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 […]

Books are about what goes on in a character’s head; movies are about what they’re doing.
- Dr. Doug Lyle, on the Writers on Writing podcast

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.

I brought two new books this week, both of which I have high hopes for:

• Janet Fitch’s Paint it Black has been on my to-read list for some time, because I loved her White Oleander. I love her prose and writing style.
• Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is intriguing (some hate it, some love it) and I had once leafed through his Son of a Witch and was suitably intrigued (I didn’t let myself get very far into the latter since I’d probably be lost, having never read Wicked).

I was reorganizing my bookmarks a few days ago and came upon quite a few interesting literary/reading/writing websites that I had previously bookmarked, some of them for checking out at a later date. One of these is DailyLit, a service that brings books to you via email on a daily basis.

We created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book. Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved.

I’d been meaning to put into words my thoughts on one article I saw on Digg a week or so back — on facts about the Online Computer Library Center top 1000. It’s a list of interesting (and sometimes bizarre!) facts about books that are found in most libraries. It’s US-centric, but hey it’s still interesting.

I’d been doing a fair number of reading lately, and I’m slightly ahead with four books read on the third week of the year; the fourth was a re-read, which made reading quicker. I’m tracking progress on my library page, which (for now) unlinked on the main menu and updated manually. (I plan on using […]

I haven’t posted in a while, mostly due to a lot of things I won’t be getting into here (the holidays are one of them, though). I’ve been slowly getting back into reading, although it’s rather slow going. Reason for this is that ever since college, a lot of other interests/activities took up my time, […]

This is a sponsored review. Not paid, but otherwise sponsored. It still doesn’t mean I’m prodded to praise.

Being one of those people who pretty much devours books, when I heard of BooksPrice.com, I was immediately interested. I’m always teetering between taking a risk and buying an “unproven” book (read: a book written by an author […]