More Books

OK. I know, i know. I am short of time for reading and yet I simply couldn't stop my habit of buying more books especially when they are on bargain price. Regardless of hardcover or paperback, buy 1 for $8.00, buy 5 for $35.00. How can one resist such a good offer ?

So, that was it. I bought 5 books for myself, and 2 for my incredible. The five are :

The Hour I First Believed: A Novel (Hardcover)
Author : Willy Lamb
Publisher: Harper; Stated First Edition edition (November 11, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-0060393496
(A pretty thick book that I can use to knock someone down.)

The Anthologist: A Novel (Hardcover)
Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition (September 8, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1416572442

To Terra...Volume 1,2,3(Paperback)
by Manga Artist, Keiko Takemiya
Publisher: Vertical (2007)



This is my first time buying manga in English language. I know about this manga quite a while ago. Unfortunately, there is no Chinese translation for it. I'm lucky to have found the books. My next target will be her second manga, also in English, Andromeda Stories.

The plot of  To Terra : After seeing how uncontrolled humanity wrecked Earth, survivors form the Superior Domination and decide to move to other planets and improve on nature: henceforth, all children will be computer-designed for rationality, then purged of all memories at puberty so they can be supervised by a "mother" machine. Sometimes, however, testing discovers that the child is a Mu, a hyperemotional and uncontrollable telepath, who are driven underground by the S.D. Having been raised as a normal boy, 14-year-old Jomy desperately resists contact by the Mu, especially the news that he is an exceptionally powerful latent telepath who is destined to lead the Mu back to Terra. Meanwhile, cold-blooded Keith is rising in the ranks of the military forces designed to keep a rejuvenated Earth clean of Mu contamination.  So their journey begins.