Book-less (not necessarily hopeless).

I want to buy A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog by Dean Koontz (I'm a big fan of D.K.) but I found that it is a little over my budget right now. It's  $15 at the Book Depository  (higher at approx $24 dollars at National Bookstore Online).


And it really hit me -- I can't buy books due to my budget constraints.And I  just realized how broke I am... :( :( :(

Well, I am hoping this is just a temporary setback.

So for the meantime I thought I might as well try to win books here instead:

Welcoming the Fall Giveaway hosted by Good Choice Reading - ends Sept 29, 2010

Over 50+ blogs sponsoring book giveaway (US, Canada, International)

Booklover Book Reviews First Birthday Giveaway - ends 18 October 2010, 5pm (Brisbane Australia)

LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN - Colum McCann (literature)
SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE - Alan Bradley (cosy mystery, quirky)
LIFE OF PI - Yann Martel (literature)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - Stieg Larsson (crime thriller)
CROCODILE ON THE SANDBANK - Elizabeth Peters (cosy mystery, historical, funny) 

 

The Book Bee International Giveaway - ends Oct 8, 2010

 Win any of the books:

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Last Testament by Sam Bourne
The Girls He Adored by Jonathan Nasaw

Escape in a Book Giveaway -- ends Sept 29, 2010

 Win:

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 

or

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

Who would think I could write like them?

I found something on the net and is surely fun. Try this out!

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

I'm not so surprised if I could write like Stephen King because I love his books  and has read The Shining, Insomnia, Needful Things and The Green Mile.

I write like
Arthur C. Clarke

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

...and who would think I'd write like science fiction writer Arthur C Clark! Though I love science fiction, too, but I'm more of a Tom Clancy and Robert Heinlein reader. I looked up Arthur C Clark's work and it is pretty extensive and a must check!

I write like
Rudyard Kipling

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Do you know Mowgli of "The Jungle Book" ? This book is just so amazing and must-read of everyone ( kids and the kids-at-heart ::wink::)

An excerpt from my favorite Kipling poem If:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

~~~x~~~

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted;

nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,

and some few to be chewed and digested:

that is, some books are to be read only in parts,

others to be read, but not curiously, and some few

to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

~ Francis Bacon ~

Dr Seuss

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient
in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you
learn, the more places you'll go.

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.

Cause you never can tell, what goes on down below! This pool might be bigger, than you or I know.
Step with care and great tact.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer
yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you
know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

I'm thirtyish and I still read Dr. Seuss and watched "How The Grinch stole Christmas". I guess he wakes the kid in me.