The 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards
Have you heard of the Shirley Jackson Awards? In honour of Shirley Jackson, the annual award is given to work of “outstanding achievement in literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic”. The winners were just awarded by a panel of judges on 15th July. The award is given to books and novellas published...
Seniors’ Reading Club July 2012
For July’s session of Seniors’ Reading Club at Central Public Library, we’ll be discussing the Read!Singapore title ‘The Housekeeper and the Professor‘ by Yoko Ogawa (Call No. OGA). About the book: He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem – ever since a traumatic head injury some seventeen years ago, he has lived...
Heartlands Book Club in July: “The Handover”
As part of READ! Singapore 2012, we are pleased to invite author Yong Shu Hoong to our book club who will talk about his short story “The Handover”. Date: Friday, July 27, 2012 Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm Venue: The Activity Room, Bukit Batok Public Library Facilitator: Mr Kweh Soon Huat, Librarian About the author:...
Hwee Fang has read Asterios Polyp
It’s always a headache to start something, so I am going to take the easy way out and start this review with a cliché: David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp is really a good story. The titular character is a professor of architecture who lives by his own beliefs. One day, his apartment is destroyed by a...
Fiction Alert: Zombies
Zombies are arising. Run. Now. I know it’s saddening to hear about those gruesome acts of violence and unbelievable news of corpse awaking, but I just can’t stop thinking zombies. While discussing about zombies the other day, a fellow librarian commented that we’d stand no chance in a zombie attack in Singapore. We are highly...
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