• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larson
  • Not quite as good as the first two, but that was to be expected because all the action is over by this book and they get into all the politics. But still, a very satisfying and still exciting conclusion to the trilogy. Yay for happy endings!
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  • Haunting is the word I would choose to describe it. I have a whole rant on Murakami's insights into his characters that has been knocking around in my head since I read this, but I don't really feel like typing it all out. Anyway, a very good book - and also one that still inspires this burning of... emptiness. A conclusion that comes with life, not in a novel.
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Uhhh. To sum up what I think of this... well lets just say, Disney could make a movie out of it. Way too perfect ending and predictable and buttery whimsy. I expected more out of this guy, but this was his FIRST novel afterall... :P
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • A modern classic right? This book was okay - I think I just didn't understand the deeper parts of it although I got all the story. Um, thank god this edition had the 21st chapter, because without that I would've really hated this book.
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
  • Surprisingly, I liked every book in this series a lot except The Horse and His Boy and The Final Battle. Seriously, every other book was a interesting and uplifting little fairytale, if you don't mind the religious undertones (or in-your-face tones depending on how much you care -w-) This is the first time that I read the rest of them aside from The Magician's Nephew and the good old lionwitchwardrobe. Ironic that the only other two I read in my childhood (and barely remembered, so I reread) were the two that I liked the least. The only thing I remembered about them was that I disliked them. I guess my childhood taste and current taste haven't changed much :P
• 1776 by David McCullough

mmm well it's basically a history book... but it was interesting. a whole other look into what happened in 1776 rather than the usual public viewpoint of washington went, he saw, he kicked asses of lazy british on a holiday.