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The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

I was so looking forward to reading this and it was finally available at NLB. Reading it was a breeze. The plot captivating and each chapter is pretty short. This story follows a young ex-convict hoping to make a decent living and never having to go back to prison ever again. She applied fo

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Toyko Ueno Station by Yu Miri

I am not sure if it is because it is a translated book or the storyline. I felt the story lack depth and quite dry. It is a story about a Japanese man observing the people who throng though the area near Ueno Station. There is no deep character plots and it was hard to connect. Rating:

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Theo of Golden by Adam Levi

This story follows an elderly man who moves to Golden, a town, where he stumbles upon a local coffeeshop and was memerised with the potraits displayed. One by one, he purchases them, tracks down the subjects and gifts it to them. In the process of doing so, he forged deep connections with them.

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Good Energy by Dr Casey Means

I glean several interesting nuggests of wisdom that I would not have found from the standard doctor's advice. 💡While fasting glucose levels is the golden test for diabetes, it would have already been too late by the time the test results indicatea elevated level. By then, you are in the tre

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Endure by Daniel Ritchie

A short read for when your faith is tested and you wonder where is God in all these. Rating: 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Wintering by Katherine May

This author shares a very introspective journey through her cyclical winters in her life and juxtapose them to the experiences of nature, animals (wolves, honeybees etc). My hope is that as you become immersed in her story, you'd feel time slowing down alot more as you more intentional abou

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The Painful Truth by Monty Lyma

This is such a good educational read on pain science. I wish doctors and all healthcare practioners are more well versed in this area. And to all the chronic pain sufferers out there, this book is for you. Whilst painkillers tend to be less effective for chronic pain sufferers, and sometimes ev

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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

This short fiction book is inspired by real life events in mother and baby homes run and funded by Catholic Church. These mothers were concealed, incarcerated and forced into labour, with many of their infants dying or adopted out od the institutions. It was a tragic reality that lasted until 1996.

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The Courage to be Disliked by Ishiro Kishimk

I initially thought from the title of this book that it would be just another self help espousing on how we ought to not give a dam about others and just live our life. I picked it up only because it is so popular, expecting it to be another Atomic Habits book with basic principles that wouldn'

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The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Oh my heart. I felt so much emotions reading this book. It follows a story of dad who returned from the Vietnam war feeling deeply disillusioned and suffering from PTSD as a result of the war. As he grapples with finding peace in his return, he decides to uproot his family to Alasaka, the last fron

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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

This story follows a bright chemist, Elizabeth Zott who overcame tremendous odds to break free from chauvism in the 50s. From being sexually assualted and expelled from the research institute just by standing her ground, from having her credits on her breakthrough research taken away from her, from

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Think Again by Adam Grant

This book provides alot of sharings of real world cases and how we can learn from each of them. It has made be more aware of my way of thinking in everyday matters, how flawed it can be and how to reframe and rethink my thoughts and how to bridge the gap with people of polarising views and dogma. I

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Policy, Fairness and Compassion by K Shanmugan

I was really looking forward to reading his book and it did not disappoint. This book is a collective of Minister Shanmugan's past speeches on various topics in various settings - parliment seatings, interviews etc. I am at many times enamoured by his intellect and his ability to distill

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Free Your Mind by Laura Dodsworth & Patrick Fargan

We are live in world were being constantly being manipulated. Unknowingly perhaps, your social media, news, peers, big brother, tv etc. This book brings to your forefront the various aspects of life where you can be easily influence and provides tips on how to avoid being manipulated. You c

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Say you'll remember me by Abby Jimenez

If you are into long distance romance stories, this may just be one you can connect to. It follows a story of Samantha who brought a rescued kitten to a vet, only to find out that it has a rectovaginal fistula and was recommended to be put down. Against the vet's recommendation, she setup a GoF

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The Honest Lawyer by R.S Bajwa

The title initially seem somewhat self serving and the book just looked unassuming. That's what I thought to myself. But because I have always been intrigued in what goes behind the scenes in the legal field in Singapore from a lawyer's POV, I decided to pick this book up anyways. R

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Cured by Dr Jeff Rediger

Dr Jeff, a licensed physician and a board certified psychiatrist on the faculty at Harvard Medical School spent 17 years delving deep into the research on true spontaneous healing and recovery. He offers evidence of how trauma can have a long lasting effect on the body and provides insights on

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Muscles by Roy A. Meals

A pretty neat book jam packed with info on the bioscience and biomechanics of muscle tissues. The author also shares stories about how human has come to learn about the body's anatomy over the centuries and on hindsight, let me to appreciate the era we are living now. I am just glad we know so

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Why Brain Need Friends by Ben Rein

This book highlights the neuroscience on social interactions. Some of them were pretty basic facts, with sciencitic evidence to tagged to them to back them up. What this book helped me was to motivate me to be more social, even to the person sitting next to me in the train or while waiting for

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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

When a murder broke out, a group of seniors living together in a retirement village came together to solve the mystery. A second murder broke out in the midst of them solving the first and they soon find themselves as possibly a suspect. All in all, a fun read. I went on to watch the movie and

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