Archives - Book Reviews


Second Honeymoon
by Joanna Trollope -- Reviewed August 10, 2008

No Strings Attached
by Clare Dowling -- Reviewed August 3, 2008

King Hui, The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong
by Jonathan Chamberlain -- Reviewed June 26, 2008

A New Earth
by Eckhart Tolle -- Reviewed June 22, 2008

Chasing a Dream
by J. Clinton Morrison -- Reviewed June 19, 2008

Up the Mountain of Many Tigers
by Emily Lau -- Reviewed June 16, 2008

A Gr8 Life... Live It Now
by Steve Francis -- Reviewed June 10, 2008

Business Republic of China
by Jack Leblanc -- Reviewed June 4, 2008

Dead Man's Footsteps
by Peter James -- Reviewed May 28, 2008

Paper Butterfly
by Diane Wei Liang -- Reviewed May 23, 2008

Even Buffett Isn't Perfect
by Vahan Janjigian -- Reviewed May 17, 2008

The Tale of Run Run Rat
by Sarah Brennan -- Reviewed May 13, 2008

With Bare Hands
by Alain Robert -- Reviewed May 7, 2008

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
by Robin S. Sharma -- Reviewed May 4, 2008

The China Price
by Alexandra Harney -- Reviewed April 27, 2008

To Cork or Not to Cork
by George M. Taber -- Reviewed April 21, 2008

May There Be a Road
by Louis L'Amour -- Reviewed April 18, 2008

Wolf Totem
by Jiang Rong -- Reviewed April 11, 2008

Change of Heart
by Jodi Picoult -- Reviewed April 6, 2008

A Prisoner of Birth
by Jeffrey Archer -- Reviewed March 28, 2008

The Ghost
by Robert Harris -- Reviewed March 23, 2008

Final Theory
by Mark Alpert -- Reviewed March 16, 2008

Forever Odd
by Dean Koontz -- Reviewed March 13, 2008

Meltdown
by Martin Baker -- Reviewed February 29, 2008

A Spot of Bother
by Mark Haddon -- Reviewed February 21, 2008

Chinese Dress
by Valery Garrett -- Reviewed February 14, 2008

The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards -- Reviewed February 7, 2008

The Innocent Man
by John Grisham -- Reviewed January 30, 2008

Shopaholic Ties the Knot
by Sophie Kinsella -- Reviewed January 24, 2008

Not Dead Enough
by Peter James -- Reviewed January 14, 2008

Life According to Evelyn Bernard
by Evelyn Bernard -- Reviewed January 10, 2008

God Is Not Great
by Christopher Hitchens -- Reviewed January 3, 2008

The Revenge of Gaia
by James Lovelock -- Reviewed December 19, 2007

Dead Run
by P.J. Tracy -- Reviewed December 11, 2007

The Devil of Nanking
by Mo Hayder -- Reviewed December 5, 2007

The Lincoln Lawyer
by Michael Connelly -- Reviewed November 22, 2007

Love, Rosie
by Cecelia Ahern -- Reviewed November 16, 2007

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
by Sophie Kinsella -- Reviewed November 8, 2007

The Burma Road
by Donovan Webster -- Reviewed November 2, 2007

The Trouser People
by Andrew Marshall -- Reviewed October 26, 2007

The Oxford Murders
by Guillermo Martinez -- Reviewed October 23, 2007

The Husband
by Dean Koontz -- Reviewed October 17, 2007

Pinoy Abroad
by Isabel Taylor Escoda -- Reviewed October 10, 2007

Hong Kong On Air
by Muhammad Cohen -- Reviewed October 4, 2007

Strange Tales and True Stories, East Coast Chronicles From Yesterday's Newspapers
by J. Clinton Morrison -- Reviewed September 25, 2007

Abductors
by Bernadette Gabay Dyer -- Reviewed September 17, 2007

Confessions of a Shopaholic
by Sophie Kinsella -- Reviewed September 12, 2007

False Impression
by Jeffrey Archer -- Reviewed September 3, 2007

Ice Station
by Matthew Reilly -- Reviewed August 26, 2007

Island Toes A'Tapping
by Jay Scott Kanes -- Encore review July 9, 2007

Saturday
by Ian McEwan -- Reviewed July 3, 2007

For One More Day
by Mitch Albom -- Reviewed June 26, 2007

Lake With No Name
by Diane Wei Liang -- Reviewed June 20, 2007

The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger -- Reviewed June 11, 2007

