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While first starting with the list, I left this one empty because I can't think of a character that felt like she can be me. Then I read One Day, in anticipation of the movie starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess and widely recommended by many in the internet communities. Before I started on the character, let me just give you a brief summary of One Day which a book I came to love.  And I would totally read again. One Day tells of a story between Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew that spans 20 years. However this book only revisit what happened on that particular one day of each year. And that one day is the anniversary when they first met.  One Day is a lovely, sweet book. I always enjoyed British writers. There is something in their work that I found wholesome. I go in easily into books written by British writers. I have no idea why, I just found that I have a preference in reading of books written by them.  So One Day is exactly how I imagine it would be. It is sw...

I wish more people would read Jurassic Park & The Lost World by Michael Crichton. Many serious readers like to think Crichton works as crap, which of course with his loud views that global warming is faux kinda ruin his reputation a bit. But I can't denied his book is wildly entertaining and he does his research well. However none other book seems to highlight how entertaining he can write as Jurassic Park and The Lost World. While Jurassic Park sparked the interest, I always preferred The Lost World compare to Jurassic Park. But I wish people would not be as easy to dismiss as saying "I seen the movies, what more could the book offers."  Its kinda like mean how can you watch Harry Potter and says you're a fan when the books offered so much more of the magic world?? I am not even gonna put in a summary to the book, because I am sure at least you had watch Jurassic Park once in your life. So the book is kinda like that but there is more adventures, more intrig...

It is Mistress Pat by L.M Montgomery.  Why this particularly, well I guess because I am such a big fan of her other works, I always want to collect them all if possible. This book is a continuation of another book, Pat of Silver Bush. I have that book and always wanted to know what happened when she grew up.  The story is basically about a girl who hate changes. So this next book where everyone else and herself is growing up and making decisions that can affect whole life it would be interesting to know what the girl who hate changes going to do.  Why am I still not reading it? Well, it is really hard for me to find her books nowadays. It is annoying, but I guess since YA books are growing rapidly, older authors are not being put in shelves. This also makes me a bit sad. Did you read Daddy Long Legs? That is amazing. It felt About A Boy, Dahl-like . Do you know how hard it is to find that book and the sequel to that book. So while it is nice that budding new authors ...

Continuing on the book meme. I have forsake you for so long. Semua buku I own all have a very special place in my heart. But I especially cherish my Fables graphic novel collection.  Why? Because the whole collection (including the Cinderella spin off and the Pied Piper novel ) had reached 1k.  I had spent (ok WE ; my husband and I. I forced him to read and when I am broke asked him to buy) around RM1k for the collection. This is why, it is a bad idea to start reading graphic novel. ( I am now starting to collect the Walking Dead too, so put that second to my most favorite collection). But I am glad I chose Fables if I want to collect. I try reading the Sandman, but I don't like the tone of the story I guess while for this series I love it from the start. I had always love fairy tale, I always imagine what would happened to Cinderella, Snow White and all after they're married. I never believe they do have happily ever after. This series is the reimaginings of ...

I got it from some quotes. I hate quotes, but this girl, in this movie deserves it and embody the above quote. I watched the Winter's Bone. It was painfully depressing. Watching people in abject poverty teetering in further poverty.  I know this is gonna be a depressing movie and picked my time carefully. You can't really watched depressing movie when you're depressed. You can't stand to watch depressing movie when you are busy and stressed. The timing of such movie must be right so you won't be thrown in a somber mood the whole week. Maybe many people don't feel this or do, but I have a tendency to be melancholy for days if some movies affect me.  Now this movie. It is sombering. But in the midst of all the struggles she endured, I smiled as I watched at all the animals she feed and try to. She do not have enough to eat and I suspected let her siblings eat her share, but when her brother presented with a stray she smiled sadly and accepted it. And I am not e...

Because I can't think.  However I am gonna ramble a bit because I am stupid enough to slightly overdose myself with drugs. Currently suffering from kegatalan dari allergy. Tension taw aku duk terkeruk-keruk macam beruk. I have no idea what cause the allergy so ... fingers crossed it is just a one time thing. Anyway the doc gave some drugs that can caused drowsiness so the first time round I telan it, felt absolutely nothing and still feeling like a buffoon, I took another one.  Nak bangun tidur pon susah. Padan muka. Dengan itu I got myself a latte and quietly sipping it to will my mind to be alert.  In other news, my eldest sister had delivered a quaint little girl. Nama tidak tahu. Nampak kiut and kecik je, from the one blurry pic I can see of. Hurray to a new addition to the family. So now I have 2 nephews and 2 nieces.  And another thing, there is a cat currently camping at my front doorstep wanting to be adopted. It is a really cute Siamese cat...

