Jan
08
Switched By Amanda Hocking
Click here to buy the book Switched by Amanda Hocking form The Book Depository (with free delivery)
Book Synopsis:
Wendy Everly knew that there was something different about herself when her mother had tried to kill her on her sixth birthday. She accused her of being a monster that had been switched at birth with her real baby.
Wendy doesn’t feel like a monster, but she can’t help but feel that she doesn’t quite fit in. She is bored and frustrated with life in her small town, and to top it off, she’s the new girl in school. There is also a secret that she has discovered about herself that she can’t tell anyone…. Wendy has the mysterious ability to influence people’s decisions just by willing it to happen.
Read more... (588 words, 19 images, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Fantasy, Light Reading, Teenage Fiction books for teens contemporary fiction Fantasy Fiction Light Reading Teenage USA
Jul
19
Autobiography: And Furthermore by Judi Dench
First Published in 2010
Click here to buy the book And Furthermore by Judi Dench (with free delivery)
Book Review:
This autobiography of Judi Dench’s career was a fun and easy read. As an actor myself, I loved reading about her stage productions and the different experiences, directors and actors she encountered. Dench comes across extremely down to earth and hard working actor with a playful sense of humour. I read the book with a mixture of envy and awe – Dench was actually fought over to play Shakespeare’s Cleopatra by two directors, Peter Hall and Terry Hands, who had both decided to direct the play at the same time!
Read more... (605 words, 19 images, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Book Reviews, Gifts, Inspirational / Spiritual, Light Reading, My Favourite Books, My Favourites, Non-Fiction, Plays Biography Drama Gift inspirational stories Light Reading London memoir Non-Fiction Women
Jan
17
Hi Readers!
It’s been a while since I’ve read a book that I’ve really loved and wanted to share with the world. So, if you have any recommendations of books that you think that others and I will enjoy, do leave me a comment on Reading Like Rabbits’s ‘Your Book Recommendations’ page. I’m dying for a mind blowing read!
And feel free to write a detailed review if you feel inspired!
Thanks in advance!
Thought I’d upload some pictures of some of the writers who have passed through little ol’ Singapore.
Here’s Alexander McCall Smith who was here promoting his book
The Double Comfort Safari Club
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
and Andrea Levy who was promoting her book
The Long Song
Andrea Levy: Author of Small Island and The Long Song
x Julie
Book Recommendations Wanted
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Read more... (145 words, 15 images, estimated 35 secs reading time)
Posted in Meet the Author
Dec
08
Autobiography / Biography / Memoir / Non-Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Books
First Published in 2003
Click here to buy the book Mao’s Last Dancer (with free delivery)
Here’s Reading Like Rabbit’s first guest review by a good friend of mine, Naazli Somjee, who being such a fast reader, probably gets through more book than I do!
Thanks for your recommendation Naaz!
x Julie
Book Review:
A book you have to read is Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin! It is lovely, touching story about the author’s growing up years in China towards the end of Chairman Mao’s rule. He talks about the abject poverty of his childhood and his feelings for his family and the opportunities he is given. It could all become very melancholic but he writes with a combination of humour and matter-of-factness that you need to keep turning the pages till you reach the end. You will then feel the need to youtube the author to watch him dance, and go out and watch a ballet, and hug your parents all at the same time 
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Posted in Authors, Autobiography, Biography, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Biography China memoir Non-Fiction
Dec
05
Memoir / Non-Fiction / Inspirational
First Published in 1998
Publisher: Random House
International Bestseller
Click here to buy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (with free delivery)
Book Synopsis:
At the age of 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor-in-chief for French Elle, survived a massive stroke which resulted in locked-in syndrome. Paralysed from head to toe, but with his mind still as alert as ever, Bauby wrote this book with the help of Claude Mendibil. Mendibil would recite the alphabet to him and when she arrived at the letter he wanted, Bauby would blink. Blinking his left eyelid was Bauby’s only means of communication with the outside world. This book was literally crafted letter by letter. Read more... (633 words, 19 images, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Book Reviews, Inspirational / Spiritual, Non-Fiction Biography Death Freedom Grief inspirational stories memoir Non-Fiction
Oct
11
The Peabody Academy and the Cheese Incident
by Daphne Wong
Watch out for The Peabody Academy and the Cheese Incident, the new young peoples series coming out in January 2011!
This will be the first in a series of 5 books for ages 12+.
Book Synopsis:
A knife that never needs sharpening. Flying Meringue Messages. Rocking and Rolling cheese. Bright orange beans that bring toys to life and make you blurt out the truth. This is the mad and tasty world of the Peabody Academy of Gastronomie.
