THE MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER by Kim Edwards is unputdownable. Long after I’ve finished the novel, I still think about the main characters: David, Norah, Caroline and Phoebe.

I wonder how I would deal with their situation if it were to happen to me. Norah gave birth to a set of twins—a boy named Paul and a girl named Phoebe. The sad thing is that Phoebe […]

A WHOLE NEW MIND by Daniel Pink is an interesting and practical book. There are two parts: Part 1 deals with the topic on conceptual age and Part 2 explores the six senses needed to develop the whole new mind ready for this new era.

Pink talks about how our future will depend on our ability to ask and answer the following three questions that will determine between who gets ahead and who gets left behind: […]

LOVE, ROSIE by Cecelia Ahern is thoroughly enjoyable. The whole novel is an exchange of emails, instant messaging, greeting cards, and letters between Rosie and Alex, her childhood best friend, and all the people that matter in her life—family, close friends, and even ‘evil’ bosses.

Alex (Prince Moonbeam) and Rosie (Princess Buttercup) are best friends who grow up together in Ireland. Even though they were apart from each other due to cross-continental moves, marriages, parenthood, work, and family challenges, they stay close throughout. Romance is always under the surface, but […]

LOVE IS THE KILLER APP by Tim Sanders is an outstanding and easy-to-digest book. He is a strong advocate of being a “lovecat.” A lovecat according to him thrives through the sharing of knowledge, network, and compassion.

My favourite chapter of the book is Knowledge. It starts with amassing as much usable knowledge as possible by religiously carving out the time to read and then pouring through as many cutting-edge books in one’s field as possible. […]

LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel is a delightful piece of literary work. Once picked up, I can’t put it down; with every turn of the page, I became curious-er and curious-er. Martel has created an utterly imaginative and uplifting story, not to mention hilarious and totally amusing too.

Life of Pi is about a sixteen-year-old Indian boy, Pi Patel whose full name is Piscine Molitor Patel. He was named after a swimming pool in France. […]

HOW TO READ A BOOK by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren provide insights into the problems of learning how to read and offers a comprehensive and better-ordered analysis of the complex art of reading. I also enjoyed the application of the basic rules to different types of reading and the discovery of new rules of reading. Written first by Adler, Van Doren later joined Adler as a co-author in updating, recasting and rewriting the book. It was first published in 1940, went on to be a bestseller, and was translated into other languages such as French, Swedish, German, Spanish and Italian.

There are four parts to the book. […]