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Election Fever Part 2
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events Read Part 1 here. Governing Singapore: Democracy and National Development Raj Vasil Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2000 Call No: SING English 320.95957 VAS Click here and here to check for item availability. [Review taken from blurb.] Governing Singapore provides the most useful and up-to-date account of Singapore’s political history since...
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Election Fever! Part 1
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events Read Part 2 here. Well, nomination day has come and gone and now the battle-lines are drawn. We have been working ourselves backwards and forwards to bring you some relevant resources regarding the 6 May election. Parties and Politics: A Study of Opposition Parties and the PAP in Singapore Hussin...
‘Kinda Hot: The Making of Saint Jack in Singapore’ by Ben Slater
FRESH INK . selected new arrivals You’ve read it all about Saint Jack previously on High Browse and the media. Now Ben Slater, author of Kinda Hot, takes time off his busy schedule to spend one hot session with us, sharing about himself and his latest gem about the making of Saint Jack… HB team:...
ASK! + Fiction Advisory Services
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events Now how many of you know that besides borrowing books, CD-ROMS and DVDs, the library does offer other services? Well, the cafe, I guess, technically, is a service. But I’m talking about something more ‘knowledge-related’, ahem. I’ll just do some lelong here lah. ASK! ASK! basically is an Advisory &...
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‘Ritual is Theatre, Theatre is Ritual: Tang-ki: Spirit Medium Worship’ by Margaret Chan
FRESH INK . selected new arrivals Singapore: SNP Reference, c2006. Call No.: SING 299.51 CHA Click here for item availability. If you are monolingual English-ed like me, Singapore’s Chinese folk religion is largely a closed, unreadable book. You may assemble small disjointed paragraphs, but you cannot get any real sense of the culture. What you...
Paul Theroux @ Central Lending Library!
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events Photo Credit: Greg Martin AN EVENING WITH PAUL THEROUX Join renowned novelist and travel writer
readasia+ will be discussing Sputnik Sweetheart
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events readasia+ book discussion Date: 20 April 2006 Time: 7.00pm Venue: library@orchard Since my last post about readasia+, the group has covered books like My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, and Mammon Inc by Hwee Hwee Tan. Next up is a title by one of...
Programmes at 100 Victoria Street
BOOK BLOG PARTNERS . transcending reading boundaries If you’re into football, books or anything library-related (huh?), we invite you to visit our sister blog, Programmes@ 100 Victoria Street, initiated by the INVENT division of NLB. The blog features the various going-ons at the extremely busy NLB building at 100 Victoria Street and in May, what’s...
Ai Cheng has read Somerset Maugham
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations There are very few excellent writers whom I have read with abandon but who have impressed me no less with their literary quality. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) is foremost among them. He might not be as highly esteemed by literary pundits, as he perhaps deserves to be, possibly because his...
Get a $20 voucher for joining group discussion on Korean TV dramas!
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events The School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is conducting a research study and would like to talk to Singaporean women about watching Korean TV dramas. If you are a female Singaporean above 25 years old, loooove Korean dramas and have been regularly watching it for at least...
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Singapore Entrepreneurs – NUS Entrepreneurship Centre
BLOGSPOTTING . Blogs about books If you’re into entrepreneurship, venture capitalism or anything enterprise-related, we invite you to visit our book blog partner, Singapore Entrepreneurs, a public platform set up by a group of young entrepreneurs from NUS. The blog was started by Asst Professor Bernard Leong from NUS Entrepreneurship Centre and two NUS students,...
Wai Ling has read ‘The Chinese Maze Murders’
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997 Call No.: English GUL Click here for item availability. So, after a 3-month long buffet of chick lit titles, I decided to revisit my preferred stories of “the sleuths of yesteryear”… First up on the plate – The Chinese Maze Murders by...
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