We Need to Stop Assuming that “Everyone Knows” about the Public Library reminded me about the wonders of Overdrive/Libby! According to a 2020 post by Overdrive, Singapore is one of the top 10 audiobook… Read More 5 eBooks You Can Borrow From The Singapore Library (NLB)
I didn’t think that I read a lot this year, because my reading time has gone down drastically since I started my MBA programme but as it turns out, 2021 was a great year for reading! I reviewed 160 books (and finished rereading The Tale of Genji – more on that later in the post),… Read More 2021 in Books: Favourites + Genji Project
So you’ve read all of Jane Austen’s novels… now what? Among the Janeites reminded me of just how active the Jane Austen fandom is, so I thought it would be fun to put together an Austen-focused book recommendation post! I’ll be linking to my full reviews of the books and otherwise stated, these links are… Read More Get Your Austen Fix: Books Related to Jane Austen
Happy Fantasy Friday! I’ve been super excited about today’s Wyrd and Wonder prompt, which is: “Fantasy in Translation”. Obviously, this calls for a list of my favourite translated fantasy works. I’ll link to my full review where possible, but a few of these are from my childhood/before this blog so there are no reviews. They’ve… Read More Wyrd & Wonder: 5 Translated Fantasy Books You Need to Read
I recently checked my “Tea Book” tag and I realised that I have 35 posts in this tag! Even if you assume that some books have two posts (which is pretty rare), it still implies that I read a lot of tea books. So I thought it would be fun to do a post about… Read More Which Tea Book Should You Read?