The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read once. Enter a number for the number of times you read something. Make sure you delete my x'S! (i used bold insead)

When you've finished, tag 10 people and the person who ( Read more... )

I've just finished Northanger Abbey which means I've read the complete works of Jane Austen. Catherine Morland is obviously the most naive of her heroines but that doesn't detract from the enjoyment of the novel and I find Tilney far more livelier that Darcy. Mrs Allen cracks me up as much as Mrs Bennet does (they are both such airheads ( Read more... )

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But I think that all the hype over the Twilight movie it over the top. Because Robert Pattinson hardly matches up to my random fantasies of Edward Cullen. His acting isn't that great either...probably because he looks his age rather than 17 year old angsty but beautiful vampire. Kristen Stewart is better but from what I've seen of the trailers, ( Read more... )

...and a few days later, I've only jogged twice. It's been absolutely pouring and I've read some more mind blowingly scandalous, shock inducing but very enjoyable fantasy novels again. This time, it's another new author I hadn't previously encountered:Scott Lynch. The series is called the "Gentlemen Bastards" I think, chronicling the adventures of ( Read more... )

I have just finished reading one of the best fantasy novels that I have come across in AGES. and AGES. I absolutely love the style of writing - it renders between third and first person but not so similar as Robin Hobb. Basically, the protagonist (though he's evil in a quirky way too) is telling his own legend to a scribe. His tale is just brimming ( Read more... )

It's wierd but I'm back in hong kong for summer this time. Jet lagged, excited and still unaccustomed to the humidity are my descriptions for now. Even better, I'm going to the Hong Kong Book Fair in a couple of hours, so I should get to buy some nice goodies.

I just hope my friends haven't changed drastically or anything~

I finished the novel. From about the first 70 pages, it was apparent that Marcus Antonius was a drunkard, a glut, lazy and weak despite his size and muscles and big brawn. Octavianus escaped notice because he was slight and smart and was patient ( Read more... )

...for Antony was a force of Nature, lusty, impulsive, hot-tempered and quite lacking foresight. His personal magnetism was great, of that kind which draws men by virtue of the most masculine qualities: courage, an Herculean physique, a well-deserved reputation as a lover of women and enough brain to make him a formidable orator in the House. His ( Read more... )

乙一, Otsuichi or おついち is currently my fav japanese authoer (: It's hard to say what genre he writes in but it's definitely not conventional and a few of his books are about deduction and some teens or some weird events in everyday life.
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