within a span of 8 days, i finished reading two books and already halfway through another novel. i have to say, it’s been such a looooonng time since i managed to read and read like it’s nobody’s business. and reading novels at that. after starting the year reading some ‘academic’ books, reading novels is such a refresher!!

i’m done with Jonathan Safran Foer’s extremely loud and incredibly close. a unique book in itself. the voices of a searching son and grandson : a young boy search and understanding death (his father died in 9/11), a grandmother’s endearing love and and strength in silence, and a grandfather’s mistake and eternal silent. beautiful.

and suddenly becoming jodi picoult’s fan all of a sudden, i just read Keeping Faith. about a traumatic divorce affecting a young girl, and out of nowhere, becoming a healer and stigmatic all of sudden. this is more heartrending, a mother’s fight and belief in her daughter’s gift even though she was not a religious person to start with.

and now am on perfect match by jodi picoult as well. now, why would anyone find it interesting what book am reading?? seri, u’re such a geek. haha!

but i just love it. reading without having to strain my brain trying to understand and remembering dates and names and events, or how and why things happened throughout the course of religious history! reading truly for leisure, diving myself into some fictional life experiences. it’s heaven. :))

and i just can’t stop reading. i had books on my shelves, which will suffice through half the year! you have your shopaholic, shoe addict, and now, presenting book addict, close to home! my mother had to practically drag me out of kino or borders, or yeah, popular, just to prevent me from buying anymore books, until i read all those books lining themselves up, waiting to be matched with the same-colour bookmark, and get read. (not to forget i just bought one from Popular@ orchard which is having their closing sale, books at $5!!!)

lord, what a geek.