BookXcess Blog Bonanza 36
Friday, April 30, 2010Why is Friday our favourite day of the week? Not only it means weekend has arrived, but it’s also BookXcess’s Blog Bonanza Day! We’re dedicating this week’s Blog Bonanza to all business or corporate souls out there! Whether you’re working or studying in the business world, this great prize we’re giving away will sure be a remarkable asset for you!
Three lucky readers will each get to bring home a copy of Jeffery Eisenberg’s “Waiting for Your Cat to Bark” business management book! This book obviously has a very interesting title, “Waiting for Your Cat to Bark” and it is a fitting title for this book. Naturally, cats tend to see the world revolve around them while dogs are eager to please their masters by doing whatever they want. Customers today are in charge–much like cats. This book reveals the changes in the marketing world; how and why marketing has changed. Moreover, the author also uncover the minds of customers and why they’ve changed as they respond to products and services which could be an enlightening piece of dicussion for all our business leaders out there. The highlights of this book is on getting started with persuasion architecture, which, in practice, shrinks the gap between customer and marketer. The best part of this book is that it comes with a CD containing 80 minutes of the authors in a question and answer session!
To enter this week’s Blog Bonanza, just name one other book title the author have written & share with us your all time favourite business/management book or author.
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 6 May 2010. Incomplete or late entries will be disqualified. Three winning entries will be randomly drawn and the winners will be notified via e-mail.
Positive thinking, that’s the spirit! Have a great week ahead everyone! Cheerios~ 
Coming Soon!
Thursday, April 29, 2010Good news travel fast people! Our new shipment will be arriving around mid-May! Which books will be migrating to BookXcess this time around? Sneak preview for everyone!
Speaking of the devil! Just as we talked about books-turned-movie, Dear John is one of our new arrivals!! The movie’s character is depicted by Channing Tatum & Amanda Seyfried, as John & Savannah respectively!
What is the book about?
Dear John is a three part novel written by American author Nicholas Sparks in 2006. This novel is about a young soldier, John, who falls for an idealistic college girl named Savannah when she was on spring break and John was on temporary leave from the army. Over the course of the next seven years, the love letters that Savannah sent to John were one of the only things that kept him going although each deployment seemed more treacherous than the last. However, those loving and heartfelt letters would ultimately yield consequences that neither the brave soldier nor his one true love could have ever foreseen.
What are the highlights about this book?
Dear John has been made into an American romantic drama/war film in 2010, starring Channing Tatum (Step Up) and Amanda Seyfried (Mama Mia). This movie debuted as the No. 1 movie with $30,468,614 in its opening weekend, knocking off Avatar.
Who would love reading it?
One who would love to snuggle up on a peaceful day to read a touching and romantic story. After finishing the book, you’ll be marvelling at the power of love. Read more
Blog Bonanza 33 & 34 Winners
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
To all anticipating participants for these two blog bonanzas, it’s time to announce the winners and present the prizes!
For these two particular Blog Bonanzas, there are many Stephenie Meyer, Terry Pratchett, Stephen Player, and Christopher Paolini fans that are eager to win the books! So we went through each entry to choose the top 3 most creative entries to win the prize and the winners go to…
For the Blog Bonanza 33, the winners are…
Ho Wen Da
Suzanne Lai
William Choong
For the Blog Bonanza 34, the winners are…
Cindy Lai
Tony Lau Pak hoe
Nur Naelah ‘Ariefah Nordin
Congratulations to the six winners! For winners of Blog Bonanza 33, they can choose to take home Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon or Breaking Dawn book. For Blog Bonanza 34 winners, they can choose either Terry Pratchett & Stephen Player’s The Illustrated Wee Free Man or Christopher Paolini’s Eragon’s Guide to Alagaesia as their next read.
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!
