According to WordPress, today is the 7th anniversary of my blog! Wow, 7 years is a pretty long time, and sometimes I can’t believe I’ve kept this blog up for that long. Lately, more and more I’ve been thinking if I should quit blogging. Sometimes it feels like a chore, and to be honest, I’ve…
Hey guys, if you haven’t already!, download and try out Litsy, an app every book lover will love! Litsy is like a cross between goodreads and instagram. You can upload pictures of books and write blurbs, quotes, and short reviews. You can also upload books you’re currently reading, as well as books you want to…
Today, I got a notice from WordPress wising me Happy Anniversary! Honestly, I’ve never kept track of when I started blogging here, so thanks, WordPress, for reminding me. Before WordPress I kept a blog at Blogger.com and the now defunct (??) Friendster. According to my stats, my blog viewership (is that even a word?) has…
2015 is off to a bad start in terms of reading. The books I’m reading this month are turning out to be either very mediocre or seemingly pointless, and I’m not all that motivated to continue. I’m about a hundred pages into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road, and about 70 pages into Richard Morais’ A Hundred Food Journey,…
Even though I have a ton of books waiting to be read, I still can’t decide which one(s) I will be reading during the holiday season. Out of curiosity, I looked back on my blog to see what I was reading this time last year, and the year before that, and the year before that….to see…
This statistic is both wonderful and depressing at the same time. Millions of books (and counting…) out there and I will only be able to read a few hundred in my lifetime, if I’m lucky. Oh well, at least I know I’ll never run out of books to read! Happy reading (and blogging), everyone!
Books I bought in January – some brand new, some second-hand: 1. The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach) – I have an idea that this is a book about sports, baseball in particular, so I never really paid much attention to it. However, I’ve heard a lot of good things about it, so there must…
Since around September 2012, I started getting into watching anime again. I used to watch a lot of anime when I was younger, and though my interest in it didn’t exactly wane, because of all the other things I wanted to do, I put anime on the back burner. For the benefit of those who…
You know how they say “be careful what you wish for?” When asked the question: If you could get locked in to any store, what would it be? Easy: Bookstore, of course! Well, that actually happened to me last Saturday, when, while in a bookstore at the mall, unbeknownst to me, a robbery was…
You know what that means? It’s time to watch Love Actually again! Also, you know it’s that time of the year again when it starts snowing on wordpress. It’s actually something I look forward to. If I can’t have a white Christmas in real life, at least I can have one in my blog! The…
The Misanthropologist 