Kinokuniya is dangerous

Book lovers, don’t throw away last Sunday’s (Dec 2) Sunday Star yet. Look for the feature section – StarMag – and turn to page 21. Look at that nice ad below Daphne’s article. And now, read the fine print.
Yup it’s a 20% discount coupon for books storewide. That means if you present the ad when [...]

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Su Tong’s allure

Some people consider Su Tong China’s best writer in the 21st (and 20th) century, and they’re right. Well, I consider him that.
I got to know about Su Tong after watching the immortal Zhang Yimou movie Raise the Red Lantern. Then I found his book, Rice, and was enthralled. In the book, you get to see [...]

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Bad bosses make good stories

Am currently reading Toby Young’s How to Loose Friends & Alienante People and have decided to put aside Marion Zimmer Bradley’s stories about Darkover for the tale of the fall of a great man (in his head, that is).
In essence, How to Lose Friends is a long, well-written gossip rag about the glitzy going-ons [...]

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The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin

So, Steve Martin is an author too, but is he any good? The Pleasure of my Company is his second fiction, the first being Shopgirl – which I have not read.
To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect from reading this book. I’m generally a person who likes some pleasure from my reading experience, [...]

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