Working from home

In tattered t-shirt. Shorts. Rain outside. My bed a foot away. Much needed 'break'. Have a good Tuesday! :)

Monday Read Lusts

Woke up to another rainy Monday morning! I braved the storm in my cozy San Francisco hoodie & red bow shoes. I read the news with a steaming cup of chocolate coffee. Then the AC broke down. Again. The room was so hot we had to work without lights to cool off. The next thing I know there was smoke everywhere and people were rushing to the door. What a day. The only good thing is that there was no traffic - I was home in 30 minutes flat. And of course, your Monday dose of links! Read on :)

Your favorite paperback as a piece of jewelry, perhaps?

Saves you a lot of bookshelf space!

If Thumbelina & Tom Thumb was real they'd read this.

Making the world a better place one payphone booth at a time.

Not joining the e-reader bandwagon? Read this.

I updated my About page! Have a look if you have time to spare and visit my other corners in cyberworld. I also added the 'You might also like' widget. Don't forget to check 'em out!

Been uninspired lately. I think the rain has got something to do with this.



Sorry for the rant.

Happy reading :)

Come fly away

I get fascinated by the most random things/persons sometimes. It could be sparked in a split second - read somewhere, heard somewhere, saw somewhere - then I forget it until something comes up.

This is overdue but I wanna do something for Amelia Earhart's 115th birthday (July 24th, thank you for the memo, Google!). Amelia Earhart was one of the first women to fly a plane in the 1930s. She lived with determination and strength, especially being a woman in that era. Though women were beginning to have their way by that time, still she had to prove herself. She mysteriously disappeared after attempting to fly around the world in 1937. No one knew what really happened until now - some theories claimed that she was cast away on an island where she eventually died.

Who would've thought such a fragile woman could fly a a plane by herself? Photo from National Archives.

Earhart wrote books and there are books written about her.

Monday Read lusts

On Sunday morning I woke up to the sound of rain, to the warm hue of my room tinted by peach curtains, I reached for Age of Innocence on my bedside table, and thank the heavens for the simple pleasure of spending my morning bundled up in my bed without the urgency to move. I feel I could stretch the morning into days.


Makes it harder to get up on Monday mornings, right?

Read away your Monday blues with these...

Found this charming blog by a bookseller who finds the most interesting bookmarks -from vintage ephemera, tickets, black and white photographs to mundane grocery lists.

Staying in with a good book? How about reading outdoors in a book-vineyard?

Does this mean I'm a book snob because I don't read out of my comfort genre?

Ever wished fictional bookworms weren't so fictional? Peek at their reading list!

Happy reading :)

And then I saw this..

Lucas Scott's reading list, I literally squealed!

The Winter Of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

PS. I first knew about Great Gatsby from him years ago!

Find out other fictional characters' reading list on Flavorwire.