Go ahead, gorge…

There is a feast ongoing, at which we are gorging ourselves. Yes, we are greedy about this particular spread and not ashamed to say so. But, not to worry, there is be a wide variety and enough for everyone — and everyone’s invited.

The feast is going to last for three months and from previous experience, could be extended. Now, for those still puzzled and salivating to know what we are talking about, it is a literary feast.

Yes! The Georgetown Reading and Research Centre’s (GRRC) has once again launched a book special, this time called ‘The Book Feast of 2008’, a half-priced sale on all books offered by the centre. The promotion was launched earlier this month. We support this initiative fully given the dismal statistics on literacy, an example being the army recruits’ miserable performance at their level-six entrance examination, which was recently thrust into the public’s consciousness……