The Eye of Jade
by Diane Wei Liang -- Reviewed June 4, 2007

Whitefella Wandering
by Phil Thomson -- Reviewed June 1, 2007

Hongkongitis
by Larry Feign -- Reviewed May 25, 2007

The Chisellers
by Brendan O'Carroll -- Reviewed May 21, 2007

Voices from the Forest
-- Edited by Malcolm Cairns -- Reviewed May 6, 2007

The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama -- Reviewed April 22, 2007

If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern -- Reviewed April 13, 2007

Stories Lift Aboriginal Culture
-- Books compiled by Pamela Lofts -- Reviewed April 6, 2007

The Matchbreaker
by Chris Manby -- Reviewed March 30, 2007

Twisted
by Jeffery Deaver -- Reviewed March 26, 2007

The First Casualty
by Ben Elton -- Reviewed March 19, 2007

Black Fly Season
by Giles Blunt -- Reviewed March 14, 2007

The Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks -- Reviewed March 2, 2007

Angels and Demons
by Dan Brown -- Reviewed February 26, 2007

The Book of Answers
by Carol Bolt -- Reviewed February 19, 2007

The Crazy Adventures of Patch and Sam
by Phil Stride and Jackie Leung -- Reviewed Feb. 9, 2007

The Feng Shui Detective
by Nury Vittachi -- Reviewed February 5, 2007

Hui Gui, A Chinese Story
by Elsie Sze -- Reviewed January 29, 2007

Bangkok 8
by John Burdett -- Reviewed January 23, 2007

The Broker
by John Grisham -- Reviewed January 17, 2007

Attack of the Diced Chicken, Cartoons From 21st Century Hong Kong
by Larry Feign -- Review Jan. 9, 2007

Old Filth
by Jane Gardam -- Reviewed January 8, 2007

Good Daughter
by Bjorn Turmann -- Reviewed January 2, 2007

Carolyn 101
by Carolyn Kepcher -- Reviewed December 26, 2006

Gweilo
by Martin Booth -- Reviewed December 18, 2006

The Karaoke World of Cortous Haire
by Bjorn Turmann -- Reviewed December 11, 2006

The Rape of Nanking
by Iris Chang -- Reviewed December 6, 2006

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon -- Reviewed Dec. 1, 2006

And My Name Is... Stories From the Quilt
by Margie Carmichael -- Reviewed Nov. 24, 2006

Tuesdays With Morrie
by Mitch Albom -- Reviewed November 20, 2006

The Five People You Meet in Hell
by Rich Pablum -- Reviewed November 14, 2006

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton -- Reviewed November 10, 2006

The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom -- Reviewed November 7, 2006

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini -- Reviewed October 31, 2006

Marley and Me
by John Grogan -- Reviewed October 26, 2006

Predator by Patricia Cornwell -- Reviewed October 19, 2006

The Diary of Ma Yan
edited by Pierre Haski -- Reviewed October 16, 2006

Take Your Rights Seriously
by Jim Rice -- Reviewed October 8, 2006

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
by Marina Lewycka -- Reviewed October 4, 2006

Shop in Hong Kong, An Insider's Guide
by Ellen McNally -- Reviewed September 29, 2006

The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler -- Reviewed September 27, 2006

Thomas Beckham Wang and Other Stories
(various authors) -- Reviewed Sept. 23, 2006

The Devil Wears Prada
by Lauren Weisberger -- Reviewed September 18, 2006

Key to Aten by Lynn Sinclair -- Reviewed September 15, 2006

Cell
by Stephen King -- Reviewed September 13, 2006

Beauty and the Biz
by Elyse Sewell -- Reviewed September 3, 2006

Lamma: Cat Island -- Reviewed September 1, 2006

Shop in Shenzhen, An Insider's Guide
by Ellen McNally -- Reviewed August 27, 2006

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins -- Reviewed August 20, 2006

Siam Smile/s by Hugh Watson -- Reviewed August 13, 2006

Not Quite the Diplomat by Chris Patten -- Reviewed August 5, 2006

Island Toes A'Tapping by Jay Scott Kanes -- Reviewed May 28, 2006

 

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