I’ve followed Claire for a while now because I find her enneagram approach to writing characters to be really helpful (I’ve had alignment sessions with her before as well); it focuses on the core desires and fears of a character and feels a bit more intuitive than deciding what a character’s MBTI is (or however… Read More Book Review: Reclaim Your Author Career by Claire Taylor
Do you play games? I have to admit that if I have time, I prefer to read or watch a show than play a game (the gamification of our lives is a different thing). The only games that I’ve picked up recently are Pokemon Masters (smartphone game) and Magic: The Gathering (card game). Well, neither… Read More Book Review: Seven Games by Oliver Roeder
“Domestic preoccupation is not a sign of the death of love; it is what we start to get involved with when love has succeeded brilliantly.” Someone on bookstagram recommended this as one of her favourite books from the School of Life. Since I enjoyed How to be Bored, I decided that I had to read… Read More Book Review: The Sorrows of Love by The School of Life
This is where I admit that due to my unmanageable TBR list, I have lost track of how I first came to hear about this book. But, I remember why I read it – I really like to read books about writing! Someone told me that Reflections was good and despite me not finishing Howl’s… Read More Book Review: Reflections – On the Magic of Writing by Diana Wynne Jones
I’ve always had a very laissez-faire approach to punctuation; if it looks right, it probably is. Which is also how I end up using too! many! exclamation! points! The Accidental Apostrophe is supposed to help with those problems. Subtitled “And Other Misadventures in Punctuation”, Taggart uses a conversational tone to discuss the uses and rules… Read More Book Review: The Accidental Apostrophe by Caroline Taggart
Here’s another book that has been on my TBR list for a while! I heard of William Dalrymple when This Nook Is For A Book posted about From the Holy Mountain, also by Dalrymple all the way back in 2020! I thought it sounded fascinating and finally borrowed City of Djinns from the library. Subtitled:… Read More Book Review: City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
Earlier this year, I read a book about the history of English magic and wondered, not for the first time, about the relationship between magic/folklore/fairies and the Church. So I was really excited when I found out that my questions have been at least partially answered in this book: Elf Queens and Holy Friars by… Read More Book Review: Elf Queens and Holy Friars by Richard Firth Green
This is a bit of a different book review from the usual, mostly because this was originally supposed to be a SingLib recap. I heard about How We Read Now when I attended the NLB’s talk “Read to Focus: The Art of Focused Reading in an Age of Distraction”. One of the guests was Naomi… Read More Why Everyone (not just teachers) should read How We Read Now by Naomi S. Baron
Ok, this is definitely a book that I selected based on the cover. I mean, it looks gorgeous! And to make things better, it has a lot of beautiful illustrations and gorgeous poems and texts as well. As the title indicates, Pleasures of Nature collects various poems and short texts about nature into one place.… Read More Book Review: Pleasures of Nature – A Literary Anthology selected by Christina Hardyment
I have procrastinated on this review because I wanted to write something longer and more in-depth, but it’s time to accept that that review is not going to happen, because there’s not that much I have to say about the book. I’ve heard about the concept of flow so much that I wanted to read… Read More Book Review: Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi