I haven’t been blogging for quite some time. Don’t need me to tell you that huh? Many things happened during my “away time”. I’m now in a new company, working as a developer this time. boy, It’s great to have hands on with code again! Python code in fact. I’m paid to code in Python! [...]

Last week my total is nine books. I’ve read another three books this week and therefore with great joy I announce that I’ve completed my 12 books target this year! Here are the three I devour this week:

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Last but not least, Marketing Yourself by Hermawan Kertajaya [...]

Keeping track of my 12 books for 2008 goal.
Up to this date I’ve read nine books and all of them are science fictions:

Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke (4/5)
Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov (3/5)
The Braided World by Key Kenyon (2/5)
The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C Clarke (4/5)
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (4/5)
Ender’s [...]

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
The Gods Themselves is my second Asimov book — the first being Robot Dreams which is a collection of short stories. The novel is an exceptional work of science fiction, one that combines multiple parallel universes with different physical laws.
The novel tells the story of the electron pump. [...]

Thou Art God
I just finished the last page of Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. It took me three weeks to grok this book and I absolutely love every page of it. I believe that Stranger is the best book I’ve read this year. A timeless science fiction masterpiece.
12+/2008 Update: Eight books [...]

A short 12+ Books for 2008 update. Last week I have finished another book, Speaker for The Dead by Orson Scott Card. The total is now seven books in three months. I’m way ahead of schedule.
Right now I’m reading my first Robert Heinlein novel, Stranger in a Strange Land.

One of the benefits of working in Ratu Plaza is that you can visit Kinokuniya Bookstore on lunch break every day. Yesterday during lunch break I went to Plaza Senayan to eat and pay my daily visit to Kinokuniya. Ritually, I walked directly to the science fiction section to see if something unique pops [...]

Here is my 12+ Books for 2008 Progress Update: Within this month I’ve finished another two science fiction novels, bringing the total to six books within three months.
The first one is Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. A combination of Hindu gods, Buddhism, science fiction, and epic fantasy at the same time. The setting is [...]

“when they looked out across the deeps of space they had felt awe, and wonder, and loneliness. As soon as they possessed the power, they set forth for the stars…”
— Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Chapter 37: Experiment)

Arthur C. Clarke, the visionary writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous With [...]

Okay, so I never posted a new year resolution for 2008. But I did make a mental note for one. That is: I will read 12 or more books (novels, non-fictions, comics not included) during 2008. At least one book for every month.
So far I’m ahead of schedule with four novels:

January: Childhood’s End by Arthur [...]