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Dear Friends,
Fresh from the recent announcement of the Singapore Literature Prize 2008 (English category), poet Ng Yi-Sheng has graciously accepted our invitation to join us in February’s book discussion.  The details:
Date/time:  4.00pm, Friday 27 February
Venure:  The Activity Room, Bukit Batok Public Library
Author/Title:  Mr Ng Yi-Sheng.  “Last Boy”.  Call no.  SING  S821 NG
Facilitator:  Ms Clara Chua
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Uglies
by  Scott Westerfeld.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2005.
Call No.: Y WES
Uglies was a book that was recommended to me more than once and when I picked it up, I was not disappointed. It is not just a well thought through book, it is also a page turner that would make a non-reading teenager sit through […]

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Case Histories
Kate Atkinson
2004, New York: Little, Brown and Company
Call No.: ATK -[MY]
I have not been inspired to do a proper review of an adult’s book since college, but this time I had to skip over all my recent children/young adult fantasy reads to laud Kate Atkinson’s Case Histories. I picked up the book on the […]

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