April 2011
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“The very beauty of small-town life was that you could count on things not...”
– Sweet Valley Confidential (Ten Years Later)
March 2011
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“Things end, people leave, and life goes on. You need the bad things to feel the...”
– Perfect You
January 2011
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“The sleep crying had to stop. It was no good for my eyes, no good for my skin....”
– My Best Friend’s Girl
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out with the old, in with the new
its a brand new year.. i know i’m a week plus late in wishing you all here but its still the first month so it’ll count. hahah. HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2011 :))
book wise, i finally did it! the 50 Book Challenge for 2010. i remember spending the last hour of last year reading up on the 50th book. t’was crazy as the minutes were ticking by & i was getting a headache from trying to...
December 2010
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“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you...”
– An Abundance of Katherines
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“I got words in me, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there’s so many...”
– Take Me There
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“Time goes round and round the spinning clock, until the fateful day time folds...”
– Take Me There
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“Someday being with him will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too....”
– Something Borrowed
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“Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment more than anything else....”
– Something Borrowed
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tick tock tick tock
i’m running out of books.. practically have read all the books on my shelf.. i’m also running out of time.. two & a half more weeks till its the end of the year & i’m just on book number 40 on my 50 Book Challenge for this year. that’s 10 more books to read before the end of the year.. but having no books sucks, cause i’m broke & i’m done reading my...
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“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s...”
– Committed
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“Once trust has been shattered, piecing it back together again is arduous and...”
– Committed
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“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be...”
– Committed
“I like reading. When everything in reality is going wrong, I can always pick up...”
– fuckyeahreading!
November 2010
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“Grieving is a process you survive one heartbeat at a time, but finding the...”
– A Journal for Jordan
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on Jay Asher's Th1rteen R3asons Why.
i’ve had this book on my shelf for the longest time already. i remember when i first saw it at a bookstore, the cover caught my eye tho the synopsis at the back cover didnt really attract me i still got it thinking i’d give it a try. this book is so much different from the YA books i’m used to reading, this was somewhat a thriller mystery kinda YA book so i guess thats why...
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“Sometimes we have thoughts that even we dont understand. Thoughts that arent...”
– Th1rteen R3asons Why
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“My heart hurts. I always assumed that heartache meant loving someone who...”
– Waiting For You
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“We’re all sinking in the same boat here. We’re all bored and...”
– Waiting For You
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“It’s strange how you can live so close to someone and grow up with him...”
– Waiting For You
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first friend. first girl. last words.
just got done reading John Green’s Looking For Alaska. i love it & daymm was i hooked. even when i told myself to slow down, i finished reading it in 5 hours. first time this year i’ve been able to finish a book that fast. :)) at first i was kinda reluctant to read this cause by the title, it really didnt sound that appealing (to me!, hahah)...
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“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bear the idea of death...”
– Looking For Alaska
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“From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie...”
– Looking For Alaska
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“Nothing’s wrong. But there’s always suffering, Pudge. Homework or...”
– Looking For Alaska
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“It’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But, I...”
– Looking For Alaska
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“Because you simply cannot draw these things out for ever. At some point, you...”
– Looking For Alaska
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“It’s amazing how you can be surrounded by so many people every day who...”
– Take Me There
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“We read to know we are not alone.”
– C.S. Lewis
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“There’s no shame in loving someone’s memory. It gives me hope, to be...”
– 10 Reasons Not To Fall In Love
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“Because unlike Enid Blyton, I no longer believe in happy endings.”
– 10 Reasons Not To Fall In Love
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slowly getting there..
&& so October was a slow start for my reading. who am i kidding, i only managed to read one book that whole month. BLAH. only good thing is, i brought some books online on Book Depository & i just can’t wait for them to arrive. :)) i just finished reading Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big In This?. & i only wish i could have read it a few years back, preferably...
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“Sometimes its easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is...”
– Does My Head Look Big In This?
October 2010
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“Crying had become a great comfort, but it was difficult to arrange times for it...”
– Anybody Out There?
September 2010
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“Reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what...”
– Book Lover
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“I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags. Sometimes, I...”
– Book Lover
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sometimes the people we love most are the hardest...
just finished reading, Heart of the Matter by Emily Griffin.. its about the two different women who wouldnt even have known each other had not one woman’s husband got close to the other woman’s family. tho i strongly disagree with what Nick did, i wouldnt call it an affair as it was just a moment of dishonesty. not saying that i agree with guys who do that, but in this case i...
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eat. pray. love.
so, i’ve finally read Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. the first two times i tried reading it, i ended up stopping halfway. not even half, just like a few pages into the story. ha. this third time, i was stuck on a particular page for so long when i remembered my 50 Book Challenge aint gonna be moving if i dont get back to reading it. unlike some people where they can read two or...
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“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying, the only thing more...”
– Eat Pray Love
August 2010
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2010 Reads →
list of books i’ve read for the 50 Book Challenge for this year so this is where it’ll keep updated. :))
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to up & leave…
its an interesting concept. you know to just leave home all things familiar & start anew most likely in a foreign place. it has always interested in me & ironically the last two books i’ve read was about that. ha. i wanna write more on this but perhaps on my personal blog.. so anyways, with that two books read thats 10 down & 40 more to go on this 50 Book Challenge 2010 of mine....
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why, hello..
here’s to another blog, attempting a book blog.. this would serve to keep track of the books i’ve read, sometimes my own reviews, not forgetting quotes on them & others i feel that can go in this book blog.. i love to read & back in high school, i was such a bookworm that i could even finish 2 or 3 books within a day.. growing up, of course the internet came into the picture so...