How many words can you read in a minute? If you know the answer to that question you’d have a pretty good idea of how long it will take for you to finish that novel that has been languishing in your to be read list for months even years on end. My reading speed is [...]
Entries from January 25th, 2010
Book reading progress….or the lack of it
January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Daily Dose
Asides from bloggers’ block, a reading block has apparently hit me. I’m on the second to the last chapter of Richard Dawkin’s “The Greatest Show on Earth” but my reading progress has gone down to nothing all thanks to the non-reading things I need to do at school. Student elections are coming up and I’m [...]
Tags: book reading·time management
2010 TBR Challenge
January 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Reading Challenges
This is officially the 1st-ever book reading challenge I’d join and it’s quite exciting, a bit daunting if I may add, the 2010 TBR (To Be Read) Challenge. The objective is simple, finish reading 12 books this year, 1 per month, so by the end of 2010 I’d be able to remove 12 books from [...]
Tags: Reading Challenges·TBR 2010
New Books January 2010
January 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Daily Dose
One thing I love about bargain book stores like Book Sale is that they have great titles at low prices allowing me to get the most bang out of my money. So after spending an hour digging around the book bins and rummaging through their shelves I walked out with three books: The Birth of [...]
Tags: Gary Zukav·Italy·Law books·novel·Rennaissance·Sarah Dunant·USSR
Hello world! Welcome to my book blog!
January 2nd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Daily Dose
This project has been in the drawing board for the last six months or so. I kept on putting it on the backburner little did I know that 2010 has already dawned upon me. On the other hand though, starting off a new year with a new blog has always been a good thing to [...]
Tags: book blogging
