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?
Living in a city, it’s perhaps unsurprising that I’ve been fascinated with something that doesn’t exist in my very Asian, very urban hometown: cottagecore. According to the BBC’s article on Cottagecore, such impulses may be due to a desire for simplicity and anti-modernity (though this is acted out on the Internet). But at any rate,… Read More Books with Cottagecore Vibes
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
A little while ago, I managed to come up with ten book and tea pairings – different types of tea I recommend for specific books! The full list is available as a PDF for friends on my newsletter, but I thought I’d share three pairings here today! Mystery: Death in Kew Gardens by Jennifer Ashley… Read More 3 Book & Tea Pairings
There are many things to study when it comes to tea. Even if we’re just looking at tea history, we can choose to focus on tea in China, tea in Japan, tea in England, tea in America, tea in India, etc. I’m still looking for books on the history of tea in various countries, but… Read More UniversiTEA: 3 Books to learn about Tea in the UK (and America!)
Hi friends! Since I have been challenging myself with baking and embroidery, I decide to try myself with filming a video as well! I was challenged to do a video during the 15 Minute Magic and it was honestly the hardest task out of three months of tasks. So I decided that I need to… Read More Talking about Books about Tea
Fashionopolis, as you might expect, was eye-opening. Apart from talking about my book to everyone around me (probably annoying my taobao-loving friends and family), I also did a mini-reading binge and found these three books to be very helpful. Fashionopolis: Read this for an introduction to the ethical and ecological problems facing fashion Published just… Read More 3 Books to Change the Way You See Fashion
We’re on Day 3 of NaNoWriMo and 440 words away from being on track. So far, I’m working on a zombie Singapore story (I don’t think it’s dystopian in the sense that it’s not really about survival. It just happens that there are zombies and it has to be managed) and so far the story… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 1: Is the 2019 Storybundle Worth It?
Recently, I read a Dayre post about a user’s personal finance and investing journey. It was pretty interesting and it made me think about my own personal finance journey and from there, about the books I’ve read. Somehow, everything in my life can be linked to a book I read. While personal finance and investing… Read More My Top 3 Personal Finance Books