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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Have you wondered if the afterlife exists? If it does, is it all fluffy and white? What is afterlife like? This book answers these questions. Somewhat. With a wee bit of artistic license. Frankly, this is an immensely enjoyable and thought-provoking book. The author, David Eagleman, a neurologist and writer, describes afterlife in different ways. [...]
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Level 26 series
Anthony E Zuiker, the creator of hit TV series CSI is back with a mixed modal creation – the world’s first digi-novel. What is a digi-novel? In this series, readers of the novels are provided with with codes in the books to unlock videos online at the level26.com website. These videos are professionally made, and [...]
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Confessions of a Fallen Angel
Synopsis: Following a near-dear experience as a child, the narrator becomes cursed with the ability to foresee the deaths of people closest to him. These visions come to him in his dreams and, following a disastrous attempt to save a friend from drowning, a series of terrifying events begins to unfold. As a young man [...]
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I Speak English Because I Can
That line from local playwright Haresh Sharma’s latest play, Model Citizens, hit home when I attended the play earlier this year. The context of that line in the play occurred when a trilingual Singaporean, who speaks English, Mandarin and Malay was confronted by a Mandarin-speaking monolingual as to why she chose to speak English to [...]
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Diary of a Diet
This book is a collection of column articles by a Welsh columnist, Hannah Jones. Jones was put on a mission to go on a diet to start a new column about dieting, hence the 31-year-old size 24 columnist joined a gym, went to weight loss support groups, and wrote her column. In one of the [...]
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The Teahouse Fire
Elegantly crafted, The Teahouse Fire is a fiction set in late 19th century Japan. The protagonist Aurelia, a French young girl who lived in New York, was brought to Japan by her uncle. Following the death of her mother and the escapse from her abusive uncle, she finds herself taking refuge with a family who [...]
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Synopsis: Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it can only accommodate one citizen at a time. The other six citizens must wait their turns in the Short-Term Residency Zone of the surrounding country of Outer Horner. It’s a long-standing arrangement between the fantastical, not-exactly-human citizens of the two countries. But when Inner Horner [...]
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Written on the Body
Zestarrest posted a review of this book a few days ago, and it intrigued me. While I was reading the book, I can’t help but notice how it resembled Lolita. That stalker predatory tone recounting past conquests and present lover. The protagonist is of unknown gender and deliberately so. Would it matter less, or more, [...]
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My First and New DSLR – Pentax K-x
Well, I bought my DSLR because it was going dangerously low stock in Singapore. Well, at the cheapest price-point anyway. A softcore unveil: The box. So plainly written what’s inside. Not an ounce of mystery. Or is there? Inside the box – the 300-page manual. I’ve only gotten halfway through that manual. There, the neckstrap [...]
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