Happy New Year 2015!

Hi, everyone! First of all I'd like to wish a very happy new year to all my followers. It's been around 4 months since my last post. I know some of you might be wondering what happened to me. Well, I suffered from such a terrible book slump what with all the terrible things happening in my country. We had 3 airplane tragedies, heavy rain and floods and the mood is just sombre all around.

I decided to to take a step back, and remember to prioritise what's important in my life. My family comes first and besides that my job has kept me busy most of the time.

It is such a nice sunny day today so I decided to kill some time by cleaning my house. And my pile of books are just screaming for attention. I haven't decided yet what to do with them. Any ideas? It'll be fun if I decided to have a special giveaway for my followers. But the idea of postage fees are a nightmare. Should I give a whole box to one lucky winner or three separate boxes? I really want to hear your thoughts. Do leave me a comment. :)

Reading Challenges? Why am I doing this to myself...

Another reading challenges? Why am I doing this to myself? I just can't help it, you guys. Someone really need to whack my head and remind me to stop doing this challenges or else I'll just read and read and read without doing any wrap-up post (hides face shamelessly).

You guys can find out more details from the awesome Hafsah Laziaf over at Iceybooks. But it's pretty simple actually, all I need to do is read 15 YA standalone in this year. So, without further ado I'd better get cracking to it. May the force be with me.

2014 TBR Pile Reading Challenge

Hi, peeps!
So last year I only joined three reading challenges. I think I manage to complete all the challenges but I just forgot to do a wrap up posts. Initially, I decided not to joined any reading challenges this year but I got so tempted.



The sweet Evie over at Bookish has one of the biggest reading challenges this year and I'm hoping to make a dent on my piles of books so this is great for me. I'm always aiming for the lowest level in this case it's 10 books. If you're interested, check out the details over on Bookish. There's a giveaway at the end of each month and a big one at the end of the year. So..good luck for me. 

Review: Icons

Icons (Icons #1)
by Margaret Stohl
Hardcover, 428 pages
Published May 7th 2013 

by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Summary from Goodreads:

Your heart beats only with their permission.

Everything changed on The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.

Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside -- safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid.

She's different. She survived. Why?

When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador's privileged son. But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn't a coincidence. It's a conspiracy.

Within the Icon's reach, Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas discover that their uncontrollable emotions -- which they've always thought to be their greatest weaknesses -- may actually be their greatest strengths.

Thoughts:
This review is indeed a long time coming. In truth, I really don't know what to say about books that I've anticipated so much but then turn out not quite up to my expectation. It's not that bad but it's just not that exciting either. And the whole 'invisible' aliens thing whom are supposed to be invading the humans but never showed their faces just add to my confusion.

The love triangle felt rushed and unnecessary and as much as I wanted to like the characters, there's just something off about the four 'special' kids. They fight endlessly among each other or else suddenly develop intense attraction towards one another. Crazy.

Read this for the funny and sarcastic artificial intelligence known as the Doc (kind of like Jarvis in the Iron Man movies). Everything else just seemed mildly interesting.

Verdict: 3 stars.
In my Books in a Series and Fantasy Reading Challenge 
Available on: Amazon

My 2013 Reading Challenges

Last year I went totally crazy and participated in 7 reading challenges. It's hard to keep track of all of them and by the end of the year, eventhough I've achieved my target I feel so burn out that I don't even put up wrap up posts for some of them.

So this year, I'm being realistic and have decided to only join 3. Let's hope I have the time to actually read the books since I'm thinking of having another kid on top of my busy work schedule.

I love fantasy so this is a no brainer for me. Thanks to TheBookCellar for hosting this and the general aim is to read and review 10 Young Adult/Middle Grade Fantasy books. Easy peasy!

Tara from Hobbitsies is hosting the Debut Author Challenge. I love finding new authors to follow. Hopefully I'll get to read 12 debut books and review them this year.

Since most of the books that I've been reading these days are a part of the series then it just make sense to join in this challenge. Book stack on deck is hosting it and I'm aiming for the Sampler level ( 5 books).

