19.Sep.2010 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Once in a while you would find a book that defies all your preconceived notions of how a novel should be. I think One Hundred Years of Solitude falls in this category. While a novel normally has a beginning, middle, and an ending, with some kind of climax no matter how little the peak is [...]
18.Aug.2010 Claire’s Best Books Ever
Continuing my Best Books Project, this time it’s Claire‘s turn! (My project is a bit off schedule, but as long as I keep going, right?) At first glance Claire and I may seem very different from the way we represent ourselves on our blogs, but we actually have so much more in common than I [...]
22.Apr.2010 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
You know that you’ve finished a great book when after turning the last page, you’re still thinking about the characters for days, wondering how they are, if they’re okay, as if they live in the parallel universe, breathing and going through their daily life at this moment. You would ponder about the memories that have [...]
19.Apr.2010 Jackie’s Best Books Ever
I mentioned my plan at the beginning of the year to ask some book bloggers who read A LOT for their best books ever, then I choose one from their list to read. The idea is for them to do the filtering. Hah! My guinea pig is Jackie of Farm Lane Books Blog. Jackie is [...]
17.Jan.2010 Plan for 2010
More than half a month has passed into 2010, and I haven’t shared my reading plan for 2010 to you! Well, really it’s mostly for me, so I can look back on my plan at the end of the year and see how much has changed between now and then, and how far I have [...]