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Dear friends,
You may have read the four-part installments recently published in the Straits Times from the book “Criminal Intent: True Stories from Changi Prison” by Straits Times senior writer Wong Kim Hoh. We are discussing this book on:
Date/Time: 4.00pm, Friday 25 September 2009
Venue: The Activity Room, Bukit Batok Public Library
Title of Book: “Criminal Intent: True […]

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One Fifth Avenue
By Candace Bushnell
Publisher: Abacus, 2008
(All Rights Reserved)
Call No.: BUS
To get your hands on One Fifth Avenue from the library can be quite a feat. Reason being, the title is always on loan or on reservation. So it took me some time to get to read the latest title from Ms Bushnell, after her […]

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Revolutionary road
By Richard Yates
New York : Vintage Books, 2009.
Call No.: YAT -[MO]
To be frank, I had never heard of Richard Yates, and Providence somehow had contrived to keep me from the “Y to Z” section of the library shelves. Okay, maybe I should not have invoked religion by using ‘Providence’ – let me attribute it […]

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A Free Life
By Ha Jin
New York : Pantheon Books, c2007
Call No.: JIN
Ha Jin has done it again.

He has mined that mixture of rich imagination and real life and produced yet another detailed (very detailed) narrative about how a Chinese immigrant settles in the United States with wife and a son in tow.
Of course, the author […]

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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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The Uncommon Reader / Alan Bennett
London : Faber and Faber : Profile Books, 2007.
Call No.: BEN
“The Uncommon Reader” is a deliciously hilarious novella by Alan Bennett, wherein he imagines what would happen if the Queen of England were to suddenly become an avid reader.
The uncommon reader in the title is none other than the Queen […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations
City of glass / Paul Auster ; adaption by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli ; new introduction by Art Spiegelman.
London : Faber & Faber, 2005.
741.5973 KAR -[ART]
This graphic novel adapted by David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik from a novel written by Paul Auster is what one might call as a […]

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Title: Sundays at Tiffany’s
Author: James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
Published by London: Century, 2008
Call No.: PAT -[RO]
Call me a sentimental fool but I have a weakness for anything associated with Tiffany’s, the famed jeweler that Audrey Hepburn made timeless. So, it’s no surprise that this title caught my eye, especially when combined with the name of […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations
Empress Orchid by Min Anchee
Boston : Hougton Mifflin, 2004
English MIN
What goes behind the minds of the powerful and elusive? A figure both historical and romantic, the Empress Cixi is a person who has captured the imagination of the public due to her unprecedented rule—the rule of a powerful woman in […]

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Rawi Hage has won the prestigious award for his debut novel, which is set against the desperate civil war of Lebanon of the 1980s. The book takes its title from the film, Deer Hunter, which starred Robert De Niro. The game in question refers to the rounds of Russian Roulette which De Niro’s character subjects […]

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