Benazir Bhutto, 1953 – 2007
By now, many of you would have read or heard about the assassination of Pakistan’s leading opposition figure and twice former Prime Minister of that country, Benazir Bhutto. She was 54 years old. She was born into a wealthy land-owning family that was also actively involved in national politics, and later completed her education at...
Ms Koh Lin-Net has read “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations (Ed.: Ms Koh Lin-Net is the Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts. The following article first appeared in the Public Service Division’s Challenge Magazine, December 2007 issue (PDF version available) and is used here with permission.) Siddhartha was written by Hermann Hesse, a German-Swiss...
Call for Contributors! – High Browse Needs You
HIGH BROWSE NEEDS YOU!- We’re feeling desperate generous. - We want to bribe encourage readers to contribute their reviews and articles to High Browse. - We’re giving away one $20 voucher monthly! So what must I do to get this $20 voucher? - You must send us a review of any material available at NLB...
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Kapilan A. has read “Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut” by James Marcus
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut James Marcus New York : New Press, 2004 Call No.: English 381.45002 MAR-[BIZ] (Click here for item availability) (Ed: Thanks to Kapilan A. for contributing the following review.) Nothing has revolutionized book retailing so much as the evolution of...
An Interview with Minfong Ho
HAPPENIN’ . an interview with Minfong Ho (Source: Minfong Ho – Authors Guild http://members.authorsguild.net/minfong/) powered by ODEO(If you can’t access the player above, then you can download it here) Are ‘Rice Without Rain’, ‘Sing to the Dawn’, or ‘Clay Marble’ familiar to you? It may have been your literature text (which is in my case),...
Hakim has read “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova New York : London : Little, Brown, 2005 Call No.: English KOS Click here for item availability. This is a follow-up from my earlier post. Well, I’ve finished all 642 pages of this vampire thriller/historical fiction. Overall, I thought it was a great premise...
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Blog Spotted For December
HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets Dear Readers, Season’s Greetings! The year-end holidays are almost upon us, and lest we become too caught up in activities festive, social and religious, here are some writers who continue to share with us the precious joys that come from reading: BiblioAddict, as the title suggests, is a blogger who is...
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