Title: The Hothouse
Author: Harold Pinter
Genre: Play

From the blurb:
A black comedy set in a government-run mental institution, The Hothouse revolves around a sinister murder plot hatched against a backdrop of corruption, sexual favors, and hopeless bureaucratic ineptitude ( Read more... )

Title: Faker
Author/Illustrator: Mike Carey/Jock
Genre: Comic/Graphic Novel
Publisher: Vertigo Comics

This book collects issues 1-6 of a Vertigo Comics mini-series.

Freshman year of college is the ultimate time for reinvention -- except when you can't physically justify why you even exist. This is the case for Nick Philo. The only thing that ( Read more... )

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I finished off Sam Gosling's Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You you today, and while I hate to be down on everything I read nowadays, my reactions were largely "wow, this is kind of light" or "wow, this is kind of creepy." It purports to be a pop social-science book about how one's personality is communicated through one's work and living ( Read more... )

This is just a general note :) No time for a lengthy post :P

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My book year always starts on Christmas Day, not New Year's Day like most people's.

So far I have read:

1. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson, 1995, 282 pages.
   
2. Before I go to Sleep by S.J. Watson, 2011, 358 pages.
   
3. The Pact by Jodi Picoult, 1998, 496 pages.
   

Also, I've tried to read, but not succeeded in finishing two books:

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Book 28: "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear

"I hate to have women blame men," Mitch said. "It makes me want to throw up ( Read more... )

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Title: The Bell Jar
Author: Sylvia Plath
Year of Publication: 1963
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 229
First Line: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
Summary:Esther, an A-student from Boston who has won a guest editorship on a national magazine, finds a bewildering new ( Read more... )