The oldies are the best- Nancy Drew, Mallory Towers,The Twins at St.Claire’s…Black Beauty, My Friend Flicka…
The Famous Five and Mallory Towers are due to return in new story format within the next two years in a series of new adventures. I hope desperately that Mallory Towers is made into a film. I read the series […]

Currently reading: who moved my cheese by Dr. Spencer Johnson 
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Just got myself these bad boys during the weekend. New stuff are always good stuff!

One of the things I learned later in life, like when I lived in Doha, is that you (my Gulf and Moslem readers) have many of the same characters and stories in the Qur’an that we have in the Bible. Interesting, to me, the stories are not always exactly the same. Today’s reading in our […]

There was a time you kept hearing about Blackwater the security firm. I decided to pick up this book to see what the hype was all about. You would think that we do have an ideae about what is going on with the US military in Iraq and other areas of US military interest. As […]

Another book finished, another Chuck Palahniuk book done. This time it was the Oral Biography of Buster Casey, or Rant. The story is told through an oral biography of Rant by people he has met or known through his “life”. It is a new style for Chuck Palahniuk, which can leave you a bit confused […]

I have been a fan of Trudi Canavan for some time now, and this trilogy (Age of the Five) is one I was looking forward to. I flew through the first and second books, and now the third iteration of this trilogy. Its a real disappoint when you finish a good book and still want […]

Just a quick note to say that if you have been waiting to read Long Way Gone in paperback, it is now on the shelves.

Here are some of my absolute favorite links online : http://www.naturalchild.org/ http://www.drjaygordon.com/ http://www.richardsah.com http://www.notmilk.com/ And many of dr. Mercola’s articles, like these: worst foods
dunkin donuts
potato chips
Got Milk?
enjoy

This is probably the oddest items that I have ever bought from Amazon. I have been piling up some books and odd items and one item is difficult to locate since I waited on it but still going to purchase it. Now I just have to wait for the release of some of these items.

The […]

Geraldine Brooks knocks my socks off. If she writes a book, fiction or non-fiction, I will buy it and read it. The first one I read by her was Nine Parts Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, and the second most memorable book was her Year of Wonders, a book about […]

Sorry, you’re reading ”Mill on the Floss- I thought you said I read while I floss.”
 A good sign , but perhaps a little difficult for a beginner……
We should encourage reading at all levels.From my experience however, it was always difficult to find adult type material at a beginner level. There’s nothing however, to stop teachers themselves downloading […]

I finished another book on my list last night. It was the 2002 released Lullaby. The story is about a reporter who discovers that a culling song is actually what is killing babies, then also killing people. The overall story is fine, but I was not really satisfied with the book. Looking at information online, […]

القراءة أصبحت من الماضي والإصدارات بلا هوية الفضائيات خير صديق لأطفالنا ولا عزاء للكتاب

آراء تربويين واعلاميين في شؤون الطفل تتباين حول ضرورة اصدار جريدة خاصة بالاطفال
التاريخ : 12/08/2008
كونا من فاطمة خان وصالح بهمن الكويت - 11 - 8 (كونا) — تباينت آراء تربويين واعلاميين في شؤون الطفل اليوم حول اصدار جريدة او مجلة للاطفال وانشاء فضائية كويتية والحاجة اليها أو افتقار الكثير منها في بلادنا العربية الى الكفاءة والمهنية.
جاء ذلك في لقاءات متفرقة اجرتها

It’s so unfortunate that your average Arab has based his facts and intuitions about Turkey through a portal of a TV show, that even though it captivated the hearts of many people, it also agitated many to the extent it won several fatwas from several Saudi and Gulf clerics, condemning the show upon the level […]

I just finishd reading this book, and it took me forever.  The book is somewhat boring and I have a couple of comments:

The 5 “Principles” the author brings across are common sense, I am sure those principles have been mentioned in a plethora of other books which address how to run a successful business.
The […]

Remember that day, when I said that I found heaven in a library!  I promised to put up some pictures but didn’t get around to editting them much.  Hence why I am posting them separately today.  It was the day that I went with my sister so she could take her exam, while I waited […]

I finished this book yesterday and overall it was ok. The story is about Lucifer been allowed to live as a mortal for a month to get himself back into God’s good side and possibly go back to heaven. While the overall story ended in a nice way, the way the story was written and […]

I did something that I never did before, I downloaded a comic, or a graphic novel, as they call it. Over the past month, I have been looking for new books to read, and on many lists on Amazon, this graphic novel kept showing up. On further search, this graphic novel published between 1986 and […]

