May shall be ending in a little over a week. Since the year has been zipping on by rather swiftly, it can be easy to miss all of the fantastic book releases that have been happening thus far. So, before the month has a chance to properly end, I wanted to share with you books…
Crazy Rich Asians is an #OwnVoices Singaporean-Chinese adult contemporary novel—the first in a trilogy of the same name—about a girl named Rachel Chu who feels ecstatic when her seemingly average boyfriend, Nick Young, invites her to spend the summer with him and his family in Singapore. However, she never expected that he would turn out…
I should just deem today as the Day of Book Hauls, given my first post and now this one. It’s turning out to be a bookishly fabulous week thus far, that’s for sure. Sticking with my theme from earlier, I shall be sharing with you five holds I picked up recently, which are all authored…
Last week was a very stressful week for me with trying to be an emotional pillar for my parents and then dealing with my own underlying grief and depression. Normally, when I’m feeling this low and terrible, I tend to go on shopping sprees. However, ever since I began a relationship with my local library,…
Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima is an #OwnVoices Japanese fiction novel about a woman whose husband leaves her, forcing her to start her life anew with her three-year-old daughter in a small Tokyo apartment, where she confronts a deep sense of identity loss, loneliness, and motherhood. When I saw that Osamu Dazai’s daughter had…
Good day, chums! A few days ago, Sir Besty and I visited a local bookshop after a very long time. We have both been addicted to the library as of late, so we haven’t been purchasing many books, aside from a few pre-orders (mostly manga). I wasn’t really searching for anything in particular, yet I…
Good morning, friends! Since I shall be spending my New Year’s Eve on bedrest, with a nearly bottomless cup of hot chocolate and biscuits, I thought it would be nice to share with you my favourite books from 2018! While I didn’t read nearly as many 5-star titles as I had initially desired, I’m still…
