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@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ the name of Lord Christ Jesus. Amen.
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 <li>Jee Leong Koh. "Equal to the earth".
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-<li>Stephen Black. "I ate Tiong Bahru".
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 <li><a href="#wong">Cyril Wong and Md Mukul Hossine. "Me migrant".
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@@ -22,6 +20,9 @@ the name of Lord Christ Jesus. Amen.
 <li><a href="#mahbubani">Kishore Mahbubani. "Can Asians think".
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+<li><a href="#black">Stephen Black. "I ate Tiong Bahru".
+</a>
+</li>
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@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ I am off to read a play by Elfriede Jelinek, "what happened after Nora left her
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 <p><b>Kishore Mahbubani. "Can Asians think".
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@@ -74,5 +76,24 @@ Clearly I have to think critically about whatever else Mr. Mahbubani claims.
 <p>- 29th October 2020
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+<p><b>Stephen Black. "I ate Tiong Bahru".
+</b>
+</p>
+<p>
+Gave up reading after a few pages. 
+Some may laud Mr. Black's words as a "stream of consciousness", but I felt 
+as if facts were being stuffed down my throat. An off-putting experience (for me, at least).
+</p>
+<p>
+And I recall someone writing: "given the weight of facts, it is very difficult to avoid reporting the facts. This calls for astuteness of means, and a distillation of materials."
+</p>
+<p>
+Does Mr. Black come across as astute, through the pages of this book? I leave it to another (new) reader to discover for himself/herself/themselves.
+</p>
+<p>- 14th February 2021.
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