Detective Inspector Chen has taken a long deserved vacation and left Seneschal Zhu Irzh on his own in Singapore Three. Although at first excited about his new assignment, Zhu has quickly grown bored so he couldn’t be happier when a mysterious mutilation murder is assigned to him. He’s barely begun his investigation when the vic

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Incandescence, the long-awaited novel by science fiction writer Greg Egan, is much like his other works in that it is a paean to science. Indeed, the entire plot is based on the idea that the road to scientific exploration and discovery leads to personal satisfaction.

Egan depicts two separate journeys on that road, that of

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Heaven, Hell and Earth coexist in the world of Singapore Three, a balmy coastal metropolis on the edge of the South China Sea. Here where technology and religion go hand in hand, Detective Inspector Chen Wei of Singapore Three’s Police Department is the specialist for cases involving the supernatural and other crimes of magic a

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Two murders form a tenuous link to the present and a centuries' old mystery in Brad Meltzer's The Book of Lies. Meltzer, the author of bestselling novels and comic books, weaves fact and fiction together in his latest thriller.

In the first fratricide of recorded history, Cain slays his brother Abel; the murder weapon is n

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Now that the long awaited final book of the Twilight series has been published, eager fans want more...it doesn't look like they are going to get anything more for a long, long time.

Due to an illegal post on the internet of a partial draft of Midnight Sun, Stephanie Meyer is putting the book on hold indefinitely according

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English literature is so vast, we have so many novelists, story writers etc. But the satirists, critics and essayists too hold a a very important place. Thomas Carlyle is such an essayist and critic who has been called 'The Grand Old Man of Victorian Literature'. David Gascoyne in his book 'Thomas Carlyle' called him so. Th

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Nine short stories equal one great read in Seeds of Change, the latest anthology edited by John Joseph Adams. The authors contributing to this collection serve up works that range from tragedy to comedy--each of them thought provoking.

In his introduction, Adams states that the idea is for these stories “to challenge our cur

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I love to find children's books with a baking tie-in. It gives me such joy to expose children to the wonderful warmth and quiet passion that is following a recipe. In todays world, not as much time is spent watching the skilled rhythms of well versed hands whipping up tasty baked goods in the well used kitchens of our homes, a

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Emily Dickinson's poem 'Success is Counted Sweetest' is a short but very meaningful poem. We often face varied situations in our life when we either experience the thrilling success or taste failure. The poem talks of value of success - it is of utmost value to that person who never succeeds.
"Success is counted sweetest

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First we spoke in this space of the seven capital sins. The series enjoyed a wide repercussion among readers, which made me very happy. But what about the seven cardinal virtues?

The sins come before the virtues. As a wise man said, he who has not sinned has no merit in his virtue – because he has not overcome any temptation

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The title of a novel is just like the signboard of a shop. The title reveals something about the subject matter of the novel, just as the signboard unveils the contents of a shop. In the present post on my blog I have discussed the title of the most famous novels of the celebrated Indian English novelists, R.K. Narayan's 'The

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Charles Dickens, the famous English novelist, who produced the unmatchable novels like 'Oliver Twist', 'David Copperfield', 'Hard Times'...just to name a few. All of his novels contain such words that very easily prove to be literary jewels. This post shares a few of the literary quotes of Charles Dickens from his variou

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