THE GIST: Two strangers meet, possibly for the first time. Then the countdown begins. THE VERDICT: 7 Days and Counting is my fri...

This is a snowy mountain and ski lift inside a Hong Kong shopping mall. Compared to last week, I didn't spot very many books this ...

This is Vietnamese food, not Singaporean, but it's what I had for lunch after Cheryl Tan and Fuchsia Dunlop's Lit Fest talks ab...

Last week I spotted a young man on the MTR reading one of the Hunger Games books. An older man nearby was reading on an iPad. I saw someth...

THE GIST: A young boy works on a salvaging crew on a post-apocalyptic Gulf Coast until he discovers an unusual shipwreck. THE VERDICT...

It has now been two weeks since my mom sent my new Kindle and it still hasn't arrived yet. In the grand scheme of things, two weeks ...

This week, I spotted a Chinese woman on the MTR reading the third book in the Fifty Shades series. Meanwhile, a pair of young women in t...