My Personal Lockdown Experience in China

I'll say this here, right at the start: This here is my OWN experience. I do not speak for the entirety of China's population, or even the expat community. I am not agreeing with nor disagreeing with anything that gets discussed in the news or on media sites in regards to China and how it…

My Top 8 Most Read Authors!

We all have our favourite authors. Authors that we come back to time and time again. Authors we turn to when times are rough. Or even authors of whom we have wonderful, lasting memories. Actually, I don't have many authors like this... for some reason I gravitate towards trying new authors. Still, there are a…

My Top 5 Travel Dreams!

I hope nobody takes offence at this... given the time that the world is currently going through. I know that there are many people that are struggling to cope with the state of the world right now, and others don't want to think past just getting through the week, or the day. Yet there are…

Monthly Review: March

March was a confusing month for the world - the whole world seemed to go into lockdown one country at a time, and now a lot of the global population are shut inside their homes. Opposite to this however is China - we finally emerged from lockdown and we have even begun to return to…

Mini Reviews: Stephen King novels!

I've been recommended Stephen King multiple times over the years, most recently by a colleague, so I finally decided that 2020 was the year to give him a try! Now it is April, and I have read 4 King novels - one for each month, and I thought that this was a good time to…

A March of Books

Well. I've gotten pretty good at not buying many books since I've been in China. I only have a very small collection of physical books, all but two are read. Meanwhile, I will buy a kindle book as and when I wish to read it, meaning I don't actually have many books sitting on it…