GT: All-Time Favorites

For our last Girls Talk topic for October, it's all about the All Time Favorite books...Hmm.. this is really tough.. I really can't single out a particular one from my collection because all these books in my shelves are absolutely everything I liked & wanted..

I can mention a couple of books that has always been my favorite, that I cannot put down, like the Harry Potter series.. yes, that's my customized shelf over there.. something I made and hoped that my kids would soon love when they're old enough to read and appreciate books, like I did..

I love all Harry Potter books, despite the fact that it's a children's book.. so what? This book entertained me a lot and I literally could never put it down ever since I started with Philosopher's Stone. I remember when I first read HP, I was still living in an apartment and my room mate Sharon was the first one who bought HP.. I borrowed her book a week later & started reading it at 10 pm. And I read it the whole night and finished Philosopher's Stone until the wee hours of the morning (read: 4am!) good thing my work schedule at that time was 1pm till 9pm.. I was really sleepy when I went to the office and had memorized a number of spells (like Wingardium Leviosa) and practiced the spells on my officemates.. hahaha!

The same thing happened with Chamber of Secrets, I ended up reading the book until 5 am the next morning! I completed my collection just last year and I have recently re-read Deathly Hallows, in preparation of the upcoming last Harry Potter movie..

On the other hand, if there's another author who could keep me reading until dawn, that would be my favorite Nora Roberts. Her writing is simply hypnotizing.. Nora Roberts is still my number one favorite author and I love reading her trilogy books, especially the Sagas like the Bride Quartet series although I still have to wait for November for her last book (in the series) to be published. It just keep me asking for more and more..

And the recent trilogy I bought (from my latest powerpay) is the Seven Trilogy..

which consisted of Blood Brothers, The Hollow, and The Pagan Stone. I'm looking forward to finishing this series before the year ends. Like other Nora Roberts masterpiece, I am sure that I won't be able to put down this kind of treasure.

whereto?

TT: Deathly Hallows

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along!

Just do the following:

Grab your current read.
Open to a random page.
Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)

Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

"And then Death asked the third and youngest brother what he would like. The youngest brother was the humblest and also the wisest of the brothers and he did not trust Death. So he asked for something that would enable him to go forth from that place without being followed by Death. And Death, most willingly, handed over his own Invisibility Cloak."

GT: The Suspense is Killing Me!

if there's one author that can keep me on the edge of my seat, that would be Ken Follett, the master of suspense & intrigue. that's why i choose his books for this week's Girls Talk! - October 21 – Best book bet/s for suspense.

Actually, my first choice of author for suspense-filled books is Sidney Sheldon - truly the Master of the Game of suspense & twists an mysteries. i've read a dozen of Sidney's works, my favorites were If Tomorrow Comes, Stars Shine Down & Sands of Time - most of which have femme fatale characters. Sheldon's heroines are strong fighters and passionate. And of course, there's John Grisham and James Patterson, too!

But next to Sheldon for me comes Ken Follet. I've already read 5 of his books and last week, I went on a book shopping binge and bought 3 more.

Follett books I've read:

The Third Twin

Whiteout

Storm Island

Pillars of the Earth

World Without End

and the new books I've bought:

Code To Zero

Hornet Flight

A Place Called Freedom

Follett weaves believable fictional characters and the occasional bit of fact into one of the most captivating books I’ve read in a long time. Truly remarkable reads that would make you crave for more..

Here's a review of the latest Ken Follet book that I have recently read: WHITEOUT.

FYI: Whiteout (the movie) is not the same with the one Ken Follet wrote. It's a completely different story.. Whiteout which starred Kate Beckinsale is written by another author, Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber...

A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come.

As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a
remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, the research company’s director, has
everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the virus – but he isn’t
the only one: His grown children, who have come to spend Christmas, have their
eyes on the money it will bring.

Toni Gallo, forced to resign from the police department in disgrace, is betting her career on keeping the drug safe; a local television reporter, determined to move up, has sniffed the story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs is on its way to steal it for a client already waiting – though what the client really has in mind is something that will shock them all.

As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks – jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries – crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge ..

