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Reading is addictive…

Have you ever read a book that was so enthralling that you just couldn’t put it down until you finished it? I’m sure for most people, it would have to be a really, REALLY good book, especially if it was already in the middle of the night, and work started bright and early in the [...]

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Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

 
I just finished reading my first book by Jodi Picoult called Plain Truth. I’ve flipped through some of her books before, but I never felt prompted to buy one, as I saw that most of them talked in the first-person view, eg. “I saw that she was terrified,” etc. For some reason, I just don’t [...]

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Da Vinci Code debunked

With all the hoohah going on over Dan Brown’s ‘Da Vinci Code’, it was only natural that my church had a talk yesterday about the book, and some of it’s glaring inaccuracies. Some of the interesting points that were mentioned follow:
Point 1:
Even the book’s title, is not exactly accurate. If Leonardo Da Vinci’s name were [...]

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Hurray for e-books!

I was feeling a bit bored the other day because I had just finished the last book that I purchased from the Times Warehouse sale, so I decided to read some excerpts of books online to see if I wanted to get anything (PS: Times in 1Utama has 20% discount on books today, and MPH [...]

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Prehistoric book series =)

I just finished re-reading this series of books written by Jean M. Auel. I call them my “prehistoric book series” because they talk about the Neanderthal clan and the Cro-Magnons. Yes, it sounds really literature-y and not books that you can just pick up and skim through, but I found them surprisingly interesting!
They start off [...]

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Mega Book Sale!

I went for the Times Booksale this afternoon. I was expecting it to be like the normal MPH booksales…hot, stuffy, tons of people…you get the idea. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I was wrong!
It was a HUGE area, with AIR-CON! There must have been almost 100 tables all full of books, all [...]

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