books.

googled "top 100 books" and ran into lists c/o time, random house, bbc and the guardian unlimited. cool!

my list (again, in no particular order, read over and over, in bed, the beach, the plane, the train; whoever pops into my brain)

1. a separate peace, john knowles
2. to kill a mockingbird, harper lee
3. the bell jar, sylvia plath
4. gone with the wind, margaret mitchell
5. the kiss, kathryn harrison
6. jane eyre, charlotte bronte
7. the age of innocence, edith wharton
8. anna karenina, leo tolstoy
9. time traveler's wife, audrey niffenegger
10. little women, louisa may alcott
11. the silmarillion, JRR tolkien
12. emily, l.m. montgomery
13. the romantic movement, alain de botton
14. lovely bones, alice sebold (wait how come it's not on the shelf...)
15. angela's ashes, frank mccourt
16. the godfather, mario puzo
17. tale of murasaki, liza dalby
18. memoirs of a geisha, arthur golden
19. dracula, bram stoker
20. dear america: letters home from vietnam
21. a many-splendored thing, han suyin
22. piece of my heart, keith walker
23. nicholas and alexandra, robert k. massie
24. the bourne identity, robert ludlum
25. the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck

as for my secret shame list
1. zoya, danielle steel
2. wrong-way romance (sweet dreams # 176) - which, i just found out, got 5 stars out of 9 reviews on amazon.com
3. princess daisy - judith krantz
4. till we meet again - judith krantz
5. i'll take manhattan - judith krantz (shiyet nababasyo ako)
6. mistral's daughter - judith krantz (lintik why did we garage sale these dudes now i wanna read them again)

...i hope i didn't miss anyone...

oh! recently read KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL and it was so cool! i couldn't put it down, and i'm not even a foodie.

that's one thing i realized, reading the book. admittedly i have my favorite food groups (gummi bears, otsumami, cereal, chocolate, pan de regla) but food is more like fuel to me than anything else (except i guess when i'm moody)...kung gutom na ako pero wala pang handa, kahit ano lalamunin ko muna to tide me over.

my sister, the official foodie in the family, was in shock when i said it out loud.

i guess that's why i do the dishes...