by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 18, 2022 | 2022, Books, Remembrance
This is how Frederick Buechner begins his book Speak What We Feel: It is Red Smith who is reported to have said that it’s really very easy to be a writer — all you have to do is sit down at the typewriter and open a vein. (Speak What We Feel [New York, NY:...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 21, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Books, God, God's Word, Media
It was 1974. I was a first-year student in the Faculty of Dentistry in the then University of Singapore. My residential hall, KE Hall, had a small library and I was there trying to study for upcoming exams. In a moment of boredom, I decided to check out the collection...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 16, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Books, Media, Movies & Television
One shouldn’t be surprised when one hears that a 95-year-old man has passed away, but there are certain bigger-than-life persons whose death will always surprise you. I was surprised to hear about the death of Stan Lee, one of the founders of Marvel comics and...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 28, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Books, Jesus, Jesus' Death, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose
At a recent camp, I took along a novel to read as my evening leisure pursuit. The campsite was rustic, with just the bare amenities and no entertainment except the surrounding forest which was gorgeous. The novel was Blue Light Yokohama by Nicolas Obregon (UK: Penguin...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 2, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Books, Media
In the introduction to his book The Longing for Home, Frederick Buechner writes: Time, like the receding waters of the ocean, bears all of us who are time’s children farther and farther away from the near shore and closer and closer to those mysterious depths...
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by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 28, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Books, Media, Violence, World Issues
Crime novelist PD James, who penned more than 20 books, has died aged 94. Her agent said she died “peacefully at her home in Oxford” on Thursday morning. The author’s books, many featuring sleuth Adam Dalgliesh, sold millions of books around the...
