Archive for Book Review

“Shake Girl” a “graphic novel” re Tat Marina’s True Story

The graphic novel “Shake Girl” produced by 14 Stanford students really has opened my eyes to the chains of life events of a former Cambodian karaoke performer before she was attacked with acid and severely burnt over 45% of her body.
In the comic form of novel, not only was it visually easy and interesting to [...]

Wordpress for Dummies: A quick review

Wordpress for Dummies is just a great book for learning Wordpress software! Whether you’re a newbie or intermediate, it’s the right book. Once you’ve finished the book, you can be confident enough to get the best out of the Wordpress software both as a blogging platform and as a content management system (CMS).

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The best writing style I’ve ever seen! Almost every single sentence catches my attention.  I wish textbooks could be written the way A Thousand Splendid Suns is.
Khaled Hosseini’s other book is Kite Runner, which is also an international best seller out there.  If i can afford it, I will also grab this one too.
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Getting to Yes

This is to me a must-read book by Roger Fisher and William Ury if you wish to be an effective negotiator. It contains plenty of win-win negotiation techniques. The strategies for dealing with “dirty tricks” in negotiations are also striking.
You can’t be an effective negotiator reading this book alone, though. What’s also important [...]

The Power of a Positive No

How can you say no positively? The book attempts to tell you how to!  It contains lots of tricks techniques based on a very simple theory, “yes, no, yes”.  A quick example of this is something like this when you’re refusing a friend’s invitation to a party. “I’d love to (YES), but I have to do my homework to be submitted [...]

P.S. I Love You

Plot Summary:
The novel’s main character is Holly Kennedy, a recently widowed 30 year old woman living in Dublin, Ireland. When we first meet Holly she is emotionally devastated by the death of her husband Gerry from a brain tumour and she does not want to keep living without him. A little later though, on a [...]