What sort of books interest you?
My range of interest is very broad from forensics to cheesy girlie stories which is pretty darn evident on my bookshelf where you'll see titles with Dr Henry Lee's name or the likes of Judith McNaught & Sandra Brown. Not the "blockbuster" title sort of person so I'm probably not the right person you speak to about Harry Potter but occasionally I do get really impressed by the high profiled books like those penned by Dan Brown.
During my last trip to Hong Kong, I picked up "Fashion Babylon" solely because I won a Dymocks voucher during the "Amazing Race" and it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. I recently got hooked unknowingly to this show "Hotel Babylon" on BBC Entertainment. Some of you might have heard of it and it's based on the book, "Hotel Babylon" by Imogen Edwards-Jones, the author of Fashion Babylon as well.
Throughout the different stages of my life, different books or range of them, played significant roles. From the days of Sweet Valley Twin/High/University, I'm been convinced that romance is crucial and essential. Judith McNaught, Jude Deveraux and Sandra Brown taught me that "hot" and "caress" meant very different things from temperature and hugs. Similar to what porn is to boys, I'm just more moved by words than graphics. It also tells you, mistakenly or not, that one will eventually find her true love.
School books are definitely not my favourite but I did enjoy reading my law texts. Case laws became bedtime stories for me and after 4 solid years, some of the cases are almost visible to the eye deeply engraved on my skull. I wish I'm back in law school and be reading all those cases even more thoroughly and hopefully, do alot better than a horrible 2:2. I might have taken a huge loan and be eternally bonded to the bank had I known I'm going to be this stuck. Well, I think I knew. Just wanna grumble...
After graduation, while swimming in loads of work, I found time to find little treasures by Paulo Coelho, Mitch Albom and the occasionally chick reads like Why Men Love/Marry Bitches, He's Just Not that Into You and Not Tonight Mr Right.
There are also must reads that really, haven't much reading involved. The Giving Tree is good but try Sherman's Lagoon, one of those comic strip compilations and it's totally hilarious.
Guess it's about time I make a trip down to Kinokuniya and find myself something new for this weekend.
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Interestingly, my favourite book happens to be 'the world of suzie wong'. I carry it whenever I travel overseas and it's still one of the most well visited (and willingly so!) book so far on my desk.
Hope that's not too much a surprise.
=P
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