the list of books I've started but haven't finished pales somewhat next to the list of books I've bought but never read, which is probably about equal to the number of books I've read but don't actually remember reading. then there are the books I've bought, have read, remember reading but have forgotten what actually happens in them.
So yeah, I call myself a reader, but I don't read a lot. I mean, I do read a lot.. of stuff online. Like a lot. But books.. they have taken a back seat. I try, oh how I try. :)
HITTING 14 IN '14
- hannah pakula :: the last empress: madame chiang kai-shek and the birth of modern china
- anthony bourdain :: kitchen confidential: adventures in the culinary underbelly
- cathy malkasian :: percy gloom (a graphic novel)
- cathy malkasian :: temperance (a graphic novel)
- gabriel garcia marquez :: chronicle of a death foretold
- taichi yamada :: strangers
- robert galbraith :: the cuckoo's calling
- jon ronson :: the psychopath test: a journey through the madness industry
- amy chua :: battle hymn of the tiger mother
- lisa see :: peony in love
- antoine de saint-exupéry :: the little prince (re-read)
- lewis caroll :: through the looking glass
- portia de rossi :: unbearable lightness
- mark haddon :: the curious incident of the dog in the night (re-read)
- written by antoine de saint-exupéry and drawn by joann sfar:: the little prince (graphic novel)
update 15-7-14: yay, added two more books to the list in two days! hehe.. just had to finish them up, i've a ton of books that are half read. bleh. hmm, what's next?
update 1-9-14: phew, again in Sept I've caught up at least by the number of month to book for the year. still, another five more to go. will she make it? jeng jeng jeng.
update 22-12-14: wow, i thought i couldn't make it this year, but looks like i just need one more! and i'm almost done re-reading haddon! just eight more days. we'll see! *excited*
update 23-12-14: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! phew.
HITTING 13 IN '13
- lisa see :: shanghai girls
- walter isaacson :: steve jobs
- john gallagher :: geisha
- written by mariko tamaki and drawn by jillian tamaki :: skim (a graphic novel)
- stephen j. dubner & steven d. levitt :: superfreakonomics
- mark haddon :: the curious incident of the dog in the night (re-read)
- alvin ung :: barefoot leadership
- james a. levine :: the blue note book
- wong seng chow :: rice wine & dancing girls - the real-life drama of a roving cinema manager in the fifties malaysia and singapore
- kam raslan :: confessions of an old boy - the dato' hamid adventures
- bill bryson :: the life and times of the thunderbolt kid - a memoir
- eminem :: the way i am
- ravi zacharias :: walking from east to west: God in the shadows
- malcolm gladwell :: what the dog saw: and other adventures
cool, target achieved with one to spare! moving on, 14 in '14 :)
MISSING IN '13*
HITTING 12 IN '12MISSING IN '13*
- rachel dewoskin :: foreign babes in shanghai (was so close to finishing it!)
- nick hornby :: the polysyllabic spree (oh the irony!)
- eugenia kim :: the calligrapher's daughter (another time, maybe)
- takashi murakami :: stargazing dog (a graphic novel)
- kazuo ishiguro :: nocturnes
- philip yancey :: prayer
- victor e. frankl :: man in search for meaning
- agatha christie :: destination unknown
- agatha christie :: the hollow
- franz kafka :: the metamorphosis
- agatha christie :: dumb witness
- patricia wood :: lottery
- agatha christie :: and then there were none (re-read)
- gok wan :: through thick and thin: my autobiography
- ha jin :: the bridegroom
update 2: okay, it's July now and I'm on my eighth book (Agatha Christie's Dumb Witness). thank God for her! and for friends who read and are willing to lend me all but one books in this list! woo hoo! maybe i should start re-reading The Curious Incident.
update 3: it's September now, and I'm book-on-month on my speed. not bad. i've got two books half-read right now (Wu Ningkun's A Single Tear and PG Wodehouse's Pigs Have Wings), and I hope to finish them.. erm soon? The BBW sale is coming again end of this year. I need to clear some of last year's books, they are staring at me from the couch with that pleading look to pick them up. aiks, the guilt!
update 4: yay! i managed by the whisker of another mouse! i never did finish the two books that i started in september.. i still need to finish steve job's biography but i'll add that to 2013's list. :)
HITTING 11 IN '11
- neil gaiman :: smoke and mirrors
- peter miller :: smart swarm
- george orwell :: the animal farm
- mosab hassan yousef :: son of hamas
- antoine de saint-exupéry :: the little prince
- edgar wallace :: the feathered serpent
- patrick teoh :: teohlogy
- charles dickens :: a christmas carol
- daphne du maurier :: rebecca
- george orwell :: 1984
- mark haddon :: the curious incident of the dog in the night (re-read)
- pg wodehouse :: much obliged, jeeves
- pearls before swine :: BLTs taste so darn good
- various artists :: lifelike (a graphic novel)
- jeffrey archer :: and thereby hangs a tale
- lisa see :: snow flower and the secret fan
- jeffrey archer :: the path to glory
HITTING 12 IN '10
- chuck palahniuk :: pygmy
- mark haddon :: the curious incident of the dog in the night (re-read)
- jake adelstein :: tokyo vice
- c.s. lewis :: the screwtape letter
- michael spencer :: mere churchianity
- pg wodehouse :: very good, jeeves
- don miller :: blue like jazz
- nate powell :: swallow me whole (a graphic novel)
- frank mccourt :: angela's ashes
- haruki murakami :: after dark
- sebastian faulks :: engleby
- a.j. jacob :: the year of living biblically
