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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
04.Apr.2009 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The story in The Color Purple is told through a series of diary entries and letters. Somehow this worked well for me, since I could have short attention span sometimes, and reading diary entry or letter means it’s hardly longer than 2-3 pages at a time. The narrator, Celie, is a black woman who lives [...]
19.Mar.2009 (Another) 1% Well-Read Challenge
Michelle from 1morechapter is hosting another 1% well-read challenge. I didn’t join last year, because at the same time I had my own 1001 books related reading challenge: 10 out of 100 out of 1001 Books. I’m thinking not to continue my challenge, because it felt too restrictive, but I still have my personal goal [...]
10.Feb.2009 Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi and the Movie
*Possible spoilers below* Intimacy has multiple variations of cover, though the difference is only the color. As far as I know there are red, yellow, orange, and green version. My copy is the red one. I got it for a buck at my fave 2ndhand bookstore in Singapore. I miss that shop badly :( Intimacy [...]
25.Jan.2009 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
It took me a damn long time to read this book. I started it some time in November last year, and I finished it 10 other books later. And I’m not sure if I even liked the book. It wasn’t painful to go through, but it was all kinda meaningless. I didn’t quite connect with [...]
02.Dec.2008 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A conversation with a friend a while back: Me: I try to read more classics, but some classics I would just never read. Friend: Like what for example? M: Ooh.. Like Moby Dick.. F: Why? (He read Moby Dick at school and although it’s probably something he wouldn’t have picked up by himself, it wasn’t [...]