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THE EYE OF SAURON Virtual Challenge
This is my bib! On December 1, I began my fourth LOTR challenge, aiming to walk 95 miles (153 kilometres). Updated: I completed the challenge on February 3! — read more
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“Ronja the Robber’s Daughter” by Astrid Lindgren
Ronja the Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren is my final book for 2025. It felt exactly right to close the last page of the last chapter on 31 December, which is all about thresholds, growing up, and refusing to accept the way things have always been. I picked it up very deliberately as “my older-child… — read more
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Dec-2025 Mixtape
Check out my December 2025 playlist on Spotify. — read more
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“Katabasis” by R. F. Kuang
I went into R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis already half in love with the idea: a dark-academia fantasy in which two Cambridge PhD students trek through Hell to rescue their dead supervisor, with logic and philosophy baked into the magic system. I picked it up because I’m persistently fascinated by underworld journeys and because I wanted to… — read more
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My 2025 Reading List
I’m ending 2025 with a list of books I’ve thoroughly enjoyed throughout the year. I read fiction and non-fiction, and almost every genre out there. And I read multiple books at the same time. One can safely say I have an ‘open relationship’ with books! I’ve put together a book collage that includes my annual… — read more
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“Code Name Bananas” David Walliams
There’s something instantly funny and disarming about a boy, a gorilla, and a Nazi plot all sharing a children’s book, and Code Name Bananas leans right into that combination of chaos and charm. I picked it up because I wanted to understand David Walliams’s style properly, rather than just knowing him as “that very popular… — read more
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“The Boy in the Dress” by David Walliams
Good morning! I decided to do some light reading this Saturday morning and chose David Walliams’s The Boy in the Dress. At first glance, The Boy in the Dress is a story about a boy and a bit of fabric. But David Walliams has tucked something much more meaningful between the pages—something that invites children… — read more
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“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) opens with a “merry little surge of electricity” waking Rick Deckard, and from that moment onward, nothing feels entirely steady. In a society where emotions can be dialled in like morning radio, people still ache in recognisably human ways. We follow Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter tasked with… — read more
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Nov-2025 Mixtape
Check out my November 2025 playlist on Spotify. — read more
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Enduring Love: My Thoughts (Part 2)
If you have not read Enduring Love and chanced upon this post, please skip reading it (the post, not the book!). Three days after reading it, I’m still thinking about the story, and I kept going back to my notes, so I’m going to lay this to rest and share my thoughts here as an… — read more
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