It’s finally out for us commoners to but our hands on :DThe Tales of Beedle the Bard is available for Pre-Order in amazon.com. they have 2 editions. the collector’s limited hard cover edition which is HOT and the standard edition. the limited edition i…

Or maybe there isn’t such a thing as having too many books. I purchased those books from those three stores in a six-day Dubai trip. Although, I’ve to say that I re-bought couple of books because I lent them to people who refuse to hand it back. Don’t worry; I’ll give them a piece of […]

Just take me there and let me be…

It is amazing what you can find online, I started by goggling for why we do not remember dreams, then moved to checking the new Harry Potter Movie Trailer, and then, BBC where the article was about the new theme song for the Bond movie, and something in my mind said, Google Ian Fleming, Goooooogle […]

School’s out. TV’s on. So’s the rain. OK. Switch off the TV or if you can’t bear the screams, then at least insist on a book at bedtime.
Here’s a list I came across.
”Educators consider summer reading very important in developing life-long reading habits, in maintaining literacy skills and in promoting reading for pleasure. Studies have […]

Yesterday I finished this book, which has been laying in my bookshelf for over two years. I started reading it when I first bought it but got confused, but I decided to read it since I had finished the other books I had read, and I should have read it before!! It is an amazing […]

I’m sipping on lukewarm green tea. Oh joy; such a great way to start the day.
I woke up an hour ago, and the first thing on my mind, literally, was: “Crap! My papers for my Literary Criticism class!” I guess that was the real “great start to the day”. If it’s […]

So it’s been a while, I know.
Goodness, so much has happened in the last couple of weeks. Good, bad, icky, heartbreaking, liberating, disheartening, elating, blah, blah, blah.
I know I haven’t been updating like I used to, and I’m not really sure why. I guess the best thing about blogging is that it’s optional. […]

Thank you, Little Diamond, for your sharp eye spotting this story:
Children’’s books about Kuwait’’s history translated into English
Al Watan staff
KUWAIT: A new and rare series of stories about Kuwait’’s history and
the nature of life in Kuwait in the past can now be found on sale in
Kuwait. The books, written by Dr. Yaqoob Yousef […]

I finished this book a few days ago. It was written by the artist responsible for the art work associated with HST books. In this 390 pages book, Ralph talks about his experiences with HST, showing his views about his relationship with HST, and the complex nature of his 30 plus years of being his […]

“Within every bad thing I see good, and likewise, within every good thing, I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time. As humans we are the epitome of life, in life there is always balance. Life and death, male and female, good and bad,beautiful and ugly, […]

The timing couldn’t be better. Thank you, Phantom Man, for sending a link to this New York Times article on Three Cups of Tea, from the July 13th New York Times.
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: July 13, 2008
Since 9/11, Westerners have tried two approaches to fight terrorism in Pakistan, President Bush’s and Greg Mortenson’s.

Greg Mortenson […]

My best-friend-from-college and I were chatting the other day and I asked her “what are you reading?” because we have always exchanged book recommendations back and forth.
“I’m reading a biography of Teddy Roosevelt,” she started, and I groaned, because most of the time biographies don’t interest me that much. “And I am reading Three […]

Anyone who read any of the notorious Chuck Palahniuk’s novels (he’s the author of Fight Club) should know what he got himself into. The characters are usually people who have been marginalized in one form or another by society, and who react with often self-destructive aggressiveness. The narrator usually is the character himself, beginning at […]

This book can be found on Amazon.com, the book is just another Magic Eight Ball but it has something around 500-700 answers. the way this book is used is buy having a random question in your mind and then you open a random page which will have an answer for you.
the name of the book […]

I had just finished The Swallows of Kabul and still had a long flight to go. Fortunately, I was in the Johannisburg airport, with it’s truly wonderful bookstore, and came across The Company of Liars: a novel of the plague. Well, it isn’t exactly a novel of the plague. The story opens in 1348, […]

I tend to use up my Moleskins over an average period of 4 to 5 months. Over the past few months I have had a tendency when stopping in either Dubai or London, I pick up a notebook or two. And now I have a good supply of different kinds of Moleskins. Even though they […]

I tend to use up my Moleskins over an average period of 4 to 5 months. Over the past few months I have had a tendency when stopping in either Dubai or London, I pick up a notebook or two. And now I have a good supply of different kinds of Moleskins. Even though they […]

