GOOD book news

Greenbottle3

kawan2 peminat buku semua...

i'm putting up a new topic that we we can share news related to books and authors...my aim here is to have a kind of 'news' updates on any good books , or on writers or any news related to books and writers and hopefully with links so that we can read more detail if we want to...

everybody is very welcome to put news you consider useful or interesting for book lovers...

my first news...

Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, died at his home today (30 Aug 06). He was 94.

Read more here

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1861106,00.html

and the obituary here

http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1861320,00.html

limau_nipis

How about Hizairi Othman yang menulis Jukstaposisi? Dah lama kan dia hilang? Sampai sekarang parentsnya belum berjumpa anaknya

Greenbottle3

miss limau...

saya pun interested to know cerita dia ni ...saya tak pernah baca karya nya tapi se ingat saya dia pernah memenangi hadia paling lumayan short story contest beberapa tahun dulu...lepas tu dia lesap...masih hilang lagi ke dia?

kalau ada sesiapa ada apa2 maklumat tentang dia ni, tolong postkan kat sini terima kasih...

chique

rasanya masih hilang. kesian bapanya dah meninggal pun.

Greenbottle3

september 11 is just around the corner...

here is a good article by martin amis  ..a review of a book on al qaeda..

martin amis in my opinion  is one of the best living english writers...his prose style is almost lyrical...but this article is an example of a good writing  with a position that i totally DISAGREE with..

The real conspiracy behind 9/11
Martin Amis examines the horrific coincidences that enabled Osama bin Laden抯 progress from down-and-out cave dweller to the chief symbol of Islamist terrorism

THE LOOMING TOWER Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
Allen Lane, £20; 470pp

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2337188,00.html

Greenbottle3

and here is a good review of one of the most well known painters (potraitist)  in the early part of 20th century...amedeo modigliani
his nudes were painted in a very charateristic style of his ...


As mad and bad as it gets
Reviewed by Frank Whitford
MODIGLIANI: A Life
by Jeffrey Meyers

Duckworth £16.99 pp272

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23113-2286299,00.html

[ Last edited by  Greenbottle3 at 2-9-2006 12:16 PM ]

FaRiShAsYaHaNaZ

Originally posted by Greenbottle3 at 1-9-2006 12:59 PM
miss limau...

saya pun interested to know cerita dia ni ...saya tak pernah baca karya nya tapi se ingat saya dia pernah memenangi hadia paling lumayan short story contest beberapa tahun dulu...l ...

hmmm ... tak silap mastika bulan ogos ade cerita sedikit sebanyak perkembangan kes hizairi ni ... briefly rasanya ... cos they did a profile of a UKM lecturer yg mysteriously hilang mcm hizairi ... lepas tu there was another man hilang jugak same case mcm derang ... forgot his name ... nnt aku carik balik majalah tu n tgk latest info on his case

FaRiShAsYaHaNaZ

artikel pasal hizairi featured in mastika ogos 2006 ... he was mentioned cos his case was similar with Ghazali Jaafar (lecturer UKM) yg jadik tajuk utama dlm artikel tu ... similarities mentioned plak

1. both anak sulung
2. both worked as lecturers, described as tenang dan berhemah
3. the night before their disappearances they both contacted their close friends
4. hizairi's car was found kat saujana golf club kajang while lg sorg tu ilang terus dgn kete2 sekali

so dalam artikel ni tulis polis masih bingung dan belum negetahui punca kehilangan derang ... fail masih dibuka dan siasatan masih diteruskan .... so kes derang x diklasifikasikan as kes culik cos derang hilang secara mengejut ... so lastly artikel ni utarakan persoalan pasal spekulasi2 ape yg terjadi kat org2 yg hilang ni

limau_nipis

wow, good info farishasyahanaz! thanks a lot

FaRiShAsYaHaNaZ

yer welcome ... sharing is caring :lol

Greenbottle3

here is a true story stranger than fiction.

