Author: Diana
Palmer
Genre: Science
Fiction, Fantasy
Time: 4.7 hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
book based entirely on its cover
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
2015 Book Challenge
So it's 2 days 'till 2015 ends and I'm 8 books away from finishing the challenge. I am officially saying that I won't be able to finish it in time. There are 2 books that are not available here where I am spending my holidays. Plus, I just want to enjoy my holiday break like catching up with old friends and hanging out with the family.
Maybe if I extend the challenge 10 days into 2016? We'll see.
Maybe if I extend the challenge 10 days into 2016? We'll see.
Worst. Person. Ever.
Title: Worst.
Person. Ever.
Author: Douglas
Coupland
Genre: Humor
Time: 4.7 hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
book with bad reviews
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Undead and Unwed
Title: Undead and
Unwed
Author: Mary
Janice Davidson
Genre: Romance,
Paranormal, Vampires, Humor
Time: 2.7 hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
book with nonhuman characters
Monday, December 28, 2015
Blockade Billy
Title: Blockade
Billy
Author: Stephen
King
Genre: Suspense
Time: 1.8 hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
book that scares you
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Lolita
Title: Lolita
Author: Vladimir
Nabokov
Genre: Fiction
Time: 6.6 hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
book that was originally written in a different language
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Dare
Title: Dare
Author: Allie
Juliette Mousseau
Genre: Series, Romance, MMA
Time: hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
book based on a true story
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Phantom of the Opera
Title: Phantom of
the Opera
Author: Andrew
Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe
Genre: Play
Time: 1.8 hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
play
In The Garden Series 3: Red Lily
Title: In The
Garden Series 3: Red Lily
Author: Nora
Roberts
Genre: Romance,
Mystery
Time: hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
trilogy
In The Garden Series 2: Black Rose
Title: In The
Garden Series 2: Black Rose
Author: Nora
Roberts
Genre: Romance,
Mystery
Time: hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
trilogy
Monday, December 21, 2015
In The Garden Series 1: Blue Dahlia
Title: In The
Garden Series 1: Blue Dahlia
Author: Nora
Roberts
Genre: Romance,
Mystery
Time: hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
trilogy
Thursday, December 17, 2015
American Psycho
Title: American
Psycho
Author: Bret
Easton Ellis
Genre: Transgressive
Fiction, Satire, Post Modern
Time: 8 hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
banned book
Sunday, November 29, 2015
For the Love of Reading
So I came from a Parent-Teacher-Conference for my son. The teacher said he needs to read more books so
that it can help strengthen his vocabulary and spelling and also help with his
writing skills. I totally agree with all
of this.
The thing is, ever since he started grade school, I have
been trying to get him to read books. I
was looking for a boy’s version of what the Sweet Valley Kids was for me. Or maybe this generation’s Bobbsey Twins. I have tried to find books he would be
interested in—comic books, story books, K-Zone, kiddie book versions about
movies and tv shows he liked, choose-you-own-adventures kinda books but nothing
really clicked.
I thought the love of reading books was something you can
teach but seeing it with my kid plus finding out that another kid (who is a
year younger) had already blew through the Harry Potter series made me realize that
you are either a book person or you are not.
My penchant for book collecting started way earlier during
pre-school but the love of reading started around seven or eight years
old. I remember finishing a Sweet
Valley Kids Book and thinking to myself, I wanna read more of these. I was so stoked when I discovered the treasure
trove of Bobbsey Twins books in our library. And then there was a family trip
to the neighboring city and I begged my parents to buy me a book about
Philippine Monsters. I was poring over
that book for the rest of the trip. And
I could go on and on.
This unexplainable desire to read books is not shared by
everyone. With my own siblings, one
brother is like me and the two others aren’t avid book readers. I know that my hubby, in his entire life, has
not read a single book cover-to-cover.
There are just people who are not into reading. There are people who like to read once in a
while. And there are people like me, who
“chain reads”.
Maybe my kid isn’t a “chain-reader” like me. But I’m
still hoping to he’d fit into the middle category of “people who like to read
once in a while.”
