By Tan Yu You (21S03H)
Raffles Reads is a collaboration between Raffles Press and Times Reads which aims to promote a reading culture among Singaporean students.
Rating: ★★★★★
The answer to life, the universe and everything may be 42 (a reference to Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)—but is there an answer to death?
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By Neo Xin Yuan (21A01D)
Raffles Reads is a collaboration between Raffles Press and Times Reads which aims to promote a reading culture among Singaporean students.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.
So begins Max Barry’s latest sci-fi novel Providence. The above quote, taken from John Flavel’s The Mystery of Providence, is truly an apt epigraph, effectively encapsulating the overarching theme of the similarly named Providence.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesBy Jermaine Wong (20S03R) and Ruchira Ramaswamy (20S03A)
Synopsis: Everyone has their own secrets, things they’d rather not share, even with the closest of friends. For Simone Garcia-Hampton, the last thing she wants her peers to find out about her is that she is HIV-positive.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
By Huang Beihua (20A03A) and Mah Xiao Yu (20A01B)
A piece of toast held between two chopsticks. It is perhaps an awkward image, but certainly an appropriate cover for The Heartsick Diaspora: this is a book with an appreciation for subtle humour—and certainly much involvement of food. More significantly, however, is the cover’s underlining of the friction, and loneliness, at the core of the book, both of people struggling to come to terms with cultures so foreign to them, yet ones they are bound to pick up.
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By Raffles Press
Raffles Reads is a collaboration between Raffles Press and Times Reads which aims to promote reading culture among Singaporean students. For the past two weeks, as part of our Holiday Book Bonanza, we’ve been posting reviews of a variety of books, from Young Adult dystopian fiction to thought-provoking commentaries on the world we live in today.
We loved reading them, and now we want you to have the chance to love them too. Or maybe a family member, a friend, a loved one who wants nothing more than a book as a gift.
And what better way to pass on the joy of reading these books than through a giveaway?
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