We’re at the end of the month! To be honest, when it comes to reading, this month moved pretty quickly. I definitely did not read as much as I wanted or planned. But I had a lot of fun rediscovering old favourites that I’ve decided that I want to do this regularly – I’ll probably… Read More Daily Reading: 31st May//May Rereading Roundup + June Plans
Apparently what my brain wanted after reading fantasy was to go straight into nonfiction, so today, I read Being Mortal by Atul Gawande and Grit by Angela Duckworth. On a tangential note: why do some books seem to grow brown faster than others? My copy of Grit is seriously and unevenly affected by this. There… Read More Daily Reading: 30th May//Nonfiction Saturday
I managed to find a pocket of time today so I not only finished East, I also finished three short reads! They are: Neil Gaiman’s Make Good Art Speech How Not to Be a Twit by Road Dahl (Quotes basically) Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss (honestly felt like a graduation speech too,… Read More Daily Reading: 29th May//Good End to the Week
Short little update today: It’s so weird to think that the month is ending – it feels like I just started this rereading project! It’s getting a bit hard to choose what to read next because there are so many books that I want to reread! I’ll probably do this again soon – maybe every… Read More Daily Reading: 27th May//East (Part 1)
It turns out that the office is still closed today for Hari Raya celebrations, so I had a lot of extra time that I used to finish Empire of Tea! This concludes my reread of three tea books and it means I need to get my thoughts/comparisons down soon before I forget. Despite its title,… Read More Daily Reading: 26th May//Empire of Tea
I’ve finished A Thirst for Empire, as planned, so I’m pretty confident that I can finish the third tea book (Empire of Tea) by the end of the month! The second section ended on a relatively high note for tea, as we see that it had become part of a national characteristic of the British… Read More Daily Reading: 25th May//A Thirst for Empire (Part 3)
I finished part two of A Thirst for Empire today, so if I keep up this pace, I’ll be able to finish the last third of the book by tomorrow! It’s supposed to be a public holiday, but I don’t know if I’ll need to do some work so we’ll see. Part Two is titled… Read More Daily Reading: 24th May//A Thirst for Empire (Part 2)
Since I’m done with A Social History of Tea, I decided to move on with the next tea book: A Thirst for Empire. This is probably one of the ‘serious’ books about tea that I first read and it really sparked a thirst for more research into tea for me. Today, I read Part 1:… Read More Daily Reading: 23rd May//A Thirst for Empire (Part 1)
I had two meetings last night and was so sick of the computer that I didn’t have the mental energy to write, but tonight, I baked (finally!!) and am actually feeling pretty good because I thought I failed but I did not. I’m also done with A Social History of Tea (waiting time for the… Read More Daily Reading: 22nd May//A Social History of Tea (Part 2)
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