Kit TeguhDropping bricks at Monica Ali’s Brick Lane.When people ask me about my rather unhealthy reading habits (by people I mean mainly girls in Bumble), they tend to ask me whether I read…7 min read·23 hours ago----
Kit TeguhGetting smacked by armoured polar bears in Pullman’s Northern LightsSpoilers ahead, so read the book.6 min read·1 day ago----
Kit TeguhWhy Your Country Needs Immigrants according to Phillip LegrainNo issue is as contentious to national identity as immigration. This was true then and it remains true now, especially now that the world…5 min read·2 days ago----
Kit TeguhNo longer the ugly duckling. On Jung Chang’s Wild SwansWild Swans is that type of book that’s always in book swaps, secondhand shops for rock bottom prices and lying around in the most random…6 min read·6 days ago----
Kit TeguhWhy we all need to be feminists according to Adichie. She’s bloody right.Feminism, even from the inception of the word, had been an almost taboo word wrought with negative associations. We imagine feminists as…4 min read·May 9, 2024----
Kit TeguhBring back bummeling. On Jerome’s Three Men on the Bummel.With the predecessor titled Three Men in a Boat, you’d be safe to assume that a bummel might be some sort of mode of transport. I initially…4 min read·May 3, 2024----
Kit TeguhThe WhatsApp group your friends won’t let you join. On Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?Mindy Kaling is the understated Kelly Kapoor in the US version of The Office. She was also a director and a writer for the show, which sets…3 min read·May 1, 2024----
Kit TeguhFinding some semblance of peace Hermann Hesse’s SiddharthaThe first time I read Siddhartha, I had just finished uni, left my job at the power company (on a hiatus) and bought a ticket around the…7 min read·Apr 29, 2024----
Kit TeguhGetting messy with Mexican food. On Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate.Living in Malaysia, where the best food in the world is available in almost every street corner, the discussion of food is not to be taken…6 min read·Apr 28, 2024----
Kit TeguhScrewin’ around with Screwtape. On reading Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist.” — Charles Baudelaire5 min read·Apr 28, 2024----