I used to be so self-conscious about going to a bar or restaurant, ordering a solitary beer and whipping out a book from one of my bottomless handbags. SO glad I've finally reached the stage where I couldn't give a damn anymore. Here's to the best company a girl could ask for!

If it's good enough for Roxane Gay, it's good enough for me. #romance #chicklit

Must I really truly return this to the library? I don't want to...

When you work 5 minutes away from this thing of beauty, lunch breaks double up as #library runs.

It's been YONKS since I've fired up this good ol app. 12 months what's up? So I changed jobs and got civilly wedded. That's right, folks. Your girl is married as heck! 💏 (Y'know, I haven't got the slightest clue who I'm talking to but I'm going to plow ahead anyway...)

Started on this powerful #blackauthor a week back. She was sittin' pretty on my shelf for months. Finally cracked that spine! Krrrrk! My first #MayaAngelou! Is good, baby. 💙

The past few days have been spent in this whirling genius of a #spaceopera. Because of all the hype, I had high hopes for #Saga. It's shattered every expectation. So flipping good, I can't even. #graphicnovel #comics

New read! This was well reviewed on http://lithub.com/bookmarks, a website that aggregates reviews. I consult it when looking for a new read, authors I would normally skip or if I'm simply in a ~mood~ #crime #thriller #junkiesandjails

Litsy! Stop crashing! 😡

About 30 pages in and I'm trying my best to pace myself. This is quickly becoming one of those novels that you wish you could read for the first time, over and over again. #chicklit #romance #happybook

😂😂😂 #trump #poetry #satire

Friday night with some choice Indian classical music and this incredibly surprisingly good #spaceopera. Epic #scifi & my first by this author who I bought only because his last name is the same as one of my favourite composers! 😂

Last year, I discovered Mary Oliver through a blog post on Brainpickings. Her poem, Wild Geese, was the first of hers I'd read. It offered me solace in a difficult time. Over these last months, I find myself returning to her words over and over. So I did the obvious thing. #bookmail #poetry

The best way to end a #Monday, if you've survived it. #mondayblues

I've not been reading all that much because all my time has been occupied with writing #poetry every day for #SingPoWriMo or Singapore Poetry Writing Month. Because, you know, April is the cruellest month.

Halfway through this super lovely read. Another #blameitonlitsy moment. Everyone was positively raving about this book the month I joined Litsy. I know now why! This is a library copy but I sure won't mind owning my own.

Finally finally finally received my first #botm parcel ever! I'm so excited I can't even! It took ages to get to me, so I may not continue after my 3 month subscription is over -- but nothing beats the feeling of getting new books 💙 and that tote! Loveitloveloveitloveit 😍

Okay, I'm done with the chick lit (for now). Nipped out to the library on this lovely Sunday afternoon and checked out #Outlander, which I've heard sooo much about from fellow readers on Litsy. Accompanied here by a delicious bowl of ramen. 🍲 #blameitonlitsy #dianagabaldon

I decided to have shashuka for lunch today, with a side of #SophieKinsella. That's right, folks. I'm officially hooked. 🙃 #chicklit #currentlyreading

P.s. that's a library copy

It's been some time since I've read a page turner like this. A great palate cleanser! Bonus: it's set in crazy, political, chaotic Delhi. #thriller #currentlyreading

Came in to office to this surprise on my table from my #chicklit loving colleague. The post-it says "Don't judge". Can't wait to start on my first Sophie Kinsella story!

Waking up to grey skies and wet roads at 7.30am on a Monday morning. Perfect skip-work-stay-home-and-read conditions. Alas, responsibility, you scurvy companion.

This autobiography is incredibly moving. I love how there's a poem at the end of every chapter, relevant to the story, but also hopeful, with one eye on the future. #poetry #blackauthors

Chapter 6 is a massive trigger. Awful, awful, awful.

I cannot even begin to imagine what this feels like. And to just have to tolerate it! Makes my blood boil. #blackauthors #blackhistory

Friday evening ft. Assata Shakur & some lovely Japanese whiskey. #blackauthors #blackhistoryreads #autobiography

I was listening to a podcast this morning when I found out that the amazing #sciencefiction movie #arrival was adapted from this glorious #shortstory by Ted Chiang! Of course I had to read it immediately 💥💣💥

Starting on this amazing #memoir. Goosebumps everywhere. #blackhistory #blackauthors

"Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core."

