Blog Posts on book-hunt

New Site by steddysoliloquy on Apr 16, 2010I have made a new blog site for my (pseudo) book reviews. It just feels right to create a separate site for book blogs. It's still under renovation. I'm gonna transfer the book blogs from this site to the new one, but I won't be deleting them. Click...

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins by steddysoliloquy on Jan 29, 2010Teenager Katniss Everdeen, for the love of her younger sister Prim, volunteered to join a reality TV show wherein winning means fame and losing is a sure death. Her only hope for survival was her adept hunting skills, powered by the will to return ho...

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga by steddysoliloquy on Sep 26, 2009Balram Halwai was born in the “Darkness”. He grew up in one of the depressed and marginalized areas of India – so poor that the average number of children in a family is more than 10 and all of them are either called boy or girl. Before he beca...

September Mooches by steddysoliloquy on Sep 15, 2009Today, I went to the post office to pick-up 3 mooches: one from Natalie of Japan, another from Laura of UK, and the other from Patricia (also from UK). And these are the books I got: A Spot of Brother – Mark Haddon (tpb)The Inheritance of Loss...

Fishing at Booksale by steddysoliloquy on Sep 15, 2009Some of my friends wonder how I find highly-sought books at Booksale. Truly, for a beginner, that book store is a chaos. There is no organized book classification system – just hardbounds, mass paperbacks, trade paperbacks, inspirational books, cof...

Freckle Juice by Judy Blume by steddysoliloquy on Sep 8, 2009Andrew Marcus is a little boy who envied his classmate Nicky Lane for having lots of facial freckles. Andrew wanted to have freckles so his mother would not notice his neck and face when dirty. Sharon offered a secret recipe – Freckle Juice – for...

Addiction by steddysoliloquy on Sep 5, 2009Annually, August and September are book feasts for book lovers here in the Philippines. Powerbooks has just ended its month-long book sale. National Bookstore – the country’s leading bookstore – has its ongoing sale until September 20, 2009. Th...

Paolo Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die by steddysoliloquy on Aug 24, 2009Veronika, albeit being young, beautiful, attractive, sexy, and smart, committed suicide by ingesting loads of sleeping pills. Prior to the act, she wrote a letter that became her suicide note – she was committing suicide so that people would know w...

The Shack - William P. Young by steddysoliloquy on Jul 8, 2009Mackenzie Allen Philip’s youngest daughter, Missy, was abducted during the family weekend camp. Her body was not found except for proofs that she was brutally murdered: Missy’s red dress smeared with blood stains discovered in a shack deep in Ore...

Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz by steddysoliloquy on Jul 3, 2009Mathilda Neumann drowned beneath the icy waters of Nagawaukee lake one winter evening of 1919, leaving behind her daughter Ruth, who then was only a toddler, to her older sister, Amanda. The tragedy caused grave depression to the family, including hu...