I was torn between choosing the Amazon Kindle or buying an Apple iPad for my humongous collection of PDF e-books, but after watching the video above, I am leaning towards getting an Amazon Kindle. Still, I am not fully decided on that yet.
For those of you who are book lovers, you would be interested to know that media publisher Karangkraf is holding their Karnival Karangkraf 2011 at their premises in Shah Alam, Selangor. The event is taking place this weekend, from 28th to 30th January 2011. To be honest, it is of little interest to me as I am not really a fan of what Karangkraf publishes, apart from Majalah i. But if they are your thing, there’s nothing to stop you from going for it.
All other details are in the poster above.
“We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.”
- Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister
Some bloggers have been commenting about it, so permit me to join the bandwagon as well. Truth be told, I really think that the issue has been played out of proportion. The book was written by SN Abdullah Hussain in the 1970s and some four decades later, it is causing such a ruckus? Gosh, I think some people are really (mis)using this issue for political capital. Considering that those making such a fuss about it are members of a political party which was nearly wiped out in Election 2008, I think this assessment isn’t too far off the mark after all.
However, since I am such a bookworm, I will try to get hold of a copy of this book. I think it is time that I pay a visit to Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka and purchase this book from their bookstore….I haven’t been to DBP for a very long time (the last time I was there was in 2001 with my father, to inquire about the royalty / prize money for my poem’s win in HSSBR 2000). I sure hope they have the original version of the book. I am not interested in the Edisi Pelajar copy.
So I decided to dredge this blog from the depths of development hell, give it a fresh look with a nice new WordPress theme, and turn it into a personal project of mine. You can actually read about the story of this revival effort here. Oh yes, I have renamed the blog to “The Bibliaholic Blog”, of which the genesis behind the name you can see here.
To cut a very long story short, I will post reviews about books, books and nothing else but books. Of course, since I do pride myself as a Muslim internet activist, most of the books that will be reviewed here will focus on Comparative Religion works. I will even review anti-Islam books and deal with them briefly, but do not expect this to be a full-fledged rebuttal as this is only a books review blog (and I intend to keep it that way). Some fiction books will be reviewed as well….I do read a couple of them every few months or so, although not as much as I used to due to my focus on comparative religion and online Islamic activism.
So, without further ado….let the reviews roll in!