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Good mix of short stories and poetry. Since poetry isn't really my thing, I can't really fully appreciate the whole collection. 3 stars out of 5.
I picked this up for research and while I love the idea of Readings from Readings overall the stories left me feeling depressed. The stories that I identified with are It's all right Auntie, Salt and The girl with ruby red shoes. Some of the poems and stories I could not read as it was in malay.
I'm rather ambivalent about this book. I'd rate it somewhere between "it's ok" and "I liked it". There were some outstanding gems, such as Brian Gomez's "a/p", Jade-Yi Lo's "The girl with the ruby red shoes" and Rafil Elyas' "Progress report", and some pretty good pieces, such as Dina Zaman's "How to stay married", Clarissa Tan's "The visit" and Janet Tay's "The airport" but the overall feel of the book was an underwhelming meh. The second anthology, Readings 2 is a much better read and it was a...
