To all the readers, share with us what are some of your fave books? I am sure you must have.....'cos I love reading alot. Wish I could read more books, books and more books. Well, I read all kind of books, suspense, literature, biographies, history, classic, paperback romance.

Some of my fave biographies, "Leonardo Da Vinci: Flights of the Mind". "Mozart: A Cultural Biography". Like also this classic, "To Kill A Mocking Bird" by Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel. And books on "poems and quotes".

Some of my fave authors like John Grisham, Dean Koontz , Danielle Steel , Mary Higgins Clark, Stephen King, Mills & Boon Historical Romance, Jane Austen. Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes). Nora Roberts (Montana Sky). Some that I can think of at the moment. Even cooking books too! :P

There are so many, many books to read. I like to browse at second-hand book stores, there is one near my working place which I like to visit during my lunch break - Sunny Bookstore at Far East Plaza. I saw this "Jane Austen: The Complete Novels, Deluxe Editon, (Library of Literary Classics) (Hard Cover)." Man....that is so, so cool! It is bound in padded leather with luxurious gold-stamping and heavy too, they called it coffee table book? It cost 45 bucks (oh this is brand new), didn't buy it....thinking of getting it for myself. Heard there is only one left at their store. So tempting to get that!

Anyway, if you do have great books to share, would love to "hear" about it. Happy Reading....

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I love a good read. Used to have favourite authors, like Irwing Wallace, Jackie Collins (pretty thrashy stuff), Danielle Steel, etc. I am actually more into Chinese classics and Chinese literary work (boring stuff to some).

Not a romantic person, so, never touched a Barbara Cartland or the like. I like classics too. Most memorable one is Jane Eyre (all time favourite) and Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier). Just done Madame Bovary. I seldom travel without a book in my luggage. Now I read anything, from self help, management to magazines. Currently doing a Tom Peters "Brand You". Easy to read.

Used to buy books, until my shelves collapsed. Now I borrow them from the libraries - which are very good - stocked with wide range of books, and are surprisingly up-to-date.

Reading feeds my soul - it is also my way of destressing.

awesome topic ^^

well i would say i read a lot for a person my age, you know im a teenager haha. yup and i enjoy books by James Frey. don't really know if you've heard of him, but his book A Million Little Pieces was actually one of the bestsellers :] do read it if you have the time! i find the story really intriguing and true. also, classics like To Kill A Mockingbird, Life Of Pi, Joy Luck Club, and John Grisham!

cos i'm doing Shakespeare for my english literature now, beginning to appreciate his works too :]

Good girl! Wish more young people were like you.

I read Joy Luck Club too - that was quite a while ago. She had a few titles thereafter, Kitchen God's Wife, etc.

hehheh.

i hate books...

opps...

yea..i dun like reading lei..

how?

haha.

oh no..
i've not been reading since last yr..
used to read alot in sec sch..
but now.. jux dun feel like touching them.. haha

I did that for my Os this year. I love the book. I did An Enemy of the People too. Its a play. Some other books that I like are Memoirs of the Geisha, Diana Wyane Jones titles...

Books are nice to read.
I am going to spend my holidays reading! :lol:
Shakespeare is good. But the words are difficult to understand.
Anyone reads Roald Dahl? I know Jon used to read his books. He said that in one of his blog post at the SI blog right?

Hello michelle_miko, yes your right Jon did mention before in SI's blog that he likes reading books by Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl was a writer and an artist too. His classic ones are "James and the Giant Peach" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Which we have seen them on film.

"Shakespeare" aye? Well, happy holidays reading! ;)

2 books by author Mitch Albom that I enjoyed reading - Tuesdays with Morrie (TWM) and Five Persons You Meet In Heaven.

Personal favorite: Tuesdays with Morrie

i love The Enemy Of the People too.. lik diyana.. that's our lit paper 1 haha! its a nice book.. SEnse of Belonging is another nice book that i've done for my lit paper. Its abt discrimination and stuff lik that.. +) its nice.. =) :lol:

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Have you guys tried any of Jodi Picoult's books? They're really touching, to me. I especially like My Sister's Keeper, it's so sad! Picoult touches on real-life affairs and weaves them all perfectly into a novel.

Yeah, Tuesdays With Morrie and The Five People You Meet In Heaven are really good too! So inspirational, haha!

I have to do Joy Luck Club next year for Lit, too! Sigh. I've tried reading it but I still can't remember all the names and who is who! Aaahhhh!

Hey does anyone have any Chicklit books to recommend? :D

Just in case if some of you are wondering what is "Chicklit books?"

