Only 3 Books in 2010

Twisted 8 1/2 by Jessica Zafra and Puppy Love by F. Sionil Jose

I was quite a failure in 2010 for not reading as much as I should.  I finished reading only three books.  The three I finished are Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, Twisted 8 1/2 by Jessica Zafra and Puppy Love and Thirteen Love Stories by F. Sionil Jose.

The other books I started reading but haven't finished yet are the following:

• Amarillo Slim's Biography In a World Full of Fat People
• CS Lewis' The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia, Full-Color Collector's Edition), the only book in the series that I haven't finished reading yet
• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. 

Currently Reading: F. Sionil Jose and Jessica Zafra

Beside my pillow are books by two of my favorite Filipino writers: the nosebleed- inducing F. Sionil Jose and the sarcastic Jessica Zafra.

I am reading a compilation of Jose's short stories entitled "Puppy Love and Thirteen Short Stories." The stories are hardly romantic and never cheesy. Rather, they provide a raw and sometimes grim picture of love and the lives of the people who love. The first story, Puppy Love, is my favorite one so far.

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The first-ever Jessica Zafra book I read was the second installment of Twisted. I was a senior in high school back then. And I got the book because my cousin gave it to me as a gift for Christmas. And I loved it. I read it over and over again. I eventually got to read the first installment and the four others in the series. I remember reading the entire fifth book in Powerbooks in SM Megamall. I was standing the entire time.

The Twisted series is actually compilations of her column entries on a national daily.