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I had read this book almost 10 years ago. I was still in my hip days not knowing how to deal with life maturely especially in love when I was introduced to Josh Harris’s masterpiece. The nice thing about this book, aside from conveying the message of putting God in the center of everything we…
Monthly Archives: June 2008
John Grisham fan
I am one of the avid-readers of John Grisham novels. I like how he plots and narrates his stories. I am one frustrated lawyer myself. His stories makes me feel like I’m in court or part of the jury. hehe I have read 80% of his books. He may have the same plot to all…
Bondage Breaker
This book was authored by Neil T. Anderson. I had been struck by this book so much that it made me realize so many things in my life. When my sister introduced this book to me, I was in the brink of back sliding from my faith. I was torn, frustrated and hopeless with my…
Confessions of a Shopaholic
by Sophie Kinsella I think most women can relate to this first book of the Shopaholic Series. Most of us enjoys shopping as a form of therapy. When stressed out, we shop. When we feel sad and lonely, we shop. We shop ’till we drop. Who doesn’t want all those good stuff? All that and…
Real-Life Cinderellas
And so goes the timeless tale of a beautiful and kind girl who fell into the unfortunate hands of her wicked stepmother and equally dumb and narcissistic stepsisters. There are different versions of this classic fairytale. But only one theme is imminent. That one is able to rise from his or her circumstances. We may…
Uh-Oh
Some Observations From Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door by Robert Fulghum Fulghum’s philosophical views on the dailiness of life never fail to enchant me. I like the way he talks to his reader, on a new light… from both sides of the fridge door. “I believe in both Show and Tell. My attitude is…
Chick Literature
I’m fond of reading chick literature or chick lit (as others call it) lately. Women have become more assertive of their roles in society nowadays and some of it have been used as examples in chick lit books. Sometimes, because of these books, we get to expose some of the women’s issues like violence against…
Me and Mr. Darcy
by Alexandra Potter He’s every woman’s fantasy… After a string of disastrous relationships, Emily Albright has had it with modern men. She’d rather curl up with Pride and Prejudice and step into a time where men were honourable and strode across fields in breeches, their damp shirts clinging into their chests. The men she meets…
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini This is a story of fathers and sons, friendship and betrayal, and the casualties of fate. In the 1970s, Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that…
For One More Day
This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father – and she dies while he is…