I've been on a book slump for about a month now, so I'm already 1 book behind my Goodreads Book Challenge of 40 books for 2013. This is still after reading 2 books in a row: James Rollins' Black Order and Nyrae Dawn's Charade. At this rate, I think I'll go blind before reaching my goal. Sheesh. Makes me want to give awards to those who challenged themselves to reading at least 80 books in a year. I think I even saw one with 100.

To try to catch up, I breezed through The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro. It was a short read, though a bit slow for my taste. There were pages and pages about art techniques, artists, and materials used for painting that had me going "huh?" every few paragraphs. And the "love story", if you can even call it that, sounded forced. There wasn't substantial scenes or even thoughts from the characters before getting together that would make the love story believable. It just sorta happened. WTH? Oh well, it was my way of diversifying my reading genre list. Can't say I'll read another one just like it. Maybe if it was something like The Thomas Crown Affair...now that would be interesting to me.


I've also just finished, barely, Crash by Nicole Williams. What can I say? It was a so-so book. I had a few cringe moments and many times I've questioned the heroine's logic (or the lack thereof) and even sanity. Oh, to be 17...I don't think I'll even try to read the 2nd book of the series, Clash. Or maybe after a year? Hehe.

So, now I'm back to reading what I love most, adventure-suspense-action stories. And I'm picking up on the 4th installment of James Rollins' Sigma Force series, The Judas Strain. It's already gripping and I'm only in the first chapter! Ah...this is more like it.


With this, Goodreads said, I'm a book ahead of my 40-book challenge! Weee-hooo!

I'm not a drama addict (ok, not totally true). Alright, I'm an Asian drama fan. I've watched a lot of it over the years, albeit on and off, since Meteor Garden came out in the Philippines. But not that much to call me an addict. And about a year ago I discovered DramaCrazy.net (MySoju before that), an online site that hosts streaming Asian dramas (K-drama, J-drama, and Taiwanese dramas) and movies. IMHO, it was the best site of its kind out there. Hosting hundreds of English subbed dramas and movies for the whole world to enjoy

Here, in the Philippines, to get your drama fix, you'd have to endure a "tagalized" (dubbed in Tagalog) version of the drama. You'd have to contend with watching just 15 minutes of a 45-minute long episode, meaning 1 episode will take you at least 3 days to finish. And if that's not a pain in the butt, I don't know what is. Plus, I'm not the kind of person who can tolerate such obvious torture.

But now that DramaCrazy is gone, I need to find somewhere else to satisfy my drama cravings.