Not at all part of March's reading list but rather, an impromptu choice inspired by a slow, dreary afternoon at work. It's my first reading of #hamlet made alive by an excellent audiobook found on YouTube! #shakespeare

My very first #botm box is on it's way to Singapore via a forwarding service. I! Cannot! Wait! #bookofthemonthclub

I read one article and add 5 books to my TBR list. It's quite amazing. #crime #crimefiction #india

Well. I want to like this book very badly. And, for the most part, I do. I think it's much better organized than Inheritance. There is a purposefulness (is that a word? hah) to the way the themes are explored. But I can't get over the way the word "Singapore" keeps appearing everywhere. On page 70 alone, it appears 5 times. It's reaaaaally bugging me. #singlit

#TRUTH 😂😂😂 #desiproblems

Popiah (a sort of spring roll/wrap with egg, prawns, lettuce, beans sprouts and crushed peanuts) and #shortstories for lunch. I'm loving this debut collection by Amy Gustine. Complex characters, vivid prose. It's short stories like these that reward rereading.

Slaying the last 10% of this ultra amazing #horror novel at my neighbourhood izakaya. #booksandbeer

Day 6: Sir Terry Pratchett and dear old Wodehouse, always. #happyreads #marchintoreading

I have nothing to blame Litsy for, except for an ever-burgeoning TBR pile, which I'm coming to realize is a sign of any good Litten. I'm just glad that I've finally found a community of warm, kind people who are as excited about books as I am. #geeklove #marchintoreading #blameitonlitsy

Awwww.

Really really really wish Singapore had a #bookriot type of giveaway website or a subscription program like #botm. Soooo much envy for all U.S. based readers 😣👽

For day 4 of #marchintoreading, I offer for your consideration "Blackass". Based on Kafka's The Metamorphosis, the protagonist in Blackass wakes up one morning in #Lagos to find himself transformed into a white man, with the exception of his ass, which remains black. What a premise, right? Imagine my disappointment when I realized the whole thing was about white privilege and nothing else. #didntlikeitstillfinished #blackauthors

all it took was a weekend of festivities to make me miss Day 3 of #marchintoreading -- but no more! My #recentnonfictionread was almost 2 years ago 😲 After calling it quits with my on-again-off-again ex, I bought this at the airport before hopping on a flight to Krabi, Thailand. Quite possibly the best airport read I've ever bought. Witty and illuminating, it taught me that having too many choices is as good as having none at all. Loved it!

One thing I'm really enjoying about this book about #vampires is that the word itself is never mentioned. Not once. There's just all this vague alluding to blood but the writer doesn't quite come out and say it. Love it. #horror

Oh, here's another one #judgedbyitscover. I've not even read it yet 😦 but I know I should! I've only ever heard wonderful things about #zadiesmith ! #marchintoreading

Day 2 of #marchintoreading organized by @RealLifeReading While I absolutely adore William Dalrymple (I am a superfan) and will buy anything by him, I will admit that I bought this for the gorgeous #Mughal painting on its cover and the many stunning commissioned paintings reprinted in this volume. This treasure I will rescue in a fire. ❤ #judgedbyitscover

#bookmail bitchesssss 😍 i've been waiting for these babies to show up for 3 weeks now! nothing beats a slow afternoon at the office like getting a #bookparcel with your name on it! #nonfiction

#lunchtime reads accompanying my fish congee that's offstage. my first #vampire fiction since Anne Rice is off to a really promising start! #horror

Day 1 #marchintoreading #marchtbr Hope to complete Han Kang today. I'm really excited about Nizami--a classic 12th century tragic love story about the Romeo and Juliet of Iran. Till today, the names Layla-Majnun are uttered in the same breath when speaking about star-crossed lovers (in my part of the world anyway). Maya Angelou and Assata Shakur's books are otw from BookDepository. Lindqvist is a book club pick!

I like how this surreal sentence captures the in-betweenness of the protagonist, that straddling of two worlds. #hankang #asianauthors #fictionintranslation

"Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as unremarkable in every way."

Powerful #firstsentence ! Currently reading this #awardwinning #novella. Using it to cross out the '2016 award winner' tile on the #LitsyChallenge2017 #LitsyReadingChallenge. #asianauthors #fictionintranslation

Yes, I jacket wrap my books! Zero dog ears!

So I decided that 2017 will be the year I actively seek out and read more literature by Singaporean authors. Inheritance, which I bought and read last month, was a pretty perfect start to this journey.
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#singlit #asianauthors #punjabi #readlocal

Edit: Recently committed to the #LitsyChallenge2017 & going to use this for the square 'Set in the 1970s'.