"The New Women's Fiction offers a timely analysis of a new genre. With its scholarly approach and accessible style, it offers rich possibilities as a classroom text. Teachers of contemporary literature will value its discussions of generic traits and of relationships to canonized women writers including Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and the Brontës. For cultural studies classrooms, it offers intriguing-and multicultural-meditations on commodity culture, body image, and postfeminism."

Chick Lit offers real insight into a new generation of women's fiction.

Hmmm....but I am not a fan of "Chicklit" lah. :D

i have been reading alot since a little kid..haha.
i :wub: books so much!!

but no one can stand me when I read and eat..lol..
that's my most notorious habit..
but have been trying to cut down now.. :lol:

Roald Dahl books are pretty interesting..
but have only read 1 or 2 books.. :unsure:

and i eh..kind of hate Shakespeare's works..
maybe because I was forced to study his works for so many years during secondary school..haha..
And I actually had to do 'Romeo and Juliet' for 3 whole years.. :blink:

my favorite book genre now is chick-lits..
very entertaining and light..
makes me happy.. :lol:

Thank you all for your sharing....good to know there are others who love to read too.

Well, happy reading all. I am gonna go check some books at my fave store. Gonna spend my weekend reading....reading relaxes me, beside listening to music. Really! cheesy

i loved the Da Vinci Code! Angels and Demons also. but prefer the first one better. haha. i wish jonathan would write an autobiography or something. then that will become my favourite book. HAHA.

Hey, I love reading too! It's a love I cultivated since I was a young kid. I would read everything, even shampoo labels and electric hand books :lol:

I have far too many books to keep track off. I started off reading fiction books but in recent years, prefer non-fiction. I decided that if I am going to read, might as well read stuff that I can learn from!

One of my recent favourite books is called Marley and Me. Do a quick search on Google and you'd find it. It's a non-fiction piece written by a New York journalist about his golden retriever called Marley. The book made me laugh and made me cry. It's brilliantly written - touching without being mushy, funny without being corny.

A must-read for all animal (especially dog!) lovers!

PS. I gave a copy of the book to Jon since he is a dog lover but from his recent letter, it sounds like it'd going to join his mountain of books that he plans to read. Haha.

Wow - a forum about books. I love books!
Colleen, which of Shakespeare's books are you reading now? Shakespeare is really a master wordsmith. The way he phrases sentences, can make my hair stand.

Anyway, I'd like to recommend Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen. Bought it at the Kinokuniya bargain books section in Liang Court. It's about suffering (whether physcial, emotional or spiritual), healing and transformation. I read it last year when I needed a book like that to help me through a difficult time. Started tearing just reading the introduction.

Have to recommend another great book - U2 by U2.
Cos it's not cheap, went back to Borders 3Xs to look at it. Finally bought it a couple of Sundays ago, when Borders had a 35% discount on all books, if you buy 5 or more. Great pictures and great text.

bernie

Hi there Bernie,

Thank you for your sharing in this section about books. There is a second-hand book store at Far East Plaza which I do hang around during my lunch break.

I have loved reading ever since young, especially during school vacation. Back then I did spend alot of time at home where most people would go on vacation, I stay home and read, read, read throughout my school vacation. That is how I got hooked on reading ever since then.

Well, I didn't have the luxury of buying books off the shelves if I like it, so I usually goes to the library or to second-hand book stores and look for the book I wanted. So, guess that is how I got the habit of buying books from those places. Only when I really, really like the book alot I will buy a new book. I must say....I love the smell of new books. Heh!

So if you do have any interesting books that you would like to share, I would love to read it.

Thank you. Domo arigatou!

May beautiful moments and happy memories surround you this Christmas.

am doing Much Ado About Nothing for my O'levels literature paper next year. :] have read Romeo & Juliet and Twelth Night. hmm not alot and i hope to read more of his works! very captivating :]

I know exactly which 2nd hand book store you're talking about Jules. It's a really great shop. Tried looking for a book (The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - heavy reading :( ) at all the big bookshops to no avail. Finally found it at my old trusty 2nd hand bookshop.

Shakespeare's love stories - very nice and fun to act out as well, even in spite of R&J being a tragedy.

I had to do Henry the V for my O levels. Horribly boring. "To the breach, my friends. To the breach." But what do I know - not a Literature major.

Somehow, I seem to have been exposed to S's darker plays - hamlet, macbeth, Julius caesar.

Want to quote something from Julius Caesar - spoken by Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony) after Julius Caesar was murdered by a whole bunch of men, and Mark was given Julius' body.

"Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with the custom of fell deed:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial."

Had to look it up cos can't remember. But when I read Mark's curse - wah, so creepy man. Just imagine - that blood and destruction will be such an everyday thing, that even when mothers see their babies quartered, they will smile. Aiyoh!