The Dusty Bookshelf Challenge 2012

It's nearly the end of the year so it's about time that I have a wrap up posts for all my Reading Challenges.  I felt so overwhelmed with all the reading challenges that I've participated in. But luckily I did managed to finish some of them and the rest..well it's a lesson I'll keep in mind so I won't go overboard next year.

Luckily I've read all the books in my Dusty Bookshelf Challenge plus several more since I'm only aiming for Pixie Dust which is like 5 books. Yay! You can check my my original post here.

1. Matched by Ally Condie
2. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
3. Possess by Gretchen Mcneil
4. Haunting Violet (I finished this halfway, but it still counts right?)
5. Born At Midnight by C.C. Hunter
6. Indulge by Megan Duncan
7. Awake at Dawn by C.C. Hunter
8. Legend by Marie Liu
9. Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton

10. Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn

Do I deserve a pat in the back? Hell, yeah! It's a struggle to read all these so-called 'dusty' books when those shiny new ones are always tempting you. Thanks to Jessica from Books: A True Story for being a wonderful host. 

Review Copy Cleanup Final Challenge: Love Will Find a Way

I can't believe it's the last challenge. March flew by so fast and I was so glad I finished reading the 5 ARC/review copy books that I'm supposed to. I know it's not that much but really I'm so overwhelmed by the amount of books that I have to read sometimes.

In the Love Will Find a Way Challenge we’re sharing our all-time favourite books. If you were stuck on an island, or in a cave, which books would you bring? We’re not limiting you to bring a certain amount of books, so give us your best!

I'll probably be depressed since I'm stuck somewhere, I need a book that can keep me going or something that will just put a smile on my face. It'll probably be the Harry Potter series for me since I never get bored reading it. Or maybe it's the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series for it's feel good factor. The antics of Detective Mma Ramotswe always puts a smile on my face.

Review: Spellbound

Spellbound (Spellbound #1)
by Cara Lynn Shultz
Paperback
324 pages
Published June 21st 2011
by Harlequin Teen

Summary from Goodreads:

What's a girl to do when meeting The One means she's cursed to die a horrible death? 

Life hasn't been easy on sixteen-year-old Emma Connor, so a new start in New York may be just the change she needs. But the posh Upper East Side prep school she has to attend? Not so much. Friendly faces are few and far between, except for one that she's irresistibly drawn to—Brendan Salinger, the guy with the rock-star good looks and the richest kid in school, who might just be her very own white knight. 

But even when Brendan inexplicably turns cold, Emma can't stop staring. Ever since she laid eyes on him, strange things have been happening. Streetlamps go out wherever she walks, and Emma's been having the oddest dreams: visions of herself in past lives—visions that warn her to stay away from Brendan. Or else.

Thoughts:
I have to admit that I have been eyeing this book for such a long time but just never got around to reading it. I just love books about witches so when I received the ARC for the second book, I decided that it was high time for me to start reading the series.
The book is quite cliché to say the least. You have the new girl with the absent parents, mysterious gorgeous guy and everlasting love that transcends time. Such plot line is certainly nothing new. It's like Twilight, Fallen and even Hush, Hush put together except instead of having vampires and angels we have witches.

Likes
Thankfully the secondary characters are lovable enough for me to finish the book. You have Angelique; the weird gothic witch who help Emma find out about her curse, Cisco the pre-requisite gay best friend and even Aunt Christine; a former theatre actress who took in Emma when her stepfather is arrested for DUI. And Emma was pretty cool in the beginning when she stood up to the stereotypical mean girls on her first day of school.

Dislikes
I really wished that there was some more magical mayhem in this book but since Emma was pretty much in denial of her witch background and only used her powers towards the end, it was kind of disappointing for me. The reincarnation story could have been explored more especially the part where Lord Asher decided to curse himself with such a confusing spell. The ending was too brief. Everything is resolved rather too quickly that I can't help wondering what will happened next. I mean if the curse was broken then what's next in the series?

Recommended for: fans of paranormal romance
Verdict: 3 stars.

