false 13 84 62 true 5800061 read 3 true 2421589 currently-reading 19 true 2421584 to-read 22 false 2421777 kids-books-rock 17 false 2421776 chick-lit 11 false 2421779 literature 9 false 4226818 australian 4 false 4226841 indian 3 false 4226813 historical-fiction 3 false 4226801 general-fiction 2 false 4226850 self-help 2 false 4226809 biography 1 false 4226869 politics 1 false 4226864 humour 0 false 4226928 non-fictions http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32587990 The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Hardcover) by Timothy Ferriss
bookshelves: self-help
Gawd. So boring. So patronising. Stopped reading after he said some shit about winning some world championship with some lame technicality. That's not winning: that's being an effing douche bag. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55916217 Michelle Obama (Gebundene Ausgabe) by Liza Mundy
bookshelves: biography, currently-reading
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43630900 The Queen's Fool (Paperback) by Philippa Gregory
bookshelves: historical-fiction
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22214445 to: Breath: A Novel (Hardcover) by Tim Winton
bookshelves: australian
Maybe I had too high expectations, and to be fair not many books will leave me feeling the same way as I did after I finished Cloudstreet. The style was similar for the most part -- the almost melancholic nostalgia, but the ending lwft me hollow. After the wonderful parts about Pikelet's adolecence, the South West surfie culture, the amazing descriptions of the sea and the weather... it all fell a little flat. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/37479-how-to-develop-a-healthy-reading-habit Sunili made a comment in the One Book a Week Club group:

Great article on Reader's Block: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul...

Unfortunately, it's a little long... :P ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5915.One_Book_a_Week_Club Sunili joined the One Book a Week Club group. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22273544 to: The Boleyn Inheritance (Hardcover) by Philippa Gregory
Oh my. Even though I knew/could easily guess the ending here, it left me feeling pretty horrid. Don't read this if you wish to have romanticised visions of Henry VIII in your head; Gregory makes him out to be a complete and utter nutjob, and a gross fat, stinky nutjob at that. Which is probably about right.

I noticed another reviewer mentions the 'myopic' sense of narrative in this novel, and that's pretty spot on. There is quite the sense of icky claustrophobia -- quite possibly just as Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard felt while in Henry's company.

This was definitely a lot darker than The Other Boleyn Girl, and I would hardly call it a romance. But it was still alright.

]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22214674 to: Princess Mia (The Princess Diaries, #9) by Meg Cabot
bookshelves: chick-lit, kids-books-rock
My then-13ish cousin recommended Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries to me when I was in year 12. My friends Sarah, Laura and I have been sillily addicted because they are cute as heck and Hilarious (with a capital H!).

The 9th instalment was an easy read chosen to help ease me back into the reading groove, and reading about Mia's neurotic teenage angsts was a nice change from thinking about my own (although I hope my own angsts are slightly more mature).

*My first book completed for the PTO One-Book-A-Week Challenge! ]]>