Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
by Robert T. Kiyosaki
(5/5)
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Category: Book Reviews
Aug
14
Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
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Jul
16
Audio Book: Total Recall by Sara Paretsky
Total Recall
by Sara Paretsky
(2/5)
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.
3
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Jul
15
Desert Children by Waris Dirie
Desert Children
by Waris Dirie
with Corinna Milborne
Translated by Sheelagh Alabaster
(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.
12
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Jul
15
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin
(3/5)
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?
1
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Jul
01
Five Point Someone
Five Point Someone
by Chetan Bhagat
(3/5)
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:
2
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Jun
15
The Supernaturalist
The Supernaturalist
by Eoin Colfer
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…
2
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Jun
10
Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Nomad
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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,
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Jun
09
Meet the Author: Blood on the Moon by S.M. De Silva
Julie Wee meets author S.M. De Silva to talk about her debut novel Blood on the Moon – The Daywalker Chronicles Volume 1
Reading Like Rabbits Book Review’s Meet the Author with S.M. De Silva Part 1
Reading Like Rabbits Book Review’s Meet the Author with S.M. De Silva Part 2
Click here to go to The Daywalker Chronicles official website
x Julie
Book Reviews and Online Bookstore
Reading Like Rabbits
0
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Jun
09
Best Fiction for Story Book Readers
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:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (5/5)
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.
5
comments
Jun
08
Recommended Thriller Fiction 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. 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:
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (4/5)
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.
0
comments
Jun
07
Recommended Non-Fiction Book Reviews
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.
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (5/5)
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.
6
comments
Jun
07
Audio Book Shop: Best Audio Books
Best Audio Book Award:
The Help by Katheryn Stockett (5/5)
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 by Stieg Larsson (5/5)
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…
0
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Jun
04
Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
(3/5)
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.
2
comments
Jun
02
An online bookstore with personal book reviews & book recommendations
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!
0
comments
Jun
01
Stolen Lives – Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Stolen Lives – Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
a memoir by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi
(5/5)
Autobiography / Biography / Memoir / Non- Fiction
First Published in 1999
Publisher: Hyperion
Oprah’s Book Club Selection
Click here to buy Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi (free delivery)
Book Cover Synopsis:
Malika Oufkir has led a split life. She spent her childhood days raised as a princess, but from the age of nineteen, she was imprisoned with her mother and siblings for the next 20 years.
Maika was General Oufkir’s eldest daughter. He was the closest aide of the King of Morocco, who adopted five-year-old Malika and brought her up as his daughter’s companion. Malika grew up in privilege and luxury, in the shelter of the court harem.
But on 16th August 1972, everything changed. General Oufkir was executed for attempting to assassinate the king. Malika, her mother, her five siblings, and two loyal friends were immediately arrested and imprisoned.
1
comments
May
12
Reading Like Rabbits is back!
I’m back! I’ve been MIA for over a month because I was working as a News Anchor in Myanmar (Burma). What an experience… My eyes have been opened – in many ways.
I’ve just up loaded my latest review Nanny Returns by Nicola Kraus & Emma Mclaughlin.
And coming up in the next couple of days, my reviews of The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson.
Sneak Preview: I spent 2 hours a day traveling to and from the TV station in Myamnar listening to the audiobooks of The Millennium Trilogy. They made boring journey’s exciting. The story is compelling, complicated and gripping. The narrator Saul Reichlin is amazing. I loved all three books.
x Julie
Book Reviews – Reading Like Rabbits
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May
12
Nanny Returns
Nanny Returns
Nicola Kraus & Emma Mclaughlin
(Sequel to The Nanny Diaries)
(3/5)
Chick Lit / Light Reading / Fiction
First published in 2009
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Click here to buy Nanny Returns by Nicola Kraus & Emma Mclaughlin (free delivery)
Book Synopsis:
Nan from the Nanny Diaries is back in New York twelve years after the ill-fated nanny-cam night, the night Nan was fired. She is now married to HH (Harvard Hottie) who how has a name, Ryan. Nan is finally settling down and renovating her new (falling apart) home, and is trying to get her consulting business up and running. But is surprised at Ryan’s sudden desire start a family. What startles her the most is her resistance to the idea.
Then, Nan gets a drunken visit in the middle of the night from Grayer X, now 16 years old. He has found the nanny-cam tape…
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Apr
01
The Help – Audio Book Review
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
(5/5)
Fiction
First Published in 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Click to buy the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Click to buy the audiobook The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Book Synopsis:
1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, three women, as different as can be, Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny come together for an underground project, which if exposed, would put them all at risk.