The Evolution of Books into Movies.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010When a story unfolds from a book onto the big silver screen, as readers we anticipate anxiously wondering who would portray our antagonist or protagonist, and how successful the producers of the movie will be able to interpret the plots and scenes from the book. Sometimes, don’t we wonder how the writer envisions his or her characters of their stories? Even as readers, before the movie was made, we have our personal imagination of the characters and scenes. Here are some of the movies that have been inspired by famous books:
Classics; “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott. The movie features famous stars such as Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Kristen Dunst, Samantha Mathis, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, and Tini Alvarado as characters of the March family.
Fantasy Epic; “The Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien. The trilogy film was made starring Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom and the lot.
Children’s Book; “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl. Adapted in the year of 2005 starring Freddie Highmore and Johnny Depp, which became a huge box office success.
Chic Lit; “P.S. I love you” by Cecelia Ahern. The main characters Holly and Gerry was acted by Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler.
Do you think the movie producers did a good job portraying the books’ content onto the big screen? Which are your personal favourites or disappointments?
Ultimately, we readers get the best of both worlds! 
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BookXcess Reviews The Perfect Man – Jenny Markas
Monday, April 26, 2010
The Perfect Man – Jenny Markas
Price: RM5.00 only!
So, what’s this book about?
A single mom, a teenage girl and a little sister. Every time Holly Hamilton’s mom, Jean, breaks off with her second-rate guy, they have to move. Holly begins to chronicle her life in a blog. She also creates “The Perfect Man”, an imaginary secret admirer to distract her mother from her latest beau, who’s going to end up another bad match from the looks of it. But when things don’t go to plan, she has to continue lying to her mom to protect her newfound happiness with “The Perfect Man”.
What’s special about it?
This book is a novelisation based on the movie with the same name, that stars Hilary Duff and Heather Locklear. A quick glimpse at Amazon shows that this novelisation received some pretty rave reviews.
What are your thoughts about this book?
The easiest way to solve any problem is running away from it. That is what we always do. Holly tries very hard to make her mother happy so that she does not have to keep uprooting herself and move to a new town anymore. But when she faces the same problem as her mom did, she now feels like moving away too. In the end, mother and daughter tries to understand each other and solve their problems without running away. The Perfect Man shows that sometimes, we have to be tough and face our problems wisely, that’s the best thing to do.
Would you recommend this book to anyone?
If you enjoyed the movie you will like this book too. If you have not watched the movie, the book will make you want to watch it after you read it!
Random question: Do you think that the perfect man really exists?
Honestly, only in our dreams, I think!
Review by BookXcess staff Malis
BookXcess Blog Bonanza 35
Friday, April 23, 2010
Happy World Book Day, everybody! 
It’s a super special Friday today because we’re celebrating our favourite thing in the world… books! But for today, we’re not giving away books. Instead, we’re giving away… book vouchers! 
Precisely, we’re giving away BookXcess vouchers worth RM10 to 5 winners each.
If you’re itching to get your hands on these vouchers, answer the following questions below.
1. What is the other date for World Book Day which is celebrated in the UK and Ireland?
2. Which international organisation is behind World Book Day (on 23 April)?
3. Which two famous literary authors was supposed to have died on 23 April?
On World Book Day… (complete this phrase without exceeding 500 words. You can write about anything; for instance, you can write about what your school does on World Book Day, or write a fictional story. You can write in any 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 29 April 2010. Incomplete entries will be disqualified. Five winning entries will be chosen and the winners will be notified via e-mail.
Blog Bonanzas 31 & 32 Winners
Thursday, April 22, 2010
With World Book Day approaching tomorrow, what better time than now to give away free books? If you had participated in Blog Bonanzas 31 and 32, let’s see if you’re one of the lucky winners! Read more
World Book Day 2010 Promotion at BookXcess
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
World Book Day 20% Off for 100 Selected Titles Book List
Tuesday, April 20, 2010For those who are interested on what titles will be 20% off for our coming World Book Day promotion from 21 to 25 April 2010, you can download the list, which is set in Microsoft Excel, by clicking on the link below.
Discover the World of Eric Carle
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Eric Carle is most famous for his children’s picture book classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar. In our latest small shipment of children’s books, there are a few goodies by Eric Carle. Let’s see what Eric Carle books are at BookXcess currently. Read more