Books.Books.Books.

Saturday, November 8, 2008


i was browsing Ala Paredes' blog... I love it.  I love her, she's real!  Napadpad ako sa blog http://katmayo.blogspot.com/ where she has a post of Angus & Robertson's top 100 books of all time.  I just wanted to pass it on..

Out of 100 I only read 15.. does this mean i have to read more? hahaha.  I highlighted the books i got my hands on..  there are books i read this year that is not on this list.. kaya i guess.. quits lng!  hahaha.

1 Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling 
2 Twilight - Stephenie Meyer -   Edward, my heart is yours forever!  I swoon everytime i read your name. Edward is love. ♥ 
3 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen  one of my favorites!  Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth why not?!  Kiligs.
4 The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Isobelle Carmody
5 My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
6 To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee - makes me cry padin.. I've read this over and over!
7 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
8 Breath - Tim Winton
9 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
10 Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs
11 The Power Of One - Bryce Courtenay
12 Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
13 Magician - Raymond E. Feist
14 The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
15 Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
16 Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
17 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
18 Cross - James Patterson
19 Persuasion - Jane Austen
20 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
21 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
23 Marley and Me - John Grogan
24 Antony and Cleopatra - Colleen McCullough
25 April Fools Day - Bryce Courtney
26 North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell
27 In My Skin - Kate Holden
28 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
29 A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
30 The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory
31 Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
32 Atonement - Ian McEwan
33 Shantaram Gregory - David Roberts
34 Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett
35 The Pact - Jodi Picoult
36 Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
37 Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
38 Jessica - Bryce Courtenay
39 A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
40 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
41 Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
42 Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes
43 Life Of Pi - Yann Martel
44 Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly
45 People Of The Book - Geraldine Brooks
46 Six Sacred Stones - Matthew Reilly
47 Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
48 Brother Odd - Dean Koontz
49 Tully - Paullina Simons
50 Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom - cried tons!  haaaai.
51 The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
52 Eragon - Christopher Paolini
53 Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert - GREATEST READ yet.  Liz Gilbert is courageous.  This book made me cry and think and be more thankful.
54 It's Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong
55 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
56 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
57 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
58 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
59 A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
60 The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
61 The Notebook -Nicholas Sparks - cried nanaman..
62 Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
63 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
64 The Host - Stephenie Meyer
65 Dirt Music - Tim Winton
66 Eldest - Christopher Paolini
67 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
68 It - Stephen King
69 World Without End - Ken Follett
70 Emma - Jane Austen - clueless was kind of based in this novel.  I liked cher better than emma. hahaha
71 Temple - Matthew Reilly
72 Little Women - Alcott Louisa May - definitely a fave.  Reminds me of my sisters..both biological and chosen-by-heart sisters. ♥  ITs about sisterhood, family and friends.
73 Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich
74 Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly
75 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
76 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
77 P.S, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
78 All That Remains - Patricia Cornwell
79 The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
80 Past Secrets - Cathy Kelly
81 The Persimmon Tree - Bryce Courtenay
82 Husband - Dean Koontz
83 Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
84 Wicked - Gregory Maguire
85 Spot Of Bother - Mark Haddon
86 Always And Forever - Cathy Kelly
87 The Road - Cormac McCarthy
88 Cents & Sensibility - Maggie Alderson
89 Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris  Witty!
90 The Shifting Fog - Kate Morton
91 We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
92 Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisberger
93 Hour Game - David Baldacci
94 Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
95 The Woods - Harlan Coben
96 Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
97 Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
98 Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis
99 Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
100 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

I am now reading Cecilia Ahern's Thanks for the memories..I just started.. lets see how it goes..

Something I'm sure I will NOT do!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008


Last week Noel went bungy jumping.. Look how brave he is!  Woohoo!



CrazyFriends

Sunday, November 2, 2008



I just realized how intense kme magkwento magf-friends about our other friends to each other thanks to Myls and Ron. hahaha

Last Wed i got a text message from Clang.. it read:
"nksby ko c ron kanina sa elevator.  Muntik ko ng batiin tas naalala ko d nga pla kme frnds.haha.Klala ko lng xa bec of the photos. gnyt."

Kinwento ko kay Myls. Ntawa sha.. I remember telling her before when the girls and i were in greenbelt, i saw B'ley, na muntik ko na rin batiin. hahaha.  Nalowka yata c Myls samen.. Pero mas naloka sha when kinwento ko c Chuck and Chai, who never met before and only knew each other from my kwentos and pics.

One slow sat afternoon.. bumaba c Chuck sa lobby ng PS, c Chai was there waiting for her former boss who also worked in PS.. (no silly, not me. hahaha)  Nagkatinginan cla.. d nila alam gagawin.. tapos nagsmile-an! tpos cnabe na i think ni chuck.."sabihan ko c Gian andito ka.." (PANALO!)

C Chuck pag-akyat sabi saken.. "Gi, anjan c Chai sa baba, nagsmilan kme parang gago d naman kame magkakilala! hahaha."

I miss chuck.  I miss videoke with him. Chuckers pagbalik mo uminom tayo ng todo.. yung tipong gagapang na ko pauwi! hahaha.

I guess this could be the reason why I always forget to introduce my friends to each other.. hahaha I mean, i oftentimes assume na they already know each other.. Like what happened kay Clang and Myls.. sorry super crazy tlga ko most of the time that even if i make a mental note, wala pa rin..  hahaha (baka makalusot lng)
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I wrote this post friday night.. less than 3 hours after writing this i got a text msg from Sunny.. "lets go out tom.. Chuck is here."  HAHAHA.  I saw Chuck yesterday.. he came home for the weekend.. d kame gumapang pauwi sa kalasingan.. mas marami pang kwento kesa alcohol.. actually mas marami pang kape!  CHUCK NAMISS KITA!  It was nice seeing you again.  Labshoons. HUGS.
 
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