Apple Tablet Could Be It

When various e-readers (Sony Reader, Kindle, Amazon Kindle DX), rolled out into the market and converted habit of thousands of readers, I had my reservation about the gadgets. While electronic and paper form could co-exist because both have limitations and can complement one another, I am not ready to part with the habit of turning [...]

Trip Down Memory Lane

Tomorrow marks the end of the third quarter of 2009. What’s happened to summer? Summer has been awesome and fun, filling with memories so fond and special. Reading wise, it hasn’t been a prolific year. The 56 books read so far this year doesn’t measure up to the tally last year. Instead of highlighting my [...]

Forty Four Things: The Most Random Attempt

I have seen this meme in several blogs that I read only to realize later that it might have originated in Facebook. This one is by far the silliest most random meme but I have decided to snag it just because of the very first question. I’m very passionate (distastefully) about blue cheese so here [...]

My Last 21 Books

Jessica from The Bluestocking Society listed the sources of her last 21 books. I thought it would be interesting to identify the sources of the last 21 books I have read, since I’m reading my 50th book this year: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.
Exiles in America, Christopher Bram (Borrowed [...]

Travel Personality

JoAnn at Lakeside Musing posts a travel personality test. A seasoned traveler that I am, I jump at the test in no time. Here are the questions on which the travel personality is determined:
1. Where do you stay when you travel?
___At a friend’s house – you usually only visit places where you know people
___The cheapest [...]

Recuperate and Rejuvenate

Fellow bloggers, I will keep this post succinct and light. The mountainous effort to read The Satanic Verses has sapped my brain juice. I won’t go as far to call my current state of mind as a reading block, but I can definitely use some lighter, less mind-boggling reads than Salman Rushdie. I’m craving for [...]

On Commenting

Jackie wrote a thoughtful post on lurkers. Do you lurk? Are you more a commentator or a lurker? I understand almost half of my blog traffic is randomly driven from search engines, which account for transient stay, meaning 2 seconds to about 1 minute. Consider the astronomical number of blogs out there, a random reader [...]

Reading Notes of a Couch Potato: Satanic Verses

I am happy to hear that many of you are reading or planning to read The Master and Margarita. To say the very least about the book, it’s a very clever story-within-a-story reading. The Master has simply taken what is normally perceived as religious material and breathes in it a social context—one that is characterized [...]

Fear and Courage Meme

I do not have an answer for this week’s Booking Through Thursday, which concerns with comics and graphic novels, because I do not read this genre. However, I have come across a meme from a friend in Hong Kong. This one sounds very interesting and I’ll employ my faculty of humor to the full.
1. What [...]

Facebook is not a Book, a Matt’s Musing

In case you don’t know, Facebook is the most popular “book” but it’s not a book.
Long-time local independent bookstore Stacey’s is closing at the end of this month. Today Chronicle’s editorial cartoonist Greg Russell does a piece that is just so spot on about how popular culture can really take over our life and time, [...]