Today’s Booking Through Thursday is “Manual Labor Redux”:
Scenario: You’ve just bought some complicated gadget home . . . do you read the accompanying documentation? Or not?
Do you ever read manuals?
How-to books?
Self-help guides?
Anything at all?
It usually depends on the kind of gadget, but since we’re talking complicated here, I assume that means that it needs assembling […]

Finally getting around to that book meme Tina tagged me with a good couple of days ago. I kept putting it off because I have five, read it, five draft posts still waiting to get posted.
The rules:

Pick up the nearest book.
Open to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the […]

I just finished Christopher Paolini’s Eragon, after resolving to read it since it’s been turned into a movie (no, I haven’t watched the movie, and yes, I heard it wasn’t good). As a YA fantasy novel, to me it was pretty typical: fast-paced adventure, magic, dragons, a likeable protagonist who is coming of age. It […]

I’m moving along well with the challenges I’ve taken on. As it stands, I’m right on target with 50 Books for 2008, ahead of myself with New Reads for 2008, and on time with What’s in a Name. I have to thank Carrefour for the book sale they had a week or two back… I […]

Saw this around (from Lenneth’s post, actually): Tor Books has a promotion called Watch the Skies, which seems quite mysterious but has free digital books as part of it! Obviously this deals with the science fiction and fantasy genre, and the next book (at the time of this writing) is Old Man’s War by John […]

Lately I’ve just put down Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire and I have to say that it was brilliant — I loved the fully-realized political and spiritual backdrop for the tale, and Elphaba was certainly a character. She’s the title character, but it was […]

A happy, hopeful new year to all!…even though it’s past mid-January already.
I pretty much disappeared after mid-November–from my writing log, anyway–mostly due to a lot of things happening at the same time. Some of them are personal, but most of them were work-related and season-related. I flew home to the Philippines on December 20, flew […]

Courtney posted on her reading blog a few days ago about What’s in a Name?, an interesting reading challenge that spans one year, and requires one to read at least six books in that span of time. Seeing as this merges well with my 50 book challenge practice, I’ve decided I’ll join.
Basically, one has to […]

I found a Book Crossing book! There were lots more at The Cafe Cartel; Apparently it’s an official hotspot, as Singapore has its own Book Crossing thing going on, called BookCross@SG. Apparently, they are partnered with the main Book Crossing movement. It’s curious how they don’t link back to the main Book Crossing site somewhere […]

I found a book-related meme on personal habits and practices on taking care of books on my watchlist in Livejournal, and after a while of hemming and hawing I’ve decided to fill it out.