I posted about rereading Lola Rose on Instagram in May and someone messaged to tell me that The Suitcase Kid was their favourite Jacqueline Wilson book. It sounded really familiar (I might have read it in Primary School?) so obviously I had to hunt down a copy and read/reread it. The Suitcase Kid is about… Read More Book Review: The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
I was trying to find something that I knew I would enjoy when I realised that I have not read anything by George MacDonald ever since I finished The Lost Princess in 2018! That’s a pretty long time so I thought that it was high time I remedied the situation. I managed to find a… Read More Book Review: The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
This was the last story I finished before the May Reread project began but I’m not sure when this will be coming out. But either way, I heard about this way before I read it, when Trinna Writes talked about it on Instagram. Story Girl follows a group of children: Felix and Beverly, brothers who… Read More Book Review: The Story Girl by L. M. Montgomery
I have no idea why I didn’t think of Jacqueline Wilson when I started this rereading project because I realised that I’ve reread both The Illustrated Mum and Lola Rose many times over the years. In fact, I love Lola Rose so much that I own two editions of the book – the English and… Read More Daily Reading: 19th May//Lola Rose
I’ve been wanting to reread my books about tea but I needed a palate cleanser after Brave Story. So I ended up reading The Illustrated Mum (I’ve been meaning to read the Sarah Dessen novels I own but I haven’t been feeling it) and it actually has a lot of similarities to Brave Story. Well,… Read More Daily Reading: 18th May//The Illustrated Mum
I was at a bit of a loss as to what to read after I finished all the Jane Austens I had at home. At first, I thought of reading Death Came to Pemberley but I gave up after a few pages – not because the book was bad (I enjoyed it the first time… Read More Daily Reading: 10th May//Some Historical Fiction
Brianna and Krysta at Pages Unbound have brought back their Friday Classic Remarks and since I’ve been rereading old favourites, this week’s question spoke to me: What classic did you love when you were younger—and you still love now? It’s a good thing that the prompt doesn’t limit you to one book! I don’t think… Read More Classic Remarks: What classic did you love when you were younger—and you still love now?
May the Fourth be with all of you~ I actually had a lot more work than I expected to do today, but because I managed to read A Little Princess after writing yesterday’s post, and Little Lord Fauntleroy and Pollyanna aren’t too long, I actually have three books to talk about! Three books in which… Read More Daily Reading: 4th May//Good Children
I finished the Secret Island yesterday, so I continued on and finished the next three books in the series: The Secret of Spiggy Holes, The Secret Mountain, and The Secret of Killimooin. Prince Paul, the fifth member of the party, is introduced in The Secret of Spiggy Holes, and thanks to him, the kids are… Read More Daily Reading: 2nd May//More Enid Blyton + Cranachan
It’s May and we’re in for another month of circuit breaker/lockdown measures in Singapore. Coincidentally, I finished the last of the library books that I borrowed before the circuit breaker started last week. I did think about checking out new books from Overdrive, but I remembered a C.S. Lewis quote that I read recently: “Clearly… Read More May is the Month of Rereading (And the return of amateur blogging??)