Everyone's read their books but me.

Aside from my 2013 Reading Challenge...


I'm pushing myself to read at least half of any of the books these authors have written:

1. Rick Riordan
2. Cecelia Ahern
3. Ann Brashares
4. Jodi Picoult
5. Sophie Kinsella
6. C.S. Lewis
7. Neil Gaiman
8. Amy Tan
9. David Mitchell
10. Mitch Albom
11. John Grisham
12. Dean Koontz
13. Paulo Coelho
14. Nick Hornby
15. Chuck Palahniuk

Because, believe it or not, I haven't read any of their books! Haha.

For starters, I already have the following physical books (real photo to follow):

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Exported this review from Goodreads to my blog because it caught the author's attention.

"Hi! Thank you po sa mga reviews niyo tungkol sa book ko. Haha :) thanks din kay sir KD at kay Biena. At least, ngayon alam ko na yung mga reaksyon ng ibang tao sa libro ko. Haha. Perstaymer kasi ako. Pero sa susunod kong libro, sana mejo ok na yung reviewa niyo haha at sana magustuhan niyo na :) "Para sa Broken Hearted" naman yung susunod na libro ko. Naks! May susunod agad :) pasensiya na rin sa mga "mas better" at "nakacivilian" like words sa book ko, ganun po kasi ako magsalita. Para natural. :) mas better diba? Haha."

- Marcelo Santos III

Para sa Hopeless Romantic by Marcelo Santos III
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Don't judge. I'm a Marcelo Santos virgin.

I think the storyline is quite okay. I just kind of hate it sometimes, because you can feel that the author is kind of trying to be funny, whilst attempting to state something profound. Channeling Bob Ong, eh? Hmmm. Meh. At some point, I think the author is actually aiming for a Ricky Lee. I just don't know. Maybe, it's just me.

I won't say I didn't like it, over all, I think, Marcelo captures the heart of his audience and his stories are really targeted to his readers and this novel is his answer to the 'strike while the iron is hot' cliche. My very close friend Boado would like this, love this book even. (I recommended it to him and he just bought a copy, one book down, Marcelo!) I just know it.

Unfortunately and sadly, I don't belong to the teenage circle clamoring for this kind of storytelling anymore, let's just say, I already grew up and matured. (Caveat, this doesn't mean, I'm calling Marcelo's fans young and immature.) For an instance, I don't use very cute and colloquial student terms like: nakacivilian and magvandal anymore.


P.S.

Here are some lines that sort of ticked me off:

"Hindi ako nanonood ng telenovela, yung nanay ko at mga kapatid ko yun. No choice lang ako."

-- Really now, Marcelo, really now, why'd you have to quip such thing? I have nothing against people not watching telenovelas, albeit, I think it's kind of strange and poseurish not to watch even one, I actually am acquainted with someone who doesn't really pay much attention to these things, it's just that... hmm, how can I put this? Okay, let's be honest, this line is kind of pretentious, there, I said it.

"Hindi mo deserve ang tulad ko."

-- Okay lang ang Taglish, I actually like Taglish. But, the truth is... ang FAIL lang nito.


"Nakamoved on"

"Napublished"

"Mas better"


-- I'm not a grammar nazi (I'm no expert, hey), but I think this is grammatically incorrect. Grammarians, where art thou?


At ang daming typos. Grr. Joke lang, di ako galit. :D

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“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”

― Mark Twain, Notebook

Last Summer, I was able to use one of the facilities I'm paying for in the condominium I'm living in.

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