{"id":9342,"date":"2018-04-13T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T07:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/?p=9342"},"modified":"2018-04-13T07:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T07:15:03","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I deliberated for a while what to title this page, before settling on &#8220;books&#8221;. I once asked for recommendations, you can see the thread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/singpowrimo\/permalink\/1512515308863715\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ministry of Moral Panic, by Amanda Lee Koe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I skimmed through this one once, but I didn&#8217;t really enjoy it. I&#8217;ll give it another shot sometime this year maybe, if I get in the right mood for it. It seems to be the general favorite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, by Sonny Liew<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This gets my personal vote of recommendation, it was one of the best things I read in 2017, period.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kappa Quartet, by Daryl Qilin Yam<\/li>\n<li>Malay Sketches, by Alfian Sa&#8217;at<\/li>\n<li>The Gatekeeper &#8211; Nuraliah Norasid<\/li>\n<li>The Red Threads of Fortune &#8211; JY Yang<\/li>\n<li>gone case &#8211; dave chua<\/li>\n<li>We Rose Up Slowly &#8211; Jon Gresham<\/li>\n<li>The Resident Tourist &#8211; Troy Chin<\/li>\n<li>Bang My Car &#8211; Ann Ang<\/li>\n<li>Corridor &#8211; Alfian Sa&#8217;at<\/li>\n<li>capital misfits by julie koh<\/li>\n<li>Tender Delirium &#8211; Tania de Rozario<\/li>\n<li>Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal \u2013 I haven&#8217;t read this yet, but my wife has, and she likes it. I&#8217;ve enjoyed Balli&#8217;s commentary pieces around the web, too.<\/li>\n<li>Now That It&#8217;s Over &#8211; O Thiam Chin<\/li>\n<li>Altered States &#8211; Kevin Martens Wong<\/li>\n<li>It never rains on National Day<\/li>\n<li>Heartland &#8211; Daren Shiau<\/li>\n<li>the beating and other stories \u2013 dave chua<\/li>\n<li>Hoshimaruhon series &#8211; Wena Poon<\/li>\n<li>eastern heathens &#8211; ed. ng yisheng and amanda lee koe<\/li>\n<li>The Inlet &#8211; Claire Tham<\/li>\n<li>Singular Acts Of Endearment &#8211; Desmond Kon<\/li>\n<li>City of Small Blessings &#8211; Simon Tay<\/li>\n<li>Payoh &#8211; Jim Tan<\/li>\n<li>We Were Always Eating Expired Things by Cheryl Julia Lee<\/li>\n<li>these foolish things &#8211; yeo wei wei<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I deliberated for a while what to title this page, before settling on &#8220;books&#8221;. I once asked for recommendations, you can see the thread here. Ministry of Moral Panic, by Amanda Lee Koe I skimmed through this one once, but I didn&#8217;t really enjoy it. I&#8217;ll give it another shot sometime this year maybe, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6cErj-books","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9343,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions\/9343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}