Late to the party considering Amazon’s Kindle 3 got announced yesterday, but here’s my Kindle 2 review.
I was one of those who scoffed at the device when the Kindle first came out. It looked like some gadget out of the 80s, all angled and clumsy looking. When the Kindle 2 with its rounded corners and [...]
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Could this be one of the first books in the paranormal romance genre? Maybe. It predates even Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Carmilla is a story about a girl who lives isolated in a large mansion with her father, some madames (house keepers? governesses? who knows) and other servants. One day, [...]
Yu Shan Ge is a high-end vegetarian restaurant close to the Shandao Temple MRT stop. Even though we took a taxi to it from our hotel, we realized it was actually a walkable distance and walked the way home. After the filling meal we had, walking was a smart choice.
The restaurant itself is nicely decorated [...]
Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book was recommended several times as a *good* paranormal romance book to read in the worst paranormal series you’ve ever read thread, but after reading it I’m wondering if maybe I mis-read the thread.It was not the *worst* paranormal romance I’d read, but it certainly [...]
A Song for Lya: And Other Stories by George R.R. Martin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I wanted to try out George R. R. Martin’s other genre of books, so this novella set in a futuristic, sci fi world seemed like a good place to start. The beginning was strong and I was sucked in [...]
On one of the days in Taiwan, when it was raining and gray, we ventured out to a secluded vegetarian restaurant in some suburb of Taipei. If I had known what an adventure it would turn out to be, I don’t think I would have stepped out of the hotel that day.
First, it was pouring [...]
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I read this in school but apparently didn’t remember much about it at all, which is why I decided to re-read it. There are a lot of unlikeable characters in this book and all the female characters seem needy and too reliant on [...]
