2010 Reading List

A couple of weeks ago, in a GK Fan site forum, I exchanged short messages with a girl from Germany.  In the end, we wrote almost daily emails to each other comparing our "internet research" on one particular GK cast & crew with the initial EMK.  

Then one conversation leads to another, she asked me what kind of books I read.  And just like that I realized, I don't think I read or buy any new book since Generation Kill and One Bullet Away in December last year!

By this month in 2009, I have read over 20 titles (all of them are Julia Quinn's romance books, but still...)  and yet now it's already the second week of May but I haven't bought one single new book.  This is really embarrasing.

Okay, I have bought Stephen Colbert's "I Am America (And So Can You!)" via Amazon.com, but I haven't received it, so it doesn't count.  

Normally, I would just wait until I go abroad and while on transit I'd browsed and pick a book.

Which reminds me, I DID buy and read one new book this year, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson.  It was a story of an American who built one school at a time in Pakistan, and the many problems he has dealt, and continues to deal with to make it come true.  I thought I bought that last year, but now I remember I had bought it in Changi when I went to Singapore to have dental surgery.  It's a good book, and Mortensen still works on his effort to build school not only in Pakistan, but also Afghanistan.  Please check his website for more updated info.

Anyways, I thought this year I want to spend less time pulling out every books in the bookstore to read the excerpt and wondering if I should buy it or not, and did my homework first at home.  

So, I'm now making a list of books I plan to read in 2010. 

I have no particular genre or author that I must get, and I try to make the list as vary as possible.  The list may also change as I'd like to add from time to time...

1) Wicked Lovely, by Melissa Marr

2) I'm A Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away, by Bill Bryson

3) Ten Things I Love About You, by Julia Quinn

4) Making the Corps: 10th Anniversary Edition, by Thomas E. Ricks

5) Hero Living, by Rudy Reyes

I guess that's all.  It's a sad, short list eh?  I couldn't think of anything right now...