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Got tagged by Hwei Shan to do this quiz, but then i decided I wasn't going to, but Mars kind-of "insisted" that i do it, so here goes:

The Book Thing. Which Is Not Unlike The Music Thing.

Prose or poetry?
Prose. Am so not a poetic person, or one to really appreciate it.

Book(s) you're reading now
Erm, Hotel Babylon by Imogen Edward-Jones (What kind of name is Imogen?!) and Anonymous
And ______ (I forgot the book title, don't ask me how, the book is somewhere on my room floor) by Elizabeth Berg

Last book(s) you read
Again, Hotel Babylon by Imogen Edward-Jones (What kind of name is Imogen?!) and Anonymous. I juz finished it, like now. It's a bit of a "Day in the life of Anonymous", who is a hotel manager in one of the 5-star hotels in Mayfair. I like it, cuz I SO identify with some of the incidences and terms used in the book.

Next book(s) you're going to buy /read
Magazines doesn't really count right? I'm not sure if it is the next book, but FOR SURE, i am going to read it, I've been waiting for it for ages. It's Phyllis Reynold Naylor's Alice On Her Way.
Other than that, maybe Sophie Kinsella's Undomestic Goddess and Sarah Mason's new book.

Book you've read the most times
This is easy. It is Jane Green's Bookends. This book has been by my bed, or rather on my bed since I bought it after my block test when I was in J1. The first (of the two) books that made me cry. And laugh out loud. The best Chick-Lit book I've ever read.
The other book lying on my bed is Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Ree's The Boy Next Door, for the "awww" and feel-goodness before i sleep.

Longest book you've read
From cover to cover, it would be Essentials of Services Marketing: Concepts, Strategies and Cases by Hoffman and Bateson. It was my textbook, and the required reading was the whole textbook, and I was very guai. I read through the whole textbook. :)

One book that you wanted to read that disappointed you
Spellbound or the US title, To Have and To Hold, by Jane Green too. Think she've been spending too much time taking care of kids and her garden. Her books after Bookends and Babyville are just, not so good. Thank god I did not pay full price for the hard back at WHSmith.

Have you read books in a language different from yours?
I read the abridged version of Jia by XX (Shit, I can't believe i forgot his name. Is it Lu Xun??). It was one of those required reading for Chinese test, and probably the only one that i really enjoyed. Ooh... also this Taiwanese author Zhu Xiu Juan's books. Nu Qiang Ren and ______ (I forgot the 2nd title that I read already!!! I was only sec 3 then!!)

In a language really really different?? I've read a German issue of Glamour. Not read read, but u know, try to read the words u know and decipher what the hell the article is about?? It's technically not a book, but it is bound like a book, so still a book yeah???

Writer you've read the most books from
Freya North. Read every single book of hers!!! Ooh, Does TinTin count too?? I've read every single Tin Tin book too!!

Some books you like (not necessarily your favourites)
The whole Spot series, as in, u know, Spot the dog?? (Yes, i'm a kid, so what? Sue me)
The entire Tin Tin Series.
The still-being-completed Alice series (by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor! I'll be 34 by the time she finishes the entire series!!)
Roald Dahl's Boy
Pip by Freya North
Poppy by Freya North too.
One Hit Wonder by Lisa Jewell
Sarah Mason's 2nd book, forgot the title.
Sara Caspian's One Hit Wonder
Flying off Course by Rigas Doganis (a brilliant analysis of the aviation industry)
Global Airlines by Pat Hanlon (ditto above)
Organisational Behaviour by Stephen P. Robbins (yes, i like this book, cuz it's the most readable OB text in the sea of un-readable OB text in the world)
Michael Crichton's Airframe
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (I hated this book in sec 2, loved it after that)
JB Priestly's An Inspector Calls
Jon Scieszka's The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (one of the best book's I've read, juz because it is SO me)

3 books you don't like
Buchanan, D. and Huczynski, A. (2004) Organisational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction, 5ed., Harlow, Essex: FT-Prentice Hall (The most un-readable OB text in this planet)
Hmm... I dun really have books i dun like... Cuz I don't start reading books that i dun like, and if i don't like the book, I always try to forget that i've read a book i dun like.

3 people who should take this survey
Eh, i dunno leh. Mars and Shan has already taken it. KT? The lurkers?? Corinne?? Rena?