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Book Review

10 Books That Have Stayed With Me

Posted on April 12, 2016

This assignment has been going around on Facebook for a while now. I thought it would be good to put up here as well in case I wanted to go back to it. Because Facebook has no search option haha.

So the task: List 10 books that have stayed with you. Don’t take more than a few minutes. Don’t think too hard. They don’t have to be great works, or even your favorites. Just the ones that have touched you.

I think one true test that a book has stayed with you is if you’ve read it not only twice, but an unfathomable number of times that the book already wears its dog ears like a trophy. I have that kind of relationship with most of the books on this list:

Movie Review

Harry Holidays to All!

Posted on January 2, 2015

I do realize the greeting above is quite late, because it’s been weeks since Christmas, and it isn’t even properly new year anymore, with 2015 already beyond a day old. My only excuse is the same reason for the greeting – I have been immersed in the best Christmas tradition I’ve only discovered recently, which is to reread all seven magical books (and watch the films) on the life of the Boy Who Lived. JK Rowling‘s masterpiece is nothing short of magic, and I knew that as a kid when I first met Harry (only a couple of years older than his 11), and I know it now, more than a decade later.

Now, my Harry Potter bucket list has extended from 1. ownership of the complete movie boxed set, to 2. exploring the Muggle-made wonder that is the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal Studios Japan. A studio tour in the UK sounds awesome too, and this sounds very intriguing. But until then, I’m educating myself with Tales of Beedle the Bard, and watching this one-hour gem below.

Cheers!

Photo and video credits to owners.

Book Review

5 Books on My Reading List

Posted on March 28, 2013

To ‘Casual Vacancy’, the right time will come for you and I.

The holy week holiday is usually the perfect time for me to catch up on my reading. Alas, this year I have other less fun (but more important) things on my to-do list. The most I can do is look at my growing unread pile and lovingly dust off the covers. Here is my short list, just so I don’t forget:

1. Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald

2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

3. Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling (the Mexican standoff persists)

4. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

5. I am Number Four: The Lost Files by Pittacus Lore

Dear titles, I hope to be with you by June-July. Until then.