I finally received the book I won from this book giveaway – I admit I wasn’t that enthusiastic when I saw how old and tired-looking the book was…
Anyhow, I always believe: “Never judge a book by its cover!”
And so when I had a free moment, I took up the The Corrections: A Novel and started [...]
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I’ve never joined any book giveaways, mostly because most of them are limited to US or Canadian entries. Interestingly, Bibliofreak’s blogiversary giveaway was open to international participants.
So I joined. And I won!
From the list of 21 books, here are the 3 titles I gave for the ONE book I’ll be winning:
Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind [...]
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I was quite hesitant to read this book when I was pregnant because it’s about a child who has Down’s Syndrome.
The Chinese are highly superstitious about stuff like this i.e. if you look or think about anything ugly, abnormal etc when you’re pregnant, you may likely get a child like that.
Then, I remembered a cartoon [...]
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After reading “P.S. I Love You“, I wanted to try something lighter by Cecilia Ahern and totally enjoyed this book!
“Where Rainbows End” is about two childhood friends, Rosie and Alex, who grow up in Ireland. The book starts out with these two naughty children who grow up into cheeky teens and then young adults [...]
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Now that the preschooler knows that the postman brings goodies for him, I let him open up the parcel containing this book for review.
He was really excited (although he pointed out that the parcel didn’t have his name on it!) and LOVED the book cover, which was in his favourite purple
He immediately clambered [...]
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“Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret” was in the reading list of the young girl from the international school I was coaching for English.
To prepare for our book discussions, I looked for the book in the library and totally enjoyed it
Margaret Simon is a 12 year old girl (sixth grade) whose [...]
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Since my kid will join the public school system in the near future, I am quite disappointed to find that the Malaysian education system is still focused on ‘quantity’ and not ‘quality’. Gosh, how can anyone score As in 14-15 subjects???
I’d checked out private schools and international schools too but the former still follows the [...]
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Last year, I had to hunt for a Halloween costume when the preschool in China announced that they would be celebrating this dress-up event
My boy was only 3 then, sweats a lot and didn’t fancy anything over his head. Also, there were limited characters he was familiar with since he’s a HUGE Thomas [...]
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