Category: Reviews
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Review: Comfort Eating by Grace Dent
4.5/5☕ | If I could summarize my opinion of this book in one sentence, it’s this: Comfort Eating just feels like a warm hug.
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(Series) Review: St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery Series (#1 to #6) by ACF Bookens
4/5☕ | Better late than never, here’s my review of the first 6 books of ACF Booken’s St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery Series – a book series that scratched the itch in my cozy mystery-loving heart.
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Review: How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart by Florentyna Leow
4.5/5☕ | A random find that ended up being one of the most beautiful things I’ve read lately, Florentyna Leow’s How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is my favorite read of 2025 so far.
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To Stranger Worlds: Spirited Away on Stage (2024)
The Spirited Away stage adaptation was everything I hoped it would be – and more.
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Review: I Feel Bad About My Neck, And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
4.5/5☕ | I feel like this is a book that you could read at various stages in your life and, at each time, it will mean different to you.
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(Series) Review: A Cookie House Mystery (#1 to #3) by Eve Calder
4.5/5☕ | I thought Eve Calder’s A Cookie House Mystery series would be another run-of-the-mill cozy mystery that I can use as background during my walks. Fun and unexpected, this series turned out to be a revelation!
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Where Dreams & Reality Collide: Sputnik Sweetheart Play (2023)
It was a random Monday when I saw the Sputnik Sweetheart play announcement in a Murakami newsletter. A couple of happy coincidences happened and I found myself in London, in a theatre in the middle of nowhere, and trying my best to contain my excitement to see this play.
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Review: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
3.5/5☕ | Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott as she navigates the treacherous and misogynistic 1950’s society and workplace. If you like a strong female character, with focus on how she overcame hurdles in life, this may be a book that you would enjoy.
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Review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
3.5/5☕ | If you like a short atmospheric book that explores moral dilemma amidst complacency of the majority, and what it means to hold on to your values – Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These might be for you.
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Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
4/5☕ | In true Matt Haig fashion, The Midnight Library offered up a lot of life lessons and nuggets of wisdom that will stick to most readers’ hearts – as it stuck to mine.
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