read 25 books in 2009

A very good book about a competitive runner who comes of age, rebels and finds redemption through a friendship

“If only you knew then what you know now…”

Oh, i wish…

Potter’s done it again… she managed to articulate a fantasy intertwines with reality splendidly in an interesting plots and events which unravel perfectly in line. If you enjoy reading me and mr darcy, you’ll find yourself enjoying this book as well.

And i love that alexandra leaves a note, especially number 10;
‘at 21 you are more powerful than you can ever imagine’
taking this note to myself.

Very well written book that focuses on a teenage girl who is dying of cystic fibrosis.

This is a child’s book, but it was long and apparently a classic of children’s literature. Maybe you need to be a child to enjoy?

I seriously never thought that Potter literally meant Mr Darcy as in Mr Darcy himself in the book’s title Me and Mr Darcy. but it could be a pun as well. And yeah, so reality gets mixes up with fantasies. And you love your fantasies. but the truth is, do you really want your fantasies to get real?

“Every girl is looking for her Mr Darcy. Imagine if you found the real one…”

Potter is hillarious, she gives me the Kinsella vibe, i just can’t stop laughing with every paragraph and line that she manages to twist into funny little remarks. Heck, Emily is even worse than Becky! she just so stubborn and her desire to do something and the way she thinks is beyond believable. hilarious and fun it is.

Potter also manages to unravel the story with certain similarities and remarks regarding the muse book itself (why, it is Pride and prejudice).. i love that bits of it.

oh gosh, because of this book (which i really love and enjoy), i think i’m starting to love Potter as well… more potter books to come!

This book is wild. It tells the partying, the indulgence in bad pleasure, the drugs and alcohol involved, the “intimate” relationships, and despite it’s lack of description, all in all it can summed up to, well, quite wild. it tells a story of ‘what happens when a girl on the fringe enters the realm of new york’s chic, party-hopping elite’.

but what left me quite unsatisfied is, even by the end of the book, certain things were left hanging, for example Philip. aren’t people curious what happened to him? oh well maybe just me. and the other thing that i’m quite confused is how the story is very mixed up, weirdly mashed up together, as if one element is simply just jumbled up with another element. and also how one phase of a relationship suddenly progressed crazily and suddenly into another phase.

Regardless, i still like this book as it gives me an insider of how (if any parts of it is true), one ‘elite’ would socialize and partying and it sounded so wild and out-of control, that i feel so bad that they seem don’t have a purpose in life, and the way they treat other people, their attitude, their life, i’m glad i’m not in any part of it. But nevertheless, this book introduces to me a way of life some are living and i enjoy reading this book.

This is second book by Michael J. Fox. It’s deals with his life after he left Spin City, being involved in politics and finding optimism while dealing with a disease.

These books are such a guilty pleasure of mine! I don’t think I have read any of them since last year, so I thought I’d pick up where I left off.

This was the story of the first real life Victorian detective, what Sherlock Holmes et al was based on. I hoped it would be more fictionalized—rather than all the facts of the first popular case talked about again and again…

The Miranda in the book is bitchier, meaner, more insensitive, more tyrant and downright more devil than in the movie. i watch the movie first before reading the book, but nevertheless, i love both the book and the movie.

The book describes into more details about Andrea and her demanding job as an assistant editor (a million girls would die for the job!) and all her troubles and difficulties in getting things done, though regardless, she is still reasonably competent. And it also portrays into more depth about her relationship with her families and her friends and how it changes after her accepting the job as Miranda’s assistant. and hoho!! the ending is different than in the movie.

the movie is sufficient enough to have one’s interest and satisfaction, but if u interested enough to have more details or more constructed or perhaps more Miranda, u might want to indulge yourself with the book as well.

Overall i love this book, and i love the movie adaptation as well, despite it’s loose adaptation.