Friday, November 27, 2015
Heartburn
Title: Heartburn
Author: Nora
Ephron
Genre: Humor
Time: 3.5 hours
2015 Book Challenge:
a book that came out the year you were born
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Letters to a Young Poet
Title: Letters to
a Young Poet
Author: Rainer
Maria Rilke
Genre: Nonfiction,
Poetry
Time: 2.5 hours
2015 Book Challenge:
a book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t
Still Alice
Title: Still
Alice
Author: Lisa
Genova
Genre: Fiction,
Contemporary
Time: 3.9 hours
2015 Book Challenge:
a book that became a movie
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Sh*t My Dad Says
Title: Sh*t My
Dad Says
Author: Justin Halpern
Genre:
Non-Fiction, Humor
Time: 2.2 hours
2015 Book Challenge: a
nonfiction book
Monday, November 23, 2015
Olive Kitteridge
Title: Olive
Kitteridge
Author: Elizabeth
Strout
Genre: Short
Stories
Time: 6.8 hours
2015 Book Challenge:
a Pulitzer prize-winning book
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Practical Magic
Title: Practical
Magic
Author: Alice
Hoffman
Genre: Fantasy,
Magical Realism, Romance, Magic
Hours: 5.2 hours
2015 Book Challenge:
a book with magic
Monday, November 16, 2015
Nine Stories
Title: Nine Stories
Author: J. D. Salinger
Genre: Short Stories
Time: 5.2 hours
2015 Book Challenge: a book of short stories
Friday, November 13, 2015
2015 Book Challenge update
sooo.. I have like 29 book categories under the 2015 Book Challenge left. Finding the necessary books is already a challenge, but finding one that I would enjoy is making it hard. Given that it's already the middle of November, I don't know if I'll get to ever finish this.
But the competitor in me really wants to complete this challenge. So I told myself that if I could finish everything by the end of November, as a reward, I get to read whatever I want in December.
But the competitor in me really wants to complete this challenge. So I told myself that if I could finish everything by the end of November, as a reward, I get to read whatever I want in December.
Constance
Title: Constance
Author: Rosie
Thomas
Genre: Contemporary
Time: 6.4 hours
2015 Book Challenge:
a book written by an author with your same initials
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Bobbsey Twins and the Mystery at Snow Lodge
Title: Bobbsey
Twins and the Mystery at Snow Lodge
Author: Laura Lee
Hope
Genre: Children’s
Book, Mystery
Time: 1.8 hours
2015 Book Challenge:
a book from your childhood
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Pretty Book
I thought this would have been perfect for the 2015 Book Challenge: a book based entirely on its cover. But then it's a thesaurus, specifically, a flavor thesaurus book. So, it's for cooking. Ha! Me and cooking get along well like oil and water. Oh well. I just thought to share it.
Monday, November 9, 2015
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Author: Robert
Louis Stevenson
Genre: Mystery,
Horror, Suspense, Gothic
Time: 1.5 hours
2015 Book Challenge:
a book more that 100 years old
2014 Book List
Thanks to the beauty of technology, I was able to recap what I read in 2014. Total number for 2014 is... 103!
But since this is just based on the ebook reader app on my phone, the number could be higher. I still have to track down the non ebooks/real books and the ebooks I read in my hubby's phone ebook reader app.
So for now, here's the initial list:
But since this is just based on the ebook reader app on my phone, the number could be higher. I still have to track down the non ebooks/real books and the ebooks I read in my hubby's phone ebook reader app.
So for now, here's the initial list:
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Lavender Morning
Title: Lavender Morning
Author: Jude Deveraux
Genre: Romance
Time: half to a whole day
2015 Book Challenge Update
A few months back, I decided not anymore to do the 2015 Book Challenge because I was having a hard time finding books I liked that would fit the categories. I decided to go back to reading for fun. Well, what do you know... some of the books I've read fits the categories. Maybe I will finish this challenge.
Friday, November 6, 2015
The Solomon Curse
Title: The Solomon Curse
Author: Clive Cussler
Genre: Mystery
Time: A day to A day and a half
Friday, October 30, 2015
Monday, October 26, 2015
Bookworms Unite
now I know why Belle stayed... I'd probably do the same thing if it means I can have all the books I want.
Friday, October 16, 2015
A Hundred Summers
Title: A Hundred
Summers
Author: Beatriz
Williams
Genre: Romance, Historical
Time: 4.3 hours
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
The Secret Life of Violet Grant
Title: The Secret
Life of Violet Grant
Author: Beatriz
Williams
Genre: Historical
Time: 4.5 hours
Sunday, October 4, 2015
MMA Romance Novels
Three Wishes
Title: Three
Wishes
Author: Liane
Moriarty
Genre: Humor
Time: 6.8 hours
2015 Book Challenge: Finished in One Sitting
Tiny Little Thing
Title: Tiny
Little Thing
Author: Beatriz
Williams
Genre: Romance, Historical
Time: 4.8 hours
Friday, October 2, 2015
Brown-Eyed Girl
Title: Brown-Eyed Girl
Author: Lisa
Kleypas
Genre: Romance
Time: did not
finish
First of all, I would like to say that I love, love, love
Lisa Kleypas. She is one of the few
authors that I collect the “real” books of.
