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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs - Book Review

Author: Ransom Riggs Title: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Place Published: Philadelphia, USA Publisher: Quirk Books Year Published: 2011 No. of Pages: 348 Price: US$9.99 Place Bought: Fully Booked, Greenhills Promenade One of my greatest joys as a reader is buying a book solely based on it's front and back cover--on a whim that it'll be an awesome read--and realizing in the end that I was right. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children , a young adult novel written by writer and filmmaker Ransom Riggs, is one such book. His novel tells the story of Jacob, a sixteen-year-old who travels to an island off the coast of Wales, in search of the orphanage his Grandpa Portman grew up in. He is looking for closure, for answers about his grandfather's storied past, and whether or not his unbelievable stories are true. Jacob finds the orphanage lying in ruins. His search leads him to a collection of old photographs of the children his grandfathe

My 2014 Reading List and Why I Chose It

Happy New Year, everyone! I just read a bunch of 2014 reading lists by other Filipino book bloggers, so I've decided to make my own. Here just 10 of the books I want to read by the end of the year: Me and my moldy hardbound copy of 1Q84 :) 1. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami I'm almost finished reading the first of three parts. I will finish reading the whole novel this year (Maybe this month, even), I promise! 2. It by Stephen King Another book I've had since forever, and really want to read, but have not read entirely yet. 3. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell I bought a copy of this from Fully Booked last December. Everyone seems to love it. I hope I will too. 4. The Lord of the Rings  trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien The first several times I tried reading The Fellowship of the Ring , I found it really boring [I'm sorry!]. I plan to have another go at it this year. 5. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin I've read half of this book. Then, I s