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Books: A Snippet From the Past

Back in the days, if we did not have a bookstore near home, we (well....me, mostly) would often rely on book and album reviews in the dailies or magazines. Frankly, there's nothing sweeter-smelling than that of the polished wood shelves and fresh off the press prints of books and magazines.

I could sit in a library or store all day just browsing. Books cost a bomb.

We don't really have these reviews anymore, do we? Walking through the aisle of the bookstore, if I found something of interest, I pull out my phone and load Amazon for its book review section. A Google search will do the trick too.

The difference is that we don't know the people who are doing those online reviews. They may not have the same preference as you. For the book reviews in the dailies, we basically know the quirks of the reviewers over a period of reading their thoughts. One guy's into sci-fi while the other prefers medical science or technology.

I was one of those reviewers. The books I pored over were often either chic-lits, crime or comedic books. I found this old newspaper clipping from more than a decade ago of a book review I did for The Star Newspaper back in the days.


With MPH gone from One Utama, I, honestly, don't know which will be my regular book haunt now. It would have to be Borders for new best-seller books and BookXcess for those time fillers. 

Where do you find your book reviews and books these days?
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