Reading something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue
While I’m busy unpacking, sorting hundreds of trip photos, wading through dozens of emails, slathering Bengay over my ill-abused muscles (from five days of endless walking and an unexpected foot race to catch our flight home!), and reconditioning my mind away from vacation mode (!), here’s some news from National Book Store:
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By the time you read this, I’ll probably be waiting to board my flight to Hong Kong.
As you can see, I’m all packed already. Aside from my the Hong Kong guidebook in my handcarry, I’ve severely limited myself to Newton (my Nook) and one other book. It’s so hard to transition into the fact that I already have an e-reader, because I’m so used to traveling with a small stack of books, regardless of the fact that I’m sure to buy another stack to take back home (erm, yes, on my last trip out of the country, I shelled out $100 for excess baggage, which were purely books — loot from the Popular book fair and Bras Basah Complex!)!
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It’s been over a month since I read Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley Confidential, and all this time this post has been sitting in my drafts folder, because I’ve been thinking about what to write in it.
Like most of my friends from grade school and high school, I grew up reading Sweet Valley books. Before I read them, my older sisters were already reading them and I was often the dummy player when the two of them played their Sweet Valley High board game, without understanding what it was all about (I was in pre-school — I just threw the dice and moved the token along the board!).
Somehow the bug in the site that has plagued me all day has been fixed by upgrading my wordpress. I hadn’t planned on getting the bug resolved today so I did not prepare a post, but since it’s the peak of summer and I can’t sleep in this sweltering heat I might as well be productive.
This post is about Tolkien; not that I’m a huge fan. I read Th e Hobbit and Lord of the Rings back in college, borrowed from the school library a few months before the first film came out. I liked the books and even read them twice, saw the movies and thought they were awesome, but never really became a hardcore fan (like some people I know!).
