Blind Date with A Book

Hello people.

So I'm not planning to post any photos in this particular post because I'm actually uploading quite a lot of photos for another post I'll be writing after finish uploading, and boy, my internet sucks at uploading stuffs. 

While waiting for my photos to be uploaded, I'm visiting a few online bookstores and drool over the many books I want but can't have (money-wise). I remember when I was younger, I always told other people that when I got a boyfriend, I don't want typical gifts like flowers and cute accessories from him, but books. Tons and tons and tons of books. Well, of course chocolates are more than welcome. This is because well, I'm a nerd who love books to death.

Anyway, that's not the point. 

I was looking through the internet for books because I just finished two books today and found out one of those has a sequel which I didn't buy. Wait, let me finish with what books I read today. Patience, grasshopper. 

The first book I finished today is The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. Yes, yes, yes, I know. I'm really late on this trend. But I did the same thing with The Hunger Games, too. I only read it after everyone had finished with it. Not that I'm retarded or slow, but I sort of have this weird habit to not follow the trend and read the books after their trend were over. For instance, tons of my friends recommended me to read TFIOS a trillion billion years ago and I wanted to read too, don't get me wrong, but I wasn't in the mood for it. Or let me phrase it this way, I don't really want to spend my money on the book that soon. Also, I never watch the movie before because I don't believe in watching the movie before reading the book.

Okay, okay. I finished the book and it's awesome (though I already knew the ending before reading it thanks to its popularity and all the big mouths around me. Kidding) but for me, it's kinda boring for me at first. Funny, but a little bit boring for me. Or maybe I'm just waiting for the sad part to come sooner. Or maybe I have high expectations since everyone's saying how great this book really is. But I got engaged in the story very quickly after the "intro" part of the book, and cried like a baby the whole afternoon. 

It's the second book that made me searched online to buy new books. It's Clarity by Kim Harrington and I bought it during a Jumble Sale in my college. Well, needless to say that I didn't know that it has a sequel and the book is so damn good it makes me so frustrated that I don't have the sequel right in my hand this very moment. If only you can understand the frustration of wanting to read a book but don't have the book. Thankfully I did find it online, a little bit expensive but it's okay since I'm so desperately wanting to know the ending for the book, and also, which guy did the protagonist choose. Teehee. 

The book is about a psychic girl trying to solve a murder case that her brother (also psychic but cute) got involved in. Romance, suspense and hot guys. What more can you ask for?

Okay. I'm sounding silly up there. Forget about it. What I really like about this book is that it's like a fresh breath of air after the sadness of cancer and star-crossed lovers stuffs in TFIOS. It's light and easy to read. And that's why I love this book and almost died when I found out there's a sequel. I mean, I usually know the book has a sequel before I finish the whole thing, but this time, I sort of heed my father's advice to not peek at the ending before finish reading. I should have read the ending and realized there's another book after so I won't read this book first until I find the next book. 

Another weird fact about me. I need to get all the books from the series before I can read. I hate ending-less and this frustration I'm going through right now. Ugh.

After my mission accomplished (finding the sequels, also for my other books that I don't have the sequels), I wandered into an online bookstore called http://www.bookxcessonline.com/ (go check it out, especially if you're a Malaysian book-lover) and found treasures in it. I found the Inkheart trilogy selling for only RM29.90!! Thank god I didn't buy at the bookstore, which will cost me over 100 bucks!!

Then something caught my eyes. It said: Blind Date with A Book, and of course I'm intrigued. I couldn't help myself but to click onto it and bam, my dream comes true. I'd saw events quite like this online but there're all in other countries. It's literally a blind date with books. I flipped through the catalog and the books are all wrapped up in brown papers so you can't see which book is wrapped inside the package. There's only a line of the book or a hint of what the book really is printed on top of the brown wrapping paper and I already guessed the real identity of a couple of books inside. 

Really. "Pain demands to be felt". Even I know what book is that. Well, probably because I just finished the book today, but still. Definitely not adding that book into my cart, now that I know. Thank God I finished TFIOS today, if not I'd probably buy the book twice. 

This is a great activity except the part nowadays we have Google and I totally can find out which book has that particular quote or something. 

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Not much a blind date anymore, eh?

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Till next time people.

(or in my next post)

xx