Bold the ones you've read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you've read part of. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn't count. Abridged versions don't count either. BTW, according to the BBC if you've read 7 of these, you are above the average.

( how can a person go through life without having read at least 7 of these?! )

Kinokuniya was having a one day 20% off sale yesterday and I happened to be in the area with time to kill, so I naturally gravitated to the bookstore. My wallet was open the moment I saw the poster advertising the sale. xDD I bought Twitterature, Jostein Gaardner's Through a Glass Darkly, and Neil Gaiman's Stardust ( Read more... )

so today at work a customer stood up to leave and i read his shirt. there, in typewriter font, were the words "Howard Roark laughed". which made me laugh, and say "Ayn Rand!" which started off a discussion of how hard it is to find someone who's read her, and about the movie of atlas shrugged that's coming out in 2010. guy said he bought the shirt ( Read more... )

Have acquired Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, and Dante's Purgatory and Paradise.

Still eyeing On Killing and On Combat, between which there is one copy in Singapore (On Combat), and hence thinking of buying from Amazon.com instead.

Merrily downloading House and Gundam Wing.

Thinking of acquiring a Kinokuniya or Borders Membership Card.*half-

I just worked my way through all of Tamora Pierce's print books (I didn't know her latest was straight to audio, and the library doesn't have it yet) and I'm thoroughly in love. Can't say what it is I like so much about them, but I do. I've read other books with strong female protagonists (and I love that), definitely read tons of fantasy, stories ( Read more... )

Rather short, actually.

( books )

For those few of you who do not read my sister's LJ:

Pavarotti is dead

And so is Madeleine L'EngleThey both died on Thursday, if I'm not wrong ( Read more... )

As I've just finished a book in under 4 hours for the first time in a while, almost missing a lunch date with Ez because I was so intrigued (sorry I was late Ez, you know me, one moment I was in the library because wandering around Raffles Place killing time is a recipe for disaster - not that wandering around the library isn't! - and the next it's ( Read more... )

Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, kindly lent to me by deadspeaker, is amusing the heck out of me.

"There are three different kinds of brains, the one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others. The first kind is most excellent, the second also ( Read more... )