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Review | How Green Was My Valley
Review | How Green Was My Valley
Richard Llewellyn’s How Green Was My Valley is one of a series of novels I have been reading in the last few months to explore the theme of…
Ede A Hamid
Sep 12, 2022
Review | The Grapes of Wrath
Review | The Grapes of Wrath
Reading Steinbeck is probably not a good way to usher in any new year, and 2021 is not an ordinary year. It’s a year full of the promise…
Ede A Hamid
Feb 10, 2021
Personal Impression| England, My England by DH Lawrence
Personal Impression| England, My England by DH Lawrence
Note: It is the first day of the partial lockdown imposed on Malaysians by the Movement Control Order which was announced by the Prime…
Ede A Hamid
Mar 18, 2020
Top 5 | Shakespeare
Top 5 | Shakespeare
This review was originally written way back in 2013, with some revision in light of recent film adaptations made since then.
Ede A Hamid
Jul 15, 2019
Review | Selected WWI Literary Works
Review | Selected WWI Literary Works
To commemorate the centenary of the Armistice last November, I had undertaken to revisit the poets of World War I like Wilfred Owen and…
Ede A Hamid
May 4, 2019
Review | The Razor’s Edge
Review | The Razor’s Edge
My time spent reading Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge coincided with my trip to Jogjakarta. I had been going through an internal crisis…
Ede A Hamid
Aug 5, 2018
Review | Michael Collins: A Biography
Review | Michael Collins: A Biography
Let me preface this review by saying that I have long admired Michael Collins as a statesman and an organisational genius. Along with…
Ede A Hamid
Feb 1, 2018
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Review | Sons and Lovers (Updated)
Review | Sons and Lovers (Updated)
It was recently ten years¹ since I first discovered the works of DH Lawrence, and to mark the occasion I decided to revisit some of his…
Ede A Hamid
Jan 30, 2017
Review | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Review | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
‘If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.’ -E M Forster
Ede A Hamid
Nov 22, 2016
Review | Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
Review | Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
This review is contributed by a friend of the Buku Project, Syazwan Zainal*. Hope you enjoy reading the review as much as I enjoyed editing…
Ede A Hamid
Jul 3, 2016
Top 5 | Random Stuff On the Internet
Top 5 | Random Stuff On the Internet
Today, I will be sharing a few articles or videos that I came across on the internet that have left an impact on me one way or another. I…
Ede A Hamid
Jun 22, 2016
Review | The Great Gatsby
Review | The Great Gatsby
I have wanted to write a review on The Great Gatsby ever since I found myself falling in love with it. It was not immediately obvious to me…
Ede A Hamid
May 29, 2016
Top 5 | All-Time Favourites: Ede vs Aini (Round 1)
Top 5 | All-Time Favourites: Ede vs Aini (Round 1)
This face-off was originally written as two separate entries and were the first posts for the Buku Project. I hope you guys enjoy this…
Ede A Hamid
May 23, 2016
Review | Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan
Review | Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan
For the last few weeks, I’ve been stocking up books to read for post-finals leisure, one of them a gem of a non-fiction that I spent quite…
Ede A Hamid
May 6, 2016
Review | The Death of Yugoslavia
Review | The Death of Yugoslavia
The Balkan war and breaking up of Yugoslavia was eerily recent, dominating world news when I was in lower primary school. The name of the…
alia salleh
Apr 28, 2016
Review | Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
Review | Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
It’s Friday night, and I have just finished a biography of one of the most fascinating figures in Cold War espionage, Guy Burgess. For…
Ede A Hamid
Apr 22, 2016
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