Books I’ve been reading

For the past year I’ve been using this blog mainly as a repository of my boxing/MMA articles for 8CountNews.com, instead of my personal blog posts. Since I’ve been working on another blog that will focus mainly on boxing and MMA, Manic Spurt will now revert back to being a personal blog.

A couple of years ago, I decided to jack up the number of books I’ve been reading and I promised myself to try my best to read at least one book a week. In 2008 I was able to finish reading a total of 42 books. In 2009, the number substantially went down to 22. This year and in last month alone I was able to finish three books, which is not a bad start at all. This 2010, I’ll try my best to beat the record I set in 2008.

Here are the books that I was able to finish reading in the last couple of years:

2008
1. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
2. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
4. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
5. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
6. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
7. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
8. Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
9. The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
10. Salamanca by Dean Francis Alfar
11. Killing Time in a Warm Place by Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.
12. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
13. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
14. House of Meetings by Martin Amis
15. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
16. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
17. Problems and Other Stories by John Updike
18. Bangkok Eight by John Burdett
19. Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
20. Love in the Time of the Camera by Simeon Dumdum Jr.
21. The Builder by Edith L. Tiempo
22. Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett
23. Death Bite by Michael Maryk and Brent Monahan
24. Malinche by Laura Esquivel
25. Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett
26. Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
27. Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin
28. How to Write a Damn Good Novel by James Frey
29. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
30. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
31. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
32. An Anthology on the Eraserheads edited by Ces Rodriguez
33. Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith
34. Burmese Days by George Orwell
35. Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
36. Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
37. Stalin’s Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith
38. E by Matt Beaumont
39. The E before Christmas by Matt Beaumont
40. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
41. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
41. My Pledge of Love Cannot be Broken by Simeon Dumdum
42. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

2009
1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
3. Guerra by Jason Webster
4. Sinatraland by Sam Kashner
5. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
6. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
7. The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
8. Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
9. Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
10. Soledad’s Sister by Jose Dalisay Jr.
11. Collected Essays by George Orwell
12. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
13. MacArthur by Bob Ong
14. Kapitan Sino by Bob Ong
15. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
16. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
17. Finnegan’s Week by Joseph Wambaugh
18. When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
19. Glengarry Glenn Ross by David Mahmet
20. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
21. The El Bimbo Variations by Adam David
22. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

Books I’ve read so far in 2010
1. We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
2. ABNKKBSNPLAKO by Bob Ong
3. Twisted 8 1/2 by Jessica Zafra

What would the world be without books?

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