book worm

while in hybernation since beginning of the week, i've been reading like crazy.

i'm choosing to go fiction now... and awarded, if possible.

just over a span of less than a week, i finished these books:

the first is by nobel peace prize for lit winner, toni morrison. title: tar baby.

i understand why she won the award. extremely poetic, very unusual, gripping, unpredictable way of writing. i really can't explain it :)

here's one of the first lines that caught my eye in the book:

"...clouds and fish were convinced that the sea-green green of the sea and the sky-blue sky of the sky were no longer permanent..."

second book is this. probably one of the most intelligent and quirky books i've ever read.

it's about a secretly smart concierge and a secretly smart 9-year-old in a posh apartment building in paris. they both have a secret fascination over all things japanese. how cool is that?

third book: siddharta. also written by a nobel-peace prize winner.

wow, an extremely spiritual eastern tale written by a western in the 1920's. still so relevant today. i think i'll give this to twinpopbro :)

yun lang. enjoy singapore!

onto my next book...