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My Leisure Reading Log

Fictions I read/am reading - yes, I did not start until 2006!! (I was asked to read other literature - not just fictions; I tried Catch-22 and could not pick it up; I read Blink and did not think much of it - or I did not understand!!)...

 

 
   
2008
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
waiting in line...
The Sleeping Doll
by Jeffery Deaver
The second of his novel. The first one was ...Twelveth...
The Unquiet
by John Connolly Karin Slaughter Website
First of his novels
7th Heaven
by James Patterson
Will eventually have time to watch the TV show on some digital medium on sale as the 'blue light special.'
Book of the Dead
by Patricia Cornwell
 
Double Cross
by James Patterson
Karin Slaughter Website
 
2007
Skin Privilege
by Karin Slaughter Karin Slaughter Website
read december into january 2008
Stone Cold
by David Baldacci David Baldacci Website
read december
Bones to Ashes
by Kathy Richs
read november; ending too quick but it was good
The Tin Roof Blowdown
by James Lee Burke
read september; Katrina battered New Orleans as a backdrop...; learn soon or learn later - what's between 'now', 'soon' and 'later'?
The Careful Use of Compliments
by Alexander McCall Smith
read september till year end; is there really a moral evenhandedness? if not, moral is inherent biased in our human thinking?
what we like to do is not always we end up doing...
Quickie
by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
read august; it was interesting when Lauren was revealed as a cop,... and then all the coincidences; I was wondering how it ended to be morally sane.
Close
by Martina Cole
read august...did not finish...: read the first ten pages or so, but not latching...; re-read and still not following, dragging on with too much history/background/was.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde, 1891
read june...only reached half of the book; yes, it was way back when...
Simple Genius
by David Baldacci David Baldacci Website
read june; ok; easy reading - not the same characters as of The Camel Club (I still have to find that book and finish reading it)
The 6th Target
by Patterson & Maxine Paetro
better than 'Step on a crack' but it is disappointing...
Skeleton Coast
by Clive Cussler
read apr-may; first novel on maritime settings; words like 'stevedore' and 'aft'; characters are clear; I can't formulate the scenes in my head. Will read another of his book.
Step on a crack
by Patterson and Leowidge
[mar]: did not like it
Triptych
by Karin Slaughter Karin Slaughter Website
[mar] read it quickly and like it
   
2006
The Collectors
by David Baldacci David Baldacci Website
this should be the second of his book that I read [finished feb 2007]
Chill Factor
by Sandra Brown
 
Pegasus Descending
by James Lee Burke
 
Broker
by John Grisham
 
Break No Bones
by Kathy Reichs
I like 'Bones' - the TV show also;
   
Not sure if this was the year that I started reading paperback fictions. Though I remembered it began at my uncle's at Toronto then. Nothing to do and he was reading the Angels & Demons by Dan Brown and I picked it up and read it on my return trip. Then I continued to read his other three books: Deception Point, Digital Fortress and The Da Vinci Code. Angels & Demons remains the best among the four.
   
   
New words I learnt...
surreptitious This word was used in describing the act of capturing data from an RFID tag without knowledge of the holder of the tag (not necessary the owner). This characteristics of RFID technology was welcome as no line of sight was required to gather information (as compared to barcode reading), but at the same time it creates privacy issues for the consumer to take note. apr 2008
diaspora scattering of my friend/family away from Hong Kong; from Brent Schlender's article on Technology in Fortune October 15 2007 issue. He talks about the 'most profound Internet innovation' Facebook. Keeping tabs of your friends across the Globe is not easy; this Facebook would be very useful in A2A AOLA Community. oct 2007
colostomy "surgical formation of an artificial anus by connecting the colon to an opening in the abdominal wall'!! from 'The Tin Roof Blowdown'; when would you use this word in a social cyber space? sep 2007
discombobulate From SAT vocabulary: upset or confuse. Not sure if these two meanings convey similar feelings; I am 'often' upset at the deterioation of human good nature and confuse about how others attract to this unkind nature without hesitation. may 2007
From reading Chill Factor by Sandra Brown (paperback 2005) and some thoughts awaken by the reading - wonder if there is a recipe to deal with people that possess unknowingly of themselves the following characteristics (this and the next one): Nov 2006
complacency (自滿的) self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies
condesending(硬要領情) I don't think this Chinese translation is exact: to assume an air of superiority
From reading Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke (hardcover 2006); I have to consult dictionary many times reading this book - my first of his. Oct 2006
androgynous having the characteristics or nature of both male and female
avarice (貪婪) excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain
magnanimity loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble nenerosity
tete-a-tete a private conversation between two persons
hubris (傲慢) From Broker by John Grisham (paperback 2005), then in SCMP about the Chief Executive's hubristic comment of...: exaggerated pride or self-confidence Sep 2006

 

 

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