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I was the kind of kid in school who read books when I wasn’t supposed to be reading. I often got chided for this by my teachers, but after a while, they stopped trying to change it, because the...
It’s been a long, long time since Jaime and I had a nice meal out. At the start of 2012 we moved into a new house which had considerably more room, with a loftier price to match. So we’ve...
One single scene which I love? That’s a bit difficult for someone who reads a lot of books, isn’t it? This meme has, in many instances, been rather limiting in its scope; maybe some day I...
I had a wonderful time on Wednesday at the screening of Scarlet Road, an Australian documentary centring on Rachel Wotton, a sex worker from New South Wales who is passionate about challenging stereo...
Remember the Classics Club I was talking about? If you do, you probably already know which book I intend to read next: Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen. I haven’t started it yet, but I hav...
This one is a no-brainer: I’ve tried to read this one repeatedly, fuelled by chocolate covered espresso beans, tea, latte, yerba mate, you name it, but no matter how many times I try to read it...
One of the many reasons mindfulness meditation and mindful eating are so effective at helping me combat my eating disorder is because it is really difficult to keep up and requires me to engage in it...
This may surprise a lot of people who know me, but I actually like Sacha Baron Cohen (not to be mistaken for his cousin, Simon the autism researcher) I think he’s an excellent comedian, and tha...
Trigger warning for discussion about rape In the New York Times a few days ago, Susan Heath talked about, in her words, “having an abortion when nobody called me a slut”. She remembers wh...
Maurice Sendak is mostly known to the North American public for his book Where The Wild Things Are. It’s been adapted into a live action film, an animated short, and even an opera. It’s f...
The answer to this one wasn’t immediately obvious to me, but now, I’m gob-smacked at how I could have missed it earlier. Thanks to my research and my interests, the book I’ve read m...
Admitting this will probably grant me a permanent place in the peanut gallery of Japanese literature, or at least make people think I’m a macabre beast, but such is the price I pay for being ho...
My readers, Life’s been hectic lately. I’ve been searching for summer work, doing final exams/papers, and doing volunteer work and odd jobs to make extra cash for the summer now that my w...
This one is tricky, because I’m not embarrassed by any of the books I like. I don’t even really have guilty pleasure books. I get something different out of every book I read, even ones t...
Well, this is a tough one. I am going to, for the sake of the entry, exclude children’s books and short story collections, which leaves me with: What’s Your Poo Telling You? Go ahead and ...
Around Easter time, there’s a campaign that the House Rabbit Society and other animal welfare organizations send out, reminding people of how it’s not a good idea to get a child a pet bun...
If you’re familiar with the fact that I am enrolled in Pacific & Asian Studies, you may already know the answer to this: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義) the famous novel which make...
The first chapter book I remember reading as a child was Beezus & Ramona. Nowadays, with her own series of books, Ramona has eclipsed her older sister in popularity and recognition, so oftentimes...
Note: I originally submitted this to the editors at slate.com as a rebuttal to Rapp’s original article, which can be found here. The editors never got back to me, and I have been itching to pub...
It’s not uncommon for me to have crushes on literary characters. When I was young, they seemed far preferable to real people, and now that I am older, they have a certain sexiness and romance t...
This is more or less the same as the last instalment in this meme, isn’t it? Oh well, I’ll try to think up something new. Since I focused so much on a book whose main character was most l...
The real fun in my life is in the details, a cursory glance over the basic details offer very little in the way of excitement. However, to me, it’s an exciting drama, so we’ll try and pic...
Asking me to choose my favourite author would be like asking me to choose my favourite children if I were a mother! It’s simply not doable, silly meme. There are so many out there to choose fro...
Note: The last week and this upcoming week have been finals week, so I fell behind on blogging. Apologies for the delay! I am genuinely unsure how to quantify whether or not a book changed my life; ...
More information can be found here. The first step of the Classics Challenge is to make a list of 50+ classic work of literature you pledge to read in the next 5 years. The beauty of the project is ...
The book which sickens me the most isn’t a book, per se, it’s a graphic novel, known as Uzumaki (“Spiral”) which is famous for being grotesque and frightening. They say a pict...
- some spoilers ahead- Margaret Atwood is probably one of my favourite authors; her prose has a hypnotising, ethereal, beautiful quality to it that’s irresistible, and her stories are incredibl...
I was seriously unimpressed by The Business of Being Born. It’s one of those films which is often praised in feminist circles, and I attended a screening tonight, wanting to see what it was all...
If you read my previous post on my favourite YA book, you probably already know which book it is that I quote/recite from the most. There are many books I quote from, I’m comparable to Captain ...
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