It's the hols!

My aunt who's currently living in Germany will be back for two weeks, along with my cousins Erik and Vanessa. Can't wait for their arrival on Thursday! =)

In the meantime, I took out some books from the Monash library. I know, I know. What am I thinking? XD I'm behind in my Law and Comm reading, and here I am happily reading fiction. Oh well.






I admit, I got a lil' ambitious =P 5 books for a 1 week study break.

On another bookish note... a book tag!

1. 1984 (George Orwell)
2. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
4. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
6. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
7. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
8. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
9. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
10. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
11. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
12. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
13. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
14. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Helen Fielding)
15. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
16. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
17. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
18. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
19. Dune (Frank Herbert)
20. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
21. Emma (Jane Austen)
22. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
23. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
24. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
25. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
26. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
27. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling)
28. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling)
29. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)
30. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (J.K. Rowling)
31. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)
32. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
33. In The Skin Of A Lion (Michael Ondaatje)
34. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
35. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
36. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
37. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
38. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
39. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
40. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
41. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
42. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
43. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
44. Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck)
45. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
46. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
47. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
48. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
49. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
50. Shogun (James Clavell)
51. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
52. The Bible
53. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
54. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
55. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
56. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
57. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
58. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
59. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
60. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
61. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
64. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
65. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
66. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
67. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
68. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
69. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
70. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
71. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
72. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
73. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)
74. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)
75. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
76. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
77. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
78. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
79. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
80. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
81. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
82. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
83. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
84. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
85. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
86. The Stand (Stephen King)
87. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
90. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
91. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
92. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
93. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
94. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
95. Ulysses (James Joyce)
96. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
97. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
98. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
99. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
100. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

To do the tag, bold the books you've read and italicize those you wish to read.
Out of that list, I probably won't want to go near Anna Karenina again, unless I'm having trouble sleeping XD

Tagged by Sara. Yay, something interesting to do.


1.What do you want the most now?
Indecisiveness rhymes with Adeleness... therefore I'll have to compile the whole (long) list of wants, close my eyes, and randomly poke the list with my finger and hope it doesn't land at one of the more frivolous ones =P

2.Who is the person you trust the most?
My mummy! And of course the rest of the family... ^^

3.Are you in love?
I should hope so =P

4.If you have a dream come true..
The world would be a less superficial and cynical place.

5.Do you believe in seeing a rainbow after the rain?
It's a rare sight, but aren't you just filled with all these lovely emotions after gazing upon a rainbow?

6.What's your goal for this year?
Be amazingly good at my sem 2 units.

7.Do you believe in eternity?
As a Buddhist, the believe is that all things will come to an end... but the galaxy seems like it's going to exist to a very ripe old age XD

8.Have you ever broken a person's heart that he/she wanted to commit suicide?
Not that I know of, unless there's someone who'll like to tell me so and prove I live in my own world 1/2 the time.

9.What feeling do you love the most?
Unconditional love and acceptance.

10.What are the requirements for your other half?
It's a personal joke that my ideal guy probably has to one up Prince Charming (too charming and carboard-ish)/Mr Darcy (too... I don't know, everything). Enough said.

11.What kind of feeling do you hate the most?
Betrayal.

12.Do you cherish every friendship of yours?
Guilty. I admit, I'm bias to the ones I think are true and meant to last.

13.What do you want to do in the future?
All the things I hope I'll have the good fortune and initiative to do.

14.What is the most important thing in your life?
The safe haven which is my family.

15. How did you feel last night?
Weary and a tad anxious.

16.Who do you hope to be always there for you?
My friends and family.

17.When do you think the world will end ?
It will end when people think it's the end, for that is even more fatalistic than a natural catastrophe.

18.The world ends tomorrow. What will you do?
Meet up with the people who have been a significant part of my life.

19.What do you think of the person that tagged you?
As Anne Blythe nee Shirley would say, she's of the race that knows Joseph =)

20.What do you want to know right now?
How to teleport XD

Then add 4 people in your list and list them out at the end of the post.

Notify them in their chatbox that he/she has been tagged!

1. Edmund
2. Yeang Shin
3. Anyone
4. But it's okay if you don't ^^