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
Finding a copy of Trick Mirror in the library is like finding a needle in a haystack. Each library has a copy but that copy seems to be perpetually borrowed and I wasn’t willing to pay to reserve a copy. So when I found out that my local library had a copy available, I decided… Read More Book Review: Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
It’s a little weird to read about shopping (or rather, shopping less) right after a book about economics, but Prosperity Without Growth and A Life Less Throwaway actually work together pretty well. Prosperity Without Growth makes an argument about growth and the economy, and A Life Less Throwaway narrows things down to the individual, as… Read More Book Review: A Life Less Throwaway by Tara Button
I don’t normally see the National Reading Movement SG account share economic books so when it talked about Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson, I made a note to borrow it. It’s been some time since I read a serious economics book and I wanted to challenge my brain a little. In Prosperity Without Growth,… Read More Book Review: Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson
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