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
After an enjoyable experience reading Sherlock Holmes for the first time, I decided to buy another book by Arthur Conan Doyle (also, the fact that I like this series of covers may have played a role in it). The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and other cases is a baker’s dozen of Sherlock Holmes short… Read More Book Review: The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle
It’s always a bit scary to read something by someone that has earned multiple awards for their writing, because what if you don’t like it?? That was my experience with Exhalation, a collection of science-fiction short stories by Ted Chiang. I’m not super familiar with science-fiction short stories, so I don’t know if it’s a… Read More Book Review: Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Given that ‘Christie for Christmas’ was a thing, it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that the Christmas spirit can be increased with the addition of fictional murder. In The Mistletoe Murders, P.D. James gives us four holiday-themed short stories. Since the stories are unconnected, and there are only four of them, I’ll cover them one… Read More Book Review: The Mistletoe Murder by P.D. James
As corny as it sounds, I’ve literally been waiting to read this Literary Christmas anthology since March, when I got my sister to bring it back to Singapore from the UK for me. So you can just imagine my excitement levels when I finally got to crack open this book (some things need to be… Read More Book Review: A Literary Christmas by the British Library
I’ve been wanting to read more about Mr Quin and Mr Satterthwaite ever since I read The Harlequin Tea Party earlier this year. Unusually for me, it only took three months for me to pick up The Mysterious Mr Quin, a collection of short stories, loosely ordered in chronological order, about the first few times… Read More Book Review: The Mysterious Mr Quin by Agatha Christie
This Kickstarter book had me at “Sherlock Holmes meets Cthulhu”. While I haven’t read the Solar Pons stories or been able to find August Derleth in the library, which means I went into this collection unfamiliar with the main characters, I still enjoyed this short story collection very much. A little bit of backstory: August… Read More Kickstarter Book Review: The Necronomicon of Solar Pons edited by Derrick Belanger
There was an abundance of Agatha Christie books at the library and since the choice was overwhelming, I decided to get a collection of short stories (rather than a collection of novels). Plus, I love tea so the word “tea set” appealed immensely to me. The Harlequin Tea Set is a collection of nine short… Read More Book Review: The Harlequin Tea Set by Agatha Christie
It’s been some time since I’ve read some local fiction so when I saw this collection of short stories at the library, I was intrigued. I had a good experience with Track Faults and Other Glitches so the idea of more Singaporean short stories that play on the fantastical sounded good. Lion City is a… Read More SEA Reading Challenge: Lion City by Ng Yi-Sheng
In a new series entitled “Bookstagram Made Me Read It”, I read The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse! To backtrack in time a little, I stumbled across a copy of Jeeves in the Yule-tide Spirit in the library last November. At the same time, I found the Four Weeks of Wodehouse challenge on Instagram. I… Read More The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse