Last year, my dad started celebrating Christmas in November when he realised that Panetone was available for sale and started snapping them up. This year, I’m ‘starting Christmas’ (used verrrrry loosely) even earlier this year with my first Christmas read: Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit. I’m not sure why I picked this up, given that… Read More Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse
Although I enjoyed Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel, I haven’t actually read any of Daphne du Maurier’s short stories. Until now, that is. The blurb for The Doll describes it as “short fiction in which she explored the images, themes, and concerns that informed her later work” so I was cautiously excited about what the… Read More The Doll by Daphne du Maurier
It’s been over two months since my last SEA Reading Challenge book, so I decided to double up my efforts to find one. I made a trip to the Central Library and managed to find a copy of the S.E.A Write Anthology of ASEAN Short Stories & Poems. After all, what’s more representative of South… Read More The S.E.A. Write Anthology of ASEAN Short Stories & Poems
Reading Adventure on the High Teas reminded me that I’ve had Dark Entries on my reading list for quite some time and that it was high time I got to it. I’m not quite sure how I came across the book, but I suspect the praise by Neil Gaiman on the cover played a part… Read More Dark Entries by Robert Aickman
I stumbled across this in Book Depository and decided to borrow it to see if I wanted to buy my own. Now that I’ve read it, I definitely want my own copy. Victorian Fairy Tales is a collection of tales by Victorian authors. It starts with two traditional fairy tales – Rumpel-Stilts-kin and The Princess… Read More Victorian Fairy Tales edited by Michael Newton
I’ve been enjoying the Kat Holloway series so much that when I heard there was a prequel, I went out and bought the short story collection. Murder Most Historical is a collection of three mysteries: 1. A Soupçon of Poison This is the Kat Holloway prequel and the one that I was most excited to… Read More Murder Most Historical by Ashley Gardner
I was intending to ration these stories and read them slowly, but I read the first one, realised that I remembered it, read the second one, awoke another memory, and then ended up finishing the book in one sitting. And you know what? This was a fantastic trip down memory lane that scratched a book… Read More The Girl with the Green Ear by Margaret Mahy