january 2013

Assalamualaikum,

I know i'm not a good blogger :( ...not much of update rite?

Last December, i went to BBW book fair (big bad wolf) at Mines. Not much i bought. mostly books that already turned into movie like atonement, time traveller's wife, the reader. two books by tasmina perry ( kiss heaven goodbye and private lives) , which i have almost of her books, and two books by naguib mahfouz "the cairo trilogy"  which i only got two (sugar street and palace walk, must find the last one, palace of desire). i think i have a few more but i don't remember the title.

This time, i didn't spend much on books. not like last year, i spent almost like RM300 ++ on books, went there like 5 or 6 times but finally, the books are inside the box unread or read half-way...my bad. so this year i bought a few but i promised to read it all. insyaAllah. i already finish one book, kiss heaven goodbye by tasmina perry and in the middle of finishing the second one, private lives.

BUT, i have a little distraction, (i easily distracted). Currently, i read "aku bercerita by ramlee awang murshid". i'm on page 377 out of 601, which i think i will finish this book first rather than private lives. before this i already read "fiksyen 302" by the same author. so i already read 2 books by ramlee awang murshid in the middle of reading private lives. huh!! and the worse thing is, i bought another 4 books by ramlee awang murshid...i sometimes feel like i wasted too much on books that i don't know i could read it all. but to ease my guilty, i said to myself, i will read it when i have nothing to do in future..hahaha..maybe i could cut my time from spend too much on internet (facebook, forums etc,etc) and spend on reading instead. oh that include reading for my master degree too.

so i must read, read and read. i remember when i was in primary and secondary schooll, i  just like to read, maybe because there were not too much distractions like i have now. back to primary school, i always went to the school's library to borrow books. mostly novels. i could finish a book in two days. let say i borrowed on monday, on wednesday i will return and borrow another. same habits when i was in secondary school.

but now, i'm a slow reader. maybe because of work, study and other distraction. spend too much in traffic also one of the factors...hahaha..why? if u using public transport maybe u could read while waiting. right?

anyway, we should not blame technology 100%. the technology we have now, can be use to expand our reading horizon. e-book, iPad, tablets and other online website on reading is very useful. one of the website www.goodreads.com is among the good one. we could read online, give a review, change opinions, show a progress on what we read etc,etc.

the website was introduced by my sister. at first, i gave not so much thought about that. but after i downloaded it in my ipad, i just know how useful the application is. another application that i found very useful is iBooks. all the material in pdf format can be open in ipad. so i can carry ipad and i can read it everywhere. even if there is no connection to the internet. my ipad is wifi only, so if there is no connection i could only read what inside it. i intentionally buy ipad without 3G, so that i will not spend much time on internet. i could read instead...hahaha...

february 2013 is tomorrow...time fly, very fast. i hope i could finish all the books i bought, and buy another and maybe later, i could share with you...insyaAllah.

till then, happy reading people. :-)

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”  - Groucho Marx

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”  - Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life