My Maid Invests in the Stock Market

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I just read Bo Sanchez's My Maid Invests in the Stock Market and I cannot help but agree on everything, well almost everything, he said in the book. It's very hard indeed to say "no, sorry, I don't have spare cash", when someone we know needs monetary help. And that's the last we see of our hard-earned money because they either don't have any plans of paying it or worse they get angry when we tell them we need the money already.

We don't all own a very successful business, like a food cart business which is very in-demand right now. So if you want to learn one way of protecting your hard-earned money  and have more funds for your retirement, grab a copy of the book mentioned above. A free ebook version is available at citiseconline.com.

Farewell, Harry Potter!

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So I’m down to my last few chapters of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book. I might read The Hunger Games next or the Percy Jackson books, but I’m 100% sure that I’m going to read Harry Potter again, for the third time!, though not in the coming months. I have to let my brain forget the story first before reading it again.

I’ve also watched the Harry Potter movies, not the 8th though since I’m not yet done with the book, and I feel like tweeting or posting a status on my facebook, of my disappointment, everytime a scene that’s totally different from the book is shown. Cho didn’t tell Umbridge about Dumbledore’s Army. And Harry wasn’t “Harry” when he attended Bill and Fleur’s wedding, he drank polyjuice potion to disguise as another boy. And Neville didn’t give the gilliweed to Harry, during the Tri-Wizard Competition, it was Dobby. 

I love the book more than the movie. Although it helped put a face on the character of the books. I was disappointed though when I found out that Robert Pattinson played the part of Cedric Diggory. Cedric was described as probably the most handsome character in the book and I don’t think the actor who played Edward in the Twilight series is handsome, not at all.

The Hunger Games

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I first heard about this book, The Hunger Games trilogy, on twitter. It was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008 and a The New York Times "Notable Children's Book of 2008".

The Hunger Games, the first book of The Hunger Games trilogy, is a novel written by Suzanne Collins. First published in 2008, the book is about sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where the countries of North America once existed. In the book, the Hunger Games is an event held annually where one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts surrounding the Capitol, the central city, are selected to compete in a televised battle in which only one person can survive.

Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, said, "I was so obsessed with this book....The Hunger Games is amazing."

Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, said, "closest thing to a perfect adventure novel."

Stephen King compared it to "shoot-it-if-it-moves videogames in the lobby of the local eightplex; you know it's not real, but you keep plugging in quarters anyway." He gave the book an overall B grade.

Just got an ebook copy, will put it on my iBooks right about now…

Have you read the book? Is it included in your “must read” list? Why or why not?