Lang Reid
Confessions of a Coward
With the subtitle “An Indian Adventure”, “Confessions of a Coward” is a collection of real-life experiences of Kirsty Turner, a traveler who spent nine...
Inflight Science
It was the day after the Asiana Airways crash in San Francisco that I was browsing in the Bookazine in The Avenue and spotted...
Bangkok Rules
An old hand in Thailand, Harlan Wolff is a Private Investigator (PI) who has worked in Bangkok since 1977. Deliberately keeping a low profile,...
A Little History of the World
This book, A Little History of the World (ISBN 978-0-300-14332-4, Yale University Press, first paperback edition (in English 2008, but was first published in...
The Lower River
Paul Theroux is a prolific writer with 14 fiction novels and 11 non-fiction books. This latest fiction is The Lower River (ISBN978-0-241-95774-5, Penguin, 2013),...
Lovely Love
Something quite different this week. In many ways, Lovely Love (ISBN 978-981-08-0044-4, Tawandhamma Foundation, 2008) and written by a Buddhist monk Luang Phaw Dhammajayo,...
Your Essential Guide to Culture Shock
This book was reviewed six years ago, and was a very popular title. However, all the pitfalls are still present, so the book remains...
I’m Coming to Take You to Lunch
My favorite (and closest) Bookazine is where I get many of the books for review. However, when I boldly turned the corner into the...
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