tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post8700949491873764475..comments2024-01-06T00:28:45.062+08:00Comments on Bibliobibuli: Wena's Big Breakbibliobibulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-41519226443419568702007-11-27T14:56:00.000+08:002007-11-27T14:56:00.000+08:00Actually suanie I think cruelty makes a good story...Actually suanie I think cruelty makes a good story. Happiness is not entertaining, unless there's some sort of sinister motive behind it. All the most popular books have been about cruelty and death and murder and pain and heartbreak.<BR/><BR/>But hey, more details about the contract, how much was it worth, how many books ? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-73118384128879651352007-11-26T11:06:00.000+08:002007-11-26T11:06:00.000+08:00sounds really interesting. am looking forward to i...sounds really interesting. am looking forward to it. <BR/><BR/>personally i love reading autobiographical books. i've gone through most of amy tan's stuff, and the book 'wild swans', and i think another one was 'joss and gold'... basically what wena is trying to avoid. true that, we are not all bound to our ancestors' fates. the oldest relative i knew didn't even bind her feet (she was kind of cruel to my grandmother though, does that make a story? :P ). <BR/><BR/>but i think what matters more is how it's told. indeed, it might seem very 'sien' to read yet another story on an evil matriarch.. or how 'he came to nanyang with a bundle and 30 years later became a millionaire with 3 wives'... but somehow it does not seem boring to me at all. maybe because the books with such a theme i've read were written most wonderfully, there wasn't a moment when i didn't feel for the writer. i guess what i am trying to convey is, any story told beautifully is a good story. to me. <BR/><BR/>currently i am reading neil cross' heartland, and i just bought peter roche's unloved. 10 pages into 'heartland' and i felt like wailing.suaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13767764036141996634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-66045186152374332962007-11-26T10:49:00.000+08:002007-11-26T10:49:00.000+08:00noted janet and added to the post.noted janet and added to the post.bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-17747719521018128042007-11-26T10:22:00.000+08:002007-11-26T10:22:00.000+08:00Thanks for blogging about this, Sharon. Just wante...Thanks for blogging about this, Sharon. Just wanted to add that the book isn't on the shelves yet, but will be soon in December 2007. The review was an advance review actually!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com