What's on your TBR pile (and what you recently read and rated)?

[Charles]

Mas mahusay yung short story ng "Flowers for Algernon" :)

[Tricia]

I want to read Flowers for Algernon! haha! I can't find cheap copies kasi. Actually, I've read one of Daniel Keyes book kaya it made me want to read Flowers for Algernon :)

[Charles]

Emir wrote: Flip, I assume you've read both the short story and the novel. Mas gusto mo ba yung maikling kuwento o yung nobela, bakit?"

Emir, kasi mas maiksi. :)

Pero sa totoo lang, may mga detalye sa nobela na hindi naman gaano kailangan, at ganun pa rin ang resulta ng pagbabasa mo sa kuwento. Ang pinakamalaking pagkakaiba ng maikling kuwento sa nobela ay yung isang kasintahan niya.

Hindi ito katulad ng Ender's Game, na wala ang kanyang mga kapatid sa maikling kuwento. May politikal na pagbabago ang naidulot nito sa nobela.

[Charles]

Tricia wrote: "I want to read Flowers for Algernon! haha! I can't find cheap copies kasi. Actually, I've read one of Daniel Keyes book kaya it made ..."

Hope you get to read it Tricia!

[Vim]

I'm planning to finish some series and trilogies on my TBR this week.

I'll probably start with

series

then

series

and lastly

series.

Hopefully I'll finish them this summer. :)

[Maria]

Since I can't decide which books i should read for the next three weeks, i ask Randomizer to help me. LOL

In priority:

1. A Monster Calls > reco by Tina
2. Beautiful Chaos
3. The Reapers are the Angels
4. Paper Towns > for Aaron :)
5. Ashfall
6. The Monstrumologist > reco by Tina
7. The Maze Runner
8. Last Sacrifice
9. Intangible
10. The Immortal Rules

I think i can follow this one (OC-OC ako sa mga list eh). nyahaha AJA!

[Rollie]

Beautiful Chaos, book three of Creatures and Darkness? Didn't like much the first two. Slow paced. Where did you get your Ashfall?

[kwesi 章英狮]

@Rollie: You can download it online. If you want, I'll give you a copy. Baka si Maria, she got it from Netgalley. Wala pa akong nakikitang Ashfall lately sa local bookstore.

[Rollie]

Kwesi: Thanks but since there aren't printed copies available yet in bookstores, might prioritize first the ones I have. Or next time if I get a kindle. :)

[Arizel紫]

gonna read next.

gonna reread and before I read and

cannot read YA for sometime coz I broke my NOOK T___T

[Rollie]

Arizel: Tell me if Way of shadows is good. Planning to read it kasi. :)

[Maria]

Rollie, i got it nga from NG pero i saw it once sa NBS. :)

LS: sure! let me set the date, is that ok? dami ko pa currently reading eh. :)

Arizel: oh no! parang kgb nga lang nahulog ung Kindle ko sahig. ay inaway ko tlg asawa ko. LOL

[Rollie]

Maria: Weh?

[Mirvan.]

ung buong hannibal series...

THe last watch by Sergei Lukyanenko..

Reading Lolita in Tehran..

Marami pa pero yun yung mga choices ko..

Basides... I also have almost 30 ebooks I got free from Goodreads authors na anging friends ko... Guys I highly encourage you to make friends with Goodreads authors, kahit ung international... Wag kaung mahiya mababait sila,, I think I have almost 70 plus author friends na lahat mababait tapos minsan pag sinabi mong interested ka mabasa sila, bbigyan ka ng free copy ng isang book nila or minsan, in my case, lahat ng books hahaha =P

[K.D.]

May ilan lang akong friends. Ayaw ko yatang marami. Kasi di pa sila tested. Kaya binabasa ko ang 1001, 501, Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, Oprah, Time 100, Newsweek 100, Modern Library, etc. Kasi ayoko ng hit/miss approach. Life is too short to spend with authors and books na di tested. Of course, the new GR authors would appreciate you spending time with their works. May nago-offer talaga, more often than not, I refuse. Sabi ko marami akong tbr. 2,000 books will last me 8 more years to finish.

[Mirvan.]

