So far in 2009

So far in 2009, I have completed:

1) Wake by Lisa McMann
2) Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
3) Looking For Alaska by John Green
4) Twelve by Nick McDonell
5) Reader by Bernard Schlink
6) Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
7) Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
8) Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
9) The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
10) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Soon to be finished..)

Planning next to read Scott Smith's Simple Plan. Hope it's good.

Thinking about reading these next too:

The House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski,
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Fade by Robert Cormier
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
Vengeance by George Jonas
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami

Read In 2008

In 2008, I managed to finish reading these books:

1. Jumper by Steven Gould
2. Reflex by Steven Gould
3. Jumper: Griffin's Story by Steven Gould
4. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for
Millions by Ben Mezrich
5. Every Second Counts By Lance Armstrong & Sally Jenkins
6. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
7. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
8. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
9. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

2008 has been an exciting year of reading for me. Almost all the books that I have read are good and entertaining.

Jumper series is fun, action-packed, and I'm entirely thrilled all the way towards the end. Good writing and pacing, never in one second feels like outdated to me although published in the late 80s and early 90s. Steven Gould has even mentioned in his blog that he is going to write another book of the jumper universe with the original protagonists. Rejoice! I hope it will top the earlier books (which are really, really good) in terms of style and intelligence.

If you have now just finished the Jumper series, seem to can't get enough of Jumper at the moment, and even the movie can't satiate your thirst, you can check Gould's short story out, I think has been published some time ago in the TOR online publication. Davy and his wife, Millie were last seen doing their rounds of rescue in a water-deprived nation.

After watching the 21, I can't stop myself thinking about the coolness of those card-counters, dabbling blackjack in such a risky situation, and the ever cool casinos. Well, what was the right thing to do if not diving straight through bringing down to house in an instant. Ben Mezrich really succeeded in providing an rich detailed re-collection of the card-counter's brush with the card-counting business. Really fascinating, rich, and intriguing indeed story.

Well, the second Lance Armstrong does to me lose its steam as a great book if compared to its predecessor, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life. However, as I'm really a fan of his first story, I really looked forward to his second book, but this book does appear somewhat a letdown to me. Anyways, I would still give this book a thumb up as the downside of this book can still be made-up by the brilliance of the first book and Lance Armstrong himself.

Apart from that, albeit Twilight saga falls generally into romantic genre and has therefore been nearly unanimously taken as girlish read, it is basically a good and very submersive thought-wise read, may even hypnotic sometimes. Be warned..

Although the Every Second Counts is overshadowed by the rest, 2008 was by far still an unavoidably amazing year of reading.

My 2009 does really mark a mixture of books, as usual the very-good ones overshadowing the just-ok one, I am very optimistic that 2009 can end up as a more entertaining rather than a lacklustre reading year. Let's just hope, kekeke.. (Can't believe I wrote some minor reviews here) :)

Read 2007

Further to my 12 September 2006 entry, books that I have read in 2007 are as below (not in Chronological or temporal order):

1. The Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
2. The Third Brother by Nick McDonell
3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
5. The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
6. The 25th Hour by David Benioff
7. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
8. Derailed by James Siegel

:)

I will be back, seriously

Wow, it has been such a long time I did not update this blog!

From 2006 till now.. Even 2010 is approaching soon..

Anyways, I will be back soon, stay tuned.. :)