books i have read lately

i've read quite a few books lately, as i've been busy playing computer games for hours almost every night to release my work-related stress. but i did manage to finish a few this month since i didn't have money to spend on shopping and late-night coffee sessions at starbucks with friends (thanks to my well-paying job).


yesterday, after almost three years, i finally finished reading the whole Bible -- all 66 books in it. yey! i just wish i had written down my thoughts about the things i read there. if i did, this blog would not have been as empty as it is now :D oh well, i could still do it, as i'm reading from genesis again -- i just finished the creation story this morning. i'm making it a goal to find out how many times i can read the Bible over in my lifetime ;)

i finished ludlum's the bourne identity last week. i know i should have read it back in high school or college. but you see, the books i read in high school were your average teenage pocketbooks (yeah, i was a teen-ager once :P) like sweet valley, nancy drew (i know i should have read this in elementary, but you see (again), we were busy playing in the streets when i was a kid), and that pocketbook series where p.s. i love you was a worldwide favorite (with p.s. meaning paul something(strobe?)). i can't even remember the books i read in college besides the math, physics, and history books that were required readings back then. (no, i didn't read mcnaught back in college, even if my freshman roommate had a collection of them. and i can't remember when i started reading grisham and clancy)

so about bourne, i didn't get to watch the movie, but i saw the trailer :D and i did watch the bourne supremacy, though i have yet to read the second book. i didn't think julia stiles' character was in the first book. my housemate also said that the movie was a lot different from the book, even the second one.

well anyway, the book was a real page-turner, so i don't recommend reading it when you're trying to put yourself to sleep (i tried it once, and i ended up sleeping after two hours -- not that i grew sleepy by then, but because i had to sleep since our friendly neighborhood rooster was already screaming its lungs out. also because i knew that in half an hour, our friendly neighborhood neighbors would be doing the same -- screaming their lungs out). i just borrowed the second book from my housemate, and i'll start reading it this week (yeah, it was that good i had to read the second installment -- or maybe i'm just an obsessive-compulsive :D ).