The Mystery Books That Shaped My Life: From Enid Blyton to Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie
A personal journey through classic detectives, Japanese thrillers, and Richard Osman’s modern whodunnits
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Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto – A Review
I have to make disclosure that I have read Jesse’s past books, Dial A for Aunties and Four Aunties and A Wedding, and madly fell in love with them (that’s for the next reviews). These two books are making Chinese Indonesian Amah and Ayi (mother and aunties) front and centre with their hillarious focus on their children, to say I…
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Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto
I read romantic comedy a lot over decades. Before the dawn of internet age (and Kdrama craze), it is one of my secret guilty pleasure that help me bridge difficult moments (and God knows I have a lot of them). I have read those written in English by international writers with variety of backgrounds and…
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4 Reasons Why You Should Read Influence Empire – The Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition
It goes without saying that if you want to stay relevant commercially, understanding digital landscape as well rising technology is critical. Understanding the super powers within the landscape then is equally critical and there are not that many super powers we need to bother truly understand, in which US and China are the leaders of…
