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cinderellainrubbershoes:

Now that we are only a few hours shy of 2012, I’d like to pick eleven literary works that rocked my year of incurable bookwormism—books that earned a special place in my heart for making me laugh, cry, or laugh and cry; for inspiring me and challenging me; for introducing me to new universes, both in their pages and in the real world; and most of all, for being good friends when everyone else acts like strangers. :’) And with that I became the recipient of Most Dramatic Bookworm Award lol.

Without further ado, here are my 11 bests of 2011 in no particular order:

1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
3. The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
4. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
5. Paper Towns by John Green (technically a reread, but it’s more awesome the second time around)
6. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
7. The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Trilogy by Leah Wilson
8. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
9. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
10. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
11. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Runners up!

   11.1 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie            (review to follow! I just finished it)
   11.2 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
   11.3 Blood Red Road by Moira Young

And there you have it! It’s been a good year for books, and I’m looking forward to meeting new book-friends and bookworm-friends in the future. :) Happy new year, everyone! DFTBA!

Spending the last day of 2011 reading Let It Snow and eating grapes.

fishingboatproceeds:

The cover of The Fault in Our Stars, designed by Rodrigo Corral.

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CURRENTLY READING AND BOOK FINDS FOR THIS WEEK:

• Lolita by Vladimir Nbokov - currently reading
• Girlfriend in a coma by Douglas Coupland
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
• Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
• Falling Man by Don DeLillo

Got them on sale from NBS and Powerbooks. So many good and beautiful books on sale but so little money in my pocket :(

Finished reading three books this week while tending my dad in the hospital.

BOOK FINDS FROM 2 WEEKS AGO:

• The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen
• Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

*Booksale really is a great place to find good and cheap books.

LAST WEEK’S BOOK FINDS:

• The Portable Jack Kerouac by Jack Kerouac and Ann Charters
• The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Micheal Chabon
• The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
• Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis

Thanks to the 3 day sale at Megamall last weekend. Got this loot from that sea of chaos.

This is a before and after pic of my makeshift bookshelf; just a month after it’s forced creation.

I should really stop my book binging, at least for a good two weeks or so, until I sort this shit out.