So I am gonna rambles. Bet you haven't seen that awhile. Anyway, I went into bed at 11 pm which is unreasonably early and woke up at dawn and feeling dissatisfied by waking up at dawn. I mean it is the weekend for gawd sakes. So I slept again and now have a headache. Padan muka for being a lazy bone. Right now I got the vacuum cleaner and my broom and procrastinating. I also let the cat out to get them out of my hair while I will be cleaning and their constant gazing longingly at the window is pissing me off. What they don't now they will be severely wet wipe (there is wet wipes for cats) when they get back home this evening. They do not like them at all and the thing makes their fur looks weird afterward. So they need to enjoy their freedom while its last. Anyway... I have no idea what to say next and just go ahead and cleaned up the room. 

I have a lot of books that I love during my childhood. I think one of my most beloved is the Malory Tower series. I don't know if I even should put in a summary of the series. I mean almost everyone read this. So to those who never know of this (which is weird), it is a story about a bunch of kids in a boarding school. Starting from Form 1 - 6.  Why did I choose Malory Towers and not St Clare? I don't much like the twins. They are too goody goody for me. Malory Towers characters are wonderfully one-dimensional. Yes, you would not get a complex character from this, (only the adult remains quite mysterious) but most of the character are flawed and cute and earnest. I like Darrell, love Mary Lou shyness, am envious of Alicia and so many other people in the series. A lot of the character are wonderfully talented in something. It is of course unreasonable and unrealistic that so many different talent can be under one roof, but without it the book would not be interesting. Also ...

I chose this because this is the first romance book I read, so I guess the memory is sweet. Bestselling romance writer Hayden Lane has found her soul mate - or rather, created him: he's her latest fictional hero. And she's totally obsessed with him. Barely noticing when her real-life fiance breaks their engagement, she visits a psychic to learn more about him - and is told that in a past life Hayden was Lady de Grey, a promiscuous woman of Edwardian England. Hayden can't resist submitting to a hypnotist's magic. But the trick goes wrong, and instead of merely remembering her past as Lady de Grey, Hayden is living it. Now she will discover quite a different story about a woman history considered a trollop, a spectacular, brooding man, and the rapturous love that would be hers if she dared open her heart to the most mysterious adventure of all While the story is not perfect but I am a sucker for a tragic love story and what more tragic than a love story ...

Stardust by Neil Gaiman is a wonderful book. What is it about? (partial summary from goodreads) ...  tells the story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. One fateful night, Tristran promises his beloved that he will retrieve a fallen star for her from beyond the Wall that stands between their rural English town (called, appropriately, Wall) and the Faerie realm. No one ever ventures beyond the Wall except to attend an enchanted flea market that is held every nine years (and during which, unbeknownst to him, Tristran was conceived). But Tristran bravely sets out to fetch the fallen star and thus win the hand of his love.... I like the book immensely. After I finish reading it, I think the writer had craft a wonderfully written book. More like a gritty love story meets fairy tale. It have everything that a fairytale-loving heart could love, prince and princesses, curses, witches, goods triumphing over evil. But it is also dark, it does not shy aw...

Candance Bushnell - Sex and the City  While I love the series,  I am left severely disappointed in the book.  The summary :  In this chronicle of the mating habits of New York's cultural elite, Bushnell infiltrates celebrity affairs, sex clubs, and posh suburbs to introduce us to "bicycle boys," "modelizers," and "toxic bachelors" — powerful and successful men who bed single and married women as if it were a contest. Often funny and occasionally bleak, this is an inside account of the quintessential '90s romance and the never-ending search for the perfect marriage partner in high society This is maybe on the overall tone of the book. The series while at the time edgy, have a feeling of optimism, hopefulness  light feelings to it.  The book? It was ghastly as one reviewer reviewed it. Maybe it touch a note with a New Yorker, but reading the book, make my head ache. I hated everyone in the book, including Carrie. Everyone is depicted...

"It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals: and what is a diet if not that"  Bridget Jones Diary

It is Emily There are a lot of female characters I love. I had always been attracted towards reading a story where the narrator is female. I felt I can identified with them and make my journey with them much easier.  I can't really explain why I choose Emily which is also created by L.M Montgomery ( who wrote the Anne series) . Anne is indeed one of my favorites, but Anne sometimes is grating in her goodness.  Emily, is multi layered, complex, earnest, mysterious and marvelously human.  When Emily Starr's father dies, she is sent to live with her stern aunt Elizabeth at New Moon Farm. She's sure she'll be unhappy, but she soon discovers new friends, the beauty of her surroundings, and a love of writing. The book consists of 3, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emily Quest.  I first read the last book and was bewildered. A lot of books where you delve headfirst in their later series, you have no problem getting to know them and understanding them. While...