Year Summary for 2018

Books

Which English translation or edition of The Count of Monte Cristo should I read?
December 11, 2018
We Love Queenstown, We Love Katong, and We Love Little India by Urban Sketchers Singapore
December 8, 2018
Sofia and the Utopia Machine by Judith Huang
December 8, 2018
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
December 3, 2018
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
November 30, 2018
Who Gets What and Why by Alvin E. Roth
November 25, 2018
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
November 17, 2018
The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau
November 13, 2018
The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau
November 10, 2018
The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
November 6, 2018
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
November 5, 2018
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
November 4, 2018
The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah, translated by Susan Massotty
November 2, 2018
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Surendranath Tagore
October 31, 2018
The Ship by Antonia Honeywell
October 26, 2018
Wish You Were Here by Nick Webb
October 21, 2018
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
October 16, 2018
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
October 15, 2018
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy by Douglas Adams
October 15, 2018
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
October 1, 2018
Threelogy Lah by Casey Chen
September 7, 2018
Book launch for The Missing Barbegazi by H.S. Norup
September 6, 2018
Magician (Master/Apprentice) by Raymond E. Feist
August 11, 2018
Handful of books from Book Treasure
July 12, 2018
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
July 3, 2018
Exit West by Moshin Hamid
June 27, 2018
1984 by George Orwell
June 25, 2018
We Love Bedok by Urban Sketchers Singapore
June 21, 2018
Lu Xun and Evolution by James Reeve Pusey
June 18, 2018
Character names in A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
June 13, 2018
Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quartet: Various Awesome Covers!
June 13, 2018
We Love Tiong Bahru by Urban Sketchers Singapore
June 12, 2018
Burmese Days by George Orwell
June 8, 2018
Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
June 3, 2018
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
May 30, 2018
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
May 29, 2018
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (again)
May 29, 2018
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
May 27, 2018
How We Learn by Benedict Carey
May 23, 2018
Five Kingdoms (Books 1 to 5) by Brandon Mull
May 18, 2018
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
May 13, 2018
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
May 12, 2018
Bras Basah Complex: Art, Dance, Explore, Sports, Book
May 2, 2018
The Fugitive by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
April 23, 2018
The Movie Book
April 17, 2018
Junior Page book sale at Novena Square atrium
April 11, 2018
Not out of Hate by Ma Ma Lay (thoughts on postcolonial literature)
March 30, 2018
Times book sale at the Centrepoint atrium
March 27, 2018
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
March 15, 2018
Beloved by Toni Morrison
March 12, 2018
The Third Eye by Mahtab Narsimhan
March 7, 2018
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
March 4, 2018
Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj
March 2, 2018
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
February 18, 2018
Photographically Speaking by David duChemin
February 7, 2018
Mots D’Heures: Gousses, Rames
January 27, 2018
King Rat by James Clavell
January 26, 2018
Harry Potter in Russian
January 24, 2018

Collecting

Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quartet: Various Awesome Covers!
June 13, 2018
Junior Page book sale at Novena Square atrium
April 11, 2018
Times book sale at the Centrepoint atrium
March 27, 2018
Harry Potter in Russian
January 24, 2018

Language

Does “oblong” mean “rectangle”?
September 8, 2018
Threelogy Lah by Casey Chen
September 7, 2018
Does your language control you? Lingering questions.
August 12, 2018
Does your language control you? Further reading and viewing!
August 7, 2018
Homogenous
July 21, 2018
Public talk 7 August 2018: Does your language control you?
July 14, 2018
1984 by George Orwell
June 25, 2018
Jang Won’s new sign
June 1, 2018
Mobile Phone Protective Case
May 31, 2018
Isle of Dogs (2018)
May 22, 2018
Please push your bicycle across the underpass
May 9, 2018
Slightly awkward but perfectly serviceable English on this clothes rack box
March 26, 2018
Health chopsticks cage
February 8, 2018
Mots D’Heures: Gousses, Rames
January 27, 2018
Harry Potter in Russian
January 24, 2018

Movies

Which English translation or edition of The Count of Monte Cristo should I read?
December 11, 2018
City of Ember (2008)
November 13, 2018
Collateral (2004)
November 12, 2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
November 12, 2018
The Darkest Minds (2018)
August 18, 2018
Colony (Complete Series)
August 13, 2018
Ant-man and the Wasp (2018)
July 9, 2018
Ocean’s 8 (2018)
June 28, 2018
Incredibles II (2018)
June 25, 2018
Superfast! (2015)
June 22, 2018
Ant-man (2015)
May 27, 2018
Deadpool 2 (2018)
May 26, 2018
Ballerina aka Leap! (2016)
May 24, 2018
Isle of Dogs (2018)
May 22, 2018
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
May 13, 2018
Avengers 3: Infinity War (2018)
April 26, 2018
The Remains of the Day (1993)
April 25, 2018
The Movie Book
April 17, 2018
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
April 9, 2018
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
April 8, 2018
Jumanji (1995)
March 30, 2018
Tomb Raider (2018)
March 27, 2018
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
March 18, 2018
Evita (2018 musical in Singapore)
March 10, 2018
He Named Me Malala (2015)
March 6, 2018
Galaxy Quest (1999)
March 4, 2018
Black Panther (2018)
February 23, 2018
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
February 18, 2018
Office Space (1999)
February 17, 2018
The Lego Movie (2014)
February 16, 2018
The Great Wall (2016)
January 15, 2018
Bleeding Steel (2017)
January 9, 2018

Singapore

We Love Queenstown, We Love Katong, and We Love Little India by Urban Sketchers Singapore
December 8, 2018
Sofia and the Utopia Machine by Judith Huang
December 8, 2018
Threelogy Lah by Casey Chen
September 7, 2018
Book launch for The Missing Barbegazi by H.S. Norup
September 6, 2018
Does your language control you? Lingering questions.
August 12, 2018
Does your language control you? Further reading and viewing!
August 7, 2018
Homogenous
July 21, 2018
Public talk 7 August 2018: Does your language control you?
July 14, 2018
Faulty premises
July 12, 2018
Handful of books from Book Treasure
July 12, 2018
FINAL EXIT
June 25, 2018
We Love Bedok by Urban Sketchers Singapore
June 21, 2018
We Love Tiong Bahru by Urban Sketchers Singapore
June 12, 2018
Jang Won’s new sign
June 1, 2018
Mobile Phone Protective Case
May 31, 2018
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Cold beer, wet air
May 17, 2018
Sultan Mosque and a cloud
May 12, 2018
Please push your bicycle across the underpass
May 9, 2018
Bras Basah Complex: Art, Dance, Explore, Sports, Book
May 2, 2018
Soup Spoon Novena: Cutleries Station is now Cutlery Corner
April 12, 2018
“Battery”: countable or uncountable?
April 12, 2018
Junior Page book sale at Novena Square atrium
April 11, 2018
Times book sale at the Centrepoint atrium
March 27, 2018
Evita (2018 musical in Singapore)
March 10, 2018
Singapore is not in China! How to send mail to Singapore.
February 1, 2018
King Rat by James Clavell
January 26, 2018
Blog of the month!
January 13, 2018
Singapore ice-cream sandwich (literally)
January 8, 2018

We Love Translations

Which English translation or edition of The Count of Monte Cristo should I read?
December 11, 2018

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