The Reading Spree

Flipping pages and finding common denominators

  • Amazon’s Fantastic Four (And Other Things).

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    7 min read

    I’m a bit late with this blog post, but since I’m not yet done with the current book theme (which I’m sure you’ll love), I thought I might as well write about something else. Don’t worry, I’m thumbing through book pages again (after yet another unintentional hiatus), and a new blog post will be up…

  • A Brand-New Love Affair With Johnny Air.

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    3 min read

    Sometime last year, I went on a self-imposed book-buying ban. I told myself that that ban will be lifted only after I made significant headway and crossed out at least 12 books (equivalent to four themes or so) from my long reading list. Predictably, the ban was forgotten after a few months: I made the…

  • 379 Days Later…

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    1 min read

    …The Reading Spree comes back to life! A whole damn lot can happen in 379 days: tons of work (which is actually a great thing), vacations, downtimes, etc. And as can be expected, the number of new books keeps growing while the old acquisitions stayed put in my bookshelf. This means much more goodies to…

  • Quickie.

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    2 min read

    After a two-month vacation, I finally went back to work and things eventually piled up. So yes, I haven’t gotten back to my growing book pile. Maybe this long weekend, I can work on it. It also didn’t help that I picked a very depressing theme. Oh well. Gotta finish what I started. 😛 While…

  • Salman’s Side of the Story

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    1 min read

    The author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, will pen a book about his time in hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued his 1989 fatwa, according to Yahoo! News. (Yes, I’m three days late.) Will definitely get it when it comes out.