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Book Review: William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
William Dalrymple, is an multiple award winning historian and travel writer. He has lived in New Delhi, India…
Book Reviews: Tom Plate’s conversations with Lee Kuan Yew and Mahathir Mohamad
I just completed reading American Professor Tom Plate’s two books under his “Giants of Asia” series, Conversations with…
Alvinology in the Singapore Book of Records: First Wedding On Board An Airplane
I saw this a few weeks back at a local bookstore: Rachel and I got ourselves listed in…
Mahathir Mohamad vs Lee Kuan Yew (with Donald Rumsfeld in the middle)
Spotted at a bookstore in Singapore: Don’t the picture looks nice and world-peace-like with all them smiling so…
Bakuman。 (バクマン。)
Bakuman。 (バクマン。) is a a shōnen manga written by Tsugumi Ohba (大場 つぐみ) and illustrated by Takeshi Obata…
Alvinology Award 2010
Following past years tradition in 2007, 2008 and 2009 where I round-up the year with an “Alvinology Award”;…
Alex Perry’s Falling Off The Edge
Rachel was the one who picked this book , Alex Perry’s Falling off the Edge, out from Kinokuniya’s…
Book Review: 鹿男あをによし(The Fantastic Deer-Man) by 万城目学 (Makime Manabu)
Fantastic Deer-Man book cover Read the Chinese-translated Taiwanese edition of this book some time back. 鹿男あをによし(The Fantastic Deer-Man)…
Book Review: Yoshio Yoshimoto (吉本佳生)’s 大杯星巴克比较划算
The book cover If you love books that apply economics theories to real life social situations like Freakonomics…
Match Fixer by Neil Humphreys
I had always enjoyed Neil Humphreys‘ witty columns in the local newspaper and had a good time reading…