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 . . . → Read full post
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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 average, roughly 200-300 words per minute. So besides the ton of things I must do besides reading, my reading habit suffers a lot because of my average reading speed. With so many books that we all want to read and literally little time to do it, speeding up the process would do some great help. 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 . . . → Read full post 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 . . . → Read full post 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: . . . → Read full post 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 – . . . → Read full post 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 . . . → Read full post |
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