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... (466 words, 7 images, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Light Reading contemporary fiction Fiction Humour India Light Reading
May
12
(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…
Read more... (676 words, 9 images, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Light Reading Chick Lit contemporary fiction Fiction Humour Satire USA
Mar
29
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ART is an hilarious comedy about three men and a white painting.
Starring: Jason Chan, Andrew Keegan and Glynn Connop
Black Box at Centre Stage 15 Woking Road (off Portsdown Road), Singapore
How much would you pay for a white painting?
Click here to buy the play ART by Yazmina Reza
Have a great night of theatre with your friends. It opens real soon, so book your tickets now. I’ll see you there!
x Julie
Book Reviews – Reading Like Rabbits
Posted in Authors, Plays Comedy contemporary fiction Drama Fiction Humour Plays Theatre
Dec
31
by Andy Riley
Adult Picture Book / Gift
First Published in 2003
Publisher: Plume, The Penguin Group
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Book Synopsis:
Little fluffy rabbits who just don’t want to live any more. This adult picture book, and its sequel, Return of the Bunny Suicides, contains endless ways for a bunny to kill itself. From smoking out of every hole in its body, to flushing itself down an aeroplane toilet, to kicking an alien in the balls, this ridiculously funny book is a fountain of knowledge on rabbit self-killing.
Read more... (237 words, 4 images, estimated 57 secs reading time)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Gifts Adult Picture Book Gift Humour Morbid
Nov
30
By Pat Hutchins
Children’s Fiction, Picture Book
Ages 3-6
First Published in 1976
Publisher: Puffin Books
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Children’s Book Synopsis:
A little boy is sent on his way to buy the groceries. His mother tells him what he needs to buy and especially says, “Don’t forget the bacon.”
The boy remembers his list by saying it to himself over and over again. But on his travels he is distracted by the sights and sounds on the street.
Will he remember the bacon?
My Book Review:
I loved this book as a child, it’s very funny. The little boy chants his little shopping list as he is sent down the street to the shops by his mum. But as he goes along, what he sees replaces the food on the shopping list. Like ‘six farm eggs’ become ‘six fat legs’. It’s very funny for child as they witness the disastrous consequences. Will he remember or forget the bacon? Read more... (176 words, 2 images, estimated 42 secs reading time)
Posted in Book Reviews, Children's Fiction Ages 3-7 children's book children's picture book Humour
Nov
30
by Helen Fielding
(5/5)
Fiction
First Published in 1996
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Set in: London, present day
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Book Cover Synopsis:
Bridget Jones wants to have it all – and once she’s given up smoking and got down to 8st 7lbs, she will. Bridget Jones’s Diary is about a year in the life of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement. A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Bridget Jones is everyone’s favourite Londoner. This is your chance to reacquaint yourself with the funniest, most heart-warming young lady ever to grace the pages of a Picador book. Read more... (384 words, 8 images, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Gifts, Light Reading, My Favourite Books Chick Lit contemporary fiction feel good Fiction Gift Humour Light Reading Love Story
Nov
29
by Edward Gorey
Fiction, adult picture book
First Published in 1963
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Wikipedia Synopsis:
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author’s distinctive black and white illustrations.
My Book Review of The Gashlycrumb Tinies:
The Gashlycrumb Tinies was given to me as a present from a friend. I loved its macabre nature but had to wonder what in MY nature had caused him to think of me when he saw this book.
Read more... (267 words, 2 images, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)
Posted in Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Gifts, Graphic Novel Adult Picture Book Gift Humour Morbid
