Looking for Lee Child’s Fans
Monday, August 31, 2009
Are you a fan of Lee Child’s books? Leave a comment if you are!
BookXcess Merdeka Promotion
Friday, August 28, 2009
BookXcess Blog Bonanza 4
Friday, August 28, 2009Hail, Friday! TGIF or what? 
This week’s Blog Bonanza is for the young at heart – write about a children or young adult book that holds a special place in your heart and why. Entries will be judged based on how interesting and creative they are.
Three lucky winners get to choose to bring home one of the books above, which are The World of Pooh Collection box set (read our review here), High School Musical All Access or Inkheart.
Deadline is midnight Thursday 3 September 2009 and winners will be announced the week after. To enter a Blog Bonanza contest, submit your entry along with name, IC number, contact number and e-mail address to sales[at]bookxcess[dot]com. Prizes must be collected within one month of winning and BookXcess reserves the right to edit and publish entries.
Good luck!
A Precious Gem of a Tale
Thursday, August 27, 2009
The Necklace – Cheryl Jarvis
Price: RM17.90
As we walk through life there are things which we will fall in love with and be able to afford. There will also be things we will fall head over heels in love with and know that we’ll never be able to afford. What do we do then? Here is a tale that offers one possibility.
Imagine that you are walking down the street one day and you pass a jeweller’s store. It’s a route you’ve walked many times. As always you pause to have a look. There in the window is the most beautiful diamond necklace. It takes your breath away and you can just see yourself wearing it. The price tag? US$37,000.
The Necklace is the true story of one woman who sees just such a necklace and falls in love with it. She knows that she will never be able to afford it alone but it keeps nagging at her. What does she do? What if there were more women, she wonders. Several weeks and dozens of phone calls later, 13 women from the town of Ventura come together to buy the necklace. What one woman could not do alone, a group of women certainly could.
They were 13 ordinary women, from greatly different backgrounds. They seemed to have nothing in common until the dream of owning this necklace brings them together. The necklace weaves in and out of each woman’s life, reflecting her past, defining her present, making promises for her future. Lending sparkle in surprising and unexpected ways, the necklace comes to mean something dramatically different to each of the 13 women.
The women show us how they rise above their individual personalities and politics to join together in an uncommon journey as they transform a symbol of exclusivity into a symbol of inclusiveness. They discover that sharing the necklace among themselves is only the beginning; the more they shared with others, the more profound this experience became, turning into an extraordinary journey and uniting a whole community.
Read and find out how a small circle of women with a whimsical dream, believed in the promise of a possibility and in doing so changed their lives and touched the lives of all in their community. It’s not very often that you find a book with so much heart and soul. Read it and dream. Who knows, with a little help, the dream might just come true.
Review by BookXcess staff Nesa
School Holidays Readings
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
This school holidays we are reading… Read more
Blog Bonanza 2 Winners
Tuesday, August 25, 2009Mmm, what delicious recipes we were salivating over from last week’s Blog Bonanza entries! Thank you to everyone who participated.
Congratulations to the winners (in alphabetical order), who just won themselves a set of four Zarina cookbooks, worth over RM70 each!
Lim Poh Choo, who made 30 bowls of mouth-watering Sarawak Laksa! Well, she would have when she makes this recipe. 
Lim Swee San, who made brownies with a kick indeed – the brownies are made with cream cheese and chili!
Sim Siaw Phing, who shared a secret recipe of almond biscotti that will calm down “even a finicky dog”. Read her recipe to know what it means exactly. 
Here are the winning recipes. Read more
BookXcess Reviews Heaven’s Net is Wide – Lian Hearn
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Heaven’s Net is Wide – Lian Hearn
Price: RM17.90
1. So, what’s this book about?
It’s about an inter-clan war within the various shogunate families during feudal Japan.
2. What’s special about it?
It’s set in Japan during medieval times, so the reader gets to learn about the culture and people during that time.
3. What did you think about this book?
Overall, it’s a good book. The language is a bit simple, but an entertaining read nonetheless.
4. Would you recommend this book to anyone?
This book is for those who love historical fiction sagas and people who are into samurai and the Japan way of life.
5. Random trivia: Did you know that the most-visited amusement park in the world is Tokyo Disneyland? It was opened in 1983 and more than 13 million people visit it every year.
Review by BookXcess staff Norsham
School Holidays Specials
Monday, August 24, 2009It’s the school holidays, yay! If you have no plans for the holidays, why don’t get these great reads below? One book for every weekday of the holidays!
The Squire’s Tales (Book IV): Parsifal’s Page
Gerald Morris
Price before discount: RM12.90
The Squire’s Tales (Book V): The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
Gerald Morris
Price before discount: RM12.90
Eagle Strike (Alex Rider series Book 4)
Anthony Horowitz
Price before discount: RM14.90
Snakehead (Alex Rider series Book 7)
Anthony Horowitz
Price before discount: RM14.90
Inkheart
Cornelia Funke
Price before discount: RM17.90
From 24 to 28 August 2009, the books above are 20% off when you give the password BookXcess School Holiday Promo at the counter. Promotion is limited to one book per customer while stock lasts. Happy school holidays!
BookXcess Blog Bonanza 3
Friday, August 21, 2009Happy Friday everyone! You must be excited about today and not just because it’s the start of the weekend. Today is also the day where you stand a chance to win BookXcess’s two fast-selling and highly recommended books from our latest shipment, which are Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and Sophie Kinsella’s Remember Me?.
Five winners will be chosen randomly (ie. lucky draw) to win a copy of either The Book Thief or Remember Me? by answering a quiz about these two books correctly. Deadline is midnight Thursday 27 August 2009 and winners will be announced the week after. To enter a Blog Bonanza contest, submit your entry along with name, IC number, contact number and e-mail address to sales[at]bookxcess[dot]com. Prizes must be collected within one month of winning.
Now, on to the quiz! Read more
A BookXcess Meme!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
We just posted this meme on our Facebook but in case we have non-Facebook fans who’d like to do the meme, here it is! Read more