Books read in BOOKLEAVES from 2005 to 2010

2005

#1 Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

#2 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

#3 The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

#4 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

#5 Perfume by Patrick Süskind

#6 The Histroian by Elizabeth Kostova

#7 Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

#8 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

#9 The Hours by Michael Cunningham

2006

#10 The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

#11 11Minutes by Paulo Coelho

#12 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

#13 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

#14 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

#15 The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

#16 Quarantine by Jim Crace

#17 The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G.Vassanji

#18 Love in the time of Cholera by Garcia Marquez

#19 Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller

#20 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

#21 The Coffee Trader by David Liss

#22 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#23 Still Life with Rice by Helie Lee

#24 A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

#25 Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

#26 No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

#27 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

2007

#28 Snow by Orhan Pamuk

#29 The Inheritence of Loss by Kiran Desai

#30 The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig

#31 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

       A Taxonomy of Barnacles by Galt Niederhoffer

#32 The Geography of Thought by Richard Nisbett

#33 The Music of Chance by Paul Auster

#34 Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

#35 The High Window by Raymond Chandler

#36 The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

#37 Life of Pi by Yan Martel

#38 A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss

#39 You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon

#40 Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller

#41 In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant

#42 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

#43 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

#44 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

2008

#45 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

#46 Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

#47 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

#48 You Suck by Christopher Moore

#49 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

#50 Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

#51 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

#52 Known World by Edward P. Jones

#53 Oil by Upton Sinclair

#54 Love in the Time of Cholera by Garcia Marquez

#55 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

#56 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

#57 Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs

#58 Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

#59 The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

#60 Ex Libris: Confessions of a  Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

#61 Persuasion by Jane Austen

#62 Spectacle of Corruption by David Liss

#63 The Road by Cormac McCarthy

#64 Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

#65 Sickened by Julie Gregory

#66 Old School by Tobias Wolff

2009

#67 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

#68 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

#69 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

#70 The Zahir by Paulo Coelho

#71 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger

#72 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

#73 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

#74 Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

#75 Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz

#76 The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

#77 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffe & Annie Barrows

#78 The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

#79 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

#80 White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

#81 Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

2010

#82 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

#83 The Painted Veil by William Somerset Maughan

#84 Wicked by Gregory Maguire

#85 Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan

#86 Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

#87 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

#88 My Life in France by Julia Child

#89 Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

#90 The Shakespeare Curse by Jennifer Lee Carrell

#91 Lost City of Z by David Grann

#92 Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

#93 The Shadow of the Winds by Carlos Ruiz Zafron

#94 The Women by T.C. Boyle

#95 Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

#96 In the Woods by Tana French
2011

#97 The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

Happy New Year! Happy 2011!

 

It's so weird trying to write 2011 when it seems like only yesterday that I got used to writing 2010.

But here it is, isn't it? 

2011 is really here and we can't really rewind and go back..

I hope that this year will be a great year for everyone.

To my friends and families all around the world, I miss you, love you and wish you all the best of 2011!

Happy 2011, everyone!

Christmas!

Christmas Tree with presents..

Christmas day lunch

This year's Christmas was wonderful..
great food and great company.. and we'll always remember Dad.. He'll always be in my heart..

hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas this year.. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas day dinner

rapidly changing world

Just had to share this with you all! "Mailed Memories: Your Cherished Letters"

 We live in a world that's changing so rapidly with high-tech gadgets and advanced technology that even though the time I used to write to my friends and loved ones or take a picture with a film camera was only a while ago, it seems like that was in another life time. Don't get me wrong I am an early adapter and love the gadgets and everything however, there are times I miss the good old days. Some of the students I used to teach didn't even know what a film camera was or what developing films meant. They were just amazed at it when I explained to them.

 After reading the article it reminded me of how I wrote to a total stranger asking to be my penpal, wrote to my friends and family that were half way across the world. Mailing it with pretty postages, waiting and checking the mail box everyday. Oh, the mixed emotions I experienced during those writing, mailing and waiting… well, only the ones who had the joy would know what I'm talking about.

I, too, still keep some of my old letters boxed up and once in awhile scoop them up and read them all over again. Of course most of them are written by others but there are few that I've written and never mailed.

 I think I'll be sending this year's season greetings the good old fashioned way. :)

 Anyways, it was great reminiscing. Hope that you enjoy it as much as I have ;)

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Wouldn't it be lovely...

"All I want is a room somewhere..
  Full of lots and lots of books.."

I was browsing on the internet and looking up some picture of books and bookshelves and was totally impressed by these libraries.. These settings would be my DREAM house library.. let's hope it does come true one day... ;)

This is from an interesting article from The Telegraph

This is a die for.. love how they installed the shelves.. impressive but then again.. I don't think I'll be living in a house this big... (found it on this site)

Now, this one's very modern and it's an unique design.. but I think I'll have a hard time cleaning the shelves... imagine all the dust settling on the edges.. but STILL it looks great, doesn't it?
got the pic from a blog post

Very cozy looking yet, well organized with lots and lots of room to shelf your books. :) Got this one from one of Oprah's articles

This one's amazing..totally loving the settings.. This rooms a bit big but it's still I'd love to sit on that chair.. lay back, relax and read! (source)

Fell in love with this one.. I like it because it's so bright! I could read ALL DAY in this room .. not that I couldn't read all day.. but seriously.. this room is gorgeous.. AND love the shelving because it's a cabinet style!

I don't remember where I got this one from.. but it's a building I'd love to visit.. where is it anyway?