Books

2013

This year, my goal is to read 20 books. Seeing as I failed miserably in achieving my 35-book reading goal last year. I really should be more realistic when it comes to these things.

1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling
2. Geek Magnet – Kieran Scott
3. Runaway – Karla Maquiling

2012

My goal this year is to read 35 books, as I’ve mentioned in this entry. It’s perhaps a bit unrealistic, considering that before this year, I read oh maybe about, zero to two books a year. But there’s nothing wrong with setting your goals high, and reading a lot of books isn’t even that high a goal anyway.

Here are the books I’ve finished reading:

1. Dancing at Midnight – Julia Quinn
2. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
3. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
4. Fifty Shades of Grey* – E L James
5. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
6. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
7. Kubori Strips for the Soul: 2nd Edition** – Alfredo Rosales, Michael David and Mark Navarro
8. A Song of Ice and Fire Book One: A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
9. Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo? at iba pang technique kung paano makaka-move on sa wasak na puso – Ramon Bautista
10. The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis; Like a Thief in the Night: a Bernie Rhodenbarr story; The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke*** – Lawrence Block (and Lynne Wood Block)
11. Anthem – Ayn Rand
12. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams – Lawrence Block
13. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J. K. Rowling

* So I skipped over some parts because they were too gross (in my opinion), but I still read most of this book until the end so I think that counts as having read it.

** I know, this is a book that contains a compilation of comic strips. But still a book! So it counts.

*** So these three only count as one book because they’re actually short stories and were never printed on their own; only always as part of short story anthologies or in magazines. Though I did buy them from Amazon separately. But anyway.