15.Nov.2009 Sunday Salon: Mixed Bookish Things Feat. Two Children Books and Fight Club
Not a good week. Caught cold. Home sick one day but had to work for the rest of the week. Didn’t manage to compile a proper review. But don’t despair, I can still talk about books!
I’m halfway through The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. The Classics Circuit is going to enter the third week [...]
19.Oct.2009 TSS: Borders 100 Favourite Books of All Time
My first Musing Mondays! Yea I know it’s not Monday. So I’m making this a Sunday Salon post too. (Then I forgot to post it on Sunday, so it’s back to Monday now. Oh well, who’s taking note?)
This past week, Borders re-released it’s 100 Favourite Books of All Times. Do you vote in these [...]
11.Oct.2009 TSS: Movie Mini-Reviews: Julie & Julia, Coraline, Shawshank Redemption, My Neighbors the Yamadas
I’m going to watch WICKED the Broadway Musical this Wednesday so I’m reading Wicked the book by Gregory Maguire feverishly so I can finish it before Wednesday — which is a more difficult task than I thought, because the book is LONG. I’ve been reading it for about 2 weeks now!
Surely I will write my [...]
05.Oct.2009 Sunday Salon: Events Galore!
Somehow there are LOTS of things going on at the moment and I can’t resist to join!
1) Japanese Literature Read-along, hosted by Tanabata. The first book is I Am Cat by Natsume Soseki, which I’ve been meaning to read for the longest time. So this is a great push for me!
Schedule: Volume 1 – Nov [...]
13.Sep.2009 Sunday Salon: RIP Short Story Sunday etc
RIP Short Story Sundays
(hosted by Carl)
I thought I’d mention a couple of stories that I read this week that coincides with RIP spirit. I’ve just finished Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote and one of the short story that comes with the book is House of Flowers, which I thought had a bit odd [...]
02.Aug.2009 Sunday Salon: Generational Saga Novels
If you dropped by here in the past few weeks and noticed the books I’m reading on my sidebar, you’d see that I have Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie.
They are both saga novels, span across three generations. They both have political and cultural histories wedged in between the main story. [...]
26.Jul.2009 Sunday Salon: Still Reading and Harry Potter the Movie
Hullo all. It’s all cloudy and rainy today in Sydney, and I’m snuggling with my new brown Snuggie on the couch, though still feel extremely cold since my house is just the perfect absorbant of cold and we don’t have good heating. (The Snuggie I got from a discount shop for $12, not from TV [...]
05.Jul.2009 Sunday Salon: Kind of Away But Not Really
I just started working again last week after 9 months of off time. While it’s good to be able to earn some money again, I practically have no time to do the little things that I enjoyed doing when I was.., you know, unemployed =P
My current working hour is 10 hours a day and it [...]
28.Jun.2009 Sunday Salon: A Day At Book Club TV Show
Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy, Jason Steger
I invited myself over to the shooting of First Tuesday Book Club in Sydney last Friday. The idea to be an audience in a TV show is quite exciting since it’s something I had never experienced before.
First thing I noticed when I arrived at the waiting room was that the [...]
14.Jun.2009 Sunday Salon: Enid Blyton
I watched Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie interview with First Tuesday Book Club and she mentioned how she grew up with books by Enid Blyton.
I did too!
The series I loved so much were The Famous Five, Malory Towers, and St. Clare’s. Oh and Noddy. Who doesn’t love Noddy?
I didn’t read the rest of her books for some [...]
