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
I am very late to this book because it has been hyped as THE book on inequality and poverty in Singapore and in general, I’m afraid of reading books that are too hyped. But my recent devotional series has been focused on inequality and injustice, and that prompted me to start learning more about inequality… Read More Book Review: This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn
I have to say that when it comes to Singlit, I definitely am enjoying the older works more. And not just the older works – the stories written by the first generation of Singapore politicians. I previously wrote about reading S. Rajaratnam’s short stories and this time, I managed to read a collection of ghost… Read More Book Review: A Mosque in the Jungle by Othman Wok
Happy Birthday, Singapore! I was going to take today off, but I realised I actually had a Singlit review and decided that today would be the perfect day to post it… even if my review isn’t wholly positive. I saw this book when the library was giving away books and decided to pick it up… Read More Book Review: Spectre by Verena Tay
This was another book club pick and I was pretty excited because Now You See Us promised to show Singapore through the eyes of a group of people that are ever present but whom we rarely hear from: the domestic helpers, specifically domestic helpers from Philippines. These are women who have left their homes to… Read More Book Review: Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal
I heard about this book on Bookstagram and since I’m always on the lookout for non-literary fiction SingLit, this sounded like something I would enjoy! Fear of the Guest stars pretty much all the local ghosts in Singapore, including a few that I hadn’t heard of! There is Lady Pontianak, the marble children, and even… Read More Book Review: Fear of the Guest by Yihan Sim
A friend gave me a copy of this book of short stories and radio plays by one of the founding fathers of modern Singapore, S. Rajaratnam and honestly I am shocked that I never knew we had such a literary talent in Singapore! I knew of Rajaratnam as one of the key members of our… Read More Book Review: The Short Stories and Radio Plays of S. Rajaratnam
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 my positive experience with Tall Order, I decided to continue reading Singaporean memoirs and autobiographies, choosing Son of Singapore as the second book I’d read. While I hadn’t heard of this autobiography before, it has excellent reviews online and more importantly, is from the voice of an ordinary Singaporean, not a politician or one… Read More Book Review: Son of Singapore by Tan Kok Seng
This is another one of those books that has been languishing on my TBR list for years. I heard about this when it came out because it’s a fantasy set in Singapore and how rare is that? But, I never actually got around to reading it until now, because I heard that the author has… Read More Book Review: The Oddfits by Tiffany Tsao