February 2012
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January 2012
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Man I Wish I Wrote This Monday: Annie Dillard on...
The way Annie Dillard described her childhood is the way I’d like to describe mine:
“It’s about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she’s living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of the senses, in love with beauty and power, oblivious of herself, and then suddenly, bingo, she wakes up and feels herself alive. She notices her own...
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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What I'm Reading-Wednesday: A Lover's Discourse by...
This is a powerful book. Of all the philosophical graffiti written on the backs of bathrooms doors when I was in college, my favorite was a simple survey: Are you in love or in love with the idea of love? Most people chose the latter. Barthes tackles the depth and breadth of the idea of love, in all its agony and ecstasy. There are meditations on waiting, on jealousy, on how love at first sight...
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September 2011
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Show and Tell Sunday: My Bookfair Haul
This year, I went local and bought the following:
Selected Poems by Merlie M. Alunan
Mga Prodigal by Luna Sicat Cleto
The True and the Plain by Kerima Polotan
The Knowing is in The Writing by Butch Dalisay
Jungle Planet and Other Stories by Lakambini Sitoy
Pagsiping sa Lupain by Roberto T. Añonuevo
Mga Tambay sa Tabi-Tabi illustrated by INK
All of this for less than a thousand pesos! I...
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August 2011
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Man I Wish I Wrote This Monday: Tree Of Codes
Among the many gifts I got on my birthday, this one’s my favorite. I captured some of the pages I liked best, taking this sculptural work to a personal level, to describe exactly how I feel most days — as though hours and minutes and seconds are never enough — because there is so much to do and so much more I want to do; an endless string of days when I feel it isn’t enough...
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This is a great place for reading Thursday: Morong, Bataan
A great part of my childhood was spent at this quiet beach in Morong, Bataan. My dad spent a lot of time reading, sketching and painting here, and I often tagged along. I even helped plant and take care of some of the coconut trees. This is where I wrote my first poem (dedicated to a dragonfly that lost its head because of me). On...
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That insight. And why we shouldn't skip the...
“Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can use to refract human experience. That one can write about it brings him, if not deeper understanding, some kind of peace. In other words, the writer is first a human being, before he is anything else, prone, like much of mankind, to fits of joy and pain. What happens to those around...
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THE BEST 100 OPENING LINES FROM BOOKS →
Thought it’ll be nice to share this to all booklovers :)
”The Stylist book shelf to put together our 100 best - and, in some cases, the most iconic - first lines from some of our favourite works of literature. From classics such as Little Women and Emma and landmark novels such as Virgina Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own through to modern day works including Harry...
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I’ve said this so many times before: good books, the ones that make a mark on me, make me want to do things. This book of thank you notes makes me want to be more observant than I already am. For instance, it made me think of ment’s t-shirts, and how they’re just the thing in my closet to put bows and flowers in their proper place. I think about how I tend to be thankful for the...
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Famous for the wrong book: There's a big... →
I promised rainbowrama I’ll post this interesting little list from The Guardian.
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