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Show and Tell-Sunday: New Books
These are the fruits of my last book-shopping that I mentioned here. I am seriously staying away from bookstores until 2014, lol.
1. Bunny’s Fuzzy Christmas (for my niece!)
2. The Water Horse (for my nephew!)
3. Tinkers by Paul Harding
4. Identity by Milan Kundera
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
6. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
7. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
8. Faithful Place by Tana French
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Make Every Day a Happy Book Day!: thxthxthx →
I’ve said this so many times before: good books, the ones that make a mark on me, make me want to do things. This book of thank you notes makes me want to be more observant than I already am. For instance, it made me think of ment’s t-shirts, and how they’re just the thing in my closet to put…
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What I’m reading-Wednesday: The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
Reading EBooks (as I became fond of calling Elizabeth Berg books, hehe) really feels like listening to your best friend—a perfect companion before going to bed on my alone nights.
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Show and Tell-Sunday: My Overdue TBR Pile
I must confess that I am a slow reader (but if you ask my English teacher she’ll tell you otherwise) so you better think twice before lending me your book (i.e. how soon do you need it back, will you miss it in the next six months or so, etc).
To illustrate how seriously I take my time reading, aside from my bookswap pile, here is a list of unread books that I bought last year:
1. The Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
2. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
3. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
4. The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
5. Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
6. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
8. Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
9. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
And then just yesterday, I ended going book-shopping again! I remember there was a time when I held and read only one book for a whole year that I felt so bad and had to include buying/borrowing and reading more books on my mission list. And now, I just think someone has to stop me from overdoing the borrowing and buying part until I finish all these books.
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Show and Tell-Sunday: My Bookswap Pile
I have only been to a bookswap twice and here are the books from those meet-ups lined up on my to-be-read list.
1. Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach
2. The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
3. The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
4. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
5. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
This pile excites me because all of these books were written by authors I haven’t read before. Will these books change my life? Will these authors rock my socks? Let’s wait and see.
How about you? Have you been to a bookswap? Who were the authors that were introduced to you through a bookswap?
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This is a great place for reading-Thursday: A Wide Windowsill
I prefer reading somewhere that has a view (preferably a nice one that would encourage thinking) because having a view helps me ponder on something I just read. And what thing that gives you a view is more common than a window, right?
This photo shows the wide windowsill of a room in Fraser Corporate Residences in Guangdong, China where I stayed in during a business trip four years ago. I actually finished reading The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami during my seven-day stay there. And yes, I spent most of my reading time seated on that windowsill, surrounding myself with several fluffy pillows for added comfort.
From that windowsill, I had a view of a nearby street where I saw people and cars passed by. The view wasn’t extraordinary but the things and scenes I saw outside somehow kept my mind running.
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the moods of emma watson and kristen stewart :))
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Sweetest thing ever. ♥
Auwwww
ohoho. :>
I know how that feels like. And I’ll never let go too. (^_^) IMY hunjabee!
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