I tend to use up my Moleskins over an average period of 4 to 5 months. Over the past few months I have had a tendency when stopping in either Dubai or London, I pick up a notebook or two. And now I have a good supply of different kinds of Moleskins. Even though they […]

At first i was hesitant about reading the book, only because it was a love story about a girl and a vampire. I love romance and love stories, but the fact that there was a vampire in the story made me think twice. But thank god i got over it and gave…

This story revolves around a Witcher name Geralt, he is special type of person. Monsters are around in different areas with different capabilities, when people need to eradicate the problem then he is the man that is needed. A witcher is a special type of human who is genetically and magically modified when born, then […]

This story revolves around a Witcher name Geralt, he is special type of person. Monsters are around in different areas with different capabilities, when people need to eradicate the problem then he is the man that is needed. A witcher is a special type of human who is genetically and magically modified when born, then […]

This story revolves around a Witcher name Geralt, he is special type of person. Monsters are around in different areas with different capabilities, when people need to eradicate the problem then he is the man that is needed. A witcher is a special type of human who is genetically and magically modified when born, then […]

While waiting for our luggage to be offloaded, we were passing time, visiting with our greeter / expediter, asking about his family, his life in Zambia.
“How does this work, travelling with your son and your daughter-in-law?” he asked us. “Do you like her?”
Nothing on earth could disguise the delight on our faces as we […]

Dear friend,
Generally, I’m not a big fan of coming-of-age or teenage novels; they usually tend to be repetitive and uninspired. However, The Perks of Being a Wallflower was definitely something else. I’ve never read anything like it and I rarely get hooked up so easily by a book and seem to finish it in less […]

Has anyone seen a working Kindle in Kuwait, as in dowloading everything over the air and all that good jazz?  The choices of magazines and books here kinda suck, and I was thinking of getting the Kindle to read the books I purchase.  I tend to get my books from Amazon anyway.  Magazine subscriptions rock […]

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WARNING this is a long boring post full of blabbing and a little sound of a person freaking out and saying absolutely nonsense.OH MY GOD it just hit me I LOVE STUDYING I LIKE HAVING HOMEWORK :’( YAYKS did i just say/write that?! :sOk, so i was all thri…

Mine was Steven Kellog’s Paul Bunyan. Paul was awesome and strong and kicked butt.

What about you?

I’ve just received my first order from Aramex (using big brother’s account) and the damn thing cost 10.500KD just to be delivered, it’s robbery I tell you. I thought it would be a smart move to exploit my brother’s Amazon Premium account and get some nice discounts, but now I’m thinking of it, it really […]

I managed to finish the 290 pages of this book over five days and this was the second book I have read for the same author. Women talks about the author experiences with women during a set period of time, but he uses aliases in his book instead of real names of the ladies. This […]

In an old newsweek issue, dated a few weeks and two years ago I read about Mary Magdalene and her relation to Christianity and the different stories that wrapped her life, She was the woman who had no fixed reputation many thoughts she was a sinner and others thought she was virtuous.

The movie “The Da Vinci Code” based on Dan Brown’s book, concentrated on her and took the gap that many

Since I am getting extra time these days to read, I decided to catch up on my books from the last few months, and started with Post office, a book recommended by Nibaq. I had seen the movie Factotum a while back and it was a somber experience, yet enjoyable, however, after reading the book, […]

This is a really funny review on what seems to be the worst book ever written. It actually makes me want to read the book.
Check out the first review at below link and even the comments against the reviews are a hilarious read.
One of the seemingly numerous jewels in this book: “Already, he knew he […]

عندما تصلك هدية عبارة عن كتاب باللغة العربية وأنت تعيش في الغربة، في بلد لا توجد في مكتباته الا الكتب الأجنبية لا بد أنك ستفرح بهذا الكتاب وخاصة اذا كنت تحب القراءة كثيرا.
وحتما سوف تقدر الهدية اكثر اذا كان الكتاب عبارة عن رواية وأنت منذ زمن متشوق لقراءة رواية كتبت باللغة العربي، لأن كل الروايات التي قرأتها اما باللغة الانجليزية أو مترجمة من لغات أجنبية الى العربية.

أما اذا كانت الهدية مهداة

Triptyque designed this space ship looking bookshelf for a urban apartment in San Paulo, Brazil. This bookshelf system serves the whole apartment from normal books, to important items, to the entertainment system at the other end. It gives the apartment a different form and feel which I can appreciate.

