Reading Next

My Tuesday night habit, before heading to Murphy’s for weekly Quiz Night, is book hunting. Tonight I happened to be browsing at National Book Store Greenbelt, and I thought I’d already scored my bounty — a spanking new trade paperback copy of Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, marked down to from P629 to P150 — so I was headed over the counter when something caught my eye a few tables down.

I swear, it was as if a heavenly beacon was lighting the way for me! I squinted, did a double take, then squealed, dodging two elderly women picking out cookbooks in my haste to get my hands on this:

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Millennium Trilogy Giveaway!

It’s been a nice, leisurely weekend for me, so I’m feeling generous.

Because I love Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, I’m giving away a paperback boxed set of the series this week.

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Winners: Sign Language Vintage Alphabet Stamp Giveaway

Thank you to everyone who joined the Sign Language Vintage Alphabet Stamp giveaway!

I just drew the winners on Random.org. The top 3 names on the List Randomizer each win one set of Chronicle Books’ Sign Language Vintage Alphabet stamps.

Each stamp set contains 28 foam-backed rubber stamps (A-Z, the sign for “&” and “I Love You”), a pamphlet explaining the sign language, an ink pad, and a cleaning sponge inside a translucent plastic box.

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Author Feature: Lisa Lim

After reading her debut novel Confessions of a Call Center Gal, I got to know author Lisa Lim a little better.

Here’s a candid interview with Lisa Lim, notes in blue are mine.

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Confessions of a Call Center Gal

After a week of anxious fretting over the havoc that was ensuing on the back end of my blog (I am so glad that’s over, but I’m still paranoid about clicking on that WP 3.1 update mocking me from the top of my dashboard), I was in dire need of a pick me up type of book. I was browsing through my Nook shelves and remembered I had loaded Lisa Lim’s Confessions of a Call Center Gal (available on Amazon, also as a Kindle ebook, with a Nook edition soon to follow).

I fixed myself a mug of steamy milk tea, plumped up some pillows on the divan, and started reading.

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