Archive for the ‘Daily Dose’ Category

What do you do with books you’ve read?

27, Aug 2010

99% of the books I’ve read get moved from the shelf on my desk to the old cabinet outside my room. It serves as a sort of archive for all the piles of paperworks, magazines, pamphlets, school papers and books I’ve accumulated over the last five years of college. I can’t remember if I’ve thrown [...]

Jumping from one book to another

28, Jun 2010

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 [...]

I’m back and still reading

24, Mar 2010

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 [...]

Book reading progress….or the lack of it

20, Jan 2010

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 [...]

New Books January 2010

7, Jan 2010

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 [...]

Buying books: hard copy or its ebook version?

5, Jan 2010

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 [...]

Hello world! Welcome to my book blog!

2, Jan 2010

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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