Books – February 2010
Paul Sussman – The Hidden Oasis
Seth Godin – Linchpin
Diane Carwell & Jonathan Sutherland – Ghosts of the World
February was a month of great cleaning, and a few casualties included my books. But moving old books I’m not crazy about opens up space for new books that could be or are great. A friend was also thinning out her library and let me pick out books that I want. I might get to those one day, but these were the ones that I bought this month.
Three this month too. That’s a more manageable pile than my usual 10 a month.
Books – January 2010
Simon Tofield – Simon’s Cat
Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Patrick Ness – The Ask and The Answer
Book buys were minimal over December and perhaps it’s too early to post about January buys but since I’m on a roll with this scheduled post thingy, here we are.
Simon’s Cat is the comic book of the YouTube sensation of the same name. I could have just stood in the book store and finished it several times over, so I don’t know why I sank RM55 into getting it. Uhm, but I went through it 5 times already.
The other two books are sequels that I decided to follow. The Hunger Games cost me a night of sleep because I made the mistake of picking it up at 3am. It only makes me wanna reread both books again now. I think I might just read the first book of Chaos Walking before starting on the new one. It was a difficult but rewarding book to read, but I don’t really remember the details now.
Books – Aug-Nov 2009
Toni Blake – The Red Diary
Mechele Armstrong – Dinah’s Dark Desire
Various – Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
Autumn Cornwell – Carpe Diem
Gabrielle Zevin – Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Gregory Maguire – What the Dickens
EL Konigsburg – The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
Patrick Ness – The Knife of Never Letting Go
Susan Pfeffer – Life As We Knew It
Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games
Lyn Gardner – Into The Woods
Lucy Christopher – Stolen
John Ho – Scary Ever After
I’m actually quite surprised by what a big heap this is. I’ve not been buying as fanatically as I used to. Instead of 10 books a month, I buy maybe two to four… when something catches my eye. So far, none of the books I bought disappointed me.
Most of these books are YA books. The top three are on the other end of the scale, bought from a friend who was helping her cousin get rid of books you can’t really buy here anyway.
The one on the side is a graphic novel. Noir and morbid, my favourite combinations. It reminds of those large format horror comic books from the 50′s or 60′s.
Currently reading Carpe Diem.
