I loved Hanna Alkaf’s debut novel, The Weight of Our Sky, and really liked her other novel The Girl and the Ghost, so I was definitely interested in reading more from her. Queen of the Tiles is different from her previous historical novels as it’s a contemporary YA story about grief, disguised as a murder… Read More Book Review: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf
Yes, this post is going to be as weird as the title sounds. I was looking for things to do over the new year’s break and I heard about the Forever Twenty Cafe in Johor. Since I was already planning to go to Malaysia a little early for work, going for this cafe sounded like… Read More I tried painting on toast!
I loved The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf, but because I don’t follow authors or new releases, I didn’t know that she wrote a second book until Em @ A Geeky Jock reviewed it! Obviously, as soon as I heard of The Girl and the Ghost, I put it on my TBR list.… Read More Book Review: The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf
Pretty much everyone around me who reads has raved about Billion Dollar Whale online. But it’s popular status also means that it’s been hard to grab a copy in the library (or perhaps I’m just lucky). So when I saw the ecopy in Overdrive, I decided to download it and woah, this is basically Crazy… Read More Book Review: Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
When I was a kid, going on a holiday overseas meant going to Genting (Johor was too close to count). Apart from rare trips to Hong Kong and once, Dubai, my family always chose to take a five hour drive up north for our holidays. We were in Genting so often we were members. But… Read More Going back to Genting in 2019