The Filipino ReaderCon 2012 Filipino Friday 2: School of Reading
Filipino Friday is a meme in celebration of the upcoming Filipino Reader Conference. And here’s this week’s topic (no time for a lengthy introduction this time): July…
Read articleAfter the Bad Weather
I resolved not to buy any books until I move out, but I just can’t help dropping by book stores for two weeks. It’s like having…
Read articleBeautiful, Beautiful Memories – After the Birthday Party
This is a surprise. I didn’t consider adding our little book of memories here at Goodreads. Yes, I said “our” because this is not my work.…
Read articleTFG’s Book of the Month for June – The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
This post, again, is way too late, but as I mentioned before, I don’t intend to make these posts on time. For what reason, you might…
Read articleWhat I Did Not Read
I’ve been on a sort of reading hiatus but it’s not something that I did consciously. I haven’t really read for a whole week, and now…
Read articleThe Filipino ReaderCon 2012 Filipino Friday 1: Introductions
Filipino Friday is back! This is a meme that surfaces every time the Filipino Reader Conference activities are commenced. Of course, I’m joining. I remember last…
Read articleOf Greatness and Dignity – The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
March 2012. The attendees of our book club’s book discussion voted for the book that we’ll be discussing on July 2012. The nominees were The Color…
Read articleCramming
It’s already the middle of July and darn it, I’ve only been able to finish one book from my set of July books! This is a…
Read articleThe Fame Monster – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Blast the media for making me think all these years that Frankenstein is a horror story. True, it was intended by the author to be a…
Read article1984 Revisited – Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
A lot of my bookish friends consider me a serious reader, and I only shrug my shoulders at that. I don’t think David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro,…
Read articleThe Affairs of Jane Eyre – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is the first book that I read for The Classics Club, an online group where each member sets a significant number of classics that…
Read articleRemember your math teacher? – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Who is Olive Kitteridge? I imagined Olive as young woman when I first looked at my yellow edition. Call me weird, and I know I am,…
Read articleReading, and then Rereading
This is another slow week for me. I actually thought of ditching all the books that I have planned to read for this month. But don’t…
Read articleThe Crane, the Locust, and the Bat – Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Well, what do we have here? It’s the début novel of my favorite living writer. And do I need to mention the name? I think it’s…
Read articleCompleting another novelist, and then some random stuff
June 28, 2012: Book Sale – SM Mall of Asia To the Ends of the Earth by William Golding (Php 75.00) – This is a trilogy,…
Read articleBooks To Read: July 2012
The month just started and it’s not promising me much in terms of comfort so what I did to lessen the stress is to make whimsical…
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