Heartlands Book Club in March: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night
Dear friends, For March, we are discussing Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night. The details: Date/time: 5.00pm, 30 March 2012 Venue: The Activity Room, Bukit Batok Public Library Book/Title: “Tender is the Night” by Scott Fitzgerald. Call No.: FIT Facilitator: Mr Paul Fitzpatrick, lecturer Free electronic version of the book can be found here: http://www.planetebook.com/...
New British Mysteries (Part 1)
(This is the first in a series of two reviews on new British mysteries.) Compare an American to a British mystery, and one always gets a stronger sense of place in the latter. While the American detective zips around one crime scene to another in less than a sentence, the British detective will walk you...
Longlist For 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction
As we celebrate International Women’s Day today, an exciting piece of news was released – the longlist for the 2012 Orange Prize of Fiction has been announced! The Orange Prize for Fiction is the only award in the UK that honours only female writers. Past winners include Téa Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife in 2011 (which...
Reading for the Rushed
At the beginning of this year, I set myself the goal of reading a book per month via the Goodreads 2012 Reading Challenge. I’m happy to report that I am pretty much on target (just managed to finish Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon; review coming up!). Anyway, the only reason why I set myself that...
Fiction Alert: Contemporary Epistolary Fiction
Do you know what Epistolary Fiction refers to? I didn’t know what that meant until recently. Epistolary Fiction refers to fiction written in correspondences, or letters. The eighteenth and nineteenth century saw the rise of epistolary fiction as travelling became more common and so did correspondences. Some scholars regard the Epistolary style to be exclusive...
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