When thirteen-year old Poppy Peabody sniffs out a rare purple truffle, she earns a place at the prestigious academy where youngsters, each Gifted in one of the five senses, are trained in the art of culinary wizardry. But things aren’t as they seem, and Poppy and her new best friend, Nigel Wingbolt, the knife-throwing son of a world-renowned knife-maker, find themselves in a deadly battle that will challenge their skills inside and outside the kitchen. Read more... (183 words, 12 images, estimated 44 secs reading time)
Posted in Book Reviews
Aug
14
Posted in Book Reviews
Jul
16
Fiction / Thriller / Crime
First Published in:2002
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Click here to view Sara Paretsky’s book collection
[Click here to buy the Audio Book of Total Recall by Sara Paretsky]
Audio Book Synopsis:
Lotty Herschel is caught up in a whirlwind of the past when a man who claims to be a Nazi death camp survivor, approaches her and her friends seeking his long lost family. Lotty is forced to confront a memory, a secret, from the war that she has long buried. Our heroine, V I Warshawski, sees the pain her friend and mentor is in, and is pulled into the saga though her investigation of the so-called survivor’s past.
V I is simultaneously investigating an insurance fraud case which has an unexpected link to an international conspiracy dating back to Nazi occupied Europe, as well as a means for VI to save her friend. Read more... (690 words, 23 images, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)
Posted in Audio Books, Book Reviews
Jul
15
(5/5)
Non-Fiction / Memoir
First Published in: 2005
Publisher: Virago
Click here to buy Desert Children by Waris Dirie with free delivery
Book Synopsis:
Desert Children is about Waris Dirie and Corinna Milborn’s investigation into the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Europe. It is estimated that up to half a million girls and women have undergone or are at risk of FGM in Europe.
Presently, France is the only country that convicts offenders. What’s more the threat of female genital mutilation is not officially recognized by any European country as a reason for asylum.
Waris Dirie was a top model and UN ambassador. Her story, Desert Flower, of growing up in Somalia, enduring FGM at the age of 5, fleeing though the desert and being discovered as a model by Terence Donovan was an international bestseller. Read more... (1459 words, 20 images, estimated 5:50 mins reading time)
Posted in Biography, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Biography Human Rights Immigrants memoir Morality Necessary Reading Non-Fiction Women
Jul
15
Fiction
First Published in 2009
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Click to buy Brooklyn by Colm Toibin with free delivery
Book Synopsis:
Work in 1950s Ireland is hard to find. Eilis Lacey does what she thinks is best and makes the long and arduous journey across the Atlantic to Brooklyn, America. For the first time, Eilis is on her own, in a strange city, living in a boarding house filled with other working girls and a scrutinizing landlady. Eilis is isolated and far away from home.
Gradually, however, as Eilis gets used to her new life, her job working in a department store, taking evening classes in book keeping, Friday night dances in the church hall, and maybe an American man… Eilis starts to realize, she’s found a kind of happiness.
But where does Eilis belong? In Ireland with her family or in her new found home, Brooklyn? Read more... (879 words, 19 images, estimated 3:31 mins reading time)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews contemporary fiction Fiction Immigrants Ireland USA
Jul
01
Fiction / Light Reading
First Published in 2004
Publisher: Rupa & Co
National Bestseller in India
Click to buy Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat with free delivery
Book Synopsis:
3 friends, Hari, Alok and Ryan, are students at IIT, India’s most prestigious technological university. Instead of mugging their lives away like the rest of the cohort, they decide to have the time of their lives.
All the things not to do at university and more: mess up your grades, drink vodka on the faculty rooftop, date a professor’s daughter…
A funny and dark story of friendship and trying to survive IIT with a five-point something GPA. Will they make it?
My Book Review:
I picked up this book at a bookshop in Mysore, India, when I was attending a wedding there last week. I thought, I’ve experienced this country, so I should experience more of its contemporary fiction. Chetan Bhagat is apparently a lauded writer in India having written 4 novels to date: Read more... (469 words, 19 images, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Light Reading contemporary fiction Fiction Humour India Light Reading
Jun
15
Science Fiction / Children’s Books / Young Fiction Ages 8-12
First Published in 2005
Publisher: Puffin
Click here to buy the Book: The Supernaturalists by Eoin Colfer
Click here to buy the [Audio Book: The Supernaturalists by Eoin Colfer]
Book Synopsis:
Future, Satellite City.
Cosmo Hill is 13 years old and lives at the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. Cosmo Hill is an orphan, otherwise known as a ‘no-sponsor’. No-sponsors are put to work by the government as human lab-rats. Day in and day out, they test dangerous products. Night in and night out, they sleep in their cardboard utility pipes covered in scars, sores and burns from their hard day’s work.
