My boyfriend got this book for me for my birthday, which means that I got to read something I probably wouldn’t have picked up otherwise. While this was no Hamnet, it did provide a lot of food for thought. Interior Chinatown shows what happens when you try to define your identity through its relationship with… Read More Book Review: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
I studied To Kill a Mockingbird when I was in secondary school and unsurprisingly, I really enjoyed the book, since it was a stirring portrayal of how we can choose to act against racism even when we’re living in a deeply racist society. When Go Set A Watchman came out, I followed enough of the… Read More Book Review: Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee [Spoilers]
I’ve had Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (can I call it DYPOTBOTD because that is a loooong title) on my TBR list for a while because it seemed to be fairly divisive. I’m pretty sure that I’ve heard both really good and bad things about this book and it made me… Read More Book Review: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
This is the last book that I bought at the church bazaar, and unsurprisingly, I’m regretting not getting more! But a friend did loan me two of her books, so I still have those and a lot of ebooks to read. I remember reading and really enjoying The Shadow of the Wind (Goodreads Review), so… Read More Book Review: The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.” The Course of Love, Chapter: Infatuations I’m not going to give you the whole story of how I found this book, mostly because it would involve me talking about how I clicked on a clickbait video title and ended up looking… Read More Book Review: The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
“Chalika, who was old enough to have a shadow of memory, could recall the time when the house was filled with sounds.” First line of The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth I can’t recall how I found out about The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth, but I know I was excited (and a little bit… Read More Book Review: The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth by Veeraporn Nitiprapha
A friend gave me a copy of this book of short stories and radio plays by one of the founding fathers of modern Singapore, S. Rajaratnam and honestly I am shocked that I never knew we had such a literary talent in Singapore! I knew of Rajaratnam as one of the key members of our… Read More Book Review: The Short Stories and Radio Plays of S. Rajaratnam
Have you ever started a book because you thought it was one thing and it turned out to be another? This is what happened to me with The Bone Fire and to be honest, I’m not sure what I feel about this. I thought that The Bone Fire was a fantasy that starts in a… Read More Book Review: The Bone Fire by György Dragomán
In June, I managed to meet one of my AC friends – a really fun meeting, even accounting for the fact that we had to catch up on about 8 years of news in two hours. And during the meeting, he recommended me two books. One of them was Soul Mountain. To be honest, if… Read More Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian