Lenten Haul

I didn't feel like reading during my 5-day Lenten "holiday" so I was binge watching youtube videos of Anna Kendrick interviews.  The girl is hilarious!  I thought J. Law was relatable, but Anna Kendrick?  I want to be her bestfriend.

I first noticed her in Into The Woods, saw her other movies and read somewhere before how funny her twitter was.  When I saw Pitch Perfect years after it came out, I was like, wow, girl can sing.  But because she is now my new girl-crush, I was like trying to find out whatever I can about her on the internet.  Turns out, she already won a Tony when she was younger.  Her career is what Lea Michele's would be if she wasn't such a bitch in real life.  And she already has an Oscar nomination for her role in Up In The Air (with George Clooney!) so she could totally do an EGOT.

Anyways, in one of the interviews, she was her plugging her book and I was, like, I'm up for a few laughs and this books would have me laughing out loud for sure.  So I'm setting aside the other books I got from the previous haul and got this one.  I also got another one from Bert Kreischer.  I stumbled upon him during my binge youtubing and found out he was the guy Van Wilder was based on.  Btw, I re-watched it a few weeks ago and it's not as funny as I remembered it.  But Kreischer's a funny stand up comic.  I like his humor so I'm hoping his book would be as funny too.

Book Haul

It's been months since I last read a book.  It's sooo not me.  I am always reading a book.  Maybe I put too much pressure on reaching a target number of books to read per year.. maybe I just couldn't connect with any of the new books I found.. maybe life just happened.. I don't know.. But I figured, I'll just go with the flow and I'll eventually want to start to read again.

And so today, for some reason, I wondered if any of my favorite authors have new books published.  So I checked.  Lo and behold! New books from J. D. Robb, Sophie Kinsella, Gillian Flynn, William Landay, Liane Moriarty and I even managed to find copies of Anna David's book which I have been looking for since forever!

I hope I get my reading groove back on.  We'll see in a couple of days.

Book Hunt: Books for Spring

Found this on my facebook newsfeed.. books suggested in the list are:

1) Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett

2) The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni

3) Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet

4) The Politicians and the Egalitarians by Sean Wilentz

5) Zero K by Don DeLillo

6) Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

7) Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, trans. Bela Shayevich

Most of it seems kinda just meh... maybe numbers 1, 3 and 6 might be promising but I'll have to circle back to these as I got a lot of books from my latest Book Haul..

Book Haul

Got a lot of new books... a few from fave authors, most from new ones.. I wanted to put a collage of all the book titles but it totaled to 66 books so I decided against it because with that number of books, the covers might not be very visible anymore... but mainly it's because I felt too lazy to do it..

I'll just tell you who the authors are... So I found new ones from J.D. Robb (she released like 3 books in 6 months..she is very prolific and I'm glad coz I miss Dallas and Peabody), Judy Blume, Anna David and Beatriz Williams...

I am also testing out Mary Kay Andrews, Bethany Chase, Bill Clegg, Laura Dave, Patrick DeWitt, Jane Green, Patti Callahan Henry, Steena Holmes, Emily Liebert, MJ Pullen and Renee Rosen...

Boy am I glad that I'm reading for fun now instead of doing the book challenge... can't wait to start reading...

Book Haul

found a treasure trove of books to be look for and read...

Book Haul

because I can't walk out of Book Sale without buying a book... Found two books that are missing from my collection and the book version of the TV "series" I saw (and enjoyed)... excited to read these soon, it rounds out the recent "acquisitions" I made... I got mystery, historical romance, some deep, dark bios and comedy... still looking for two chic lits, though... if only I found the ebook version of The Wedding Night... 

I found lots of great books at Book Sale but they were mostly The Kite Runner types and that's not what I'm feeling at the moment... I'm looking for a fun, light chic lit...

The Klone and I by Danielle Steele

Book # 10 -- The Klone and I by Danielle Steele.  This is from last month's Book Haul... Here's what I think of it: meh.  Maybe it's because I had such high expectations because it's Danielle Steele? or maybe she was just off her game when she was writing this book that's why it was priced so cheap compared to her other books?  I would still give her another chance, though.  Maybe next time I would splurge and go for her pricier books.

Book Haul

hubby is away on a business trip and left money for our allowance, so I decided to spend some of it on books and considered it my birthday present.  I always pass by this quaint used book store on the way to the office but we are always in hurry (because we're always running late :p), that we never had the time to stop by there.  Since I was early today, I decided to check it out.  As expected, it was quaint--and more!  I love the cozy feeling it has and how comfortable furniture was scattered in the tiny space, inviting one to just curl up and read a book.  Because the money I had was not much, I had to find the cheapest ones I could find (not a problem for me coz I do love a good bargain!).  Found two Jackie Collins books I didn't have yet (she's one of my list of authors which I actually go out to buy her "real" books to collect instead of getting the ebooks) and decided to test out new authors.  I got Jayne Ann Kentz because her book looked promising (aaand was very cheap at P30) and a Danielle Steele, an author which a voracious reader like me should have read already a long time ago but sadly that's not the case.  So decided I should check out what the hoopla was all about and bought one of her books (plus the fact that this one was relatively cheap at P75 since here books usually go for at least P180 and up a pop).  Oh, and I also found a book in Spanish to "challenge myself" in learning the language.  I plan to read it once I get a bit more advanced.  Hope I can find the time (and money) to go back when they have new books delivered, although that needs to be scheduled because that would most definitely take up at least half a day...