In my Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge 
Available on: Amazon

Review Copy Cleanup

Vicky over at Books, Biscuits & Tea have this wonderful challenge only for this month. It's for review copies only and since nowadays I've been receiving quite a few review copies, I'm trying my darndest to read and review them as soon as I can. 

Challenge guidelines:
✦ This challenge runs from 1 to 31 March, 2012
✦ Sign-ups are open until 15 March 2012. After that the linky list will be closed and participation in the challenges and giveaways won't be possible for anyone who hasn't previously signed up.
✦ To sign up, just fill in the Mister Linky form below. Link to your sign up post directly, please!The Linky is the same for both our blogs, so you only have to sign up once.
✦ When you post your sign up post on your blog, either include the challenge button with your post or link it back to this article so that people know where to sign up. Thank you!
✦ Every book you received for review counts towards the challenge, both ebooks and hard copies, including all genres and lengths.
✦ You don't need to follow the two hosts in order to be able to sign up for the event (although it's appreciated), but you do have to follow us in order to be able to enter our giveaways. In order to be entered in the giveaway, simply complete the given challenge and add the link to your post in the linky list.
✦ Challenges will be posted every week on Fridays and will last throughout the week until Thursday the next week. Every challenge ends with a giveaway. To enter in the challenges and giveaways, simply add the link to your challenge post in the Linky list in the main challenge post. It will be posted on both blogs.
✦ At the end of the event we will host our Massive Giveaway. This contains tons of prizes donated by awesome authors. All you'll need to do in order to enter this giveaway is to fill in a Rafflecopter form - as simple as that. :)
✦ Most of our giveaways will be open INTERNATIONALLY but you'll find all the relevant info about each giveaway when we post the challenges.
✦ Feel free to use the #RCCleanup hashtag on Twitter for your RCC related tweets or join in the Twitter party at http://tweetchat.com/room/RCCleanup and meet lots of lovely bloggers :)

Challenge schedule:

✦ March 2 - Show Off Your Pile
✦ March 9 - Cuddle Up With a Book
✦ March 16 - Don't Be Such a Tease!
✦ March 23 - Mysterious Meet-up
✦ March 30 - Love Will Find a Way

The Dusty Bookshelf Challenge

What?Another reading challenge? Dear me. Booksatruestory has this reading challenge that is perfect for me.

Details:
1. Write a blog post with a list of all those books that are literally or figuratively sitting on your shelf that you’ve been meaning to read for a while. OR You can join my NEW Goodreads group for this challenge! You can pick books that you bought and haven’t read or books that you’ve just been waiting to read for a long time. Feel free to use the badge I made at the top of this post.

2. Pick a level

~Pixie Dust – Read 0-5 books

~Dust Bunny – Read 5-10 books

~Cobwebs – Read 10-15 books

~Grungy – Read 20+ books

EXTRA CREDIT-Say how long that book has been sitting on your shelf!

3. Link your blog post where you are doing the challenge at the bottom of this post (with the blue button) and then enter the giveaway!

I'm aiming for Pixie Dust!

There's a few books on my shelf.

1. Matched by Ally Condie - since November
2. A Discovery of Witches
3. Possess
4. Haunting Violet
5. Born At Midnight - all since October

2012 Witches Reading Challenge

Another one of my 2012 Reading Challenge. Thanks to Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf. Since I love witches so this is just perfect for me.

Details:


1. This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2012. I will be posting a place to link up a sign-up post (below), reviews and a wrap-up post. (Note: You do not have to review the books to participate, but only those who link up reviews will be entered for the prize)

2. Grab the reading challenge button (code & button below) and post this reading challenge on your blog to track your progress. Please include a link back to this sign-up post so others can join the reading challenge too. You do not have to be a book blogger to participate- you could track your progress and post reviews on Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, etc.

3. Any full length book that includes a witch as a main character or major witchcraft elements counts. They may be fiction or non-fiction. However, they should not be reference books which are not read cover to cover-I will leave this to your discretion. 

