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:

You Are the Apple of My Eye

 

Giddens Ko is a famous Taiwanese writer. Both of the film and the novel are amazing. :lol:

The stranger

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:

The Complete Sherlock Holmes! I just read to page 11. :lol:

Sherlock: The Sign of Four

 

The last copy in a bookshop in Maine!

Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot) by Honore de Balzac

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:

Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

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!)

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.

Jonas Jonasson - The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared

^ Is it good? I was considering buying that book : )

I was reading the flood by ian Rankin earlier when waiting for the cat to return from its walk.

im readin two books:

 

Skullduggery Pleansant: Kingdom of the Wicked by Derek Landy &

Immortal Remains by Rook Hastings

The Prince because I have to for Gov't. :\

The Story of The Bible :p

Yesterday I finished The Tempest by Shakespeare...

I think today I'll start The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Just finished Roadie by Matt McGinn and starting Esaú e Jacó by Machado de Assis (our biggest writer ever)

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

A book about WikiLeaks

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.

I read Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (:bigcry: it's already finished!) and only now I'm starting The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo.