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I was waiting for my scooter ride outside Cho Ray Hospital when a peddler approached me. “Want to pick something to read?”. Turned out, she was selling used books, in a box: Cu Chi Tunnel, My Lai Massacre, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Sorrows of War, Understanding Vietnam… Those subjects are now as old…
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Joan Didion‘s latest book about the death of her child has landed in the top ten of TIME magazine. Her earlier book, “the Year of Magical Thinking” recalls the death of her husband. By penning these experiences, she invited us, readers into her private chamber of grief (saving his shoes, wishing he would come back).…
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Huffington Post picks up a piece from Vietnam news, featuring used book shops in present day HCMC. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/13/used-bookstores-vietnam_n_714522.html If you don’t know, you would think the city was on wheels. But in some quiet corners, you still find students and researchers actually reading and browsing just as you would find at a B&N here. The…
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Mark your calendar. Summer 2010 will be a bookend event. It will be Gutenberg-like. It’s the beginning of the disappearance of Revised Print Edition. It’s Google e-book store, where you can download the latest version of any book. Gone are the paper backs. Or Large Print for that matter. Select your own font. http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-features/49631-google-plans-summer-opening-for-e-book-store Our…
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