A journey through loss and love
Book title: The Lovely BonesAuthor: Alice SeboldISBN: 9780316666343Publisher: Little, Brown and CompanyPrice: RM17.90 One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. – Carl Sagan Alice Sebold’s 2002 novel, “The Lovely Bones”, is a haunting and poignant exploration […]
The last prescription
Book title: When Breath Becomes AirISBN: 978-1-9848-0182-1Author: Paul KalanithiPublisher: Random House LLC New York When Dr Paul Kalanithi sent his best friend an email in May 2013 revealing that he had terminal cancer, he wrote: “The good news is that I’ve already outlived two Brontës, Keats, and Stephen Crane. The bad news is that I […]
A guide to managing life’s energy vampires
BY IDA NADHIRAH Book title: Surrounded by Vampires: Or, How to Slay the Time, Energy and Soul Suckers in Your LifeISBN: 9781785043994Author: Thomas EriksonPublisher: Penguin Random House UKPublication year: 2023Price: RM62.90 I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them. – Emma Thompson […]
Lessons from the past
Book Title: 912 Batu RoadAuthor: Viji KrishnamoorthyPublisher: Clarity PublishingYear published: 2021ISBN: 978-967-17657-4-6Price: RM39 Each day is marked by the grating sound of razor-sharp bayonets in practice combat and the dull thud of bodies falling to the ground as we go through our routine. The plots and time stamps that occurred during World War II were what […]
Excitement, danger under the sea
Book Title: Daughter of the DeepISBN: 9780241538203Author: Rick RiordanPublisher: Puffin BookPublication Year: 2021Price: RM49.95 BY ELEAZAR BARRICK PETER I’m a Dolphin. I believe that communication can solve any problem if the parties have the will and the intelligence to learn to understand each other. – Ana Dakkar This latest novel by the amazing Rick Riordan […]
Where there’s fragility, there’s hope
Book title: Life On The LineISBN: 978-0-06-307338-8Author: Emma GoldbergPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersPublication year: 2021Price: RM123.90 In a war you have some idea of where the bullets are coming from. But here you don’t. You have no idea where your enemy is. It’s everywhere, really. BY CAROLINE JACKSON Like in Malaysia and elsewhere, the world was slowly […]
An exploration of the human heart
Title: Atlas of the Heart Author: Brené Brown ISBN: 9780399592553 Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. We have to ask questions, admit to not knowing, risk being told that we shouldn’t be asking, and, sometimes, make discoveries that lead to discomfort. – Brené Brown […]
The rise of Genghis Khan
Title: Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World Author: Frank McLynn ISBN: 9781784703509 Publisher: Vintage Price: RM29.90 By Fakhry Asa’ad Just as God gave different fingers to the hand, so has He gave different ways to men. — Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose […]
Mothers — more than just a mom
Book title: Please Look After Mom ISBN: 978-0-307-73951-3 Author: Shin Kyung-Sook Publisher: Vintage When was the last time you’d told mom about something that had happened to you? At a certain point, the conversations between you and mom became simplified. Even that was not done face to face, but by telephone. Despite having already read […]
Jimi could have deserved better …
Book title: Jimi Hendrix: The Man, The Magic, The TruthISBN: 978-0-330-43353-2Author: Sharon LawrencePublisher: Pan BooksPrice: RM42.90 I will be dead in five years’ time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with […]