I am not sure how new this novel is… what i know is it’s being sold in the big libraries in KSA… it’s about a woman named hind and the 3askar denotes the society keeping her oppressed or something. Many people are saying things about some controversial sentences that appeared in the story. Some say [...]

I was going through my library sorting my books and arranging some for a new garage sale when i saw Waiter Rant. I can’t believe i never blogged about this book! Back in 2008 when i first started blogging i read about a blogger, Steve Dublanica, who was a waiter and blogged about his waitering chronicles. [...]

I was in virgin store last Saturday when i saw the Arabic Translation of the Cairo House written by Samia Serageldin. I never read anything for the author before but i liked the cover and the description i read on the back so i bought it. That night i wanted to read a bit in [...]

3 DD is a celebration of breasts of all kinds in 3D. The book comes with 3D glasses to enhance enjoyment. Filed under: Books, Sexuality, Women

If you are a fan of Ladureé of you know someone who is, then this is the perfect book for you to have or to give as a gift! Page upon page of yummy looking desserts encased in a suede soft green cover making the newly released Ladureé Cookbook. I didn’t buy it for two [...]

Another collection of books right out of the past is now available for sale in the garage sale section of ChillPillBox.com I remember the Manara Bookshop and saving up to buy those little horror books… they were horrifying indeed and i still prefer them to Adult horror books to be frank. I kept my most [...]

I have a new collection to sell on ChillPillBox.com… this time a new Arabic book collection available for bidding on ChillPillBox.com
Filed under: Books, Fellow Bloggers Tagged: Arabic Books, Garage Sale

Once upon a time when Re7ab Complex wasn’t all about video games, there was a library in the basement called “3alam Thaqafat El6efel”… they made subscribtions for kids and sold educational books and toys… they also sold Arabic Tin Tin Comics. My father came home one day with a bag full of Arabic Tin Tin [...]

I have unearthed another collection of books to sell in the Garage Sale Corner of ChillPillBox.com! This time it was a bit hard to let go, for i have saved one KD after one KD and awaited the weekends where i would go to Family Book shop or the other book shop which i forgot [...]

You know how you hear/read the wail “No one READS ANYMORE” and “Internet killed the book” and “People are shallow” and “We are a nation that doesn’t read” and “Young Generations Don’t Read” and all that hoopla about how we, Q8y’s and Arabs, hate the books SO MUCH that reading to us is like commiting [...]

  Have you been to the Book Fair? No. But I want to go. Yes, you should. Take the kids too. It’s great for them to select their own books. Oh I encourage them to read. I buy them story books and have the nanny read to them when they come fro…

As i was waking in the Book Exhibition my eyes fell upon these little novels and i was instantly a 13 years old kid drooling over them. If you are a chicken nugget who grew up in the 90′s chances are you never heard of Takhtakh before. If however you grew up in the 70′s [...]

As i was waking in the Book Exhibition my eyes fell upon these little novels and i was instantly a 13 years old kid drooling over them. If you are a chicken nugget who grew up in the 90′s chances are you never heard of Takhtakh before. If however you grew up in the 70′s [...]

One of my favorite books of all time is the timeless novel “My Best Friend’s Girl” by one of my favorite authors Dorothy Koomson. I have reviewed two of her books before on my blog “Good Night Beautiful” and “The Ice Cream Girls” … my favorite book however is the the first one i ever [...]

I picked up the latest novel of Lauren Weisberger, the author of “The Devil Wears Prada”, while i was on a recent trip to the UK and i have just strated reading it this week… My expectations were not very hight. I loved the Devil Wears Prada very much but the two novels that followed [...]

I recieved an email from the writer of this new arabic novel and i wanted to share it with you. To be frank i am intrigued… is it going to be a scary novel? is it going to have philosophical assumptions or be based on what little we know regarding the afterlife. Best of luck [...]

Yes, you read that right… there is another book in the Shopaholic Series… this time it’s called the Mini Shopaholic! Laish ma7ad gallena?! The book, available for pre-order at Amazon (click here) will be released on 2 September 2010! What a great read for the Eid Holiday!!! Here is the Synopsis: “ “Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) [...]

Fan of SATC? Can’t get enough and want to soak every little detail of your beloved characters? This book, by Candace Bushnell,  is the thing for you! I saw this book on my recent trip to the UK, since i wouldn’t make it to the opening of the SATC2 movie i thought i would get [...]

Have i mentioned before that i adore Dorothy Koomson? Only once before regrettably. I have read and loved every one of her books. I love her style of writing, i love her jumbled story telling time line. I love the slaps of reality in between the lines: this is life take it or leave it. So [...]

Since the cupcake mania is not going anywhere soon and the cupcake business is booming, i was wondering how hard it can be to bake a good cupcake my self… i got my hands on the Hummingbird Bakery cook book… i decided to make my first cupcakes using their recipes… did you know the Hummingbird [...]

UCLA professor of linguistics Pamela Munro has put together with her students the newest edition of  “U.C.L.A. Slang 6″ with more than a 1,000 entries of popular slang words and phrases in current use.
Referring to slang, Munro says:
“Slang seems to originate on the West Coast and move east because of Hollywood and the recording industry,” [...]