To me, “book collecting” is a high-sounding phrase that describes what most book lovers naturally do anyway – hoard. Book collectors are, in essence, hoarders, and book collecting is a nice-sounding euphemism for book hoarding. So, most book hoarders are already book collectors, whether they know it or not. And the surest way to tell […]
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Review: North of Singapore by Carveth Wells
Travel writer Carveth Wells’ North of Singapore is probably one of my favourite books on the region, and of the travel literature genre. And so this review is likely to be long, involving much gushing and a few interesting tidbits on the region. Before rambling on and on about the contents of the book – […]
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