Faerie Tales

[THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS.] I waited a long while for the digital copy of Boston-based Singaporean author  Yu-Mei Balasingamchow's ...

Sure, it's a story of migrants and the lives they have carved out in their new hometown. Each story is unique to every migrant. In this,...

Steeled myself to read Helen Simpson's 'Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub' , published in The New Yorker on August 30, 2026 . It's nev...

Woah, the storyline of dementia hits so hard. It's scary. It can be any one of us. We wonder who we would want to make peace with in our...

I waded into cross-generational dynamics and a young girl's sexual maturity and views of the world in 'Hidden Life' by Madhuri ...

I had a read of 'Testing' by Min Jin Lee (acclaimed author of 'Pachinko') , published in The New Yorker on July 19, 2026 . ...

It's like a story that hangs in mid-air, pretty much like everyone's lives. I suppose that's what this story is about. This is ...

I wasn't that keen to read 'Days at the Torunka Café' 「純喫茶ルンカ」(2022) by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated into English by Eric Ozawa...

I really enjoyed the dark comic wit that is 'Anxious People' (2019) by Fredrik Backman . The book was quite a delight to read.  I...

I didn't realize that this was such a short book. At 69 pages, this is a novella. I decided to read it in its original Japanese too. Thi...

This is not a genre I'm keen on reading. However, with all the hype, I decided to have a quick browse. This is  'Two Women Living To...

I got to the third book  'Strange Pictures' 「変な絵」by anonymous author and Youtuber Uketsu (雨穴) . This was first published in Japanese...

This is  'Strange Buildings' 「変な家 2」by anonymous author and Youtuber Uketsu  (雨穴) . This was first published in Japanese in 2023, t...

I decided to embark on this 'Strange' series by anonymous author and Youtuber Uketsu (雨穴) . There are three books, not exactly conne...

'Constellation' by Andrea Bajani , is drawn from the author's 2025 novel 'L’anniversario' (The Anniversary) originally ...