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Random happy news: Raining money at KL Sentral

And now, back to my original post.

Michael Crichton died. :(

I read quite a lot of Crichton’s books after graduating to adult novels. The thing that kept me reading at the time and causes me to occasionally pick up something new of his is that I enjoy the scientific “what if” scenarios he writes about.

Jurassic Park was also an awesome movie* for its time.

On to happier news, Robert was featured in the Malay Mail’s Blogspot!

* but as always, the book is better

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Happy Nanowrimo to those of you who are playing!

James Heneghan - The Grave
 Madeleine L’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
  Madeleine L’Engle - An Acceptable Time
John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
EL Konigsburg - The View from Saturday
Robert C. O’Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Yvonne Lee - Vanity Drive
Franchelle Ashton - NZ Customs & Etiquette
Graham McEune - Upcountry
Gurmit Singh KS* - Beyond Me & Mine
Paul Leslie Smith - Rainforest Tears - A Borneo Story

 The upper half is todays haul from Book Castle. The lower half are my review copies from Marshall Cavendish.

Surprisingly enough, I didn’t buy any more books since my last post. I was wading slowly through Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22″ and John Evangelist Walsh’s “Midnight Dreary - The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe”… doing the multi-booking thing I’ve heard about. As I suspected, it was hard for anything else to hold a candle to Garth Nix’s Abhorsen Trilogy.

Right now, I’ve abandoned Yossarian and Poe for “Vanity Drive” and “Upcountry”, both proving to be quite entertaining and hilarious.

What are you reading?

* Not the Pua Chu Kang Gurmit Singh.

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Erin Hunter - Warriors: The Lost Warrior
Erin Hunter - Warriors: Warrior’s Refuge
Erin Hunter - Warriors: Warrior’s Return
Charlie Price - Dead Connection
Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler’s Wife
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl
Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman, Cathy Briggs - Cathy’s Book

It’s only the first week of October and I don’t expect this to be the full book haul of the month, but my September haul was puny. Maybe cause I spent most my money on make-up and clothes-making things. But I’m expecting more birthday discounts from all the book shops I’m a member of.

The strikethroughs are the ones I’ve read. One have been reviewed; the rest are in queue except for the one I haven’t crossed off and The Time Traveler’s Wife, which I did months ago.

I’ve read the kiddy version of Anne Frank’s Diary yonks ago. It’s one of those books that left an impression. This one is the 60th Anniversary Edition and it includes entries and passages omitted in earlier editions due to various reasons. Oh boy oh boy. Can’t wait to get started on this version and see how it reads as an adult with a more comprehensive edition.

I noticed a surge of YA books about the Nazi occupation. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Book Thief were my recent reads. Both are very good, but I stopped myself from buying another one I found on Sunday. I forgot the title. There is such thing as too much on a topic. I draw the line here.

Remember Not Without My Daughter and an endless spawn of books in the theme of I-am-a-woman-oppressed-in-Saudi-Arabia? Remember Wild Swans, Chinese Cinderella and the endless spawn of I-am-an-unwanted-daughter-of-Communist-China? How about the spawn of Da Vinci Code wannabes riding the coattails of Dan Brown’s success? And all those vampire books after Twilight became all the rage??

So what are you reading?

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