When the first lockdown hit I was excited to crack into my neverending-continuously-growing pile of books I wanted to read. I thought about how much time I would have to kill, the hours I could spend per day reading, how many books I could get through now that I finally had the time; I was wrong. I think it was the lack of routine, but I’ve found – much to my frustration – that I’m rarely in the headspace to …
Author: Liadh Blake
→Cuddler of cat, haver of nap.
While I was writing my previous post on my favourite books of 2019, I accidentally expanded into an entirely separate article: the most important books for Irish people and Irish …
I read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee last year (see previous post), and when I finished it, I knew it was very good. But I didn’t realise how good. It …
It’s really daunting to educate yourself on a subject. It’s very difficult to know where to start, because you don’t know what you don’t know, so you don’t know what …
I’ve never been one to read a lot of short stories, as I’ve always just preferred novels. I like how novels can go more in depth into characters, and how …
In the first part of my interview with Yangsze Choo, we discussed the influence of her Malaysian-Chinese heritage in The Night Tiger. In the second part, we talk about her approach to …
New York Times best-selling novelist Yangsze Choo is fourth generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. Both of her novels — The Ghost Bride and The Night Tiger — include Malaysian-Chinese culture …
What first intrigued me about Yangsze Choo’s The Night Tiger was its Malaysian setting and that its main character was Malaysian-Chinese. I’m half Irish and half Malaysian-Chinese, and the books …
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