Remember I wrote a review on Katz Tales and had a blog interview with its author, Ellen Whyte? Well, she has so kindly invited me to be her guest blogger on her Monday Writers Craft Online on How to Be A Book Reviewer (Not that I’m an expert or anything lah 😛 But I just…
Easter Treats for Everyone!
Happy Easter, everyone! I’m late I know 😛 Been busy with Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter. Anyways, I’ve picked some bookish Easter treats for children of all ages from here: ‘Easter Treats For Older Readers’. I thought, maybe, you might be interested in checking them out too 🙂 (I do read children’s books once…
YEAYYY! ANOTHER BOOK SALES!!
Thanks Jien Sing, for sharing this with me!! **big grin** To all book lovers living in Malaysia or who will be in Malaysia that weekend, IT’S TIME TO SPLURRRRGE AGAIN, cuz here’s another book sales!! 🙂 Book prices are as low as RM1!!! I’m checking it out for sure! See you there? 🙂 Click on…
Reading’s Healing Powers…
Does reading really help one out of depression? Early this year, I posted an article about reading out of depression – where the writer wrote about how Saul Bellow’s Herzog helped her out of depression. She said, “….I was able momentarily to forget my own problems and lose myself completely in the richly detailed and…
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran
Title/Author: Message from an Unknown Mother/Xinran Publisher: Chatto & Windus No. of pages: 212 ISBN: 978-0-701-11840-25 In a nutshellEver wondered why there are so many orphaned girls in China? Why many were given away for adoption? They have been adopted overseas, by around 120,000 families in 27 countries, but some others have suffered a worse…
South Park on Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye (FUNNY!)
Oh my goodness, this is extreeeeeeeeeeemely funny! The gang was assigned to read ‘The Catcher In The Rye’ for school. They got super excited about reading it when Mr. Garrison told them, “It has some very risque parts and strong vulgar language. And in fact many schools across the country still ban this book because…
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Title/Author: The Vagina Monologues/Eve EnslerPublisher: Villard BooksNo. of pages: 223ISBN: 0-345-49860-1In a nutshellThe Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler, which has been staged internationally. Every monologue relates to the female’s ‘down there’. No. Sorry. Vagina. There you go, Ensler. I said it 😛 There’s sex, love, rape, masturbation, orgasm, the various…
Books Make Great Gifts!
Do you think books make great gifts? I DO! And so do these celebrities 🙂 Do you share the same opinion as them? Hear what they have to say. My favourites are Jon Stewart’s and Maya Angelou’s 😉 I usually give books as gifts to all those near and dear to me (Unless they tell…
Anna Karenina Pure Rubbish???
That’s shocking, isn’t it? Wait till you read the rest: In a tale as old as time, here is a short list of classic books and other literary works that were originally attacked by critics and subsequently given bad reviews. * A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakeaspeare – performed in London in 1662.“The most…
Something that happened on the way down from the Christ
I came across this post and thought of sharing it with you…I wonder what would have happened if the incident took place here LOL The famous Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro was somewhat smaller than I had expected. (But then again, this is true of all the iconic structures I was introduced…
Hooked On Bookz 