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Dear Readers,
as we come to the tail-end of March, here are some book blogs to keep those reading juices flowing.
Big Bad Book Blog - We don’t usually think of books as big and mean, but this certainly is a blog with an independent attitude. Run by the team that runs the Greenleaf Book Group, a […]

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HAPPENIN’ . programs + events
Heartlands Bookclub will be discussing the first five stories from the book, The Lies that Build a Marriage by Suchen Christine Lim.
Date: 4.00pm, Friday 28 March 2008
Place: Activity Room, Bukit Batok Community Library
Facilitator: Mr Paul Fitzpatrick
Call No.: S823 LIM
About the book:
Singapore Literature Prize-winning author Suchen Christine Lim delves beneath the Lion […]

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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (December 16, 1917 – March 18, 2008)
Arthur C. Clarke was born on 16 December 1917 in a seaside town in England. He was both an artist and scientist, contributing immensely to space science and science fiction. On his 90th birthday, his wishes were: “for ET to call, for man to kick […]

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Australian author, Sonya Hartnett, was announced as this year’s awardee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial award for literature. The award comes with a 5m Swedish kronor prize (S$1.41m) and this is the sixth installment of the award. She would be presented with the award on 28 May by Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria at Stockholm’s open-air […]

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The New York Times recently broke the story about the acclaimed, recently published memoirs of Margaret B. Jones, “Love and Consequences”. As the description goes, it’s about a “half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.” Quite a yarn, then, exotic, compelling and dangerous. Problem […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

The Tap Dancer
Andrew Barrow
Call No.: English BAR-[AW] (Click here for item availability)
Andrew Barrow won the “McKitterick Prize” and the “Hawthornden Prize” for The Tap Dancer. The reason I know this is because I found this novel on the “award winning shelf” at the Central Library and decided to borrow it […]

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HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events
Alfian Sa’at is easily Singapore’s most controversial writer - so no surprise that Feb’s book discussion on his first book of poetry, One Fierce Hour, attracted 14 participants.
Described by the New Straits Times as a ‘prankish provocateur’, Sa’at’s work provoked such fierce reactions that the book discussion was longer than the […]

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HB Squad Alert . gossip + snippets
1. Charles Bukowski
2. Jim Thompson
3. Philip K. Dick
4. William S. Burroughs
5. Any Graphic Novel
This is pretty much the authoritative top five, the New York Times best-seller list of stolen books.
I’ve never caught any book thief, I’m afraid - though I’ve seen some wallet-stealers in action.
LINK
Contributed by LIM Lee […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

Dreams From My Father: a story of race and inheritance
Barack Obama
Call No.: English 973.0496762092 OBA (Click here for item availability)
From Vanessa,
I picked up Barack Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, and started reading it this evening. The story of how a smart Kenyan man met a shy American girl in […]

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