If anyone would pay attention to my book collection, it would be easy to conclude that I dig World War II genres. I find that era fascinating, heart wrenching and exciting all at the same time. My term paper back in high school, if I remember it right, was about the cruelties of that war. Although I get horrified in reading holocaust tales, my interest and curiosity progresses exponentially. I even got my self a hard copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf just to pick his brain.
Not to make this post longer than it would be, I present my minuscule but fairly filling collection written in my ghastly handwriting!
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The Secret Garden - Frances Hudson Burnett The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis The Reader - Bernhard Schlink The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende My French Whore - Gene Wilder The Art of War - Sun Tzu One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The New Reich - Michael Schmidt |
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Getting In Touch With Your Inner Bitch - Elizabeth Hilts The True Stella Awards - Randy Cassingham Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt Les Miserables - Victor Hugo The Real McCoy - Darin Strauss |
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The Woman Who Rode Away - D.H. Lawrence The Devils Advocate - Morris West Primary Colors - Anonymous I Love You, Ronnie - The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler Wall Street - Kenneth Lipper Katharine Hepburn - Sheridan Morley A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Major Works of William Wadsworth Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki |
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Japan Against the World - Russel Braddon Tao Teh Ching - Lao Tzu Hamlet - William Shakespeare Virgin Suicides - Jefferey Eugenides Cannery Row - John Steinbeck I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Rage of Angels - Sidney Sheldon Gullivers Travels and Other Writings - Jonathan Swift This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff |
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Veronika Decides to Die - Paolo Coelho The Aryan Myth - Leon Poliakov |
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom The Woman Who Had Two Navels - Nick Joaquin Like The Flowing River - Paolo Coelho Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Chronicles of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paboritong Libro ni Judas - Bob Ong The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Poison Wood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver Always a Reckoning - Jimmy Carter |
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The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve Satan's Underground - Lauren Stratford By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paolo Coelho Moby Dick - Herman Melville The Politics of Law - David Kairys The Love Spell - Phyllis Curott Introduction to Critical Thinking - Bruce Reichenbach The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren |
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~Mark Twain
Oh my! this is such a long list! good luck isabeau! i once looked for Mein Kampf but then i decided against it because i think it's such a "heavy" read... i can't wait to hear/read your insights... i'm not so much into these types of books because i think my brain can only take so much, haha, and complicated names and places easily confuse me. :P but i would really really love to hear from you. that way, i will not only be enticed to read, it would be as if i've read the book myself too :P
ReplyDeleteSuch an interesting stash. Like Monette, I wouldn't go for those types of books because I'm more of an escapist so adventure/fantasy/YA are my cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteBut would love to read your reviews in the future. ^_^
Btw, Beau, did you try for the school paper in HS? Sayang if wala. You would have been a nice addition to the team. The paper could have used someone of your writing caliber. :)
Such an interesting stash. Like Monette, I wouldn't go for those types of books because I'm more of an escapist so adventure/fantasy/YA are my cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteBut would love to read your reviews in the future. ^_^
Btw, Beau, did you try for the school paper in HS? Sayang if wala. You would have been a nice addition to the team. The paper could have used someone of your writing caliber. :)
Have you selected the books na for the FFP Read-A-Thon (http://wp.me/p7Fut-v7)? Will eagerly wait for your updates as well as Monette's.
ReplyDeleteExcited na ko. Hopefully I will last through 24 hours straight. Wish ko lang. Hehe
ahahahah this is where I salute you....you've been the bookworm since elementary and until now...I am more on the visual and talking part...ahahahha!!! but I wish I have the perseverance in finishing a book, the only book I read completely was angels and demons and some love story books remember Sweet Valley hahaha
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