My best reads in 2010
31 Dec 2010 1 Comment
1. The Hunger Games trilogy – Suzanne Collins
(Well, technically I’ve only read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire so far and both were brilliant. So good that I’m willing to get my copy of Mockingjay at full price. Having previously worked in a bargain bookstore, this is big.)
2. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series – Ann Brashares
3. The Library of Shadows – Mikkel Birkegaard
4. Un Lun Dun – China Miéville
5. Temeraire – Naomi Novik
What about you? I could use some recommendations for the next reading year. 
A book dilemma
29 Aug 2010 1 Comment
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Right now, I’m trying to trim my collection of books because i don’t have enough space on my two bookshelves! So, I have these four books of a series. It’s the books by Stephen Clarke about his French-loving Brit Paul West. I liked A Year in the Merde, enjoyed Merde Actually but disliked both Merde Happens and Dial M for Merde.
Help me decide what to do with these books by taking part in my poll below.
If you have any other thoughts feel free to comment.
Update: I did as the poll results suggested and donated the two books away.
Tweaks and Tweets
07 Jun 2010 1 Comment
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I had an unexpected weekend off from work and with some free time in my hands, I managed to make some tweaks to this book blog.
1. Updated my links
Scroll down the sidebar on the right and you will see three different categories of links: Blogroll is made up of blog friends who occasionally write about books in their blogs (except one interior design blog – occasionally posts bookish things but is not my friend); Book Blogs is self-explanatory; and Bookish Sites are some of my favourite book-related blogs.
2. Joined the Twitter bandwagon
I find that I don’t update this blog as often as I would like. I have stopped reviewing books for ages, concentrating instead of cute bookish stuff I find on the net and the occasional personal, book-related post. I think Twitter is a great place for me to do mini reviews of books I’ve read and to update on my current bookish state from time to time when I am too busy to update here. So if you find a state of inactivity here, don’t forget to check my sidebar for Twitter updates – at least there should be something new there!
Follow me on Twitter here http://twitter.com/nylusmilk
That’s all the changes for now. I am toying with the idea of book giveaways and other stuff, just to make this place a little more lively. But we’ll see!
Meanwhile, this is so late but I must say thank you to Josette for one lovely blog award.
A Quote to Share
03 Mar 2010 1 Comment
This quote really speaks to me every time I read it. It explains my deep passion for blogging during my college days.
“Writing can be a true spiritual discipline. Writing can help us to concentrate, to get in touch with the deeper stirrings of our hearts, to clarify our minds, to process confusing emotions, to reflect on our experiences, to give artistic expression to what we are living, and to store significant events in our memories. Writing can also be good for others who might read what we write. Quite often a difficult, painful, or frustrating day can be ‘redeemed’ by writing about it. By writing we can claim what we have lived and thus integrate it more fully into our journeys. Then writing can become lifesaving for us and sometimes for others too.”
Henri Nouwen
I wish I can rediscover that passion I used to have.
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