My Book Party

I learnt about this book from the US Weekly Magazine that I just read. Jenny McCarthy (some celebrity I don't know) reportedly says this is a page turner.  I wonder why a single banana was used on the cover and why was the banana encrusted with diamonds?  Anyone knows if the cover image carries special meaning to the story of the book?  If you have read this book, please feel free to share your opinion with me in the following comment area.  

My interest in any particular book only lasts for the  few minutes when I hold it to admire the cover.  This is yet another brand new, unread book that I just fished out of a moving box that I should have unpacked long time ago....  I don't know how long it will take me to finally clear out this one moving box...I bought this book because I literally wanted to learn how to sew a button.  I still don't know how because I haven't had the time to get to the chapter where it will teach me how.  My grandma once said I would be among the first to die if there were a war...She blamed my mom for never teaching me the very basic domestic skills.  I guess this is why a lot of the mothers-in-law don't get along with the daughters-in-law.  To save my mother from more future blame,  I wanted to show my grandma that I at least knew how to sew a button...This desire has stayed on my to-do list for a very long time.  Sorry, mom, my will power is just not ...

I have no idea who's Teresa so I have no interest in reading her cover story in this magazine.  I haven't had a TV since I started college so I've lost track of who is who on TV.  I do know who LeAnn Rhimes is because I love one of her songs, "How Do I Live"   I didn't read her story either because I have very short attention for everything.  I went straight to the recipes and I like to read about the books showcased in this issue. I'm not a cook and I'm not an avid reader of any books. But I like to look at mouth watering food photos to hope that  I will get inspired enough to start cooking.  I also like to be aware of the latest fictions out there.  I just love to see the pretty book covers and I enjoy reading their short synopsis. Now that I'm done reading this magazine, I would like to make space on my bookshelf.  I'm listing it for sale at $0.01 on my Bookshelf Clearance page.

This is another cookbook that I bought when I moved out of my college dorm to live off-campus.  I never read it, never cooked any of the recipes in this book.  I bought this book from the bookstore out of my euphoria of being free in an apartment off campus.  I later moved back to the dorm when I realized  that I preferred to have a tiny dorm room all to myself instead of sharing an apartment with a roommate.  I also loved the fact that the cafeteria was only an elevator ride away.  I thought I would learn how to cook by living off campus. The reality was, there was one tiny kitchen in one tiny apartment that I had to share with my roommate who never cleaned up after she cooked.  My roommate had actually taken complete ownership of that tiny kitchen because she cooked all the time and she just left behind her dirty pots and dishes. The sink was always filled with dirty dishes.  I lost my interest and motivation to try cooking when I walked into...

This is another book I found when I visited one of my moving boxes this morning.  This book is in brand new condition and was never opened. It shocks me that I bought it because I don't remember when or why.  I just started reading while having my morning coffee.  I'm not much a reader and yet I bought this book.  Was I possessed? If you are planning on reading this book soon, skip the first 28 pages because you won't learn anything from these pages.  If you've read this book, please feel free to share your opinion in the comment area below.    

I bought this glossy cookbook when I moved out of the dorm in college. I had never read it because I didn't cook like I planned to.  I was so overwhelmed with studying and working that I kept eating at the college cafeteria and ordering Chinese takeout...I still am not cooking at all because I continue to depend on takeouts now... I feel too overwhelmed to cook and I find that I wasted a lot more money on shopping for grocery that went spoiled.  Restaurant takeout costs me about $10/day for both lunch and dinner. (I order meals that include veggies as often as I can.) This $10 however  doesn't include the $0.59 I spend on every navalorange that I try to eat everyday. I guess it will cost me  more if I am to make my own Paninis at home? While I never tried out the recipes in this book, you are welcome to share your opinion on this book in the comment area below if you have tried some of its recipes.  Or if you want to get a copy of this hardcover for $1....

I bought the book brand new back in 2009 for $27.00 (with taxes) from Borders (the bookstore where I hanged most of the time).  I bought it at the time because my friends were talking about signing up on Twitter and when I saw this book, I was planning to learn about what made Twitter anymore special than Myspace & Facebook where I was an extremely active user back then.  But lots of things happened in life to keep me so busy that I literally abandoned my accounts on both Facebook & Myspace; and I just never read this book or had the time to sign up on Twitter until now. Recently I've been starting to open up my moving boxes that I had ignored since I moved to this town few years ago... I can't believe it's been years and I haven't completely unpacked yet. I found this book in one of the boxes filled with books, I started reading and I also signed up for Twitter. Now I had finished reading this book, I'd like to get rid of it to make space.  If ...

Free copies of Time magazine are some of the perks I receive in my commoner life. I get them merely from networking.  I guess it's sometimes true that it's not about how hard you work for something but who you know.  My friend's mom always brought home Time magazines that her employer no longer wanted. As my friend got busier and busier in school and at work, she no longer was able to keep up with the magazines her mom got from her boss who also never got the time to read all the free magazines she received...  One day I discovered that the recycling bin in my friend's garage was filled up with unread glossy magazines, so I asked to have them.  Since then, my friend's mom has been diligently saving the magazines for me to pick up.  I was never a subscriber of Time because I'm only interested in reading fashion magazines.  But now that I got them for free, I'm starting to enjoy reading them.  I don't read every page, I just read the articles that c...