If there is one thing that I […]

I picked up this book while browsing at Borders in Heathrow International Airport as I was exchanging flight to return back home. The fact that I spotted it after publishing “The French Way of Life” post a few days ago was a clear sign that I have to dive in its pages. And thank God […]

“Did you get a chance to watch the DVD?” I asked my friend, “because I have the book, and the book is SO much better. You understand so much more.”
“No! No! I started, but I could not watch it,” said my friend, “It was too violent!”

No Country For Old Men was a very violent movie, […]

Intlxpatr’s comment regarding postsecret today reminded me about this not so private secret I found on campus last year, which really wasn’t post worthy until I listened to Barack Obama’s AIPAC speech that I found on Salimya’s blog.. and then I got to thinking about not so private secrets in the world, secrets that many […]

Back in May, I published an e-mail I had received about The Law of the Garbage Truck. It turns out, as I learned from a comment yesterday, that it is taken from a book by David J. Pollay who has his own blog at Typepad. No, he didn’t write me a nasty e-mail; […]

I finally understand why female literature students swoon over Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I haven’t read the book yet, but instead, I watched the 2005 adaptation starring Keira Knightly. Why haven’t I read the book yet? Simple. For the last three years I’ve struggled to read […]

بعض المدونين لديهم ابداعات تستحق الاشارة والاشادة
فقد قام المدون الاماراتي عبد الله المهيري (سردال) بتأليف كتاب لمساعدة المبتدئين على انشاء مواقع على الانترنت. مجهود كبير يضعه بين يدي القارئ على الانترنت وبالمجان بعنوان تطوير المواقع للمبتدئين

أما الأخت مي فقد انتهت من ترجمة كتاب:
Know Can Do
الى العربية ووضعته بالكامل على الانترنت بعنوان طبق ما تعرفه.

الله يعطيهم العافية

Hi all, Im really sorry I haven’t been replying to emails or even phone calls we’ve been super busy welcoming our new born baby girl! Dhari is super excited and busy taking care of his little sister! Showering her with hugs and kisses! Lol he cant get enough of her he spends hours watching her sleep hehe For my cyber healthy cooking classes students we will resume classes on the 3rd of june..

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I’ve been having dreamless sleeps for a while now, and I can’t help but wonder what’s causing this dream-drought. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I haven’t been feeling very well for a while. I hate this; hell, I’ve been hating a lot of things lately. […]

صباح الخير

البرغ السكري يعود مجددا

توني قريت أن كتاب الخيميائي لباولو كوهيليو راح يسونه فيلم من بطولة و اخراج لورنس فيشبيرن و بطولة بانالوبي كروز (يا حلاوة). اتمني أن الفيلم يكون بحلاوة الكتاب، بس من الصعب تحقيق هذا الشئ و لكن نشوف

في كم مدونة ذكرت مقالة البي بي سي عن الانتخابات و انهم ذكروا أن […]

فاروق جويدة شاعر مصري له انتاج أدبي كبير ترجم منه الى لغات عدة منها الانجليزية والفرنسية والصينيية واليوغسلافية. هذا الشاعر الكبير كان ضيف برنامج نلتقي الذي تقدمه بروين حبيب على دبي الفضائية.
سألته بروين عن شخصيات معجب بها أو متأثر بها. فقال: حتى لو لم أكن مسلما لاعتبرت علي بن أبي طالب من أعظم المفكرين في التاريخ، حتى لو وضعت معتقداتي الاسلامية على جانب وقرأت ما جاء في نهج البلاغة من أقوال وخطب

Starts off in the early 70s with a lot of Italian families just moving into the lives of the Italian culture in that time. The story is told from Marco’s point of view, and he was a young kid that had brains but gets into some trouble. After leaving his home he moves in with […]

So, with this very long weekend we are getting nowadays, people assume that i should be happily catching up with my readings and papers… but guess what Angel is doing !? NONE of the above :p :Di know i know i know, stupid, i should be working harder …

So, with this very long weekend we are getting nowadays, people assume that i should be happily catching up with my readings and papers… but guess what Angel is doing !? NONE of the above :p :Di know i know i know, stupid, i should be working harder …

It took me a while to get through this book but it was well worth the read.  The book provides really good advise for women.  The way the book is organized and the examples it uses make the book easy to read and easy to follow.  Meaning it is suitable for almost any female out […]

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Name: Ketaaby.com
Type: Shopping - Books
Description: Kuwait online shopping bookstore that offers wide range of Arabic focused books with an English books section as well. The site is divided into one level of categories, e.g. computers, law, literature, English, but there are no subcategories. Home delivery is made within 48 hours of order placement, and it […]

I watched The Kite Runner last night.
I can’t get “for you, a thousand times over” out of my head, I just can’t. Both times they were said in the movie made me tear.

