Category Archives: Book Review

This fiction “The Crossing” by Michael Connelly was published in 2015. I started reading Michael Connelly’s books only recently. If you were interested in police detective kind of fictional stories, I recommend Michael Connelly’s Detective Harry Bosch series. It was … Continue reading →

The Cat & The Banker How to get started with investing: An Illustrated Story Author: Nadir Mehadji Publisher: Marshall Canvendish Year Published: 2018 Number of pages: 361 This book is easy and fun to read. The world of investing is … Continue reading →

100 Daily Practices from a Japanese Zen monk for a lifetime of Calm and Joy Publisher: Penguin Books I recommend this book for the simple reason that it is good. The ideas for practice are so Zen. Have you a … Continue reading →

Ignatius Low reveals the humourous side of him in this book about his life from student days to year 2016. Ignatius is a true Singapore boy whom one can identify with growing up in the 1980s. His witty and funny … Continue reading →

The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection. This book was written by Louisa Thomsen Brits. The art of Hygge (pronounced as “hoo-gah”) resonates with my ideas of happy living and living well with contentment, comfort and connection. They are … Continue reading →

There are nine short stories in this book by Agatha Christie. These stories were published mainly in the 1920s in magazines. These were compiled and released in 1997. The Harlequin Tea Set was the main story for this book and … Continue reading →

Sunny Tedder returned in this second book. Sunny left her Little Coffee Shop of Kabul in the first book of the same title. This time round she was part owner Screaming Peacock Vineyard on Twimbly Island off the coast of … Continue reading →

There are nine short stories in this book by Agatha Christie. Each story has an investigative personality created by Agatha Christie, namely Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple and Mr Parker Pyne. Five stories belonged to Hercule Poirot, two stories with … Continue reading →

There were eleven short stories written by Agatha Christie. The Witness for the Prosecution was the first story in her book. In addition to this story, I liked Wireless and Mr Eastwood’s Adventure very much for the unexpected twists at … Continue reading →

This is a Hercule Poirot Mystery first published in 1956. A very rich man, Sir George Stubbs and his wife Lady Hattie Stubbs organised a fete for the village people to view their expensive house on a sprawling ground facing … Continue reading →