Halloween favourite: Paranorman
Shi Min Xie I must confess that I don’t like horror movies very much. Often, I cannot fall asleep after watching one and I can conjure up the ghost’s/demon’s/devil’s/serial killer’s image in my…
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How I Won The Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award
This is what I did after I won the Hedwig Children’s Book Award: I had a good night’s sleep. I posted about my win on social media and received a…
Books that were important to me as a child
Many of the lists and memes I’m doing are from The Artsy Reader Girl, so if you want to do her other memes, you should. I don’t do her memes…
Clothes that I will never understand: Cold Shoulder Tops
Someone, please explain why this is a good idea. I didn’t know what this was called, but after googling, “Tops without shoulders” and “tops missing shoulders”, and “top that looks…
On Monsters
Monsters live inside of us. The monster underneath the bed example is classic until it becomes cliché. As children, many imagine that there are monsters in closets, cupboards, under the…
What Writing Is
Writing is freedom. You may not realise it, but it is. Writing is casting magic spells and slaying the dragons. It is being your own hero and showing yourself that…
Favourite Short Stories
Short stories are underrated. People don’t buy short story collections by writers and would rather buy novels. But I often get to see a writer’s skill in his/her short stories,…
Books I Decided to DNF (Do Not Finish)
There are books that I do not finish, but I don’t remember them. I only remember my favourite books, and those that are particularly wonderful. But I hate not finishing…
Holding Dragonhearted for the first time
Holding your first book in your hands for the first time is a strange and wondrous feeling. I remember rushing to the pop up store at the National Library that…
Bookish Worlds I’d Never Want to Live In
A few weeks ago, my colleague asked me which fictional world I would live in, and my response was none of them. In recent years, dystopias have been very popular,…