It’s the mid-19th century and London is a city. Almost miraculously, a group of people have organised themselves into a class of scavengers, taking on the responsibility of most modern sanitation departments and thus helping two million people get rid of their waste. However, this effort does have some cracks and not all waste is… Read More Book Review: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
This is actually my cousin’s book but I borrowed it during his housewarming party last month. Yes, I am the person who takes things away during a housewarming (but with every intention of bringing it back!). Jerusalem is a sweeping biography of the city, starting from the reign of King David and ending in the… Read More Book Review: Jerusalem, The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
This is one of the Kickstarter projects I backed last year when I was a little bit too obsessed with Kickstarter in general (I still check the site but I’m probably more interested in vintage teacups right now). Their Darkest Materials appealed to me because I’ve tried knitting and sewing but never really considered the… Read More Kickstarter Book Review: Their Darkest Materials by Penelope Hemingway
I really like reading about nature (experiencing it is another matter) so when I saw this book on NetGalley, I really wanted to read it. Unfortunately for Birder on Berry Lane, I read it after I had read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (the reviews are far apart because I didn’t want to post this so… Read More Book Review: Birder on Berry Lane by Robert Tougias
If you look at the cover, you’ll know the reason why I picked up this book. The synopsis pretty much sealed the deal – it promised to explain the history of why we’ve fallen in love with murder. To That End, Murder by Candlelight focuses on not one but five murder cases: The Radlett Murder… Read More Book Review: Murder by Candlelight by Michael Knox Beran
There isn’t a good reason for me to be shocked by the fact that butter has a book dedicated to it, given that I have multiple books dedicated to tea and that is also a food product, but I was surprised and very intrigued. I grew up eating margarine on toast but in the past… Read More Book Review: Butter by Elaine Khosrova
It’s interesting how book discoveries are made. I started off by looking at one of the books recommended by the NLB – How to Be Alone – stumbled across this book, and ended up borrowing it instead. And I have absolutely no regrets because this was a helpful book that *surprise* is more than what… Read More Mental Health Monday #3: Book Review – How to Be Single and Happy by Jennifer Taitz
I heard about this book when Sara Tasker interviewed the author, Nir Eyal, for her podcast Hashtag Authentic. The podcast introduced the idea of timeboxing, which was an idea that I immediately wanted to try. So I decided to read the book as well, to see what else I could learn. Indistractible is broken into… Read More Book Review: Indistractible by Nir Eyal
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
This is pretty rare but I borrowed this book because of the author. I’ve heard of Tony Gebely’s tea-rating website Tea Epicure, which meant that I was curious to see what he had to say about tea. The Philosophy of Tea is a slim volume that manages to pack a lot of information about tea.… Read More Books about Tea: The Philosophy of Tea by Tony Gebely