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“It was words that I fell for. In the end, it was words that broke my heart.” --- Lang Leav, Memories 31st - A book written by a celebrity (POET) - Memories by Lang Leav Rating: (GREAT READ!) What is it about: Beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love & Misadventure are collected together in this illustrated treasury. In… Continue reading Book Review: Memories by Lang Leav
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”― Jorge Luis Borges What's a paradise without five-star reads? I have my own five-star paradise, and my recent residents are... --- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) by Robert Galbraith (Pseudonym), J.K. Rowling Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav… Continue reading Recent Five Star Reads
“People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.” ― Julie Rugg, A Book Addict's Treasury What's your mood for today? Moods is the theme of The Broke and the Bookish‘s Top Ten Tuesday today. March 1: Ten Books To Read If You Are In The Mood For... SHORT READS! 😀 Most of… Continue reading Ten Books for Awesome-Short-Read Mood
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood Surprises! That is the main theme of The Broke and the Bookish‘s Top Ten Tuesday today. February 23: Ten Book I Enjoyed Recently (last yearish) That Weren't My Typical Genre/Type of Book… Continue reading Out-of-comfort-zone Books I Loved
With the help of Chinese New Year holiday, I started my month-long reading at full speed! 😀 😀 😀 Here are the six (yes, six!) beautiful novels that I have read since February 1 ! ❤ 7th - A book translated to English - Norwegian Wood by by Haruki Murakami What is it about: Toru, a quiet and… Continue reading 2016 Reading Challenge Update: February Part 1
You know a poem is great, When you wish you wrote it. --- ©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved. Photo credit: Tumblr This is a poem I have written seconds after I started reading Lullabies by Lang Leav. (I am reading romantic poems to awaken my romantic-writer-self! :D) The first poem by Lang Leav (see below) just took… Continue reading Writer Woe
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love..." ― Christopher Morley Today is The Broke and the Bookish' Valentine's-inspired Top Ten Tuesday! Funnily, though, I published my own Top 10 Novels to Read on Valentine's last year (plus Top 10 movies!). So... for a change... I will be… Continue reading Ten Valentine Reads (with *kilig* excerpts)
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! ― Neil Gaiman It's freebie week today for The Broke and the Bookish's Top Ten Tuesday! 😀 And because I just celebrated by birthday last Sunday,… Continue reading Books I Would Love to Receive on my Birthday
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami The Broke and the Bookish‘s Top Ten Tuesday today is Top Ten Books I've Recently Added To My TBR. I'll be quick ('cause I have a client meeting today! :D) Treat this as my… Continue reading Ten Newly-Added Books in My TBR
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