I loved Hanna Alkaf’s debut novel, The Weight of Our Sky, and really liked her other novel The Girl and the Ghost, so I was definitely interested in reading more from her. Queen of the Tiles is different from her previous historical novels as it’s a contemporary YA story about grief, disguised as a murder… Read More Book Review: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf
I can’t remember where I heard about this book but I’m always up for some fun Singlit so I actually made a trip to the library (instead of looking on Libby) to borrow this! The Formidable Miss Cassidy is a historical fantasy novel set in end-19th Century Singapore. Leda Cassidy has arrived in Singapore to… Read More Book Review: The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey
Helloooooo my friends! I have been offline because of some technical issues with the blog (lesson: never leave migrating hosts to the last two weeks) but today, things have hopefully all been fixed and you are able to see this post. I have an exciting announcement coming up, but first, I want to share a… Read More Rereading: Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan
People have been telling me to read this book since 2021. But because I’ve got a long TBR list, and because this book doesn’t sync to my kobo, I’ve procrastinated on reading it. However, after my IRL bookclub/food discussion club chose this as our next book to read, I decided it was time to pick… Read More Book Review: 17A Keong Saik Road by Charmaine Leung
“Chalika, who was old enough to have a shadow of memory, could recall the time when the house was filled with sounds.” First line of The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth I can’t recall how I found out about The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth, but I know I was excited (and a little bit… Read More Book Review: The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth by Veeraporn Nitiprapha
I loved The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf, but because I don’t follow authors or new releases, I didn’t know that she wrote a second book until Em @ A Geeky Jock reviewed it! Obviously, as soon as I heard of The Girl and the Ghost, I put it on my TBR list.… Read More Book Review: The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf
Since our previous book club pick was very dark, we decided to go the opposite way for next book and opted for Annabelle Thong, a Singlit Chic-lit. Personally, I was very excited about this book because I prefer genre fiction to literary fiction, and I want to read more Singlit (and books from SEA authors)… Read More SEA Reading Challenge: Annabelle Thong by Imran Hashim
Younger me thought this was an amazing book and older me was a bit scared that my memories were wrong, which is why I didn’t read this book for years (apart from the fact it’s extremely yellowed, another sign of age, this book is not in my Goodreads catalogue, so I don’t even know when… Read More Rereading: Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
The lovely Jamie (Lonelygirlbookclub on Instagram) was doing a book swap and I jumped at the chance to try something new. Since I mentioned to her that I wanted to try more SingLit, she sent me Corridors by Alfian Sa’at (and one other book). To be honest, I was pretty scared to read this because… Read More SEA Reading Challenge: Corridor by Alfian Sa’at
One nice thing about bookstagram is that I get to know the Singapore bookish community! The Super Secret Book was one of the first few accounts that I found and I’ve been admiring the cute art that they post ever since. When I heard that The Super Secret book was out in ebook, I had… Read More Book Review: The Super Secret Book by Tian En