Pretty Little Liars

I finally finished the series. I finally did it!

bought the fourth arc (book 13-16) back in 2016. 

Crushed, Deadly, Toxic, and Vicious.

took me forever to start (Four years to be exact) and when I finally started back in March 2020, I only read book 13 on the weekends whilst I was doing my laundry.

and I think I stopped somewhere in between and began again in Jun 2020 till I finished and then continue to finish the other 3 books by 3rd Jul 2020. Wow. even I find it crazy!

If I accumulate those times/days, I finished 4 books in a month! dammmmmm #readingisfun

and the ending? a bit weak. 

but you gotta give it to Sara Shepard, applause for producing them 16 books. 👏👏👏

I don't know why it took me F.O.R.E.V.E.R. to finish this series. They're the type of books that are just easy to read. I love it! but yeah, that ending, a tat bit weak. I guess you gotta give them a happy ending considering what hell they been through, right?

Look at them. So satisfying.

it's satisfying to finally see them books together in a section.

Last time, Arc 4 was put at a different section.

see how lonely.

Is it me or is it normal to not have a complete, same cover, book series? coz with this series, I have two outsider covers.

Book 1

the copy that started it all.

and

Book 8

Book 8 cover was probably released when the series was made into TV show and got famous.

I still have one more book to read of this series, Pretty Little Secrets.

I bought it probably back in 2013. its the companion book kinda thing. 

There's another one I just find out exist while reading Arc 4. At the 'by Sara Shepard' page it says, there's another companion book called Ali's Pretty Little Lies.

🙄

being the 'I must collect them all' kinda person, I need to have this book too. OR I could just download a pdf version. (I learned that book is being pdf while I was Googling for the cover)

Nice color! (Shawol anyone?)

Nyeh.

It'll probably take me another 4 years to read it once I get my hands on it.

Oh wait! it says on the cover its a Prequel? Now I gotta have it! maybe when this pandemic is over and we can finally fly again, I'll head straight to Kinokuniya and find it!

or maybe not. 

I need to move on and let this - BUT I need this collection to be complete!

argh! WHY

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Starry Night

Suho released his 1st mini album, Self-Portrait, on 30th Mar 2020.

and it made remember why I appreciate his vocal. Please be reminded that he was in musical theater production before. To me, being in a musical theater production proves you have a vocal prowess.

anyhoo, 

in his album, there's a song with the title Starry Night.

I'm freaking out becoz I was starting with my Pretty Little Liars again, the first book from the fourth and final arch, Crushed, and I just finished the chapter (spoiler alert!!) where Aria stole the Starry night painting. like! *GASPPPPPPP what a coincident!

but after that I was like, "nyeh"

ANOTHER coincidence! I had my music playing on my phone at that time and the next few song after Suho's Starry Night was BoA's Starry Night. and I thought, "Whats with SM and Starry Night eh?"

and then much much later, 
came Onew's 밤과 별의 노래 (Starry Night), from SM Station released, a duet with Lee Jin Ah.

like, whaaaaaaaaa

hahaha I don't know I'm making such a big deal out of this but I guess I'm a true 00s kid who grew up watching MTV. There was once a set where they played 3 videos back to back becoz all three videos have one thing in common. eg: Laundry machine place. and this is exactly what I'm doing right now: 3 songs with similar title. all under SM Ent. LOL

but I was mostly excited about that crazy coincidence between Suho's Starry Night and PrettyLittleLiar's Crushed.

to end, here's the three song mentioned:

Suho - Starry night



BoA - Starry Night



Onew and Lee Jin Ah - 밤과 별의 노래 (Starry Night)




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Hello

I am running out of things to post.

Seriously.

Bulan puasa or Ramadhan is coming and I can't wait! 

but that would also mean spring-clean is in order before Hari Raya comes. *mata ke atas*

My baju raya (plural) are ready since end of April. muahahah Belum ambil from the tailor ja :P

erm...what else?

SMTown LIVE is coming back! Starts in July in Seoul, Korea and I'm like, "but I'm saving money for my trip to Seoul in Nov/Dec 2017" (¬_¬)

Speaking of Seoul, yes. I did plan on going in Nov/Dec 2017 BUT itu baru plan. Alum confirm lagi. Coz I'm still torn. Japan again or go Korea next? ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

I'm hungry right now.

