Texts Dec 2009

Happy New Year!!! And here's the last of the books I read from 2009... oddly enough, no poetry this time round.

*FICTION*
+Amélie Nothomb’s “Sulphuric Acid”
+Mae West’s “She Done Him Wrong”
+“Body 2 Body: A Malaysian Queer Anthology” ed. Pang Khee Teik and Jerome Kugan
+Susanna Vance’s “Sights”

*DRAMA*
Sim Teow Li’s “Curios”
+Vijay Nair’s “The Gloomy Rabbit and Other Plays”

*NON-FICTION*
+QI, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson’s “QI: The Pocket Book of General Ignorance”
+Mark Ravinder Frost and Yu-mei Balasingamchow “Singapore: A Biography”

*UNCLASSIFIABLE"
+Parvez Devan's "The Book of Hanuman"

*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
+Troy Chin’s “The Resident Tourist”, Parts 2 and 3
+Philip Ardagh’s “The Lawless Sisters”
+Amruta Patil’s “Kari”
+Edward Gorey’s “Amphigorey Again”
+Chester Brown’s “I Never Liked You”

*PERFORMANCES*
+The Finger Players’ “Cat, Lost and Found”
+STAGES’ “Chestnuts Does Christmas Like a Hard Candy Virgin”

*EXHIBITIONS*
+National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru’s ““Signposts of the Times”
Fort St George, Chennai’s permanent exhibiton
National Museum of Singapore’s +“Quest for Immortality – the World of Ancient Egypt”, +“THE BAG: Carrier bags in Singapore from the 1950s to the 1980s” and “Spot & Shoot 2009: Our Landscape”

*FILMS*
+Ron Clements and John Musker’s “The Princess and the Frog”
+James Cameron’s “Avatar”