Four Books and One

Silly me. Brought home most of my books, including the ones I want to read the most (Kafka on the Shore, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Amulet of Samarkand, Catch-22, Shogun, Smoke and Mirrors), so that when I came back to QC yesterday, I couldn't bring any more books because my bag was filled with clothes, and some stuff I need to study.

My first foray out of the house this afternoon brought me to Radio City in Muñoz this afternoon, to buy myself a UTP cable so that my PC can access the net in a non-wireless way. After that, I proceeded to SM North where I'm supposed to buy stuff for toiletries. I entered the mall thru the 2nd floor, and I remember Macel saying Booksale is still found on that same floor. I looked for it, and it looks good; a bit bigger, with more variety of books. And that's why with P240, I was able to get:

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg
• Rama II by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  
• Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett

The first two are sci-fi, one of the genres I'm most inclined to nowadays, aside from the chick-lit/romance reads and Murakami's reality bending works. I bought the third one because I've been hearing much about it, and besides, it was a brand new copy for a very cheap price. I'm delighted with my fourth find. This is not a mass market paperback, but if the hard-bound edition was softbound, this was how (big) it would look like. I've been quite interested with it, more so because even if it's a thriller of some sort, it's set in Thailand. And it's less than P150. There were also a number of Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost. It was thicker and smaller than Bangkok Tattoo, and the story was intriguing. However, nothing memorable jumped out as I was browsing through the pages. I'll look at it again next time.

So I'll be looking forward to reading those the next few days. Since yesterday, however, I started rereading Sex and the Single Vampire by Katie MacAlister. I just found out that paranormal romance is just one of the things that she writes about aside from YA and mysteries. I just found its file while I was browsing through an ebooks thread. It was empowering, and of course, it makes one fall for this perfect vampire lover - strong, witty, sensitive, sexy, incomplete, and just the right type for our heroine, who, abused during her past, is resisting any sort of control over her, has a bad leg, two widely mismatched eyes and can summon ghosts when she sneezes. I'm not finished with it yet, but it'll only be a few more hours before I look for the next book/e-book to read.