Good News: I’ve finished three books since Sunday: Sa Bubungan ng Mundo by Abner P. Mercado, Complicity by Iain Banks and Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq.
Bad News: I can’t be arsed to go and make proper reviews for each one. *throws a tantrum*
Watch me loiter around the Intarwebs looking for things to post on RoD [...]
Archive for June, 2007
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June 28, 2007Books Read So Far
June 22, 2007I guess it’s about time for me to list down the books I’ve read halfway through 2007. I’m slightly embarrassed about my low output. I need to do something to speed things up. Anyway, here they are:
Man Without Qualities vol. 1 – Robert Musil
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
Billiards at Half-Past Nine [...]
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
June 20, 2007I’ve finished reading Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest last week but I only got around to blogging about it today. *sigh* I really have to commit myself in doing this thing. Anyway, the novel itself was enjoyable up until the last quarter of it when a plot twist completely threw me off. I won’t reveal much [...]
Reading Through the Decades (Challenge List)
June 12, 2007I got a free ride in the MRT this morning of because of Philippine Independence Day. Yay!
As I’ve mentioned yesterday, I’m participating in the By the Decade Reading Challenge hosted by 3M. According to the website, “The goal of the challenge is to read books from as many consecutive decades as possible.” The host is reading 15 [...]
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
June 11, 2007E.M. Forster’s A Room With a View is an unexpected romance. I’m not just talking about the plot itself, which revolves around the coming of age and sensual awakening of a young young British woman during her first visit to Italy. By romance, I’m talking about the act of reading the novel itself: I unexpectedly fell in love [...]
Favorite Books Meme
June 6, 2007Oh, this is long overdue.
A book that made you cry: Without a doubt, Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance. Jesus. I remember pausing right after I reread the last page, then suddenly bursting into tears, thinking about the hopelessness of everything. It’s a fantastic book, but it’s one of those that I’ll probably never read again [...]
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June 6, 2007One of the reasons I wanted to keep this blog is to force myself to write again. Life has been beating down hard on me these past weeks and I think it paralyzed me from doing the one thing that made me feel better: writing.
I can’t write stories right now, not with the way my [...]
