http://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Empress-Sadie-S-Forsythe/dp/1257814419/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329052592&sr=8-1

a personal memoir of 9/11

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/That-Day-September-Artie-Van-Why/9781411683150

Thanks for your comment on Reading Like Rabbits and for suggesting ‘Them and Us’ By Will Hutton for me to review. However, Reading Like Rabbit’s specialty is fiction and the occasional memoir, so I won’t be able to review the book. If you have any books you’d like to recommend, do leave a comment on the Your Book Recommendations page: http://readinglikerabbits.com/your-recommendations. Your suggestions can be for books of all genres.

Cheers,
Julie

Thank you for contacting me. I’ve been on holiday for the past month, so just catching up with stuff now. I’ll do my best to get to reading ‘Them and Us’ By Will Hutton. I have a list of books to get through first, but if I manage to read it, I’ll definitely contact you.

Cheers,
Julie

Thank you for contacting me. I’ve been on holiday for the past month, so just catching up with stuff now. I would be happy to review your book if you send me a copy. If you would like to do this, I can let you know the address to send it to.

Cheers
Julie

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.

Thank you for your attention and I look forward to hearing back from you!

xxoo

Thanks for your recommendation, I haven’t heard of WHEN KINGMAKERS SPEAK, even though I live i Singapore. I shall definitely get my hands on the book!

Cheers,
Julie

Recently read this book – WHEN KINGMAKERS SPEAK, a crime mystery based in Eastern Singapore.

Don’t know whether it’s available in Singapore but I got it from amazon.co.uk.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=when+kingmakers+speak&x=16&y=17

Rather good, fast paced thriller. It brought back memories of my early life in Singapore.
Has anyone else read this?

“Essays in Love” will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. The book charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work’s genius lies in the way it minutely analyses emotions we’ve all felt before but have perhaps never understood so well: it includes a chapter on the anxieties of when and how to say ‘I love you’ and another on the challenges of disagreeing with someone else’s taste in shoes.While gripping the reader with the talent of a great novelist, de Botton brings a philosopher’s sensibility to his analyses of the emotions of love, resulting in a genre-breaking book that is at once touching and thought-provoking.
[Book Description courtesy of The Book Depository]

Yes, I’ve read A Million Little Pieces, I read it on holiday in Bintan and was completely hooked. It’s an extremely good book, great recommendation!

There was some controversy over it in January 2006 when it was exposed that the book contained fabrications and was not actually a completely factual memoir. The version of the book I have was published after this, and contains a forward by Frey with an apology for embellishing his memoir. So I read it knowing that it was part fiction. It didn’t matter, its a frightfully good book. The part near the beginning at the dentist’s…!!! And the end made me cry and cry.

Thanks for your recommendation Ryan. Be bored at work more often and recommend more! =)
x
Julie

How are you? Anyway, I’m dead bored at work and saw another one of your review alerts on facebook and decided to drop a recommendation, which was recommended to me by Ian (Goon).

I’m not sure whether you’ve read/heard about A Million Little Pieces by James Frey but it was a book I knew I would read again long before I finished it the first time and I think you might enjoy it. Awesome stuff.

Enjoy!

love from maroc,
T

During Levy’s talk, she recommended her favourite books:

> Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
[Levy said that to her, this book is perfection in literature]

> English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
[A vicar's ludicrous expedition in 1857 to the Garden of Eden in Tasmania.]

> The Women’s Room by Marilyn French
[The book that made Levy a lover of books and pushed her in the direction of becoming an author in her 30s]

A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN’S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely.

‘Today’s “desperate housewives” eat your heart out! This is the original and still the best, a page-turner that makes you think. Essential reading’ Kate Mosse
‘They said this book would change lives – and it certainly changed mine’ Jenni Murray

x Julie

Thanks for your book recommendations! I have an idea, if you finish reading all the English books you already have, maybe your mum will let you read new ones!

x Julie
Reading Like Rabbits – Book Recommendations

I see My Sister’s Keeper has already been recommended, but anyway, here are another two of Jodi Picoult’s books which are (to me) really awesome!! They’re Change of Heart and Handle with Care, both of which really get me thinking about life as I read them.

In Change of Heart, the protagonist has to choose between her beliefs (or maybe in other words, pride) and well, common sense, to save her daughter. (Mind my phrasing, I think it would be more useful if you read the blurb) In Handle with Care, however , the protagonist has to choose between her close friendship with her best friend, and her daughter’s life.

Another reason why both are delectable reads is that they both offer multiple perspectives of the various characters, especially Change of Heart, where you can see the so-called “bad guy” in a new light, through the eyes of a fellow prisoner.

Han Yi

PS. Thanks for the website!! The recommended books seem really interesting, but a pity that my mother has banned me from reading English books because I have too many of them

PPS. I love your TKAM play!!