K.D. wrote: "May ilan lang akong friends. Ayaw ko yatang marami. Kasi di pa sila tested. Kaya binabasa ko ang 1001, 501, Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, Oprah, Time 100, Newsweek 100, Modern Library, etc. Kasi ayoko n..."

ako naman kasi... yung mga tested na.. I can just wikipedia their summary... so I concentrate on discovering new talent =P malay mo, mas maganda pa... i discovered a lot of really good but relatively unknown writers.. kaloka ang mga plot at stories sobrang tindi.

grabeh ang creativity ng mga weird and bizarre authors ngaun... so i did add almost 50 plus of them... mahirap kasi wala taung access ng books nila dito sa philippines kaya di natin maapreciate... most are indie and self-published like me pero wag ka, super ganda ng concepts and ideas nila!

i think they are the future of mainstream... nafefeel ko na eto.. yung mga weird books pumapasok na rin sa popular genres... the weirder sometimes, the more na nananalo ng award... namamatay na yung mga classic-style writing at yung mga super gasgas na na plots... ngaun, mukhang the more weird your plot is, the more interesting ung books.

just to name some:

a haunted vagina which is the gateway to the underworld..

people eating babies as if they're nothing...

hermaphrodite characters..

alternate worlds na super grabe pa sa lord of the rings..

post-modern novels na OH mY GOd ang mga concepts ( i love this genre so much) talo pa sina John Fowles, Julian Barnes, Jeanette Winterson and others...

besides, natutuwa ako pag nadiscover ko na yung favorite writers ko in real life nandito sa goodreads so add agad!

[Arizel紫]

Rollie: if you like Game of Thrones with magics and assassins minus the heavy HEAVY details you will love it.

Maria: Nung daw na nasira Nookie ko para ako natanggalan ng soul T__T EXTREMELY DEPRESSED kahit ngayon pag nakikita ko may crack at di ko na magamit sobrang T____T talaga face ko. Mas madalas ko kasama nook kaysa sa phone and laptop ko T__T Noooo!!! MY Tamayoshi (name of my nook)!!

[K.D.]

John, para talagang gusto kitang makita. Gusto kong ma-convince na mag-try ng mga yan. Ayaw ko kasing mag-branch out. Una-una, masaya naman ako sa mga nababasa kong mainstream sa 1001, 501, Booker, Pulitzer... Pero yon, nga baka may mga nami-miss din ako.

Yong "Story of the Eye" ni Bataille, 1001 yan. What that means is may mga ganyan na sa 1001 na hindi kailan man mapupunta sa Pulitzer or Booker kasi goody-goody ang mga nananalo dyan eh.

Ignore that last sentence, I was just trying to catch Angus' attention hahahaha. "The Sense of an Ending" is edgy. Not goody-goody at all.

[Rollie]

Arizel: Haven't tried yet GoT. But surely this year I will. :)

[Angus]

John, I prefer a novel with nothing extraordinary in it and yet is very capable of stirring my emotions. Only sheer talent can make something so trivial become so monumental. One has to give credit for that. An example (since you mentioned him) is Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending. Short, plotless, and yet, a winner in every sense of the word.

[Mirvan.]

Angus wrote: "John, I prefer a novel with nothing extraordinary in it and yet is very capable of stirring my emotions. Only sheer talent can make something so trivial become so monumental. One has to give credit..."

I know =P... Marami na naman akong nabasa na ganyan din.. napakamundane pero na lakas ng banat..

Iba naman kasi si Julian... I love his Flaubert's Parrot and Talking It Over and I am obsessed with collecting all his works.. Ang hirap hanapin waaaahhh.. Pero post-modern naman kasi siya which is kinda popular naman.. not that weird pero cool pa rin =P ngaun lang super focused lang ako na ipromote ang weirdness =P

[Maria]

Rollie wrote: "Maria: Weh?"

dude, truth ang sinasabi ko. ;P

Chami, emotions lang ba tlg ang nass-stir sayo?!!! LOL

John, i don't usually add authors as friends, kasi more often than not, they offer me their recent books for review. pag hnd nila nagustuhan ang review ko, sumasama lang damdamin nila, kaya wag na lang.

[Rollie]

Maria: What branch?

[Maria]

Rollie wrote: "Maria: What branch?"

(biglang may amnesia)
ano nga ulit ung book na pinag-uusapan naten? LOL

i can't remember. baka nga sa FB ko pa nakita kz nung naka-display sya, naisip ko na nasa wish list mo un.

[Rollie]

Hmmpf!

[Angus]

Chami, naistir din ako ng THHGTTG! Hahaha!

[Mirvan.]

