I’ve read The Screwtape Letters a long time ago, so I was pretty surprised to find out that there’s a (very short) sequel: Screwtape Proposes a Toast. Of course, I bought this. Screwtape Proposes a Toast is a collection of essays by C.S. Lewis, put together by him shortly before its death. It opens with… Read More Book Review: Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C.S. Lewis
Last year, William Wan (Gen Sec of the Singapore Kindness Movement) came to my Church to preach and he mentioned his books. I bought a copy after the sermon and kind of left it to the side. The thought of ageing and death isn’t very pleasant, after all. But since I reread Being Mortal recently,… Read More Book Review: Through the Valley by William Wan
I’m done with the longest book on tea that I have ever read! The Tale of Tea by George van Driem is a whopping 864 pages and chock-full of information. To commemorate reading this book, I filmed my first ever video review (note: I made a mistake and said that Lu Yu belonged to the… Read More Tea Book Review: The Tale of Tea by George van Driem
I first heard about Wilding when I came across an article by Isabella Tree in The Guardian. It was an article about the environmental impacts of eating livestock that was reared in a natural environment compared to the environmental impacts of intensely farmed vegetables, and the descriptions of the Knepp estate caught my eye. When… Read More Book Review: Wilding by Isabella Tree
I’ve been reading up on business and distraction (most recently Celeste Headlee’s book Do Nothing) and for some reason, I didn’t think to read about how busyness related to Christianity; a glaring omission given that I try to live out Christianity the best I can. Somehow, though, I stumbled upon An Unhurried Life in the… Read More Book Review: An Unhurried Life by Alan Fadling
This is one of those books that I thought was about one thing (A) but it was actually about another (B) but B turned out to be so interesting that I didn’t mind that it wasn’t about A. At first, I thought that City of Light, City of Poison was going to be about La… Read More Book Review: City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker
When my sister found out that my cell group is focusing on community, she recommended that I read her copy of God’s New Community, which she left behind when she moved to New Zealand. God’s New Community looks at various New Testament verses and expounds on what Church really mean. It’s not a building but… Read More Book Review: God’s New Community by Graham Beynon
What makes the English village so unique? Why does have have such a romanticised image in the minds of so many people (including me, although I’m not even a citizen of the UK)? And is it really dead? In The Village News, Tom Fort visits twenty-two villages in England and declares that the village isn’t… Read More Book Review: The Village News by Tom Fort
I’ve been seeing this book on bookstagram and after reading it, I realised that Do Nothing was what I expected How to Do Nothing to be. Broken into two main sections, Do Nothing looks into the ‘cult of efficiency’ and how we can escape from it. The first section traces the West’s, in particular, America’s… Read More Book Review: Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
I thought that I’ve already read this for a university class a long, long time ago, but apparently not! The Attention Merchants charts the rise of modern attention-grabbers, starting with the first newspapers and posters. While you could probably piece together the story by reading books about the main players (newspapers, Google, Oprah, etc), The… Read More Book Review: The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu