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The cook did it
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/10/2015
» Men perform more major crimes than women, but women are catching up. Calling females the weaker sex is an outmoded term. In novels and films, the butler didn't do it, but the cook did. Motives are much the same: lust, greed revenge, ambition or self-defence.
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Bringing the birth stories to life
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 12/10/2015
» The jataka tales or birth stories are the most vivid and accessible part of Buddhist teaching. The Buddha, once he gained the ability to recall his past lives, related all 550 of them to the monks in his following. In some lives, he was a king, some a hermit, some a pauper, and in a few an animal. The 10 longest of these tales became associated with his 10 last lives and with his attainment of the "perfections" that enabled him to be born as the historical Buddha. In this book, this Great Ten have been translated anew for the first time in over a century.
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The new Brahmins
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 12/10/2015
» A man dressed in white blew into a conch as if it were a horn. Joss sticks were burning. Heads bowed but people's lips were praying. A screenplay on a golden tray was engulfed in a cloud of white smoke. Surrounding the tray was a feast which included a pig's head, Thai golden desserts, fruit, boiled eggs and seafood.
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Reluctance to leave
Life, Published on 12/10/2015
» Former journalist Srinit Suwannasak is an up-and-coming author, with her short story collection Sasarn Mai Mee Wan Soon Hai (Thing That Never Goes Away) enjoying a foray in some bestselling charts and into the second run of printing. The book takes on human relationships from various perspectives, among them an insane woman. Critics praise the book for its take on various dimensions of love, though that's a notion the author begs to differ on. "It is more about the opposite of love, or the lack thereof. It is also the story of space that is impossible to get in, while those who wish to exit cannot walk out of it."
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