The story of Natascha Kampusch's escape from her eight-year imprisonment in an underground cell (she was abducted at 10 years old)....

i hope hizairi othman will have a good ending.. something like this

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1867600,00.html

limau_nipis

Originally posted by Greenbottle3 at 8/9/06 09:32 AM
here is a true story stranger than fiction.

The story of Natascha Kampusch's escape from her eight-year imprisonment in an underground cell (she was abducted at 10 years old)....

i hope hizai ...

i have been following the case with much interest last 2 weeks.. amidst the news about artis kahwin duda, or artis jumpa bekas tunang, i find that it is alarming not many malaysians know about natascha kampusch escape. and her story made world headlines around the world!

here is her latest pic, revealed yesterday

lady_nF

Originally posted by limau_nipis at 8-9-2006 10:31 AM


i have been following the case with much interest last 2 weeks.. amidst the news about artis kahwin duda, or artis jumpa bekas tunang, i find that it is alarming not many malaysians know about  ...

sebab reading book/REAL news tak cool
baca gossip bleh sembang satu kampung
baca buku?
kalo ada kawan yg suka baca buku mmg kira best laaaa

limau_nipis

Originally posted by lady_nF at 10/9/06 10:10 PM


sebab reading book/REAL news tak cool
baca gossip bleh sembang satu kampung
baca buku?
kalo ada kawan yg suka baca buku mmg kira best laaaa

i agree on this :setuju:

Greenbottle3

here's another book that sound interesting...non fiction

MURDER IN AMSTERDAM
The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance.
By Ian Buruma.

278 pp. The Penguin Press


Ian Buruma wrote a book about  two murders in "Murder in Amsterdam." The first took place on May 6, 2002, when an animal-rights advocate, for obscure reasons, gunned down Pim Fortuyn, a charismatic politician with a populist program combining law-and-order conservatism, opposition to immigration and gay liberation. About a year and a half later a young Dutch Muslim of Moroccan descent, incensed by a film critical of Islam, shot the filmmaker-provocateur Theo van Gogh  dead in broad daylight. As a parting gesture, he pinned a manifesto to the twitching body with a knife. It was all, as the prime minister of the Netherlands put it, "un-Dutch."

Read this good review from NYT for more?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/1 ... oks&oref=slogin

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Greenbottle3

some of us already heard the news that the only arab nobel prize winner for literature the egyptian naquib mahfouz passed away on 30 August 2006. He was 94 .

here is an interesting article about another  arab (libyan) writer (who writes in english) hisham matar's meeting with him two years ago in one of mr mahfouz's famous (and secret) 'soiree' in cairo...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1867670,00.html


hisham matar book by the way is in  the shortlised  for this year's booker prize.

you can read all about 2006 booker lists  here

http://books.guardian.co.uk/manbooker2006/0,,1844997,00.html

limau_nipis

Booker shortlist (from The Star Online)

SIX novels that have 揳 distinctive, original voice and audacious imagination

Greenbottle3

...and here is a good article by writer Nick Hornby about what the british people have been reading during this past hot summer....everything!

from this article, i find it interesting what harold bloom has to say about harry potter

Harold Bloom famously declared he'd rather children read nothing at all than read Harry Potter

and learn a new word today

xenagorabibliomania - an obsessive curiosity about the books that strangers read in open spaces

read it here...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/depa ... /0,,1884262,00.html

Greenbottle3

kalooki nights - by howard jacobson;

if i have to choose one book i want to read from the booker long list. this is it.
As we all know kiran desai won this year's booker prize but during the long list period kalooki night was rated higher at 10/1 odd to win compared with kiran desai's 20/1.

you can read a review of kalooki nights here

http://books.guardian.co.uk/revi ... /0,,1816127,00.html

Greenbottle3

William styron dies


Penulis pengarang novel terkenal  'sophie's choice' telah meninggal dunia.
Kawan2 ulat buku semua boleh baca di sini .

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1937554,00.html