Skeeter is a 22-year-old white woman who has just returned home after graduating from university. But in 1962, mothers care more about their daughter’s marriage prospects than their career hopes.
Aibileen is an astute black maid who is bringing up her seventeenth white child. When Aibileen’s own son died, as his employers looked the other way, something changed inside her. She is dedicated and caring towards the little girl she is raising, but she knows that they will have to part ways someday.
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Mar
25
Audio Books!
I’ve discovered Audio Books!
I’ve been listening to podcasts like the New York Times Book Review and B&N Meet The Writers which I have enjoyed very much, but I’m now ready for more. I get motion sickness if I read while traveling, so I get really bored and frustrated not to be able to be engaged in a book while I’m getting from one place to another.
So, I decided to sign up for an audio book membership with Audible.com to listen to audio books on my i phone/i pod/ MP3 player. I used to think of audio books as being expensive, but I’ve realised, they can be cheaper than buying an actual book!
Here’s the plan I’m getting:
Audible Listener Discount Gold Membership
- Price: Monthly: USD$7.49 for the first three months and USD$14.95 thereafter and Annually: USD$149.95
- Benefits: 12 membership credits; 30% discount on future purchases; complimentary subscription to The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times
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Mar
17
Blood On The Moon: Book Review
Blood On The Moon
The Daywalker Chronicles: Volume One
by S.M. De Silva
Fiction / Vampires
Launch Date: 31 May 2010
Publisher: Firebird Press
Click here to buy the book Blood On The Moon by S.M. De Silva (with Free delivery)
Singaporean buyers can click here to order their copy (free delivery and gift wrapped!)
Click here to visit The Daywalker Chronicles official site
Book Synopsis:
Sleet City: decadent and alluring, but infinitely dangerous. A city where crime, cruelty and glamor reign supreme. Vampires and were-creatures have come out of the closet and now mix openly in human society. Vampires are the new breed of celebrities, the glamor gods of Sleet City.
Alegria, a Singaporean supernatural species consultant, receives a package. A package that contains a ring. A ring attached to a severed finger. A severed finger belonging to Alegria’s sister.
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Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
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Audio Book: Total Recall by Sara Paretsky
Total Recall
by Sara Paretsky
(2/5)
Fiction / Thriller / Crime
First Published in:2002
Publisher: Dell Publishing CompanyClick 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.
3
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Desert Children by Waris Dirie
Desert Children
by Waris Dirie
with Corinna Milborne
Translated by Sheelagh Alabaster
(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.
12
comments
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin
(3/5)
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?
1
comments
Five Point Someone
Five Point Someone
by Chetan Bhagat
(3/5)
Fiction / Light Reading
First Published in 2004
Publisher: Rupa & Co
National Bestseller in IndiaClick 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:
2
comments
The Supernaturalist
The Supernaturalist
by Eoin Colfer
Science Fiction / Children’s Books / Young Fiction Ages 8-12First 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…
2
comments
Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Nomad
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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,
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comments
Meet the Author: Blood on the Moon by S.M. De Silva
Julie Wee meets author S.M. De Silva to talk about her debut novel Blood on the Moon – The Daywalker Chronicles Volume 1
Reading Like Rabbits Book Review’s Meet the Author with S.M. De Silva Part 1
Reading Like Rabbits Book Review’s Meet the Author with S.M. De Silva Part 2
Click here to go to The Daywalker Chronicles official website
x Julie
Book Reviews and Online Bookstore
Reading Like Rabbits
0
comments
Best Fiction for Story Book Readers
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:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (5/5)
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.
5
comments
Recommended Thriller Fiction 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. 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:
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (4/5)
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.
0
comments
Recommended Non-Fiction Book Reviews
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.
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (5/5)
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.
6
comments
Audio Book Shop: Best Audio Books
Best Audio Book Award:
The Help by Katheryn Stockett (5/5)
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 by Stieg Larsson (5/5)
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…
0
comments
Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
(3/5)
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.
2
comments
An online bookstore with personal book reviews & book recommendations
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!
