Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco. I've been wanting to read this book ever since I've stumbled upon the book's rather spoiler-y tvtropes page. When I found, like, copies that takes over two shelves on NBS, I freaked out and ran home. And then a couple of days later, came back with money that was just freshly received from my mother abroad. While the premise looks pretty simple (a student and friend of an infamous Filipino dead writer, Crispin Salvador, goes back to their hometown, the Philippines, to piece together Crispin's whole life and write a biography and also to find out what led to his friend's death), there's just so many plots. It's cool for me to read a lot of stories at once. But the constant changing of POVs and styles and story lines could make you confused (happened to me), but in some extent it connects to the main plot. Somehow. While I was spoiled a bit about the ending, the ending still made me put the book down when I was done and stare at space and leave me speechless. A good book, I say. Has great, vivid description of the Philippines as it is now.
Paper Towns by John Green. I've heard of John Green all over the internet. Well, maybe not all over the internet, the but the writing and fandom part of the internet. Which is my internet. I see my friends shed tears over his books. Quotes from the books are, well, quoted. Seeing that he has a good reputation among us, I decided to check him out. I was planning on picking up The Fault In Our Stars, but I chose this instead. Good writing, good humor, a pretty good book. I'm actually looking forward to read his other books.
I'm also currently reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. This is my first Murakami book. Still chugging along finely. Totally not weirded out by anything. Probably because back a couple of years ago I watch anime like there's no tomorrow. There's a lot of weird stuff in this anime. There's a lot of weird stuff in this book. I'm not even done yet.
Also chugging along Darkside by S.K.S. Perry. I'm not really into online novels and ebooks, but when I need to take a break from all the craziness in the book I would be reading (which is rare!) I run to this. Pretty neat read. You guys can read it for free here.
And two books I just got today for Christmas!
Can't wait to read them. :D
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years, guys!