She is the author that I re-read books of. Some of her books I have re-read at like 5 to
7 times! Yes, she is that good. When she switched to Contemporary Romance
from Historical Romance, I would say that I would prefer her earlier historical
romance books. But her Contemporary
Romances were still very good. I have
read all her books. So I am now
constantly checking if she has published any new books.
So I “ran out of books to read” (I usually find like 10-15
books then read them all and when I’m done with them or don’t feel like reading
the ones left, I would then look for a new set of 10-15 books to blow through)
so I was looking for new set to read when I discovered that Lisa Kleypas wrote
a new book. It felt like a delightful
surprise. You know that feeling you get
when you “discover “money on the pockets of you jeans you haven’t worn for a
while. This was it.
As I started reading Brown-Eyed Girl, I was waiting for the “hook”. You know that part of the book where the
author starts to draw you into that new world?
Well, as a progressed, it never came.
In fact, it was worse than no hook.. it was awful! But it cannot be.. this is Lisa Kleypas! So I trudged on.. and on.. but there was no
way around it. It really was awful. I even thought that maybe I got the wrong ebook by mistake. So I decided to search the net to see what
the others thought of the book.. and I wasn’t imagining it. the consensus was, it sucked.
After reading the bad reviews, I decided to march on. It’s Lisa Kleypas, it couldn’t be that bad, could it? But try as I might, I just couldn’t do it. I didn’t finish the book. The characters were just soo annoying and the
storyline dragged on. But the book might
say Lisa Kleypas but this was not a Lisa Kleypas book. I truly hope this was a one-off kinda thing
because, as I’ve said, I really, really love Lisa Kleypas. With Lilian Jackson Braun and Jackie Collins
passing away, I have fewer authors left who I collect books of.
Monday, September 21, 2015
Jackie Collins Passes Away
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| cnn.com |
Because I ran out of space and financial constraints, I switched to reading ebooks. But there were a few authors that I decided to collect their actual, "real" books and Jackie Collins was one of them. Her books were hard to find, especially since some of them were published decades ago. I was constantly trolling Book Sale for them, leaving my number so they can text me as soon as they have new shipments of her book. And if I can't find them in Book Sale, I searched for them on ebay.
Her books were mostly about Hollywood, probably because she knows it well. And the tales she wrote and how she wrote them, makes you think these actually happened behind the scenes. It made me wonder who some of these characters were based on in real life because they sounded very familiar.
I am sad because I haven't found and author like her. How will I now sate my Hollywood scandals fix?
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
The One That Got Away
Title: The One
That Got Away
Author: Bethany
Chase
Genre: Romance
Time: 5.7 hours
Friday, September 4, 2015
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Luckiest Girl Alive
Title: Luckiest
Girl Alive
Author: Jessica
Knoll
Genre: Mystery,
Thriller
Time: 7.4 hours
Friday, August 21, 2015
What Alice Forgot
Title: What Alice
Forgot
Author: Liane
Moriarty
Genre: Romance, Mystery (a little bit of)
Time: 7.3 hours
The Hypnotist’s Love Story
Title: The
Hypnotist’s Love Story
Author: Liane
Moriarty
Genre: Romance
Time: 6.6 hours
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
China Rich Girlfriend
Title: China Rich
Girlfriend
Author: Kevin
Kwan
Genre: Humor,
Romance
Time: 7.7 hours
Monday, August 17, 2015
Friday, August 14, 2015
Finding Audrey
Title: Finding
Audrey
Author: Sophie
Kinsella
Genre: Romance,
Young Adult
Time: 2.8 hours
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
The Last Anniversary
Title: The Last
Anniversary
Author: Liane
Moriarty
Genre: Mystery,
Romance
Time: 7.1 hours
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Obsession in Death
Title: Obsession
in Death
Author: J. D.
Robb
Genre: Mystery, Suspense,
Police Procedural
Time: 6.5 hours
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
2015 Book Challenge Update
So I've run out of books to read under this challenge.. well, more like books I would enjoy reading. I've been trying to look for great books but it's hard when your choices are limited. Sooo, I think Imma sit this one out and just go back to reading for fun.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
2015 Book Challenge Update
Okay...so we're going 6 moths into the year and I've only read like less than 20 books. This challenge is harder than I thought! The problem is that the categories limits my book choices. And even if I do find a book that fits a certain category, it's no guarantee that I'd like it enough to finish it. Not all books are created equal. I've had a lot of attempts in trying to finish different books but sometimes, I just don't feel like it. Ugh!
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
The Husband’s Secret
Title: The
Husband’s Secret
Author: Liane
Moriarty
Genre: Mystery
Time: 5.2 hours
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