I should eat.

Oh! I've started reading again. Reading real physical book! Currently reading the second book of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: Hollow City. 
an interesting read lah. In all honesty, I find the 'wording' boring but the storyline is very intriguing! that is why I'm still reading it. besides, I bought all three books (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Hollow City, and Library of Souls) and it's an obligation for me to read them all.

in fact, I bought tons of new books when I was in Singapore. 

oh! I complete my Pretty Little Liars collection too! Book 13 to 16! THANK YOU KINOKUNIYA!
that bookstore never disappoint.

here's a picture to end this post

Look at the first two books; actually a Harry Potter journals that I stumbled upon as I walked around Kinokuniya bookstore. 

like I said, that bookstore never disappoint.

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the obligatory book nerd

So, i mentioned in the previous post that I hate book series but feel like i have the obligation to read ALL of the series.

one example;
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard.

 my first copy

When I started with the first book, Pretty Little Liars, I didn't know that it was actually a series book until I went to the bookstore again and found that there are 2 more books related to the first one. Aku beli those two books and after that, I was hooked.

 the rest of the PLL books that I owned

I finished book 12, Burned sometime last year (I think) and found out that book 13, Crushed was already out and book 16, Vicious is coming out soon (Dec 12th 2014).

there was long pause in reading between 'arcs' for me (Sara Shepard made the book in arcs; arc 1 [book 1-4], arc 2 [book 5-8], arc 3 [book 9-12] and arc 4 [book 13-16] ) and currently I am up till arc 3. 

 arc 1 [book 1-4]

 arc 2 [book 5-8]

 arc 3 [book 9-12] 

and 

 arc 4 [book 13-16].

I haven't seen any of the three-already-out arc 4 books being sold here in Brunei. 

my pauses between arc 1 and 2 was because I have to fly to KL (not really) to find the books for arc 2. then the pauses between acr 2 with arc 3 was because I contemplated whether or not to continue reading this series which of course I ended up reading them. Now, I'm in agony of wanting to read the fourth arc. four books total. already in my list of books to buy in Singapore. ada ku cari di KL last September but didn't find them plus the sells person in that book store sucks (not even trying to be polite coz they didn't too).

So, now, I hope they have it at Kinokuniya bookstore in Singapore. I remembered last two years I went there, the sells person was VERY helpful. Expecting the same service from them next year. 


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Reading is Fun

books I've read so far.

p/s: Jobless people is Jobless.

Yay..Finito

I finished reading Unbelievable.

like, FINALLY.

hahaha

and now, aku sedang meng-continue mbca Wicked.

hwaiting.  

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Yay me!

remember that time, back in 2009/10 I said that i'm gonna try and finish reading the books that I bought over the years but never got the time (or sebenarnya malas sja xP) to read them?

well guess what?

I hadn't really made any real progress since that post.

Until last March, aku banar2 mau bali Pretty Little Liars: Unbelievable.

tapi since buku atu abis stock dBrunei ani (even check smpi kMiri pun nada), I guess ada reason lah dsebaliknya.

and the reason being this: I told myself that if I didn't finish reading all the books that i bought, I will not allow myself to buy any new ones.

So, untuk menyanangkn hati ku yg sedih ani, I decided, habis kn sja tia buku2 yg alum bebaca ani then after that, if kan bali smua Pretty Little Liars punya series skali gos pun, mana saja tah.. ahahaha

thus, recently, I finished reading 3 books.

tada! *self applause*

and I have 8 more to go. 

I feel like I've made an excellent progress with this. heh heh heh

until I cheated myself. 

-___-

if you read the previous2 post, I bought four Pretty Little Liars books in KL. and I'm gona read that one first before I continue reading the remaining eight. ahahaha xP

Gambatte? xD

p/s: the reason why it took me forever to finish both Flawless and Perfect is because I was busy rereading my Harry Potter series. ahahaha bukn apa, the first time aku bca HP series, aku bca buku library. So, when aku sendiri bali the buku, aku rasa, aku mesti bca lagi balik. Just, so, you know, aku bca buku yg ku bali atu. ahahaha

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