0
comments
Stolen Lives – Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Stolen Lives – Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
a memoir by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi
(5/5)
Autobiography / Biography / Memoir / Non- Fiction
First Published in 1999
Publisher: Hyperion
Oprah’s Book Club SelectionClick here to buy Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi (free delivery)
Book Cover Synopsis:
Malika Oufkir has led a split life. She spent her childhood days raised as a princess, but from the age of nineteen, she was imprisoned with her mother and siblings for the next 20 years.
Maika was General Oufkir’s eldest daughter. He was the closest aide of the King of Morocco, who adopted five-year-old Malika and brought her up as his daughter’s companion. Malika grew up in privilege and luxury, in the shelter of the court harem.
But on 16th August 1972, everything changed. General Oufkir was executed for attempting to assassinate the king. Malika, her mother, her five siblings, and two loyal friends were immediately arrested and imprisoned.
1
comments
Reading Like Rabbits is back!
I’m back! I’ve been MIA for over a month because I was working as a News Anchor in Myanmar (Burma). What an experience… My eyes have been opened – in many ways.
I’ve just up loaded my latest review Nanny Returns by Nicola Kraus & Emma Mclaughlin.
And coming up in the next couple of days, my reviews of The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson.
Sneak Preview: I spent 2 hours a day traveling to and from the TV station in Myamnar listening to the audiobooks of The Millennium Trilogy. They made boring journey’s exciting. The story is compelling, complicated and gripping. The narrator Saul Reichlin is amazing. I loved all three books.
x Julie
Book Reviews – Reading Like Rabbits
The Girl Who Played with Fire 
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Nanny Returns
Nanny Returns
Nicola Kraus & Emma Mclaughlin
(Sequel to The Nanny Diaries)
(3/5)
Chick Lit / Light Reading / Fiction
First published in 2009
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
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Book Synopsis:
Nan from the Nanny Diaries is back in New York twelve years after the ill-fated nanny-cam night, the night Nan was fired. She is now married to HH (Harvard Hottie) who how has a name, Ryan. Nan is finally settling down and renovating her new (falling apart) home, and is trying to get her consulting business up and running. But is surprised at Ryan’s sudden desire start a family. What startles her the most is her resistance to the idea.
Then, Nan gets a drunken visit in the middle of the night from Grayer X, now 16 years old. He has found the nanny-cam tape…
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The Help – Audio Book Review
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
(5/5)
Fiction
First Published in 2009Publisher: Penguin
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Book Synopsis:
1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, three women, as different as can be, Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny come together for an underground project, which if exposed, would put them all at risk.
Skeeter is a 22-year-old white woman who has just returned home after graduating from university. But in 1962, mothers care more about their daughter’s marriage prospects than their career hopes.
Aibileen is an astute black maid who is bringing up her seventeenth white child. When Aibileen’s own son died, as his employers looked the other way, something changed inside her. She is dedicated and caring towards the little girl she is raising, but she knows that they will have to part ways someday.
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Audio Books!
I’ve discovered Audio Books!
I’ve been listening to podcasts like the New York Times Book Review and B&N Meet The Writers which I have enjoyed very much, but I’m now ready for more. I get motion sickness if I read while traveling, so I get really bored and frustrated not to be able to be engaged in a book while I’m getting from one place to another.
So, I decided to sign up for an audio book membership with Audible.com to listen to audio books on my i phone/i pod/ MP3 player. I used to think of audio books as being expensive, but I’ve realised, they can be cheaper than buying an actual book!
Here’s the plan I’m getting:
Audible Listener Discount Gold Membership
- Price: Monthly: USD$7.49 for the first three months and USD$14.95 thereafter and Annually: USD$149.95
- Benefits: 12 membership credits; 30% discount on future purchases; complimentary subscription to The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times
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Blood On The Moon: Book Review
Blood On The Moon
The Daywalker Chronicles: Volume One
by S.M. De Silva
Fiction / Vampires
Launch Date: 31 May 2010
Publisher: Firebird Press
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Singaporean buyers can click here to order their copy (free delivery and gift wrapped!)
Click here to visit The Daywalker Chronicles official site
Book Synopsis:
Sleet City: decadent and alluring, but infinitely dangerous. A city where crime, cruelty and glamor reign supreme. Vampires and were-creatures have come out of the closet and now mix openly in human society. Vampires are the new breed of celebrities, the glamor gods of Sleet City.
Alegria, a Singaporean supernatural species consultant, receives a package. A package that contains a ring. A ring attached to a severed finger. A severed finger belonging to Alegria’s sister.
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