I was reading Krysta’s post on letting readers be readers and you know, not free un-paid marketing tools (this is mostly for those of us active on bookish internet/social media) and that reminded me of a different post by The Verge on bringing back personal blogging. The argument for personal blogging is that we need… Read More It’s Time to Make Book Blogging (more) Personal
Last month, I talked about the many stories we hold and mentioned that I want to talk about the need for space for people to make (writing) mistakes. This is mostly because my own writing is filled with things that, if I did them again today, I would do differently. This is really a view… Read More In Defence of Writing Mistakes
Inspired by Briana and Kysta’s series of posts about libraries over at Pages Unbound, I thought it would be helpful to share some tips for fellow Singaporean bookworms to get the most out of their NLB membership. I mean, I’ve been buying A Lot of books (capital letters intended) but the only reason I haven’t… Read More #SingLib: 3 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your NLB Membership
As you might have been able to tell, I’m a big fan of Making Public Declarations in order to hold myself accountable for things that I want to do. In that vein, here’s a list of books that are on my TBR list (some have been there for far too long) that I am determined… Read More Series I would Like to Read More Of (A Reminder to Myself)
This post is about exactly what the title says. Let me tell you my sad story (it’s sad for my wallet). In June, I found a website that sells remaindered books. As you can tell from the title, I could not resist the allure of cheap books. I bought about SGD$100 of books as a… Read More Help, I spent over $400 on books in two months!
According to WordPress, this is my 1000th post! The first post appeared in 2014 when I was blogging about my life in Japan (this blog has undergone many changes, including a move from blogger to WordPress). I don’t know if it’s my true 1000th post, but I still thought it would be fun to celebrate… Read More Childhood Favourites: Was Five Run Away Together inspired by the Secret Series?
I was browsing Pinterest when I saw a post on how the Bookish Linguist planned to cut her TBR list into half this year. It was a very cool post (if you’re looking for tips definitely check it out), but it also led me to a question: Should TBR lists be achievable? At last count,… Read More Discussion Post: Should TBR Lists be Achievable?
Death on the Nile is a Hercule Poirot story and one that I have reread often. Spoilers galore in this post because I’m going to be focusing on the characters so skip this if you haven’t read the book! Although the mystery takes place on the Nile, it starts in England when the beautiful, rich,… Read More Re-Reading Christie: Female Characters in Death on the Nile
The alternative title for this was “Reading slow does not mean reading better”, but I don’t have anything against ‘slow readers’ (how do you even categorise reading speeds anyway?) and I thought that the title above was a bit more unwieldy but accurate. The inspiration for this post came from this BookRiot post titled “Why… Read More Your Reading Speed is NOT Related to Your Reading Quality
My recent read of Soul Mountain got me thinking: what is the value of reading difficult books? But before I even begin thinking about the value of difficult books, I had to ask: What is a difficult book? The way I see it, difficult books can fall into three categories: Emotionally difficult to read: these… Read More What is the Value of Reading Difficult Books?