I am writing this review somewhat handicapped because: 1) I did not write the review straightaway and 2) I had to reset my kobo and lost all my annotations. So here is a somewhat fuzzy review of this book on curry’s diverse history. Curry is the tale of how cultures influence food. In this book,… Read More Book Review: Curry by Lizzie Collingham
I found this book while looking for other books that Dorothy Ko was involved in (she wrote the excellent Cinderella’s Sisters) and was instantly intrigued by this memoir by a crown princess of 18th century Korea. Ko wrote the foreward to this translation, which is how I found it. To make things more interesting, Lady… Read More Book Review: The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong translated by JaHyun Kim Haboush
After watching A Haunting in Venice, I wanted more Poirot and while going through my library’s collection, I came across Agatha Christie’s Poirot. I’ve heard of the author, Mark Aldridge, on a Christie podcast so I felt fairly confident borrowing this. As indicated by the title, this book follows Poirot through the books as well… Read More Book Review: Agatha Christie’s Poirot by Mark Aldridge
It has been a very long while since I read a Genji-related book and I felt the urge to dive into this meaty tome. Subtitled: “Sources from the First Millenium”, Reading the Tale of Genji translates a selection of texts about the Tale of Genji, providing more context for how the tale achieved its present… Read More Book Review: Reading the Tale of Genji edited by Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane
I am back! And very tired from my trip – I’m hoping to be able to make one or two posts about it within the month but for now, please enjoy a book review. It is very hard for me to resist a book about books. Especially a book by various writers on books and… Read More Book Review: Shelf Life by Alex Johnson
I found this book from the Articles of Interest series on American Ivy/Preppy style and immediately borrowed it because it sounds very cool. And I was pleased to find that while this book also talks about a lot of the events that the podcast does, it also goes into detail on subcultures not mentioned in… Read More Book Review: Ametora by W. David Marx
I was scrolling through my TBR list when I came across Rootbound. Since I re-read Rewilding fairly recently, Rootbound’s subtitle: “rewilding a life” appealed to me and I decided to give it a go. Despite its subtitle, Rootbound isn’t about rewilding one’s life in the sense of letting nature take over. Instead, this is a… Read More Book Review: Rootbound by Alice Vincent
I’ve finally read this book! My friend who lent it to me has been raving about it for a while, and since I know nothing about footbinding, I was interested in learning more. Cinderella’s Sisters is a “revisionist history of footbinding”. The author, Dorothy Ko, applies the term “revisionist” to her history because she doesn’t… Read More Book Review: Cinderella’s Sisters by Dorothy Ko
I went to find Briana’s review of this book because it was how it got on my radar and it hit me that I left this book on my TBR list for 6 years. And I’m sure this isn’t the oldest book on my TBR list. But oh well, I am not systematic enough to… Read More Book Review: The Fellowship by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski
I can’t remember exactly when, but a few years ago I listened to a BBC podcast called “The Missing Cryptoqueen”. It was about the OneCoin scam and it tried to track the origins of its missing founder – Ruja Ignatova. I enjoyed the podcast very much, but didn’t really follow what happened after so I… Read More Book Review: The Missing Cryptoqueen by Jamie Bartlett