Book Review: Walking the Himalayas

Title: Walking the Himalayas Author: Levison Wood Genre: Travel Memoir Material source: iBooks My rating: 5/5 🌟 Note: This Review was originally posted on my previous site, Becky in China. Living in China means being mostly out of touch with the goings on of the Western world. Bar big events, I don’t hear very much…

Book Review: Lost on Planet China

Title: Lost on Planet China: or how I learned to love live squid Author: J.Maarten Troost Genre: Memoir Material source: iBooks My rating: 3.5/5 Background note: Originally posted on my previous site, Becky in China. This was written prior to my leaving China. At the time I lived in Hebei Province in North-Eastern China. Since…

Book Review: The Friendship Highway

Title: The Friendship Highway Author: Charlie Carroll Genre: Travel Memoir / Biography Material source: library book My rating: 5/5 🌟. 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 About the book:(From https://www.goodreads.com/ ) “Tibet was not just on the horizon, it capped it. Four thousand metres about this city was a country of stone and ice, and, even…

Most anticipated books!

Note: All cover photos from Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/ The books I’m most excited about reading in the immediate future! Not necessarily new releases, some have been on my TBR shelf for ages, others are just ones I’ve picked up recently. Exciting reading times ahead! 1. Crimes of Grindelwald screenplay – J.K.Rowling I received this as…

Book Review: The Penguin Lessons

Title: The Penguin Lessons Author: Tom Michell Genre: Memoir Material source: iBooks My rating: 5 / 5 🌟Note: originally posted on my previous site, Becky In China. About the book:Tom Michell is “an impetuous twenty-three year old” in the 1970’s on the search of the kind of adventure nobody else in his travelling family has…

Best Books of 2018

As I've already noted in my last post 'My 2018 in Books' (See post here), I am super proud of having achieved my reading goal, and exceeding it by reading 56 books. Congratulations to all those in similar positions! 😁 But what were my favourites of those 56? It's so hard to choose, but I…