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A Film with a View
MUSINGS . Selections from library@esplanade [HBeditor: This article was first published in the High Browse Print issue The (Un)Usual Suspects September - November 2006, focusing on the theme of mystery.] L.A. Confidential (Dir. by Curtis Hanson, 1997) Based on the novel by James Ellroy “L.A. Confidential” published in 1990 Call No.: 791.4372 LA -[ART] Click...
Australia, Truly Asia? readasia+ will be discussing Behind The Moon by Hsu-Ming Teo
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events readasia+ book discussion Date: 16 Nov 2006 Time: 7.00pm Venue: library@orchard Behind The Moon by Hsu-Ming Teo Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2005 Call No.: TEO Click here for item availability. Book description: “Outsiders and misfits in their Australian school, three friends form a mutual bond: Justin Cheong,...
Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) from 1 Nov 2006 to 31 January 2007
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events The National Library Board will be launching its D.E.A.R promotion once again from 1 Nov 2006 to 31 January 2007. During the D.E.A.R promotion, we encourage you to Double Up on Your Reading – basic members can borrow up to 8 items and premium members up to 16 items. In...
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Librarian avoids prison
HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets Or why keep your old books? A librarian who stole more than 500 antiquarian books worth £175,000 from Manchester Central library, and then offered several for sale on an internet auction site, was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday. Link What do you think? Know of any interesting...
‘The Librarian’ by Larry Beinhart
QUIRKY THEMES: The (Un)Usual Suspects. book reviews New York: Nation Books, c2004. Call No.: English BEI Click here for item availability. Mystery. Conspiracy. Menace – The Usual Suspects of any thrilling mystery piece. University librarian David Goldberg decides to be compassionate and goes to the rescue of his ex-colleague…Rescue not in the sense of a...
‘The Innocence of Father Brown’ by G.K. Chesterton
QUIRKY THEMES: The (Un)Usual Suspects. book reviews London: Penguin Books, 1950 Call No.: English CHE Click here for item availability. Short, round-faced, pudgy, famous mystery-solver…Hercule Poirot? On the contrary, the unlikely hero in this string of short mystery stories by prolific English writer, G.K. Chesterton is an unassuming Catholic priest – Father Brown. Despite his...
‘The Beekeeper’s Apprentice’ by Laurie R. King
QUIRKY THEMES: The (Un)Usual Suspects. book reviews New York: Bantam Books, 1996. Call No.: English KIN Click here for item availability. Hailed as one of the top ‘100 Favourite Mysteries of the Century’ by The Independent Booksellers Association, this debut novel of a series by Laurie King introduces a brilliant and impressive young lady to...
‘American Tabloid’ by James Ellroy
QUIRKY THEMES: The (Un) Usual Suspects. book reviews New York: Knopf; Distributed by Random House, 1995. Call No.: ELL -[TH] Click here for item availability. The 1950s has always been viewed nostalgically, as a golden age of American innocence, before the darkness of Vietnam and Watergate. It is a myth that Ellroy explodes in one...
‘My Dark Places’ by James Ellroy
QUIRKY THEMES: The (Un)Usual Suspects. book reviews New York : Vintage Books, 1997, c1996. Call No.: 813.54 ELL Click here for item availability. A crime memoir, but with a grisly twist, for the victim is none other than the acclaimed author’s own mother, who was found strangled near a school field in 1948. Ellroy, then...
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Mystery Cats
WORD UP: The (Un)Usual Suspects . book issues + commentaries Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw - For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law. He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair: For when they reach the scene of crime – Macavity’s not there! T. S. Eliot,...
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The (Un)Usual Suspects
DEAR READER . editorial by Nur Hakim Low, Librarian, Adult & Young People Services This issue, we delve into the darker recesses of the human psyche, and our investigative tool shall be the genre of mystery fiction. The realm of mystery has a powerful hold on our imagination: it excites, fascinates and disturbs us. Perhaps...
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East is West and West is East
HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets At the recent readasia+ book discussion, a minor debate erupted after we finished dissecting the book selected. Basically, the issue that resulted in this passionate exchange (nope, it wasn’t a hair-pulling, eye-poking screamfest but rather a friendly exchange of ideas OK?) was: Do you think Asian authors who...
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