Well, since Eel used my last post as her inspiration, I will now do the same. :p

I’ve been reading ever since I can remember, always lugging around tons of books wherever I go. Things haven’t changed, even nowadays, when I buy bags, one of my important criterias is that it must be big enough to carry a book. When I go to shopping malls, I’ll always carry around one book, so that when I get tired of walking around and T is still shopping (yes, he shops more than me!), I’ll sit down somewhere and read my book.

I remember once when I was small, my mum and I went to a booksale and we got quite a lot of Chalet School books (if I had known back then how much they would be worth now, I would have gotten double copies of everything!). Anyway, my mum kept most of them from me, cos she knew that if she gave them all at one go to me, I would do nothing else but read, and she wanted me to do my homework and stuff. She would normally give me one book every few days. Well, what I did was to look through all the cupboards till I found the bag containing the books. I substituted the one I had already read for a new one, and I went through all the books till I had finished them all.

Nowadays, I don’t read quite so much, I need to split my time between playing the PS2 and reading! One of my favourite-st authors is Nora Roberts. I LOVE her In Death series, it’s a good mix between crime/mystery and romance. The main character is Eve Dallas, who is a cop with a traumatised childhood. In the first book, she meets up with one of her murder suspects, this really rich classy guy called Roarke. The books are set in the future, in the year 2050, or something like that. Some of the futuristic ideas are pretty cool, there are things like drying tubes which make bath towels unnecessary, gadgets that can determine exactly when the person was murdered, and many more! Other ideas are a grim prediction of the future. For example, real coffee is extremely rare, and therefore really expensive! That’s one of the ways Roarke manages to get on Eve’s good side, she loves coffee, and he can provide it to her. Prostitution has been legalized, prostitutes are known as LCs or licensed companions. I could go on and on, but you get the general idea.

For chic lit, I agree with Eel, I like Jill Mansell too. Hmm…can’t remember, did I introduce Jill Mansell to her? Or the other way round? One of the best things that I like about her books is that they’re funny and easy to read. I don’t think I have a favourite book of hers, umm..maybe the one where the girl is a florist and the guy is the camera dude. I never can remember the titles of her books.

OK, I was just re-reading Eel’s post, and in my defence of Little Women, I cried ONCE during the movie. It’s SO sad, how can Jo not marry Laurie?? He’s rich, sweet to her, perfect! Instead, he goes and marries annoying spoilt brat Amy, and she marries the old dude with the weird name. Baer? Bhaer? I don’t really read that series anymore, I prefer the Rose In Bloom books, it’s not so annoying!

I can keep on listing the many, many, MANY books that I read, but I should save some for next time.

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