I’ve been trying to finish reading my ebooks for a very very very long time and am still half way through most of them. I NEVER HAD TROUBLE FINISHING A BOOK BEFORE (except for really sleep-inducing ones)! So I told myself to stop with the ebooks and get back to paperbacks (I don’t really fancy…
Tag: non fiction
Found in Malaysia Vol 2 by The Nut Graph
Title/Author: Found in Malaysia Vol. 2/The Nut Graph Publisher: Zi Publications Pages: 256 ISBN 13: 978-9675-26622-5 In a nutshell Found In Malaysia Vol. 2 consists of 50 interviews. This volume is divided into 7 sections – 1930’s right up to the 1980’s and an ‘Exclusive’ (never-before published interviews) section which include personalities such as Lillian…
Stop the Bullying! by Andrew Matthews
This is a book every parent and teacher should and must read. In a nutshell This book is about: why bullies bully, why bullied kids don’t tell their pareents, and how bullied kids can make a stand. It is also about: how parents sometimes create bullies, what schools can do about bullying, bullying in the…
Night by Elie Wiesel
Title/Author: Night/Elie Wiesel Publisher: Bantam Books Pages: 109 ISBN 13: 978-055-327-253-6 In a nutshell Night is narrated by Eliezer (Elie Wiesel) a survivor of the Holocaust during WWII. Wiesel recounts his experiences as a Jewish boy of about 13 as his family is first restricted to a ghetto in his hometown, Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania….
Monster by Allan Hall
Title/Author: Monster/Allan HallPublisher: Penguin BooksPages: 269ISBN 13: 978-0141039701 In a nutshellOn 28th August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter Elisabeth with ether and imprisoned her in a soundproof underground bunker, behind eight locked doors for 24 years. He raped and abused her. She bore him 7 children. The author has packed a great deal…
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Title/Author: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks/Rebecca SklootPublisher: Pan MacMillanPages: 384ISBN 13: 9780330533447 In a nutshellThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is more than just a story about a woman and her cells which are still alive till today. Not only have they been replicated, distributed, and used without the owner’s consent, but they have…
Teohlogy: The Word According to Patrick Teoh
Title/Author: Teohlogy: The Word According to Patrick TeohPublisher: ZI PublicationsNo. of Pages: 303ISBN 13: 978-967-5266-15-7Price: RM38 In a nutshell(Tiru-ed (copied) from back cover synopsis) With his trademark razor-sharp wit, Teoh in his aptly-named Teohlogy (Elaine, hats off to you! I thought the name was brilliant! :D) articles, previously published in the now defunct Off The…
March 8: Time for Real Change by Kee Thuan Chye
Title/Author: March 8: Time For Real Change/Kee Thuan ChyePublisher: Marshall CavendishNo. of Pages: 363ISBN 13: 9789814328333 (Written for Malaysiakini.com) An inspiring chronicle of changeReview by Jee Wan http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/152887Jan 9 When we won the Asian Football Federation Suzuki Cup, our PM declared 31st December a public holiday, claiming to support the 1Malaysia concept of “People First,…
Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
Title/Author: Tokyo Vice/Jake AdelsteinPublisher: Pantheon BooksNo. of pages: 328ISBN 13: 978-0-307-37879-8 In a nutshell(Edited from the book flap) At nineteen, Jake Adelstein started his life as a journalist at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For 12 years of 48-hour workweeks, he ventures deep into the Yakuza underworld where murder, corruption and human trafficking are as common…
Drawing Blood by Scarfe
Title/Author: Drawing Blood/ScarfePublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingNo. of pages: 352ISBN 10: 0 316 72952 3Price: RM59.90 (Discounted price) In a nutshell(I’m just gonna take it from the book flap) This is Scarfe’s first collected volume of his work for twenty years, with amusing and poignant anecdotes to present the drawings and other works that have established him…
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