Perhaps you are a little bit like me. You know that books can be read online - google books, anyone - but for some reason, you just don’t. Maybe you prefer to hear that little crunchy sound when you flip to another page. Or perhaps you only read in bed (it’s so much easier […]
Entries from May 2008
Reading an ebook - accessing NLB’s e-resources
May 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: General
Alas, poor Yorick!
May 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments
HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets
Those who are familiar with the DDC will know that strange stuff can be found in the 000s section. Although it’s boringly entitled “Generalities”, it’s a haven for fans of the paranormal/unexplained - crop circles, lake monsters, yetis, aliens, hauntings… you name it, if it’s weird, it’s probably located in that shelf!
Just yesterday, whilst browsing […]
Tags: Thriller/Mystery · Non-Fiction · HB Squad Alert!
Daryl Sng has read ‘The Weather Makers’
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2005.
Call No.: English 363.73874 FLA (Click here for item availability)
In The Weather Makers, Australian biologist Tim Flannery details the history and future impact of climate […]
Tags: Science + Technology · Non-Fiction · Who's Reading What · Dear Reader
Best of the Bookers
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments
HB Squad Alert . gossip + snippets
The shortlist of Best of the Bookers award has been announced and it pits six past winners of the Booker Prize to determine which novel is the best winning one since the prize began in 1969. It is a one-off celebratory award to mark the 40th anniversary of the […]
Tags: HB Squad Alert!
Heartlands Book Club Discussion - May 2008
May 12th, 2008 · 12 Comments
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events
Enjoy things retro? For May discussion, we are doing a historical fiction of Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s. The author Dr Julian Davison, a keen biographer, wrote this collection of stories of that period having lived through it. The book was an instant bestseller when it was published in […]
Tags: Happenin'
Bashu, the Little Stranger (directed by Bahram Beizai)
May 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments
MUSINGS . library@esplanade
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bashu, Gharibeye Koochak)
Directed by: Bahram Beizai
Starring: Susan Taslimi, Parviz Pourhosseini, Adnan Afravian
Year: 1990
Call No.: Other 791.4372 BAS
Location: Film Village, library@esplanade
It is the Iran-Iraq War. Bombs from an Iraqi air raid rain down on a small village in Khuzestan, Southern Iran. Hiding in the fields away from the carnage, ten-year-old […]