K.D. wrote: "John, para talagang gusto kitang makita. Gusto kong ma-convince na mag-try ng mga yan. Ayaw ko kasing mag-branch out. Una-una, masaya naman ako sa mga nababasa kong mainstream sa 1001, 501, Booker,..."

puntahan nyo na ako bilis! mamimigay ako ng free books sa sasama.. see the promotions and pili kau sa list ko dun ng books

[Maria]

Angus wrote: "Chami, naistir din ako ng THHGTTG! Hahaha!"

ang masasabi ko lang ay... LOL!

[Angus]

My pile from May to June:


The Land of Green Plums

Motherless Brooklyn

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Charming Billy

Absalom, Absalom!

The Fellowship of the Ring

Breathing Lessons

Olive Kitteridge

The News from Paraguay

(What is bored at gusto ng umuwi?)

[Angus]

LS: Most likely, yes, hahaha! Unless some unfavorable circumstances take place (i.e., katamaran, disappointment sa isang book, like what happened to Ulysses, etc.)

[kwesi 章英狮]

May TBR:

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Teen Tarot by Theresa Francis-Cheung & Terry Silvers
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Mga Uod at Rosas by
The Covenant by Beverly Lewis
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Feed by Mira Grant
Deadline by Mira Grant
On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

Forever TBR:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams

[Angus]

Kwesi: Hahaha! Hanggang ngayon? Ilang pages na lang ba ang natitira?

[kwesi 章英狮]

80% pa! Forever nga talaga ang series na 'yan at bobored akong basahin kahit may audiobook pang kasama.

[Tricia]

@Kwesi: natawa ako. I bought an omnibus, but 1st book lang binasa ko. Nakakatamad eh.

[Angel / YA rules!/]

The one's i have are:
, , , , , , , , , , ... so far...

[Charles]

Tricia wrote: "@Kwesi: natawa ako. I bought an omnibus, but 1st book lang binasa ko. Nakakatamad eh."

Huwag pilitin kung boring. Move on to the next book :)

[kwesi 章英狮]

@Tricia: Next time, I suggest buying one book at a time. It's not worth reading an Omnibus copy because of it's size and consider your doubt of liking the book. For me, okay lang, since I bought it in Booksale last five years. Five years na and still in my TBR! Omnibus are for collection purpose only lang talaga.

@Charles: I'm doing that in the past and change my habit. I have to finish it no matter what happens. Haha. Trying hard much!

[kwesi 章英狮]

May TBR: (1/14 books)

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Teen Tarot by Theresa Francis-Cheung & Terry Silvers
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Mga Uod at Rosas by
The Covenant by Beverly Lewis
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Feed by Mira Grant
Deadline by Mira Grant
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta - ★★★½✩ - Review
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand - ★★★½✩ - Review
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

Forever TBR: (1/5 books)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams

[Tricia]

@kwesi: Kaya nga e, bad move yung pagbili ko haha!

@Charles: yep, I forgot about it until I saw Kwesi's post haha

[Maria]

a month ago i posted here, pero 5/10 books read pa lang ako. :( waaa!

[kwesi 章英狮]

Diba you usually put your readings in a calendar? Pano na yun?

[Maria]

Kwesi 章英狮 wrote: "Diba you usually put your readings in a calendar? Pano na yun?"

i still do that, plotting my TBR list in a calendar. kaso lately, andaming sumisingit na babasahin kaya nagugulo ung calendar ko. Kaya nilalagay ko dun ung sure ko na babasahin na tlg.

like, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, TBR on May 20 (after ng Jellicoe F2F sabi ni LS). Then a week after that, Deadline naman.

at dahil sa comment mo, ipa-plot ko na din ung remaining 5 books TBR na ni-post ko dito. :)

[kwesi 章英狮]

Haha. buti naman at naremind kita.

[Maria]

Kwesi 章英狮 wrote: "Haha. buti naman at naremind kita."

May silbi ka din pala sa akin noh. Ha!

[kwesi 章英狮]

Haha. Ganyan ang epal, kung minsan lang may silbi. Bwahaha!

[K.D.]

My TBR:

Against the Day


Infinite Jest


Underworld


The Executioner's Song


The Recognitions


The Tale of Genji

What is suntok sa buwan?

[Angus]

KD: Hampas sa ulo ang mga iyan!

Chami: Ako man nagulo yung mga pinaplot ko, lalo na kapag may ipinapahiram si KD.

[K.D.]

What is putting the blame on? :)

[K.D.]

I'll bring two books for you on Sat: "In the Bedroom" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" Both are easy reads kasi screenplays.

[Maria]

nako, need ko din pala dalhin ang Story of the Eye at Lover's Dictionary mo, KD.

Chami: edit tuloy ako ng edit ng calendar ko lately. :)