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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

London : Puffin, 2002.
Call No.: Y COL [HBeditor: Y means Young People - so go to the section for Young People, k?]
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[HBeditor: Charis gave the book a 3/5 rating as well.]
For Meg Finn, life as a juvenile delinquent came to an abrupt end when her partner-in-crime […]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets

London : Jonathan Cape, 2001
Call No.: MAC
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Did Ian McEwan copy parts of his brilliant novel, Atonement from a romance title? Read about the controversy here and here (may need login). Check out Ian McEwan’s reply here.
For the record, Atonement is one of my favourite books […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

New York : Bantam Books, 1995.
Call No.: LEE -[SF]
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Arthur C. Clarke is one of my personal heroes, and the Rama series is one of the more intelligent alien encounter stories you’ll find out there. Gentry Lee is the (true blue) rocket scientist who co-wrote the last […]

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HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events
Local poet, Lily Loy, will be discussing her collection of poems - Lalang, Durian & Mown Grass - at the next Heartlands Book Discussion.
About the Discussion
Date: 4.00pm, Friday 24 November 2006
Place: Activity Room, Bukit Batok Community Library
Facilitator: Lily Loy
Photocopies of the poems can be collected at […]

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HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events
Tampines Regional Library (TRL for short) highlights a particular author each month and introduces readers to the author’s selected works.

For November, the author is question is famed mystery writer, Agatha Christie - creator of sleuths such as Jane Marple and the Belgian with the egg-shaped head, Hercule Poirot.
Books by Agatha Christie […]

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FULL METAL JACKET: The (Un)Usual Suspects . author reviews
[HBeditor: This write-up was first published in the print issue The (Un)Usual Suspects.]

To be honest, I had hardly read any crime writing before 2006. I don’t know why – perhaps I found American and British crime writing too brutal for my delicate disposition. However, the recent spate […]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets
A friend of mine tagged me to do this meme. Alas, since my personal blog sorta went defunct with my personal life, here’s it is!
Read it. Do it. Pass it on. Pass it on to 5 other people and your chances of striking 4d will increase by 100%, ignore […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

New York : Pantheon Books, c2005.
Call No.:741.5944 B -[ART]
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David B. with his autobiographical graphic novel titled, Epileptic presents a gripping story about his life which had been strongly affected by his epileptic elder brother.
The artwork is simplistic, but the strength definitely lies in the plot. How […]

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WORD UP: . book issues + commentaries
[HBeditor: This entry generated quite a bit of talk - and The Little Blue Herring has written a longer essay on his thoughts.]
I had to engage this topic because it is something that bothers me all the time. I confess that I always harboured a secret fantasy to […]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets
I arrange fiction by the author’s name and non-fiction by broad subjects - like comics, war, poetry, etc… but I know a couple of colleagues who actually arrange theirs by colour - it boggles the mind.
On the other hand, however, I’m caught on the horns of a dilemma, […]

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