The Bookworm Confessions

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it [on social networking sites and Goodreads!]. — Bertrand Russell

Happy Tuesday everyone! Enjoy reading!

I’ve decided to keep using the template I have for a few more weeks. Possibly until the end of January. I actually like the Christmas-y feel of the template and I enjoy seeing the snowman in the header

Now, by February, I think I will use a Valentine theme. Or get a new template possibly. I am not feeling the old template anymore so that won’t be making an appearance in the near future.

What do you think?

2011 has ended. I didn’t get to read too many books the past year but I’ve read some pretty good ones, I must say. 2012 has a lot of promise in store so I am keeping my fingers crossed and actually planning for more books this new year!

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Stay safe and keep warm wherever you are!

The title says it all. All those book reviews I promised that I wasn’t able to post will be posted in the coming days. Sorry for the delay. I don’t write reviews when I don’t feel like it to avoid being biased and all. But I realized that the reviews are piling up so I went to Goodreads and marked the books I have to review for you.

So expect more to pop up in this blog in the next couple of days.

Merry Christmas everyone!

My friend’s daughter’s goal for 2012 is to go for gold! Take home more trophies than the ones she brought home this year. She is an athlete competing in triathlon events nationwide. She is quite good and it’s sad that she had to suffer from an injury in the middle of this year which sidelined her for a while. But now that she’s back in 100% shape, she plans to train more and learn more on how to be more careful with her legs but at the same time still maximizing her potential.

I told my friend to not worry about her kid unnecessarily. She can take care of herself and she has proven it time and again. Plus she has a wonderful coach who really supports not only her but all the athletes coming from their school.

Wishing her all the best!

My uncle has this collection of moebius models. He loves cars. In fact he has quite a number in his enlarged garage. And he also has a lot of the mini ones in his bedroom. It is a collection and a manifestation of the engineer in him, most likely. He is a mechanical engineer. Obviously, he is into mechanisms and an auto’s mechanism has fascinated him since he was a young boy.

Now that he can afford to get into his passion even more, he is really saving enough to buy the cars that he wants, both big and small.

The truth is that for us bookworms/bibliophiles, the best kind of conversations are those centered around our favorite fictional characters. We talk about them like they are real people. Actually, some of us really believe they are real, only living in a different dimension hehe

There were so many books my friends, sisters and I have read in the past that evoked so much emotions in us we felt like we lost a love one when we were done reading it. I cried over so many characters I’ve ‘lost’ while reading a really good novel. I’ve felt every kind of emotion for the characters I’ve grown to love.

Ah, the realities of a bibliophile like me!

One of the things that you will see inside my bag when I go out of the house is a book. Currently I am reading The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson. I took the book with me when I went to HongKong last week. I knew that there would be instances when we would wait somewhere and instead of being annoyed with the waste of minutes, I thought I’d bring a book with me so as to make the waiting time useful.

And so I did.

While waiting for the airport shuttle to arrive, I managed to read a few pages of the book. But since I miss my friend from Chicago a lot, I was able to read again only inside the hotel room before going to sleep.

A book is a really good travel companion. Do you bring one with you when you travel?

I have big plans for 2012. I plan to slowly have the whole house renovated. I will start with the kitchen and dining room. I want something new in there. I want the glass tabletop of the dining table out. I think I am all for a rustic dining table and rustic furniture. I just want a change inside the house.

I believe that a positive change can bring in luck and more blessings. My sisters and I talked about white walls and a minimalist overall theme at home. I really want less clutter at home and I am grateful my siblings and I are on the same page.

It’s crunch time for Christmas shoppers. Almost every mall and shopping center in the city are filled with shoppers who are doing double time to buy everything on their list. In these times I am thankful for online shopping. I can shop online and save myself the stress of being elbow to elbow with other shoppers. I can even use coupons that I found and my friends recommended to me.

My brother wants an xbox. It’s a good thing that there are gamestop coupons that my friend told me about. I can use it when purchasing one and even the games itself. No need to get stressed over the traffic jams and jampacked malls. I can shop online and get a discount in the process.

Someone made a cubby house out of the books she hasn’t read yet. Those are a lot of unread books, don’t you think?

Happy Tuesday everyone!

When I first heard this song, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The song tells us that when someone passes away, people pay more attention to them. I also liked the part that tells us if we lead a full life, dying is not as scary anymore.

If I Die Young by The Band Perry has become one of my all-time favorite songs now.

If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song…

The sharp knife of a short life
Well, I’ve had just enough time
So put on your best, boys
And I’ll wear my pearls.

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The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
- Agatha Christie

Actually the best time to do some thinking is when your hands are busy doing something. Washing the dishes is the best time for me. Others also do their thinking/planning when doing the laundry or when dusting surfaces at home. When the hands are busy the mind is working double time. That’s what I like to believe.

No wonder Agatha Christie said that the best time to plan a book is while doing the dishes. She might have done that ih her time.

Tabitha Suzuma should get off Facebook and get a life!

I really don’t want to write this because Tabitha is a favorite author of mine. I’ve read Forbidden and I just knew that she’s one author who can totally capture the mind and heart of the reader. That is the main reason why I became a follower in Facebook and Twitter. I wanted to get to know the author more and I am awaiting a new book from her.

But these past two to three weeks she had nothing better to say but that she’s depressed or she’s about to pass out from lack of sleep or that she’s in the hospital because of pneumonia (and all because she abused herself by being on Facebook too much I believe!) and all the attention seeking updates she’s posted. I just wanted to tell her that all she has to do is to get off Facebook, sleep for at least 8 hours, talk to ‘real’ people and not virtual ones only, and just basically get a life! If she does that I am sure she won’t be ranting about getting depressed every three minutes or so.

Tommy and his friends had a very hilarious experience when they went on a road trip a couple of weeks ago. They were in the middle of nowhere going to a town they hadn’t been to and hadn’t heard of until that day when their RV suddenly broke down. The road was really dark and there was no house they could see in the distance. They were so spooked because Tommy was reading a spooky novel and was telling his friends about it.

They were thinking of bolting and running to the direction they came from when Tommy remembered that he got a breakdown service with the RV before they went on the trip! He called up the people behind the service and were on their way to the town they’d be stopping by in no time at all.

They were laughing so hard when they remembered it the morning after.