Overall it was a great movie; unfortunately, I can’t really remember the exact details of the book because I read it […]

This article from The Washington Post caught my eye for a couple of reasons. While I like Harry Potter, and am delighted to see children reading just about anything, I wondered if some of the oldies but goodies were still being read - and this study says that they are.
What is the number one […]

Yes, expect a rant on the political love fest going on.

Yes, it’s banned in Kuwait.

Yes, it’s banned in Dubai.

Yes, you can get it in Bahrain.

Yes, you can get it from PlayAsia.com. …Don’t get it through FedEx, it took six days to deliver.

I know this because I got a copy from Bahrain and a copy from PlayAsia.

While this game is not for those of you between the ages of 13-60, with the stipulation that puberty is not mercilessly clobbering you on your forehead and back, GTA4 is an amazing game. Unlike GTA:SA, developing friendships actually gives you perks, like clearing your wanted level with the police, getting free cab rides (hailing cabs!), heli rides, gangs, a weapons merchant coming to you, and more! The intimidatingly good graphics are enough to leave you gobsmacked for the first five-thousand hours, seeing as how weather effects are astoundingly realistic, the vehicles are very true to life.

Did I mention that online mode is AMAZING? You can roam the entire map with your friends (allowing or disallowing friendly fire, and previously-setting the respawn rate,) or shoot each other to within an inch of death, play with complete strangers and kill THOSE guys, or if you’re not the violent type (what are you doing with this game?) you can race though chosen or random parts of the city, choose the laps, and all that good stuff. The more missions you win online, the more extensive your wardrobe becomes for your online avatar.

You can spend endless hours just exploring the parts of the map available to you here (it goes without saying-but I’m saying it, oh wow, that as you do more missions the storyline develops, and you get to see more of the city,) and every detail is beautiful, and there for you to admire. This is by far the most captivating Rockstar game, giving Vice City a run for its money (What can I say? I may love Tommy too much!) In no way, however, is this lame any less fun, it’s so much MORE fun simply because of the more realistic freedom. You can browse the in-game internet for God’s sake! Oh! And for the first time you have the choice on who you want to kill this time, and that in turn effects how your story unfolds!

And now on a more laughable note: I will not vote for Flan or 3illan because they are your cousin, and he’s a “khosh rayal,” it is not a favor, it is not favoritism or nepotism, nor is it about some cliche, cheap slogans like, “Kuwait ou bas,” or “7ag liKuwait” it’s about action. It’s not about you gathering your kin and badmouthing Flan-actually, if you want to, go ahead, but when you resort to words that show your amazing lack of class, maybe you need to step away from the mic and revise your position, about wanting to look like a legitimate, honest lawmaker. The one thought that keeps coming to mind when I watch this slaughter of respect that I have for Kuwaiti politics, the more the idea that, “Walla 3a6ohom wayh,” pops into mind…

Finally, mature book lovers, read Paint It Black. It’s heavy stuff, it is not for the weak-hearted, it’s grotesquely beautiful, you have been warned. No, it’s nothing sleazy, but it’s heavily focused on suicide and expresses a lot of drug use.

Know any good books I can read?

Oh my God I went driving since 5.50 in the morning until like 7.00, it was awesome, showari3 5alya ou a lot of time to think and laugh at morning radio–oh my God, they were talking about Kabab min 9iba7 Allah 5air, Allah ylawi3 chabd il 3ado…

After all the months my reading and blogging friends have been recommending the Kuwait Book Store, I finally got there.
I thought I was in heaven.
Another friend, with us, said she is planning a date night with her husband at the Kuwait Book Store - you can spend hours there, and you can top off […]

This is another one of those books I picked up on the last day of my last travels in the US. I had been through the Barnes and Noble nearby several times, picked this up and looked at is at least a dozen times, then put it down, just not that interested. On the last […]

KPC is holding a book fair for its employees. If you work there then you will see us at our booth Tuesday and Wednesday from 10-2.We will have displayed our welovekuwait color and learn book collection - the first Kuwaiti activity books series geared towards the Kuwaiti child concerned with: environmental awareness, healthy nutrition and lifestyle, the love of Kuwait and other major topics! as