Rejected Polaroids

I feel very.. Excited.

At the prospect of once again being able to read non-stop, without thoughts rudely squirming its way into my conscience, all the while hollering : "Exam! Exam! Study! Study!". Babi betul. Lol.

And so, my journey begins anew, with them books.

Fellow readers, don't you just hate the feeling of having to break out of your reading momentum when in the middle of reading the best book ever (you thought so at that time)?

Oh oh, I'm even more excited at the fact that I just got 4 books, for a really, I mean really, good price! Yay! (Big big grin) Thanks my unmentionable dear friend! (HAHA) :))

Here's a mighty long list of books that are waiting to be opened, pages waiting to be flipped, leather (yeah, right) spines waiting to be stretched :

1. The Shadow of The Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
2. The Cathedral of The Sea (Ildefonso Falcones)
3. I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb)
4. The Hour I First Believed (Wally Lamb)
5. Schindler's List (Thomas Keneally)
6. The Gravedigger's Daughter (Joyce Carol Oates) (Haha! Oates! Geddit? Edible stuff..)
7. The Book of Lost Things (John Connolly)
8. Company of Liars (Karen Maitland)
9. Perfume (Patrick Suskind)
10. Son of A Witch ( Gregory Maguire) (Sequel to Wicked)
11. The Map of the Invisible World (Tash Aw)
12. The Lord of the Rings (Must I even type the author's name?) (Fine, J.R.R. Tolkien) (And yes, I have not read it. Oh, the shame. LOL)


Classics (a whole lot of them, but I shall read these few first) :

1. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) (I wonder if it qualifies as a classic?)
2. Les Miserable (Victor Hugo)
3. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
4. Jude The Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
5. The Floss on The Mill (George Eliot)
6. Middlemarch (George Eliot)


Books I died halfway reading (either due to exams (boo) or because my brain was still too immature to appreciate such fine works of literature then. Mostly the former though. Hehe) (And I duno why the colours for this section quite sad lol) :

1. Inkdeath (Cornelia Funke) (IMPOSSIBLE that this was caused by the latter haha)
2. Tess of d'Ubervilles (Thomas Hardy) (AS finals, boo)
3. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) (Confirm A2 finals, BOO)
4. Temple of The Wind (Terry Goodkind) (AS, A2, Semester exams, whatever)

5. THE BLIND ASSASSIN OMG (Margaret Atwood)
(Obviously the OMG is not part of the title la. Lol. Just expressing my discontentment of not being able to finish it these past few YEARS. Wana know when I started.. Come I tell you. FORM THREE. 15. LIMA BELAS TAHUN. TAHUN PMR) (So, this one can say, a bit of the latter.. The immature part haha and also I never got back to it after PMR.. Or SPM.. Or.. Heh.. ALEVELS? (NO, I WILL get back to it soon!) :)


I just finished The Five People You Meet In Heaven! By Mitch Albom. Buy it, it comes highly recommended :)
It's pretty short, but I tell you, every flip of the page ah.. The feeling is like your heart berdebar-debar.. Super tension. Then suddenly they bomb (they being Mitch Albom, but they sounds cooler LOL) something unexpected at every end of a chapter which leaves you going like, What?!
And then you flip the page to the next chapter imagining all sorts of things and the feeling is like.. Like.. You ALevels ppl waiting for the frigging results page to load. HAHA. Okay la not so kau la.. Heh :P

They're both the same la lol. Different colour only. Mine's the first hehe :)

And I WANA SEE THE SHOW!!

So so so. So. Oh yeah. Watch The Departures. Super happening movie. To me lah. It's Japanese, and it won lotsa awards.. Best film la, best foreign movie la etcetc. Good stuff.

AND watch THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS!! Must must must.
It's based on a book.
And the story is so... Heartbreaking. Especially the ending. You will NOT expect the ending. But my saying that already helps you expect the ending right -.- as in cos I told you you will NOT expect it.. So you know to expect the UNexpected.. Which makes it.. Expected? HAHA you get the picture :P
It's about the holocaust days btw, but seen from the eyes of 8 year old Bruno, a German boy whose innocence is his best asset but also his downfall.
It is an amazing story, and like the review said, a film that should be seen.

The book and the movie poster!

Watch watch!! :) You may cry though, if you're the type to get really absorbed in movies, like me haha.