 
4. Books can be any format (bound, eBook, audio).

5. Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.

6. You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap-up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you.

7. When you sign up in the linky put the direct link to your post about joining the 2012 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge.

8. You can move up levels, but no moving down.

9. Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2012, so feel free to join at any time throughout the year.
10. Have some Witchy Good Fun !!!


The Levels:

Initiate: Read 1 - 5 Witchy Books
Maiden: Read 6 - 10 Witchy Books
Mother: Read 11 - 15 Witchy Books
Crone: Read 16 - 20 Witchy Books


I'm going for Initiate! Wish me luck! Happy New Year everyone.

2012 Self Published Reading Challenge

After discovering some great Indie books this year, I decided to join Workaday Reads 2012 Self- Published Reading Challenge. 


Challenge Guidelines:

1. This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2012.

2. Anyone can join, you don't need to be a blogger. If you don't have a blog, feel free to sign-up in the comments. You can post reviews to any book site (i.e. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, Goodreads, etc).

3. Any genre, length or format of book counts, as long as it is self-published by the author.

4. You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap-up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you.

5. When you sign up in the linky, put the direct link to your post about joining the Self-Published Reading Challenge.

6. You can move up levels, but no moving down.

7. Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2012, so feel free to join at any time throughout the year.

Levels:

1. Sentence - 5 books

2. Paragraph- 10 books

3. Page - 25 books

4. Chapter - 50 books

5. Short Story - 75 books

6. Novel - 100 books

7. Series - 150 books

I'm aiming for Sentence and hopefully I'll make it. :)

2012 TBR Reading Challenge

Welcome everyone to my new reading challenge. Another reading challenge? I'm trembling already. Can I make it? Oh dear..I'll try my best. Thanks to Evie for inviting lil ol me. In all the excitement, I totally forgot to post about it. So let's get to the nitty gritty.

Challenge guidelines:

This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2012.

As we would like to see quality reviews linked up to our monthly wrap-ups, only bloggers can enter. Sorry about that!

Any genre, length or format of book counts, as long as it is a book that's been sitting on your shelf for some time now. Only books released in 2011 and earlier! NO ARCs and 2012 fresh-off-the-press releases allowed!

You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap-up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you.

When you sign up in the linky, put the direct link to your post about joining the 2012 TBR PILE Reading Challenge (You need to include the info + host list + challenge button. You can also grab the button code and add it to your sidebar!)

You can move up levels, but no moving down.

Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2012, so feel free to join at any time throughout the year.

At the end of each month one of the hosts will post a wrap-up. Every wrap-up will have it's unique theme, a mini-challenge, a giveaway and place for you to link up your reviews from this month. For each review you link up, you will get one entry in a drawing of one book of choice from Book Depository. It's open to INTERNATIONALS. For participating in the mini-challenge you will get +1 entry.

If you miss a wrap-up post + giveaway, you can link up your reviews next month. Do not, however, try to link up one review twice - we will be checking ;)

December is a wrap-up for the whole year. All the book reviews you linked up January-November + the ones you'll link up in December will be entered into a HUGE giveaway - 12 books, 12 winners, INTERNATIONAL.

You don't have to follow all the hosts to join the challenge, but you do have to follow all of us to be entered in giveaways!

Levels:

1-10 - A Firm Handshake

11-20 - A Friendly Hug (This is my goal, hopefully)

21-30 - A Sweet Kiss

31-40 - Love At First Sight

41-50 - Married With Children

The Awesome Hosts:

Evie from Bookish - http://www.evie-bookish.blogspot.com @SeoEvie

Nicole from All I Ever Read - http://www.nicoleabouttown.com/ @Nicoleabouttown

Bonnie from Hands and Home - http://www.handsandhome.ca/ @HandsHomeBlog

Donna from Book Passion For Life - http://bookpassionforlife.blogspot.com/ @BookPforLife

Caitlin from WatchYA Reading - http://whatchyareading.net @caitlingss

Rie from Mission To Read - http://missiontoread.com/ @missiontoread

Vicky from Books, Biscuits & Tea -http://booksbiscuitsandtea.blogspot.com/ @alouetteuette

