For Him, For Her, For You, For Me!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Valentine’s Day is coming (as is Chinese New Year, yay)! If you’re at a loss on what to give your significant other, here are some gift ideas. If you don’t have a significant other, you could always get a gift for a dear friend… or even yourself! Since it’s a day to celebrate love, what better way to do just that than by indulging yourself with a book to savour with pleasure. Read more

BookXcess Blog Bonanza 26

Friday, February 5, 2010

Happy Friday, everyone! It’s time for some fun with Blog Bonanza.

This week, we’re not giving books away.

However, we are giving away the sweet little Precious Moments book bag, the box of fun Disney Pixar Fun Kit or the hilarious Go-Go Gigglers Sharky stuffed toy to three lucky winners (you get to choose which one you want to take home!).

If you want to bring home one of these for your little one, just tell us as a child, which fairy tale is your favourite and why. Your entry should be written between 50 and 500 words, in whatever form you choose (poem, point form, short essay, etc.).

Submit your entry along with name, IC number, contact number and e-mail address to sales[at]bookxcess[dot]com. Contest deadline is Thursday midnight 11 February 2010. Incomplete entries will be disqualified. Three of the most creative and entertaining entries will be chosen and the winners will be notified via e-mail.

BookXcess Reviews Trump’s Business Books

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Think Big & Kick Ass – Donald Trump & Bill Zanker
Why We Want You to be Rich – Donald Trump & Robert T. Kiyosaki
Price: RM29.90 each

1. So, what are these two books about?
Think Big & Kick Ass teaches the reader to use Donald Trump’s think BIG formula to maximise professional and personal achievement. Bill Zanker is the founder of The Learning Annex, an adult education school and someone who has applied Trump’s formula in his life. Together, they relate their personal and professional experiences to impart to the reader on how to get momentum (and how to get it back), when to back up one’s opinions aggressively regardless of what critics and opponents say and many more quality advice from two individuals who have succeeded, failed and achieved success again and again.

Why We Want You to be Rich comes from two men with one message: to share their passion and knowledge of the importance of finance education. Robert T. Kiyosaki, who’s most famous for his bestseller Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Donald Trump believe in the adage of teaching a man to fish to feed him for a lifetime (rather than to give him a fish and feed him for a day). Together, Kiyosaki and Trump teaches you to solve money problems with financial education and ultimately, to be rich.

2. What’s special about them?
In Think Big & Kick Ass, you will learn the importance of contracts in business as well as personal life, read real-life stories from individuals who’ve applied the think BIG formula in their own lives, and basically how to break through your own personal limits to think BIG the Donald Trump way and achieve success in life.

In Why We Want You to be Rich Trump & Kiyosaki share in detail the reasons why they wrote this book, identify the kinds of investors, offer financial advice for individuals in various financial scenarios and teach you how to get started in your quest to be rich.

3. What are your thoughts on these books?
Think Big & Kick Ass is like listening to the big man Donald Trump himself talk to you about his working experience. His anecdotes are conversational but are packed with wisdom. It’s a motivating and entertaining read – you’ll finish the book and gain some good advice about achieving success not just in your career but in your personal life.

Why We Want You to be Rich has Trump & Kiyosaki taking their differing life experiences to share their views on the financial issues brought up in this book. Visually it is not too linear, with pictures, block quotes and diagrams interspersed throughout so it makes reading it not too monotonous. The font is large enough that you don’t have to squint to read it.

4. Would you recommend them to anyone?
Think Big & Kick Ass makes a great self-help read for a budding entrepreneur who needs motivation and inspiration to succeed in business.

Why We Want You to be Rich is recommended for the individual looking to grow his or her money with money, or someone who wants to learn more about finance education.

5. Random question: Share a Donald Trump trivia with us.
According to Wikipedia, Donald Trump’s salary is USD$37 million!!! Annually, we presume… but still! The amount’s absolutely mind-boggling. He’s also worth USD$2 billion… staggering! How many zeros are there in a billion??

Blog Bonanza 23 & 24 Winners

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Calling Tharani Loganathan, Heng Sher Li, Lim Bee Chin, Cheah May-huen, Sakina Khatib and Eeo Ai Ting!

You’ve just won yourselves a prize from BookXcess from your participation in BookXcess Blog Bonanzas 23 & 24. Tharani has won The Two Towers audio book, while Sher Li takes home the Living the Truth audio book and Bee Chin the See Jane Lead audio book.

