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THIS MONTH'S WINNERS ARE... Liew Yuen Hong: Summer at the Villa Rosa by Nicky Pellegrino + I love you Mom! by Juicy Lucy Lim Kuan Ming: One Last Summer by Catrin Collier + I love you Mom! by Juicy Lucy Kyeli Wong: The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr + I love you Mom! by Juicy Lucy CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS! And thank you to all who participated. Don't be disheartened if you didnt' win, as there will be more giveaways coming up! Keep your eyes peeled! ;) The answers were: 1) Problem Solving 101 by Ken Watanabe 2) Message from An Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran 3) The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

Yes, my dear biblioholics, there is another SALES! This one's in Bangsar, KL. Here are the details: Venue: 4th Floor, Annex, Bangsar Shopping Centre, 283 Jalan Maarof, 59000 Kuala Lumpur Date: 30 Apr - 9 May 2010 Time: 10am to 9.30pm POW WOW STUFF! Up to 90% OFF Triple Deals!! 3 for RM 10, 3 for RM 20, 3 for RM 30 So biblioholics, GO...SPLURGE!!! :D *Sings* Go, tell it on the mountains, over the hills and everywhere! Go, tell it on the mountains, that there is another sales! To those living in Kota Damansara area, you're in for a treat as, TIMES BOOKSTORE IS GOING TO BE SO NEAR YOU!! * Outlet opening on 28th April 2010 * Opening Promotions: 20% discount on cook books, 20% discount on VCD & DVD, FREE gifts with purchase of RM 50 & RM 100 etc until 31 May 2010 * UOB tie-up: 15% discount on all books (except magazine & other promotions) Times, can you have one in Shah Alam too please? haha :P

First of all, HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY EVERYONE!! :) Let's spread the joy of reading, not only today, but every other day by sharing great reads with your friends and family, also, if you have too many on your shelves, give them to those in need...I came across this on guardian.co.uk and thought that I'd share it with you... "With or without TV debates, most thoughts at present in the UK are turning to the choice we will make in the forthcoming general election. However, the stark fact is that very many people in the UK will not be a part of that process; not because they don't want to necessarily, but because they lack the most basic skills to do so. They can't read. They cannot make a choice. It is a truly terrible democratic deficit." (More...) The thought of parting with your favourite books can be painful. To be honest, I had problems giving mine away. But just thinking of the impact it can make on a person's life helped the 'parting' a whole lot...

Title/Author: Brothers/Yu Hua Publisher: Picador No. of pages: 641 ISBN: 978-0-330-45275-5 In a nutshell ‘Brothers’ is about two stepbrothers, Baldy Li and Song Gang, who were brought together by death. Song Gang’s dad married Baldy Li’s mom after Baldy Li’s birth dad died tragically in a grotesque and comical incident. In the beginning I was a little put off by some of these explicit scenes and the constant use of vulgar language (and not to mention also the detailed descriptions of butts!). But after putting up with all of that, I was then rewarded by a very heart-rending story of the stepbrothers who grew up in Liu Town, a small town in Shanghai, during the Cultural Revolution. Baldy Li, crafty and crass, while Song Gang, his total opposite, honest and gentle, are fiercely loyal to each other until they both fell in love with lin Hong, the most beautiful woman in Liu Town. What I liked Definitely the humour and charm that made up for its vulgarity. There was this scene where a bu...

Title/Author: Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter/A.E.Moorat Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN-10: 144470026X/ ISBN-13: 978-1444700268 In a nutshell A.E.Moorat is the pseudonym of author Andrew Holmes whose first novel, Sleb, was shortlisted for the 2002 WHSmith New Talent Award in the UK. His other novels are All Fur Coat, 64 Clarke, and Rain Dogs and Love Cats, all of them dark, funny thrillers which were critically well received in the UK. In Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter, A.E.Moorat had successfully weaved an entertaining historical gothic horror (a genre that he loves) and dark comedy (he started out as a comic writer). The book is best summed up in two words: Bloody funny (Mind the pun). When young Victoria was crowned Queen of England, she was expected to protect her country, especially from demons who were instructed by the dark one to remain on earth and spread evil. The protective Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne had warned her not to trust anyone because these demons could take ...

Title/Author: One Day/ David Nicholls Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton No. of pages: 437 ISBN: 978 0 340 89698 3/99468 9 In a nutshell: Boy meets girl, girl likes boy (very, very much), 'hooked up' on graduation night and had a short date the day after. Confident, rich, handsome Dexter and independent, one-liner queen, Emma, continue to meet on the same date, every other year for the next twenty years. Hence, the title, "One Day", David Nicholl's third novel. We catch up with them throughout the years, as we find out whom they dated or are dating, what they did or achieved, e tc. It's abit like watching Ross and Rachel of Friends, only here, we only get to know what happens or had happened to them, on that date, 15th July, the date they first met in 1988. What I li ked: The witty conversations and Nicholl's detailed descriptions. I liked how he described Emma's room from Dexter's POV: "In his last four years he had seen any number of bedroo...

This May, in conjunction with Mother's Day, H ooked On Bookz is giving awa y some really fantastic, g reat read s! Sum m e r at the Villa Rosa by Nicky Pellegrino (Rated 5 stars in Amazon.com) Raffaella Moretti is the new housekeeper at the Villa Rosa in the Italian town of Triento. But this is not the life she imagined for herself. Just a year ago, she married th eonly boy she ever loved - now she is a still-beautiful widow, attracting both pity and suspicion from her neighbours. As Raffaella struggles to recapture her lost happiness, those around her have their own problems. Then, Raffaella is pulled into the centre of a conflict that threatens to divide Triento - and destory all she holds dear. Readers overall comments for this book were it being a perfect holiday read! One Last Summer by Catrin Collier (Rated 5 stars in Amazon.com) East Prussia, 1939: Charlotte von Datski's parents hold a glittering ball to celebrate her eighteenth birthday and her engagement. But Euro...