MISTERYOSA.COM ARCHIVES

So…I came home from the BookMooch Pilipinas New Year’s Party about 2 hours ago. Extremely grateful to the guardhouse guard for hailing a cab for me. I brought home 3 heavy bags full of books. Happy, happy moocher!

The ones I was dying to get are in bold. Basically, they’re the I-can’t-believe-I-own-them-now books. The ones I found highly interesting are in italic. May be because other people recommend them to me, or they’re written by authors I’ve read before, or I read about them somewhere, or they touch on interesting topics. Some of these books are actually brand new.

Hardcovers

• Rise Mindanao!: Stories of Peacebuilding and Development from the Land of Promise (coffee-table book)
• Ballyhoo Buckaroo and Spuds (Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins) – Michael Quinion
• Leadership and the Customer Revolution (The Messy, Unpredictable, and Inescapably Human Challenge of Making the Rhetoric of Change a Reality – Gary Heil, Tom Parker, Rick Tate
• Love Always, Petra (A Story of Courage and the Discovery of Life’s Hidden Gifts) – Petra Nemcova and Jane Scovell
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
• Babyproof – Emily Giffin
• What Southern Women Know About Flirting (The Fine Art of Social, Courtship, and Seductive Flirting to Get the Best Things in Life) – Ronda Rich

Trade Paperbacks

• Suite Française – Irène Némirovsky
• A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini (US edition) NOTE: I actually already have a trade paperback of this in UK version, but, *ahem* Oh, well, haha.
• Last Chance Saloon – Marian Keyes
• The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
• Read the Beatles (Classic and New Writings on The Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter) – June Skinner Sawyers
• Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
• Friday Night Lights (A Town, a Team, and a Dream) – H. G. Bissinger
• The Queen’s Fool – Philippa Gregory
• Possession – A. S. Byatt
• Blind Submission – Debra Ginsberg
• The Divide – Elizabeth Kay
• Holes – Louis Sachar
• Black Robe – Brian Moore
• The School for Husbands – Wendy Holden
• The Book of Ruth – Jane Hamilton
• An Eye for an Eye – Malorie Blackman

Mass Market Paperbacks

• The Bookwoman’s Last Fling – John Dunning
• Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn
• The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank – Ellen Feldman
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Will tell the story some other time. For now, just drool over the impressive list of books. Here’s to hoping I actually get to read all of them. Haha.

Oh, yeah. Have you seen my reading challenge for 2009?