As for May-huen, Sakina and Ai Ting, they get to choose among What Customers Really Want, The Power of Story or Branding Only Works on Cattle as their next inspirational business read! (Oh, if you’re wondering, May-huen’s occupation is a business student who dreams of an exciting, challenging and fulfilling career, while Sakina wishes to pen a coming-of-age young adult book, and Ai Ting is a student with a vision of opening a book-cum-cafe, inspired by a place she visited in Vietnam. It was very interesting to read about all the participants’ current occupations and dream jobs! )

Congratulations, you lucky six. Check your inbox for details about your prizes.

To the others who’ve taken part in these two Blog Bonanzas, thank you for entering. Remember, there’s always a Blog Bonanza every Friday. TGIF or what?

BookXcess Reviews The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The Illustrated Wee Free Men: A Story of Discworld – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Player (Illustrator)
Price: RM29.90

1. So, what’s this book about?
It is about a 9-year-old witch wannabe, Tiffany Aching, who goes on a quest to save her sticky little brother from the evil Queen of Fairyland. With an iron frying pan as her weapon, Tiffany fought through various mini adventures together with a bunch of tiny ickle blue men with very strong Scottish accents called the Nac Mac Feegle or pictsies or Wee Free Men.

2. What’s special about it?
This book is Terry Pratchett’s second Young Adult Discworld book (30th adult version). This particular version has brilliant illustrations by Stephen Player which makes it more appealing and fun to read.

The best thing about reading a Terry Pratchett book is that you don’t need to be up to date with the earlier books to be able to read this one, although they are very much connected to each other. It is funny, and serious, and frightening, and happy, and strange, and ridiculous, and heartfelt, all at the same time. And who wouldn’t want to read about strange little blue men??!!

3. What are your thoughts on this book?
It is a typical Pratchett’s creation. Filled with exciting adventures which will make you want to turn the page and the page after that. And he’s seriously funny too! Although I do feel that Wee Free Men is a bit down-to-earth compared to his other works, but it is a bit easier to be read and perhaps could be a great starting point for the reader who has yet to try Terry Pratchett’s books.

4. Would you recommend this book to anyone?
Yes, absolutely! If you enjoy reading fantasy then this is a must read. And it is a must that you have a copy of this fantastic version!

5. Random question: What is this strange land called Discworld about?
For the uninitiated, Discworld is “a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle,” as Wikipedia succinctly puts it.

Review by BookXcess part-time staff Zeela

BookXcess Staff Picks

Monday, February 1, 2010

For us who work at BookXcess, we don’t just sell books. We read them and we love them. That’s why every month BookXcess staff will recommend 3 books for readers who are looking for their next read, or maybe as a gift for someone.

So check out what we’re recommending for this month!

Have you read a book recommended by a BookXcess staff before? Did you like it? Or which staff’s recommendation do you enjoy checking?

More Romping Romances

Friday, January 29, 2010

If you thought RM6.90 for a romance novel is amazing enough, how about 3 stories in 1 book for only RM9.90?? We have more value-for-money Mills & Boon romances if these books are your kind of read. Read more

BookXcess Blog Bonanza 25

Friday, January 29, 2010

Blog Bonanza is looking for fans of The Lord of the Rings with a sense of humour. That’s because for this week we’re giving away one box set of Cardboard Box of the Rings! This trilogy contains parodies of Tolkien’s famous works, such as The Silmarillion (The Sellamillion), The Hobbit (The Soddit) and The Lord of the Rings (Bored of the Rings).

To win this box set worth RM39.90, just tell us which is your favourite character from The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Submit your entry along with name, IC number, contact number and e-mail address to sales[at]bookxcess[dot]com. Contest deadline is Thursday midnight 4 February 2010. Incomplete entries will be disqualified. One winning entry will be randomly drawn and the winner will be notified via e-mail.

The box set is precioussssssss, isn’t it?

A Mixed Bag of Treasure

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Visiting BookXcess is akin to treasure hunting. Being a remaindered bookshop, you might find that we do not stock specific titles you’re looking for. You might also find that when you leave the bookshop without having the book you’re looking for, you also leave with a book or two that caught your eye, or something that piqued your curiosity. And when you finish reading the book(s), you discover a different kind of reading magic: enjoying a previously unknown book far better than you expected, which you might not have tried if it wasn’t so reasonably priced.

A random stroll around the shop revealed these books to us. Read more

It’s A Small One’s World

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Children are spoilt for choice by our selection of children’s books from the new shipment here at BookXcess. The more boxes we open, the more we uncover goodies like the ones featured in this post. Check them out in detail –> Read more

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