12.23.2012

A Year in Books



I always keep a list of books I've read for 2012 and I'd like to share with you this list in no particular order:
  1. Battle Hym of the Tiger Mother
  2. Perks of Being a Wallflower
  3. Something Borrowed
  4. Something Blue
  5. Lover's Dictionary
  6. World War Z
  7. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  8. The Best of Me
  9. The Catcher in the Rye
  10. Things Fall Apart
  11. The Hundred Secret Senses
  12. The Joy Luck Club
  13. The Kitchen God's Wife
  14. The Bonesetter's Daughter
  15. The Diary of a Young Girl
  16. Thirteen Reasons Why
  17. Please Look After Mom
  18. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
  19. Falling Leaves
  20. Geisha of Gion
  21. My Sister's Keeper
I am satisfied to say that I have read quite a handful of books already. As you might have noticed in the list I am recently fascinated with books that have to do with culture, Asian culture that is. Regular book prices starts at 315 I guess, I have looked for easier and bargain means to purchase. One is on Ebay. I love receiving packages!! And the other is going on a book hunt at second hand bookstores. 


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They have a piano as the center piece in the room, bright Christmas lights around and they play classical music inside the store. 


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                                                                      A very cozy nook!!




So here we go. Joy has her hands on an Anita Shreve and an Amy Tan book.

You know that feeling when you enter a shop and you just have to get an item before you leave. I had that experience when I went here, although I was not looking for any book in particular I just felt the need to get something before I leave the place. Hahaha So here we go with our book finds. I chanced upon a copy of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. At first I was contemplating to buy it but then I though maybe there will be no other copy of this book on a lesser price again. Lately all my book purchases revolve around the same setting: CHINA.

I think I have to stop this obsession some time and explore another book setting. LOL 


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CURRENTLY READING

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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