Christa from Hooked On Books - http://christashookedonbooks.blogspot.com @ChristasBooks

Jenna from Fans Of Fiction - http://fansoffiction.blogspot.com/ @fansoffiction

Angel from Mermaids Vision - http://mermaidvision.wordpress.com @mermaidvisions

Wrap-up POST Schedule:


January - Donna (Theme: Let It Snow + Book Cover Challenge)

February - Nicole (Theme: Un-requited Love/Love Gone Wrong + Advice Column Challenge)

March - Rie (Theme: Green or Pinched + Green Cover Challenge)

April - Bonnie (Theme: Easter + Mini Challenge)

May - Christa (Theme: MayDay - Disaster Books! + Cover Disaster Challenge)

June - Jenna ( Theme: Camping + Sentence Challenge)

July - Rie (Theme: International Day + Cover Comparison Challenge)

August - Angel (Theme: Summer Memories + Send Your Fav Character On Vacation Challenge)

September - Nicole (Theme: Life Changing Books + Mini Challenge)

October - Caitlin (Theme: Thanksgiving Theme + Share-A-Book Challenge)

November - Vicky (Theme: Spooky Halloween + Book Puzzle Challenge)

December - Evie (Theme: Xmas Bliss + Book Bachelor Challenge)

* My TBR pile is not that much. There's currently I think around 20 books excluding e-books of course. Maybe we can do a book swap or something. :)

Mystery Reading Challenge 2011

I've been meaning to post this for a long time. I've completed my Mystery Reading Challenge last week and totally forgot about it. The challenge is to read 12 mystery/thriller books this year. So here goes:

1. A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (Inspector Singh Investigates) by Shamini Flint
2. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #1 by Alexander McCall Smith
3. Singapore School of Villainy (Inspector Singh Investigates) by Shamini Flint
4. The Double Comfort Safari Club (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency#11) by Alexander McCall Smith
5. Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency#2) by Alexander McCall Smith
6. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) by Alexander McCall Smith
7. The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency#4) by Alexander McCall Smith
8. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency#6) by Alexander McCall Smith
9. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency#8) by Alexander McCall Smith
10. Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency#3) by Alexander McCall Smith
11. The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency#5) by Alexander McCall Smith
12. How to Survive a Killer Seance (Party Planning #3) by Penny Warner


Yep, I'm a big fan of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. I haven't yet completed my Urban Fantasy challenge to read 24 urban fantasy books this year. Oh, no! So far I've only read about 14. It's time to catch up! Help!

Review: Paranormalcy

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Published August 31st 2010

My Summary:

Hi..meet Evie. She's sixteen, blond, loves pink and works with IPCA (that's the International Paranormal Containment Agency). So what so unusual about that you say? Well..her best friend is a mermaid, her ex-boyfriend is a fairy and she can see through all paranormal glamours which make it kind of tricky for a vampire to bite her..hoho.

So Evie never knew who her parents are and she grew up in IPCA and faithfully do whatever it is that they told her to do which includes tagging and bagging other not so nice paranormal; for e.g: werewolves and vampires. One day a strange creature broke into the IPCA headquarters and Evie being the wonderful employee that she is caught the creature/guy/being/paranormal (one could get so confused with all these fantasy things). This guy is Lend and he's sort of a shapeshifter. So eventually they fell in love but some things are killing paranormals out there left and right so of course our protagonist will eventually be involved in that.

Thoughts:

I absolutely love this book. Yes..it is told from the very tiring first person POV but the character is funny, normal, and not so mopey unlike the other heroines of the popular YA fantasy out there (Bella anyone?). The story is very action paced (thank god) and for once the hero is very nice. There's a big twist in the end concerning Evie's so called history. It's my favourite YA urban fantasy series so far.

