04.Jul.2008 The Updated 1001 Books
So apparently they changed the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. They took out and added not only a few books, but 284 books! That’s a whole lot of changes! Almost a third? So now we have the 2006 version and 2008 version. I wonder if they will change the list every [...]
15.Apr.2008 The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki
I’m reading thin books in between Harry Potters just to get away a bit from the wizard boy, as much as I like him. So I read this very thin 160 pages book that I got a while ago from some book fair. And what a weird intermezzo that was. The Key is a story [...]
09.Mar.2008 The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
Okay I forgot that I’ve read this book too, somewhere between Atonement and Harry Potter. I was quite struggling to continue at several points of the book. It started strong, then it went downhill, got more boring and more boring, picked up a bit, then all flat again. I mean I really wanted to like [...]
13.Oct.2007 Out by Natsuo Kirino
This book is now on a ray. Look at it go! It’ll travel to India and Iran among many! Greece, France, Netherland, and Canada too. What a lucky book! =P Got it from: Popular Singapore, with voucher from NLB, which I got from a selected book review I submitted to their site Rating: 4 out [...]
11.Oct.2007 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
I’m running bookrings for this book. 1 copy in Singapore 1 copy goes around the world (currently traveling to Europe) If you’re in Singapore I will gladly lend you my copy (I can easily send it by mail). If you’re somewhere else, you can join the ring :) Got this from: Borders Singapore Rating: 4.5 [...]
21.Aug.2007 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Note: I used to write about books I read on my book site, but then I’m getting uncomfortable with a few functions (or lack thereof), and I’m so busy, or lazy, whatever you wanna call it, to fix it. So I’m trying this new format of writing about them on this blog. I’m still not [...]
01.Aug.2007 Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Battle Royale is a controversial story about 44 ninth-grade Japanese students. They’re taken to a small isolated island, left individually with some survival items, one random weapon, and forced to kill each other until one winner remains. It’s an allegory of what it means to survive in today’s “kill or be killed” world. If you [...]
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
This book is so beautifully written. I almost cannot believe that the author is a man, because he sure could capture all that feminine sense. For those who never got a really clear perspective on Geisha: They’re not prostitutes. (Well this I already knew before. But some people simply misunderstand.) In fact there are so [...]
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
I LOVE THIS BOOK! I really like Murakami’s style of writing. This is the first of his book that I read, for sure I will keep going to read all of his books. I guess if I were ever to write a novel, I would HOPE to write like him. It’s hard to explain what’s [...]