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Jumping from one book to another

June 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Daily Dose

Have no fear, I’m still reading books. It’s just that in the past two months, I can’t get myself to focus on reading just one book. As can be seen on the side bar, I have two books that I’m “officially” reading. Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is actually a re-read, the first time [...]

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I’m back and still reading

March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Daily Dose

It’s been more than a month since I last updated this blog and I kind missed it around here. Talking about books and reading it all feels relaxing and fun. School and extra-curricular work is the primary culprit in keeping me from updating this blog but it has not stopped me from reading books. Speaking [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Buying books: hard copy or its ebook version?

January 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Daily Dose

Ever since the Amazon Kindle came out and the popularity of ebooks rose, the dilemma of whether to buy hard copies of books or their ebook equivalent became a more pronounced challenge for me. The advantages of getting the ebook version of a book I like would be the following: Quicker acquisition – Kindle or [...]

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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 [...]

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