I like this book a lot because every page is a real page turner.. it really keeps me at the edge off my seat, and I can't help but guess the out-come of every scene..I'd love to see this as a movie or a tv series! Ken Follet is indeed one of the best in his league!

kinse

 

I just got tagged in Facebook and I decided to blog about this book meme.

The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that somehow changed your life. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what books my friends will choose. 

Here are my answers:

1. A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks
2. Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
4. Angels Fall by Nora Roberts
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6. If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon
7. The Client by John Grisham
8. Whiteout by Ken Follett
9. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
10. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
11. Like the Flowing River by Paolo Coelho
12. Love in the Time of Cholera by  Gabriel García Márquez
13. Lord of the Ringgs (trilogy) by JRR Tolkien
14. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
15. Tangled Up in Daydreams by Rebecca Bloom

For this i'm tagging everyone!! (pasaway ako, hahaha)

just feel free to tag along peeps. i'm gonna read all your posts after this..

have a great weekend!

books on the way

lookie here!! my dear kumare, Dei tagged me this on my facebook account, informing me that she's gonna send these wonderful books soon! yay! i'm so excited!

Nora Roberts:

• Carnal Innocence
• Daring to Dream
• The Macgregor Brides
• Sea Swept
• Brazen Virtue

Michael Palmer:

• The Patient
• Side Effects

Deianira, or simply Dei is a booklover like me.. she was my schoolmate (in college), workmate, boardmate, kumare & a dear friend. 5 months ago, she decided to clean up her mom's attic and discovered her treasured clutters - lots and lots of books!! she then arranged them all and made a library out of them.. since she knows that i'm a big Nora Roberts fan, she called me up and told me that she's giving me these treasures.. my heart leapt with joy!! i can't wait to see, hold and read them..

thanks so much Mare!!

gt: Nic Sparks

Hi, this is actually Claire from claire2kity's My Everything... I decided to use this blog instead for our weekly Girl Talk since this blog contains all about books..

Welcome to my library, everyone :)

For this week, our GT topic is about: Book/s that made you cry and the one author that came to my mind instantly is Nicholas Sparks!  I bet everyone would agree! from his blockbuster books turned to movies, all that Sparks write is a masterpiece to me.. and all Sparks novels are actually tear jerkers, i always end up crying in the end..

I have read most of his books, specifically:

• The Notebook
• The Guardian
• Message in a Bottle
• A Walk to Remember
• A Bend in the Road
• Nights in Rodanthe
• At First Sight
• Dear John 
• The Lucky One 
• The Last Song

One of my choices is the "A Walk To Remember" which i have actually blogged in August as an entry for Tuesday Couch Potatoes. That's my most favorite Sparks book, i never got tired reading it again & again, even if it was a real tear jerker..

Coming in second place and currently my favorite is the one recently shown in theaters, my new favorite THE LAST SONG.. It is a story which revolves around the summer of Ronnie Miller's seventeenth year, during which she is sent to stay with her estranged father, along with his cute little brother, Jonah. Father & daughter don't actually go well together, but through their shared love of music, the duo reconnect. Then Ronnie meets Blaze, a goth girl who was inloved with a jerk named Marcus, who flirted with Ronnie, but Ronnie refused. Then she meets Will, an animal preserver and sparks flew momentarily. Then Ronnie discovered something horrible that might be connected to Will, so the two parted ways..

for more Nicholas Sparks, check out all about his works through this link which i blogged in April..

tune in again next time for our next Girls Talk :)

to-be-read list

for the last quarter of 2010, here are my To-Be-Read BookList:

Claudia Gray's Trilogy

• Evernight
• Stargazer
• Hourglass

Neil Gaiman's

• Neverwhere
• Stardust

Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos NUMA File Series

• Serpent
• Blue and Gold
• Fire & Ice
• White Death
• Lost City
• Polar Shift

Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series

• Confessions of a Shopaholic
• Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
• Shopaholic Ties the Knot
• Shopaholic & Sister
• Shopaholic and Baby

and the Sword of Truth book series by Terry Goodkind

if you'll notice, i'm mostly into series this quarter.. i found out that i can't get enough with one book / stoyline, so i opted to buy & borrow supernatural/fantasy series / fiction.. hoping to have a magical weekend ( and months) ahead!