July 28, 201213 yr Lesson learned: Never buy books you know absolutely nothing about! The other day I purchased Henry James' "In The Cage" and it's so dreadfully boring and incomprehensible. I'd be happier If the money I spent on the book was stolen from me :blank:
July 31, 201213 yr You Are the Apple of My Eye Giddens Ko is a famous Taiwanese writer. Both of the film and the novel are amazing. :lol:
July 31, 201213 yr Re-reading some of Agatha Christie's stories since I can't possibly finish "Moby Dick" or "In The Cage" or even "Little Dorrit" :bomb:
August 14, 201213 yr yeah, I have to read it for my AP class... so far so meh... :thinking: I'm going to read How To Read Literature Like A Professor. My cousins (they get Master's Degree this year.) have already borrowed it for me from college library. I'm becoming a freshman in college in September. I'm in NCHU Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. The foreign language is mostly English, and so is literature. So in summer vacation, I need to read a lot of books/novels. My cousins say if you read them now, when you study in college in the future, it will be much easier to understand what professors talk about. (Sorry for my poor English. :lol:) Now I'm reading The Hound of the Baskervilles. :dance:
August 17, 201213 yr Brideshead Revisited... It is such a brilliant book, I really love it :dazzled:! Waugh is fantastically good at character studies and his language just makes me melt into a pile of geeky English-fangirl-mush! (And, OK, this isn't *exactly* relevant, but I recently read To Kill a Mockingbird and it was just so perfect. That has to be read by everyone at least once in their lives. Loved it so much!)
August 18, 201213 yr I finished reading "The Secret Adversary" by Agatha Christie. Tommy and Tuppence are so much more fun than Poirot or Marple :wacky: I should tackle "A Feast for Crows" next by GRRM.
August 18, 201213 yr Jonas Jonasson - The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared
August 18, 201213 yr I was reading the flood by ian Rankin earlier when waiting for the cat to return from its walk.
August 19, 201213 yr im readin two books: Skullduggery Pleansant: Kingdom of the Wicked by Derek Landy & Immortal Remains by Rook Hastings
August 20, 201213 yr Yesterday I finished The Tempest by Shakespeare... I think today I'll start The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
August 20, 201213 yr Just finished Roadie by Matt McGinn and starting Esaú e Jacó by Machado de Assis (our biggest writer ever)
August 30, 201213 yr I just finished Slave by Mende Nazer. It is the story of modern day slavery (in Sudan). I was blown away by the fact that slavery and slave raids still occur in this age. It is a harrowing novel, but I definitely think a must read for human rights knowledge.
August 30, 201213 yr I read Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (:bigcry: it's already finished!) and only now I'm starting The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo.
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