Guess who’s back?
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events Nope, it ain’t Slim Shady, but Neil Humphreys! (otherwise known as Singapore’s Fav Ang Moh). A popular columnist and bestselling author of 3 books about our little island, Neil had immigrated to Australia in 2006 and is now back to launch his omnibus. So, instead of lugging 3 books around,...
Dreamy Reader is reading ‘The Pact’ by Jodi Picoult
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations London : Hodder, 2005. Call No.: PIC and PIC [RO] Click here and here for item availability. Chris Harte and Emily Gold have been together since they were born. The parents are best friends and neighbors. They’re inseparable, like two sides of a coin, like brother and sister, then,...
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Yen Yen has read ‘The Yellow-lighted Bookshop’ by Lewis Buzbee
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2006. Call no.: 381.45002 BUZ- (BIZ) Click here for item availability. In The Yellow-lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee tells a heart-warming story about his love for books. Any avid reader would find pieces of themselves in Buzbee’s memoir. Do you share the same passion...
Singapore Book Club July 2007
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events Singapore Book Club 20 July 2007 (Fri) 7 p.m. Earshot at the Arts House (1 Old Parliament Lane) Guests : Singapore Literature Prize 2006 winners – Yong Shu Hoong & Cyril Wong Click on the pic below for more details. Have you participated in this event? Post your comments, or...
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Ian McEwan takes on User Generated Content
HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets Saw this in this week’s 8days magazine: Novelist Ian McEwan pooh-poohs blogs disguised as expert opinon: “I don’t have much time for the kind of [web]site where readers do all the reviewing. Reviewing takes expertise, wisdom and judgement. I am not much fond of the notion that anyone’s...
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Definitely a book for fans of Tim Burton or Edward Gorey
FICTION . SHORT STORIES . reviews Ten sorry tales by Mick Jackson ; illustrated by David Roberts London : Faber and Faber, c2005 Call No.: JAC -[SH] Click here for item availability. OK, so this book isn’t exactly new, but it did arrive in the library fairly recently. Of course the term “recently” is highly...
Boon Khim has read ‘Simple Stargazing’ by Anton Vamplew
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations London : Collins, 2005. Call No.: 520 VAM Click here for item availability. This is essentially a beginner’s guide to stargazing. Vamplew uses very simple terms to explain astronomy-related terms such as comets, meteor showers, nebulae and so on. The book is written in conversational English – as though...
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Debbie’s Idea
HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets We got this in the email. Debbie’s idea was to fill a simple need: to help a reader decide which book to read first of an unfamiliar author. The site serves as a forum for users to discuss which book to read first of an unfamiliar author. The...
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Chinua Achebe wins Man Booker International Prize
HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has won the Man Booker International Prize in honour of his literary career. Achebe is best known for his 1958 debut novel Things Fall Apart, which sold more than 10 million copies. The 76-year-old, who was paralysed from the waist down after a car...
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Ryan has read ‘You Can Fly’ by Ismail Gafoor
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations Singapore : Mohamed Ismail A.G., 2005. Call No.: SING 158.1 MOH Click here for item availability. How many locally-written books can claim to have a foreword written by the Singapore President S R Nathan? I suspect not too many. You Can Fly is one of them. It is a...
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‘After Dark’ by Murakami & ‘The Secret Agent’ by Conrad
HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets We meet the heroine of After Dark in a late-night diner, somewhere in a large Japanese city. The diner is described first. The “unremarkable but adequate lighting”, the “expressionless decor and tableware”, the “innocuous background music at low volume”: Haruki Murakami’s After Dark is reviewed here. The library...
Lanqiao has read ‘Goddess of Yesterday’ by Caroline B. Cooney
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations [One of our editors had a mobile library at RGS recently and encouraged the girls to send in reviews to us. Here's one!] New York : Delacorte Press, c2002. Call No.: Y COO Click here for item availability. What attracted you to read this book? My attention was first...
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