By pure chance, I bought both “A Wild Sheep Chase” and “Dance Dance Dance” in HMV during sales on the same day. Also by pure chance, one of my blogger friend, JoV, once dropped a comment here implying that the stories of these two books are linked. So before I headed to my holiday, I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Book Reviews'
A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance By Haruki Murakami
June 5th, 2011 6 Comments
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The Last Werewolf By Glen Duncan – Love It Or Love It Not?
May 31st, 2011 No Comments
Many praise on the literature touch by the author on a topic that is so popularized nowadays so much so that some may ask: do we need another book on werewolves and vampires? I picked this book for Cynthia to read during our flight to Barcelona. And I finished reading it in one setting on [...]
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Eat Pray Love By Elizabeth Gilbert – Not Just Another Chick Lit
March 25th, 2011 10 Comments
So this is my first entry in Wilfrid’s blog. Hope it is in line with Wilfrid’s overall blog theme and does not offend anybody, hehe … I am reviewing “Eat Pray Love” because there is high probability that Wilfrid is not going to finish reading the book. He bought the book to join a read-along [...]
Tags: Elizabeth Gilbert · EPL read along · read along
Merde Happens By Stephen Clarke – Hilarious! At Least For Most Part
February 27th, 2011 No Comments
“Merde Happens” is part 3 of the merde series. It helps to have read the previous installment. Compares to “Merde Actually”, this one is funnier. Perhaps because I have done my share of road tripping in US and I can relate the culture shock the main character Paul West has experienced. To recap, Paul West [...]
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Inés Of My Soul By Isabel Allende – An Eyeopening Read On Chile Conquest
February 18th, 2011 2 Comments
Cynthia and I share a rather limited reading list. I could spend hundreds and hundreds of words here talking passionately about the books I read but she’d catch no ball. She could go on and on about the books she enjoys reading but I’d would go, “huh?” But since we are both studying Spanish, and [...]
Tags: historical fiction · Isabel Allende
Once on a Moonless Night By Dai Sijie – A More Complex Read, Rewarding Nonetheless
February 3rd, 2011 No Comments
In “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, it is the hunger for the banned foreign book titles in the 70’s China that drives the plot forward. Similarly, in “Once on a Moonless Night”, it is the hunger for the ‘mutilated relic’ – a missing Buddhist sutra – that sets the story on fire. In fact, [...]
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The Shattering: Prelude To Cataclysm By Christie Golden – Missing Lore Explained
January 27th, 2011 6 Comments
Flawed as it may be, this book “The Shattering” in several occasions moved me literally to tears. For better or for worse, Christie Golden may well be one of our finest. She has the passion to the lore, connection to Blizzard developing team, and has the time and patience to write a book for the [...]
Tags: Cataclysm · Christie Golden · World of Warcraft
Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress By Dai Sijie – Playful, And Adorable
January 24th, 2011 2 Comments
“Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” tells a story of two young men – in 1971 when Mao’s Cultural Revolution was at its peak – being sent to one of the villages in the mountain called Phoenix of the Sky for re-education. The irony is, during Cultural Revolution, there was not much education per se, [...]
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Merde Actually by Stephen Clarke – Sex And Love, In French Style (Sort Of)
January 18th, 2011 No Comments
Give a choice, I would have started from book one of the series “A Year in the Merde” and work my way to “Dial M for Merde”. But you know how borrowing books from a library is like. So I have read book four of the series, “Dial M for Merde” in October. Since I [...]
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The Housekeeper And The Professor By Yoko Ogawa – Beautiful, Simplistic, And Mathematically Charming
January 9th, 2011 4 Comments
“The Housekeeper and the Professor” tells a beautiful story between a professor who only has 80 minutes worth of short-term memory due to an accident, a young housekeeper who has been a single mother since 18, and her son whom the mathematic professor has nicknamed as Root because his hairstyle reminds the professor of the [...]
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