Archive for June, 2007

Be Fab With BAFAB III

BAFAB I
BAFAB II
I have almost forgotten about BAFAB!
I gave Soo Ling my hardcover copies of The Pigman by Paul Zindel and The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. Then I gave Zione my old copy of Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
Why not make a friend’s day with a gift of reading?

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Meme Deluxe

Now, it’s a quick meme time.
1. Total Number of Books I Own: So simple, I made an inventory of them in one of my LibraryThing account. 100+ and counting.
2. Last Book I Bought: Secondhand copies of Superfudge and Fudge-A-Mania by Judy Blume.
3. Last Book I Read: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. [...]

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Where No Adults Can Enter

I didn’t really enjoyed this poem as one of the texts I had learnt for SPM Literature in English, but now that I’m older I see the beauty of it.
Children’s Song
We live in our own world,
A world that is too small
For you to stoop and enter
Even on hands and knees,
The adult subterfuge.
And though you probe [...]

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An Author Who’s Proud of Having His Novels Stolen From Libraries

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I love this article about Benjamin Zephaniah. I especially love that bit I’ve bolded below, about how proud he is to have the title of most stolen books from British libraries.
Bookshelf
Tuesday April 3, 2007
Revolutionary poet
By MICHAEL CHEANG
Wherever he goes, British poet Benjamin Zephaniah riles his audience with his reality-based rhyme.
I used to think nurses
Were [...]

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