04.Mar.2010 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
As I assume the main plot of the book is no secret to most people, I’m going to write my thoughts with no worry of possible spoilers.
Pride and Prejudice is my very first Jane Austen and it took me some time to get used to her style. I found the beginning was very very slow. [...]
28.Jan.2010 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
People often started their reviews by saying this book so-and-so made them cry. That doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t cry for a book.
Little did I know that I would begin my review now by saying this book made me cry! And not just a tear or two, but more like weeping for 5 [...]
03.Jan.2010 (Another) 1% Well-Read Challenge Completed!
1% Well-Read challenge was going from 1 March to 31 December 2009 for the first option, which was to read 1% (10 books) out of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I chose to follow the original list published in 2006 (there was another updated list published in 2008, which total combined [...]
09.Dec.2009 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White suddenly took book blogosphere by storm a couple of months ago. In the midst of it, a copy was displayed prominently at one of my favorite bookstore for great prize and The Classic Circuit started on Wilkie Collins. The universe was aligned. I read the book.
Once I finished, I was thinking [...]
05.Dec.2009 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller is one of the weirdest books I’ve ever read. It started with you, the Reader, going to a bookshop to buy the latest book by Italo Calvino titled If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller. You go back home and start reading. The book starts with new chapter [...]
29.Oct.2009 Dracula by Bram Stoker
*SPOILERS below* (Thought I’m not gonna bother to avoid spoilers this time)
I had the advantage of reading Dracula (or so I thought). I knew almost absolutely nothing about it, because I never watched the movie based on the book. Oh of course I knew he sucks blood. I knew there were Count Dracula, a castle, [...]
17.Oct.2009 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and the Disney Movie
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their house pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.
Their faithful Friend and Servant,
C.D
One fine day I [...]
03.Oct.2009 Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote and the Movie
New York 1940s. Playgirl Holly Golightly captures the heart of everybody that passes her path. Our narrator, Fred — as she calls him, is a shy wannabe writer. Neighbours at first, they start to develop a unique relationship.
Holly is all charm — the type that men want but can’t have, free as a bird. Along [...]
24.Sep.2009 Silk by Alessandro Baricco and the Movie
The Book
Written in fable style, Silk tells a story of a silk merchant in southern France who is appointed by people in his vilage to make a long voyage to Japan in search of good quality of silkworms, as there’s an epidemic that ruins the regular supply of silkworms in their neighbourhood countries.
And so begins [...]
04.Jul.2009 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is like talking to one of your unnaturally geeky friends. Sometimes they go off at a tangent that you wish they would come back to earth and stop being so confusing. Sometimes they blurt out things so absurd and hilarious that only geniuses like they are could even [...]
