12.Jan.2010 Waiting by Ha Jin
I have other things to post, but I almost can’t wait to talk about this book! I read it sometime at the end of December during my vacation, brought over to January, so I’ll just count as my first book of 2010. And what a great start it was!
Waiting is written in English by Ha [...]
22.Aug.2009 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
I was utterly mesmerized. I was so sad when the book has ended because I thought I would never find a book like this ever again — which was how I felt when I finished my top 2 books. So this book officially has crept onto my top 3 books ever (in no order).
Middlesex is [...]
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 [...]
20.Mar.2009 The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Complete Maus is a memoir presented as a graphic novel. The complete story was published in 2 volumes: Part I: My Father Bleeds History in 1986 and Part II: And Here My Troubles Began in 1991. It recounts the struggle of Spiegelman’s father to survive the holocaust and also the troubled relationships between the [...]
04.Jul.2008 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
This is the first full book of short stories collection that I’ve read. I’m not so sure yet if I like short stories. They’re okay, but most of the time, they’re just too short. When the stories started, I kept thinking how they would end. Because they end in about 20-30 pages, which is very [...]
27.Mar.2008 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007, James Tait Black Prize in 2006, and a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
I was sorely disappointed with this book. I read it by the recommendation of a colleague, and many other people who quoted that this was their best [...]
