these are just some samples of books that i rememember as of the moment that i'm creating this page. come back again for more...

Books that made a difference

Sophie's World:
Flying alone for the first time to San Francisco in 1996, with Smashing Pumpkin's "Mellon Collie" diffusing into me, in my half-asleep state, i pressed my face against the window pane feeling the icy tingling of the stars that enveloped me in their glittering bedsheets, hung frozen in the inky skies outside, as i put the book down. In this book of philosophy from Socrates to Freud, Jostein Gaarder whimsically and cleverly weaves two separate realities into one. A story within a story. Sophie's quest on finding who Hilde is, and why they seem to live the same lives in this parallel universe. Got me really thinking...

The Little Prince:
Borrowed to me again, from a "dolphin-tattoed-girl" in order for me to relive the stories told in this little book, I remember sitting around at night, next to my window, with my reading lamp on, in Bangkok smelling the comforting antiquity of the book. Written for all dreamers and those who wish to return as child, this book by Antoine De Saint-Exupery is innocently illustrated, and held many dreams and wisdom grown-ups had long forgotten. Only to end with "the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world..."

The Catcher in the Rye:
The only thing I ever got out of 10th grade English. Thank you Ms. Lamb. Set in New York City where i am currently living, is a story of Holden Caulfield, an adolescent going through the stages of self-discovery and realization. I strongly recommend this book for those out there who are still struggling and stumbling along the sidewalks of adolescence, for it could be your friend and companion. (It was found in the hands of the guy who shot John Lennon, and shot himself, at the time of his death.) Just don't shoot yourself. Life's too good.

The Greatest Miracle in the World:
This rotten blue paperback by Og Mandino, was given to me by my 'ragpicker' -- someone i've met during my final weeks of highschool, at the bustop. It really had changed my life, and the summer that follows. Discover what the ragpicker's amulet is, what it symbolizes, and how it too, can bring new light to your life. I had passed on this book to my brother, and he had finished it in a couple of weeks, and bought himself "The Ragpicker Returns". The original book handed to me by my ragpicker (who was handed on to him by his aunt who got it at a garage sale), is now passed on by my brother, to this girl, who hopefully will pass it to another someone, somewhere.

Currently reading

Conversations with God
by Neale Donald Walsch

On the Road
by Jack Kerouac

also, on the shelf:
Rimbaud -- Complete Works, Selected Letters
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

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