Verdict: 5 stars !

a most peculiar murder mystery

Shamini Flint are one of those rare Asian writers who managed to nabbed a book deal with an international publisher. Lucky lady! And she used to be a lawyer too (no wonder she looks so.. familiar..hmm). Personally, I think that it's great to read something that has an Asian ambiance to it. A breath of fresh air really.. to be enjoying something that is Made in Malaysia. Is she Malaysian? Not really sure..but being an avid mystery fan, I devoured her Inspector Singh series hungrily.

A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder

This is the first book in the series. We are cordially introduced to the fat, irritated, Sikh Inspector from Singapore who was sent over to neighbouring Malaysia to help in the investigation of a wealthy timber tycoon. The main suspect is his ex-wife; a Singaporean who used to be a famous model. For once I really think that the victim deserves to die. He's cruel, vicious man who beat up his wife (gasp), had an affair with his son's girlfriend (gasp) and even convert to Islam just to make sure his wife doesn't get custody of his younger sons (more gasp). Oooh shoot him please! His two brothers are pole opposites. The kind elder brother; Jasper who's a nature lover, harbours some deep secret while the youngest brother; Kian Min is the devil incarnate himself.

I had fun reading this, but just I was about to spot the murderer, the writer cleverly throws another suspect in the path. Damn! The ending is bitter sweet and being a mother myself, I was very touched during the part when the long suffering ex-wife tried to flee the country just so she could keep her kids. The camaraderie between Inspector Singh and his Malaysian counterpart; Sergeant Shukor is sometimes awkward and somewhat amusing.

This book actually reminds me of Agatha Christie's masterpiece; The Murder in the Orient Express where the killer is a disgusting persona and the murderer is actually the victim. So sad. And yes I guess anyone who read this would draw comparison to that other plump Belgian detective whom I love so much.

Verdict: 4 stars

The Singapore School of Villainy

Yes, the Inspector strikes again in book #3 of the series. And once again, I feel kind of sorry for the murderer. Is it becoming of a habit that the writer wants you to take the murderer's side? Oh gosh..there's so many suspects and so little time that sometimes my head goes spinning just to make heads or tail of it. The victim is a senior partner in this big law firm. And the suspects are his other partners and also his two wives. The current sexy seductress Filipino wife and the discarded White ex-wife. Phew! Sadly, I found that Inspector Singh is very overbearing and insufferable this time, what with all the shouting and bullying of his subordinates particularly that nice Corporal Fong. He certainly is very much stressed out this time since one of the suspect turns out to be his distant cousin from New Delhi.

I guess it is the writer's trademark that the ending should be somewhat bitter sweet. The murderer has this Scarlett O'Hara thing going on where she swears that she'll 'lie, steal, cheat or kill' just so she won't be poor again. Dear me..so very sad.
Verdict: 5 stars

mysterious me..

No..I'm not at all mysterious. Grumpy, sarcastic, anti-social are more like it. This entry is about my other new reading challenge..mystery & suspense reading challenge 2011 by http://www.bookchiccity.com/.

so the challenge is:

- to read at least 12 mystery books this year (wah...so kacang).

These are the mystery books that I've read so far this year. 6 more to go..now if only I can get my hands on those No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series..they're so hard to find! I've been to Kinokuniya, MPH, Borders, Times..where are they? Sob..sob..

my new reading challenge

Since I've finished my Goodreads reading challenge, I've been searching for other reading challenge and reading other book blogs out there. Oooh apparently there's so many interesting book blogs out there with the same tastes as mine.

I've stumbled upon this reading challenge quite accidentally while trying to search for other Malaysian women who blog about books with my partner in crime ; nurul blueyes. (Sorry Nurul I've been sidetracked..hoho)Unfortunately not many Malaysian females blog about books. They're into cooking instead. Maybe Malaysian ladies are more ehem..traditional in their tastes.

My new reading challenge is:

to read at least 24 horror and urban fantasy this year courtesy of Book Chic City ..wohoo..
so here goes...so far I've read

some of them are courtesy of my kind sister. I have read other fantasy books but I'm not sure whether they fit in this urban fantasy/horror genre..have to check first. By the way check out the cool creepy vampire button for the challenge. Hehe..