For The Love of Books

For The Love of Books is a blog that I dedicated for my love of books, my everyday journey of reading books, sharing recommendations on books to read and just share a review of what I thought of the books that I've read. And occassionally, there will be some things unrelated to books, but it will mostly be about my love of books.. Enjoy..

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Book Review: The Awakening

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Title : The Awakening

Author : Kelley Armstrong
Rating : **** (4 out of 5 stars)

You don't have to be alive to be awakened.
Chloe Saunders is a living science experiment - not only can she see ghosts, but she was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. She's a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control, which means she can raise the dead without even trying. Now Chloe's running for her life with three of her supernatural friends - a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch - and they have to find someone who can help them before the Edison Group catches them.

As soon as I finished the first book in this series, I immediately made a trip to the local bookstore, hoping that they still have a copy of this book and they do!! So I bought it straight away. I like the first book enough to got me running to the bookstore and get the second one.

The story of Chloe Saunders continues in the second book. She finds out that she not only can see and speak to the dead, but she can summon and wake them out from the dead. This book follows Chloe's adventure together with her three friends escaping from Lyle House to find relatives of one of her friend, who can help them.

The second book is as good and as fast paced as the first one. I enjoyed it as much. This book kept me up reading at night, just to get as much of the story as I can and because it's very difficult to put the book down :) I would definitely recommend this book.

Unfortunately I have as yet could get my hands on the third book. I don't really like hardcover edition, because not only it's expensive here, but it's also very heavy to be carried around everywhere. So I have to wait for the paperback edition to come out in the US in April 2011..

Book Review: The Summoning

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Title : The Summoning

Author : Kelley Armstrong
Rating : **** (4 out of 5 stars)

I've been slacking on posting my review on this blog. Sometimes with work, traffic, other activities and me catching up on my reading to finish the challenge that I have with my friend who lives in Denver, there is just not enough time left to concentrate on putting stuff in my blog. I've been meaning to learn to "beautify" this blog, but just haven't got enough time and energy to do it, so my first attempt at blogging will have to stay this way for the time being.

Anyway, as for the book review, I thought of posting a synopsis of the book for each review, so for those of you who haven't read the book, you can at least get an idea of what the book is about:

She sees dead people - and they see her.
Chloe Saunders used to have a pretty normal life. But that changed on the day she met her first ghost. Locked up in Lyle House, a group home for troubled teens, she finds out that there's more to the home's teen residents than meets the eye. Will Chloe be able to uncover the dangerous secrets of Lyle House... or will its skeletons come back to haunt her?

This is my first encounter of Kelley Armstrong's book and I gotta say that I really enjoyed this book. I picked this book up accidentally. I was travelling and have finished the book that I brought with me, on the second last leg of the journey home. So I went to a bookstore at Changi airport in Singapore during transit and stumbles upon this book which is the first in the series. All the others are at least the second, or the third in a series and I can't buy that to read on the plane home. So I picked up this one and it seems interesting enough, reminds me of the movie Sixth Sense with Haley Joel Osmond.

But I got hooked on this book from the start. It's interesting and fast paced. Chloe Saunders can see ghost but in normal society, she's considered as having some mental disease, which puts her in Lyle House, a sort of psychiatric hospital. She then encounters other teens with the same "problems" with her. As the story develops, Chloe began to find out more about her power.

I like this book because it's different and it brings a different topic, although still in the paranormal-supernatural genre, but at least I get a break from all the Vampire stories that's been clogging the bookshelf, both adult and young adult.

Social Networking

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Saturday is always a good day for me. I start my Saturday morning with breakfast, a cup of coffee, and continue reading what book i'm currently reading at the time. For this particular Saturday morning, it was re-reading of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Then, I always logged on to my favorite social networking site, Facebook. I've tried Friendster, I've tried MySpace and a few others, but Facebook is the site that I used the most and that I've come back to almost everyday. My time with my facebook page is mainly not to look at other people's activities and status. Only as a glance when I first opened the site, but I go to the site mainly to play games and check out stores and find good stuff to buy at a great price haha..

Anyway, this particular Saturday, I promised myself that I would reward myself with a trip to the bookstore, and allow myself to splurge, because my friend gave me shopping vouchers to be used at Kinokuniya for my birthday,so I got a few books from there. And, to further succumb to my addiction, I got 3 more books from Periplus, another local bookstore in my town. So, in total I got about 6 new books, which made me a happy girl that day.

I also went to the movies to see Social Network. This movie has been playing at the theatre here for 2 or 3 weeks I think, but I just haven't got time to go and see it yet. It is interesting to see the movie about the social networking site that I've spent a lot of time in. The movie is indeed about Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. To date, Facebook is the most widely active used social networking website in the world (well, i used it at least 2 - 3 times a day ha ha) and has 500 million members worldwide.

It's interesting to find, watching that movie, that the site was originally intended to connect Harvard students alone, and then it developed to connect inter-universities, until it become the Facebook that we know and use today.

The length of this movie is 2 hours. Although there's minimal actions in this movie and mostly conversations and dialogue, I did not find it boring and restless waiting for the movie to end. I actually enjoyed it. There are some funny scenes as well, when Eduardo Saverin is being accused of animal cruelty and canibalism because he's feeding chickens to his chicken. That was stupid, but hillarious I think :) But overall, I think it was a good movie. It's not something that you would watch over and over again, but it's an informative experience for me to find out the origins of the most popular social network in the world and found out that Mark Zuckerberg, is the youngest billionaire in the world and he's only 26 years old. How about that, right?

Not a big fan of Mondays...

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This is what I typically look like on Mondays. I don't like Mondays at all. It's the start of the week.. The weekend has just finished.. But I'm not liking it at all and I find that I get easily grumpy on Mondays.


A friend of mine sent me a forward email, with pictures of what a typical work week look like and the picture on the left is what Monday looks like.


Everything is always harder on Monday. It's harder to get up in the morning on Mondays. Traffic in the morning (and sometimes in the afternoon AND evening) gets harder and more difficult on Mondays. It's harder to concentrate on Monday and there's always so much work to do on a Monday. All I want to do on a Monday is to turn off the alarm and go back to sleep, which is sooo not happening..


But come Friday morning, my facial expression completely changed 180 degrees. It has that air of happiness, excitement and no matter how much work was put on you that day, nothing can get you down, because it's Friday!! But I realize that in order for the day to become Friday, you have to put up with Monday, otherwise you won't get to Friday!!!
Happy Monday..... :)

Book Mooch

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I recently became a member of http://www.bookmooch.com/




Book Mooch is a an online book exchange community, where you can exchange books with members of the community around the world. It's another way for you to interact with other book lovers in the globe.


The reason that I joined Book Mooch is to share some of my book collections to people who can enjoy the books that I've read, and due to the recent influkes of To-Be-Read books, I need a lot more space on my one and only bookshelf.


Since a few days ago, I have managed to put in 52 books in my inventory, and have received requests to send out a few of them.


The way Book Mooch works is by points system. You can earn points by doing the following:

1. You'll get 0.1 points for every book you entered into the inventory

2. You'll also get points for sending books. 3 points if you're sending the book outside of your country and 1 point if you're sending it to someone in your own country


You can then use your point to mooch a book that you like from members of the Book Mooch community. You need 1 point if you mooch the book from your country and 2 points if you mooch it from someone in another country.


So, if you're a book lover who may have some books that you're not going to read again and have no space on your shelf to keep it anymore, Book Mooch is a great site for you to share some of those books.