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2008-06-13 @ 6:56 p.m.

Have been reading Red Lacquered Chopsticks by Betty Warrington-Kearsley, born to an English father and a Singaporean Chinese mother in England, but growing up in a local kampong. The poetry's full of lovely images, and when she writes about the Singapore of her childhood, Warrington-Kearsley succeeds in evoking nostalgia for a world that has been subsumed by the tides of progress. Not bad, I guess, for a slim volume that I borrowed on impulse because the blurb made it sound good. (The blurb is, of course, actually too effusive and exaggerated in its praise.) Was hoping to finish it on the way to the National Library, so that I can return it and borrow something else, but it doesn't look like I'll be able to. Oh well...

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