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A Tapestry of a Novel in the best sense of the word—Dear Edward

June 20, 2019 by Robin Chan

“Tapestry” is not a word I trust in a book blurb, no matter who has written it. Yet, 336 pages later and a month of carrying the book around every day, I have to concede—Dear Edward is a most fascinating tapestry of a book. My distrust in the word lies simply in that it tells […]

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The Second Young Adult Book I Have Read and Haven’t Forgotten Since—All the Bright Places

March 24, 2018 by Robin Chan

Let’s continue with the second one of my unforgettable Young Adult books: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. I am very grateful I followed my instinct to buy this book in the bookshop I worked in after repeated inquiries from some very eager teen readers. At first, we didn’t carry it and I couldn’t help but order […]

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Some Young Adult Novels I Have Read and Haven’t Forgotten Since—The Fault in Our Stars

March 22, 2018 by Robin Chan

I want to talk about some unforgettable YA books I have read, starting with the most well-known and most read, also the one I read first among the four I have picked: John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. The thing about YA, or Young Adult books, is that I never read any when I was […]

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About the Blogger

My name is Robin Chan. I currently work as a book buyer for an independently owned English bookseller in Hong Kong. In general, I enjoy my work—getting to know all the new books, restocking the old ones I consider good books, curating lists and catalogs and writing about them and getting paid for all that. But it’s not possible to talk about all your personal favorites if you don’t own the business. So here I am, this is my personal business about everything I love in reading, and yes—you see it already—gaming. I started gaming pretty young and I am proud to say that I still thoroughly enjoy exploring new worlds and characters and narratives which sometimes in their own unique ways surpass the ways books interact with you, and of course, it’s the same for books the other way round. And this is where I explore the interactions of my two favorite mediums.

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