This is the year that my to read pile is bigger than my read pile. It's also the year I started reading more sci-fi after reading 'The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet' last year. I'm a believer of coming across the right book at a right time. Personally, this year I didn't come across a book that really...
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The Guilty Dead is book number 9 in the Monkeewrench series, written by a mother-daughter writing duo. I remember over more than 10 years ago I stumbled upon Want to Play? at the bookstore. I was hooked from page one. About a group of misfit genius programmers who became each others family through life traumas. Since then the Monkeewrench team...
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The past years I have written my favourite reads of the year for my local English book store. This year they aren't doing the readers top books. Thus I decided to write it here. I like sharing books I read. I also hope others will chime in what theirs was. Without much ado, here are my top 5 books of...
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It was five or six years ago that I bought Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and read them all in less than two weeks. My first encounter with Scandinavian crime mystery that got me hooked, line and sinker. I remember how slow paced Larsson started 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'. He took his time to build the characters, the setting...
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It's only recently that I read about The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. I wasn't really sold on the story, but after reading a couple of good recommendation and not having anything else new to read I decided to gibe book one a try. The Hunger Games is another young adult series, unlike Twilight, The Hunger Games doesn't has...
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Regarded as "the" summer read and highly anticipated, The Passage by Justin Cronin is yet another vampire story. But don't confuse it with our hero vampire Edward Cullen. Set in the not so distance future of 2014 we follow an U.S. Army secret test with a virus, death row inmates and a six year old girl. Soon we are taken...
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