Life as a bookworm (wannabe)

So I've been to Bali with some of my best friends and we had a grrreaaattt time. We tried as much food and went to as much restaurants as we could, cause you know, you might not get tomorrow. Ha!

All of the guy friends went to experience some sports while us girls settled to a more relaxing activity: shopping. But we didn't do the normal shopping that the normal girls would do - at least we tried - and ended up going to Periplus, the book shop. I mean we were in BALI! We should've gone to the beach and got our hair braided, nail polished, plus temporary tattoo. But that's not the main point anyway.

The thing is - I think - we like love books! Good friends think alike and I think we're a little bit too similar. I got myself two books and all of my girl friends got at least one book on their hand. Amazing, isn't it? And not to mention, we all some of us - including me - have this habit of buying books without reading them. We don't do it intentionally, to the least.

I had a thought about it during my flight back to my hometown and continue to finish the book I read midway right before I went to Bali. I just finished it today and decided to check up on the books I haven't read yet and guess what? There are tons of them! I used to think I'm a bookworm! I mean I guess I kinda am. But what kind of a bookworm who doesn't read the books that they bought?? (the wannabe one it is)

I bought all of these books because they seem interesting and sometimes because I've seen the movie version and wanted to compare them to the book version. SO..

Here's the list of books that I've bought/given (only one book is given) this past three years:

- One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell

- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

- Deception Point by Dan Brown

- Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris

- The Way We Were by Elizabeth Noble

- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

- Folk Tales from Korea by In-seop Jeong

- The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling

- The Cuckoo's Calling by J. K. Rowling

- Emma by Jane Austen

- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

- The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin

- The Nanny Returns by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin

- Nothing Lasts Forever by Sidney Sheldon

- The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

- The Shining by Stephen King

- Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of The Game by Tilly Bagshawe

- Life of Pi by Yann Martel

 

There are twenty books, with only two of them that I've done reading only recently. Where has my spirit of reading gone?? And I haven't even mentioned the books that my sisters bought. I can't not read them right? That'll be like violation against bookworm's code.

Thank God I have finished read the Bible or else I'd have to put them on top of the list because I'll feel guilty if I read other books first. So this year's resolutions will be to read what I bought, finish what I started. And if I don't have the power to continue to do so anymore, I can always gift them to people, like what my friend said. ;)

But before that, let's turn the imagination on, and read!