TITLE: Mistress of the Game

AUTHOR: Tilly Bagshawe

PUBLISHER: William Morrow

RATING: 6/10

MISTRESS of the Game is the sequel to Sidney Sheldon's Master of the Game, published in 1982.

 

WASHINGTON: US authors and publishers, facing a deluge of objections from the US Justice Department and others, asked yesterday to delay a hearing on their legal settlement with Google over its book-scanning project.

In a filing with the US District Court in New York, attorneys for the US Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers asked for the October 7 hearing to be postponed to give them time to modify the complex agreement.

THE Home Ministry has issued a ban order on 13 publications with immoral content as being unsuitable for the reading public.

The banned publications are Cinta Awak Dalam Sehari, Pengantin Remaja, Masalah Seksual Yang Anda Malu Tanya, Rahsia Dalam Rahsia Di Sebalik Tirai Kamar Suami Isteri, Isteri Romantik di Kamar Yang Indah and Suami Romantik di Kamar Yang Indah.

I NEVER knew that hippos were the deadliest animals in the world (after you discount those nasty mosquitoes). Deadliest to humans, that is: 200 of us are killed by those beasts every year.

KLANG MP Charles Santiago and Meru State assemblyman Dr Abdul Rani Osman have donated 400 new books to the Klang district library. They forked out RM2,500 each to buy the books for the library, because they felt that new books were needed to encourage the younger generation to start reading.

"We have selected these books to give residents of Klang a broader look at things. We need our people to be more analytical and prepared for the global world," said Abdul Rani.

Santiago added that "by reading, we can create an intellectual society and encourage writing."

BOOKS that compile newspaper columns are usually as diverting as someone else’s jumbled laundry, but this is a happy exception.

It helps that I had never read any of the pieces here before.

I mistook Lydia Teh’s Word’s Up, Eh Poh Nim? column in The Star for some kind of simple grammar guide, so never felt compelled to go any further because I have been told that my Englands is already quite well.

Well, the joke’s on me!