Cosmo Hill needs to escape. But how? Cosmo prepares for the day when he can make his daring getaway from Clarissa Frayne… Read more... (509 words, 15 images, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)
Posted in Book Reviews, Children's Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Teenage Fiction Ages 8-12 books for teens children's book Fiction Gift
Jun
10
Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
First Published in 2010
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Sequel to Hirsi Ali’s autobiography Infidel (click here to read the book review of Infidel)
Hirsi Ali has also written The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
Click here to buy a book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (free delivery worldwide)
I have great respect for Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Against the odds, she is standing up and speaking out for what she believes in. Ayaan’s journey in her first memoir Infidel is fascinating. And I have just got my hands on Nomad, her follow up memoir about her new life in America, based on my friend Vani’s email, which she has allowed me to publish:
Hi friends, Read more... (574 words, 13 images, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)
Posted in Biography, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Biography memoir Non-Fiction
Jun
09
I enjoy browsing through bookshops online through Reading Like Rabbits and the Book Depository. Don’t forget that you get Free Delivery Worldwide for books purchased through my site!
Here are the best of my fiction book list reviews:
For Fiction Storybook Readers looking for the best story book, I recommend:
This was my first audio book purchase and I absolutely loved it. The Help was not only Audible.com’s the highest-rated audiobook of 2009, but it is also its highest-rated audiobook of all time. It’s also been on the New York Times bestseller list for 51 weeks and is presently at No.1. So I started with quality….click here to read the full book review.
Read more... (860 words, 91 images, estimated 3:26 mins reading time)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews
Jun
08
Come to Reading Like Rabbits to find a good book review that is linked to a bestseller book store and a fantastic audio book shop. This is a real readers book review site.
For the best book reviews recommendations in the Fiction Prose Genre, I recommend:
For Recommended Mystery Books / Crime Books / Thrillers:
Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award
England, 1171 and a child is in danger…In Cambridge a child has been hideously murdered and other children have disappeared. The Jews, who provide a large part of King Henry’s revenue, are being accused of the crimes by angry townspeople, therefore the king wants the real killer found, and quickly.…Click here to read the full book review.
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Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews
Jun
07
All About Book Reviews
Come to Reading Like Rabbits to find a good book review that is linked to a bestseller book store and a fantastic [audio book shop].
It’s fun to browse through bookshops online through Reading Like Rabbits and The Book Depository. And I have to say again, books are much cheaper when you buy through bookshops online, especially with Free Delivery Worldwide.
Here are my best book review recommendations from across the book list review pages:
Memoirs:
Autobiography Story / Biography Memoir / Non-Fiction Biography / Contemporary Biography
I love a great autobiographical story.
A famous memoir you should read. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today’s most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo Van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened she would be next. An international bestseller, Infidel shows the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished – and sometimes reviled – political superstar and champion of free speech….Click here to read the full book review. Read more... (504 words, 44 images, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)
Posted in Book Reviews
Jun
07
Best Audio Book Award:
The Help has been on the NYT best seller list for 61 weeks. (Incidentally, I have also been listening to the New York Times Book Review Podcast on my iPhone.) The Help was also the favourite audio book for audio book stores and won the fiction award at the Audies in 2010…Click here to read the full book review.
[Click here to buy the audiobook of The Help]
The Millennium Trilogy is also a regular on the NYT best seller list, with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo still on the list after 49 weeks. The narrator of this audiobook, Saul Reichlin, is awesome. He tells the story simply and manages to find a unique and distinctive voice for every single character. He also reads women superbly. The Millennium Trilogy is mysterious and alluring with complex characters… Read more... (225 words, 28 images, estimated 54 secs reading time)
Posted in Audio Books, Book Reviews
Jun
04
Fiction / Science Fiction
First Published in 1966
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Flowers for Algernon won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960
and was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966
Click here to buy the book Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (free delivery worldwide)
Book Synopsis:
With an IQ of 68, Charlie Gordon works as a sweeper in a bakery. He thinks has friends, but little does he know he is the butt of their jokes, an amusing plaything.
Charlie’s life changes radically when he undergoes an experimental operation that to enhance his intelligence. Charlie becomes a genius.
However, Algernon, the mouse who had been successfully enhanced before Charlie, dies. Charlie has to live with the knowledge that his new life and his insights into the world are only temporary. Read more... (914 words, 19 images, estimated 3:39 mins reading time)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Science Fiction contemporary fiction Fiction Genius Science Fiction
Jun
02
Reading Like Rabbits
An online bookstore where you can buy cheap books online with free delivery worldwide through the Book Depository.
I love reading books. I am constantly searching for good new books and recommended books. Through Reading Like Rabbits, I’ve found a new way to buy cheap books online. I’ve discovered that books bought through my site are much cheaper than in the bookstores.
I was looking to buy the graphic novels Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman as a Christmas present. At Borders Bookshop, the set of 2 books cost US$42.50, through the Reading Like Rabbits Bookstore, it only cost me US$27. I was really surprised at the price difference from buying books online to buying them at physical book stores.
So I’m really happy to be offering these book reviews and book recommendations to you, coupled with a great bookshop to easily buy books online. I’ve never actually bought books from Amazon.com, because, living in Singapore, once I add in the delivery price, the book price soars, but with free delivery worldwide through books bought online through Reading Like Rabbits, it’s a no brainer! Read more... (307 words, 13 images, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)
Posted in Book Reviews Shop for Books
(4.5/5)
