Hi all! CNY is finally here! So to those who are celebrating CNY, here’s wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year! May you be showered with lots of love, joy and peace too! This will be my 2nd year giving out Ang Pows. Big big hole in pocket this time, coz we’re officially celebrating…
An Instant Classic: Oprah’s Private Library
When does one of the world’s busiest people find the time to read? Her answer is surprising: “I don’t watch television,” she says. “I don’t have to, because my friend Gayle watches more television than anyone—she couldn’t believe I wanted to have a house without a TV room!” Oprah continues, laughing. “Honest to God, true…
RIP, Salinger
The novelist, well known for the iconic The Catcher In The Rye, died on January 27th 2010, aged 91. What a great loss to those who’ve enjoyed some of his published works. I’ve only read The Catcher In The Rye (reviewed it here: http://worldliteratures.suite101.com/article.cfm/review_of_catcher_in_the_rye_by_jd_salinger) which I loved. As reported in AFP, the author’s death has…
Albert Jack’s Ten-Minute Mysteries
If you’re looking for a quick, no-brainer read, this could be the book for you. Here we have author Albert Jack, using his detective skills, digging up the truth behind some of the world’s mysteries. So what can you find buried in these pages? You’d learn about The Bermuda Triangle, Agatha Christie’s mystery, crop circles,…
Reading your way out of depression
Read this from guardian.co.uk which I thought was rather interesting 🙂 I suspect you need a very individual prescription, but I know that Saul Bellow helped lead me out of a very dark time… This week I was saddened to read Marian Keyes’s announcement that she is taking a sabbatical from writing because of crippling…
The book pirates of Peru: Boon or Bane?
Book piracy exists all over Latin America and the developing world, but any editor with regional experience will tell you that Peru’s problem is both profound and unique. The combined economic impact of the informal publishing industry is roughly equal to that of their legitimate counterparts. Pirated books printed in Lima are shipped all over…
Among Thieves by David Hosp
This story is based on the largest art theft in history where an estimated value of $300 million were stolen from a museum in Boston in 1990. Till today, this case remains unsolved. In this book, it starts with Devon Malley being imprisoned after getting caught from stealing at a woman’s boutique. So he hires…
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Three men are involved in the life of a much-adored photographer, Molly Lane. Two of them, who are long time friends, meet at her cremation – Clive Linley, a famous composer and Vernon Halliday, an editor of a struggling newspaper. The third is Julian Garmony, a government official who is in line to be the…
Amazon e-book sales overtake print for first time
Online retailer may be on target for sales of 500,000 Kindle e-readers over Christmas Katie Allen guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 December 2009 19.29 GMT Spare a thought for the humble hardback this Christmas. It seems the traditional giftwrapped tome is being trumped by downloads, after Amazon customers bought more e-books than printed books for the first…
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
It’s about Despereaux, who is a reaaaaally tiny mouse with unusually big ears. He knows how to read, loves music and is in love with a princess (totally out of character for a mouse!). One day, he breaks one of the sacred, not-to-be-broken rules of conduct for being a mouse. He speaks to a human….
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