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Book Review: The Almost Nearly Perfect People — Hitting the Arctic sweet-spot

vivianyeongwt@gmail.comJanuary 24, 2026

Whether you already know about Scandinavia or bring only curiosity, this book will grip you, teach you, make you laugh, and make you think.

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Book Review: Fashionopolis — When Style Meets Consequence

vivianyeongwt@gmail.comJanuary 1, 2026

Dana Thomas delivers one of the most important books ever written about fashion — not as style, but as system.

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Book Review: The Warmth of Other Suns — A Masterpiece of Narrative History

vivianyeongwt@gmail.comJanuary 1, 2026

This book changes how we see the past and, by extension, the present. It is expansive, intimate, devastating, and hopeful all at once.

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Book Review: China in Ten Words

vivianyeongwt@gmail.comNovember 21, 2025

You finish it humbled, not by grandeur, but by clarity: a writer, a country, and the words that made them both.

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Book Review: Invisible Women — A Sharp Book That Fuses Anger With Clarity

vivianyeongwt@gmail.comNovember 6, 2025

Few books manage to shift both personal perspective and institutional conversation. This is exhaustively researched and sharply written.

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Book Review: Living with Myths in Singapore — Essay Collection That Challenges Narratives

vivianyeongwt@gmail.comOctober 30, 2025

It does precisely what every good overview of a society’s story should — it challenges, it expands, and it doesn’t give easy answers.

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Book Review: Mania – A Razor-Sharp Satire That Holds a Mirror to Our Times

vivianyeongwt@gmail.comOctober 6, 2025

Shriver balances sharp humour with serious critique, managing to make you laugh one moment and squirm the next.

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Book Review: Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 – A Quietly Devastating Portrait of Everyday Sexism

vivianyeongwt@gmail.comJune 26, 2025

Sometimes powerful books aren’t the loudest. Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo is one of those: slim in size, but enormous in impact.

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