This is a very late year-end review of my reading pursuits. Around last week a year ago, I started my own book blog from scratch. Reading and writing, activities familiar yet slightly different from what I regularly do everyday. Also an activity that I thought would help me expand my vocabulary again, since I have […]
Thoughts
Resignation
I have resigned to the fact that I won’t be able to meet the 52 books in a 52 weeks challenge. At the rate I am going, and the waning attention span I have, I won’t be able to complete it at all. Especially considering the times where I need to do other stuff or […]
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I Just Can’t Help My Self
Last night when we went out for a quick nightcap (of fries, onion rings and baked potatoes), we passed by the bookstore with just the thought of looking through books. Despite having such little budget, we came out with new books anyway. When I saw Asimov’s Magic on the shelf, I distinctly remember an old […]
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Hard Reading
Have you ever encountered a book that no matter how hard you try, you just can’t seem to get into? A book, not necessarily required reading (like for school or work) but you are really interested but you just can’t seem to get past the first few pages? That’s how I felt with D.M. Cornish’s […]
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Roadblocks
Just when I started my own book blog, something happens and I can’t go splurge on new stuff for the next six months, this includes book buying. I’ve thought that the only way to deal with this is finally reading all the books I have already started but yet to finish, and all the other […]