I am back with another look into another green tea! My posts on the 2025 senchas are going to be rather short, so if you’re looking for a more detailed explanation of the hokumei cultivar, I recommend the intro post I did for it a couple of years back. The dry leaves had a nice… Read More My 2025 Experience with Hokumei
Recently, I listened to a couple of podcast episodes about dragons, which I thought was interesting because none of these podcasts are dragon-specific. So I thought about sharing a small reading and podcast list for fun! Podcast Episodes about Dragons The episode that inspired this post is BBC’s In Our Time podcast, which did an… Read More Dragons~ A listening and reading list
Hello all! I am dipping my toes back into the tea writing experience (and really, tea journalling) with the 2025 musashikaori sencha. So this is a bit of a less serious review, because I have realised that not exercising the tea review muscle has caused it to greatly atrophy. If you need some information on… Read More My 2025 Experience with Musashi Kaori sencha
Head’s up: this review is by someone who really only knows the very bare basics of the French revolution. I’m basically heading into this as a newbie, and this is also why I found the book fascinating. Liberty, Equality, Fashion traces the path of three women who made an out-sized fashion (and societal) impact during… Read More Book Review: Liberty, Equality, Fashion by Anne Higonnet
One big change I noticed in myself in my second year in Japan (all those years ago), was that I became more and more reluctant to go to the neighbourhood convenience store in what I deem home clothes. And while I have pretty much steadfastly refused all forms of makeup (even after going through finishing… Read More Book Review: Flawless by Elise Hu
This was on my TBR for a very long time, and I couldn’t figure out how it got there till I brought up the fact I was reading it at book club and one of my friends mentioned that it was her recommendation. So, thank you! I really enjoyed this (though everyone is unlikeable). Penance… Read More Book Review: Penance by Eliza Clark
My commute has drastically lengthened these past few weeks, so I have gone back and relistened to a few podcasts that I remember enjoying. One of them was Limetown, where I remember that I really liked Season 1 and was meh on Season 2. Well… the relisten proved that I really liked Season 1, but… Read More Book Review: Limetown – The Prequel Created by Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie with Cote Smith
I am here with another children’s classic that I’ve finally read. After a really good experience with Moominpappa at Sea, I remembered that I had a copy of The House at Pooh Corner that I bought at the end of last year and never got around to reading. This one was… tricky. Winnie the Pooh… Read More Book Review: The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
Let’s park this book review under “books that I was influenced to read from podcasts” (which should be a tag on this blog now that I’ve got two such books – the other book is Flawless and I’ll post my review next week!). I heard about Inventing the Renaissance from Ada Palmer’s interview on The… Read More Book Review: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
I chanced upon this book once and thought that it sounded interesting but left it like that. But after a friend of mine raved about the book, I decided to buy it if I ever saw it again – and I did! The Golden Thread is a book about the history of fabric, from its… Read More Book Review: The Golden Thread by Kassia St. Clair
