Breaking Supernatural ( A Book Review of Nine Supernatural Stories edited by April Timbol Yap and Lara Saguisag ) Pushing the cobwebs aside and giving an old-timer a modern spin, Nine Supernatural Stories, published by The University of the Philippines … Continue reading
The Strain That Started It All (A Book Review of Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain) Where others credit classic writers like Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, I forever owe my first real taste of science fiction to Michael Crichton … Continue reading
The Power of Stories (A Book Review of Tess Uriza Holthe’s When the Elephants Dance) A group of neighbors seek shelter in the cellar of an abandoned house. They are cramped, huddled on the dirt, starving and terrified. Outside fierce … Continue reading
Historical Fiction at its Finest! (A Book review of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth) First introduced to me as a 2007 book selection by the Oprah Book Club, The Pillars of the Earth remains of one Ken Follett’s … Continue reading
A Spy Novel that Reads Like a Good Alternate History Fiction (A Book Review of Ken Follett’s The Key to Rebecca) The last camel collapsed at noon. So begins Ken Follett’s intriguing World War II thriller set in 1942 Cairo, … Continue reading
You Win Some, You Lose Some (A Book Review of Paper Money by Ken Follett) What links the lives of a ruthless gangster, a sneaky businessman, an adulterous minister, and a young journalist — each a stranger to another — … Continue reading
It is said that anything that happens once will come in twice and is bound to happen the third time around. Just when I thought I have had enough I’m still at it, for, indeed Gentle Readers, we’ll once more … Continue reading
Rabbits’ Quest (A Book Review of Richard Adams’s Watership Down) The Jungle Book, The Wind in the Willows, The Chronicles of Narnia, Winnie the Pooh and Animal Farm, now what do these books, with the addition of this humble blog’s … Continue reading
Love’s Another Drug (A Book Review of Kevin Brooks’s Candy) It’s hard to imagine life without Candy. Addiction is a word most of us are familiar with and all of us have his / her vices, fixes we hanker for … Continue reading
Crimes of Passion (A Book Review of Charlson Ong’s Blue Angel, White Shadow) Admittedly, I have had my meager share of crime fiction in my brief experience as a reader; however, this recent read feels like hitting two birds with … Continue reading
First Strike (A Book Review of Joel C. Rosenberg’s The Last Jihad) Do you still remember where and what were you doing on the fateful day of September 11, 2001? On that historic Tuesday morning, Joel C. Rosenberg was putting … Continue reading
Starting FAYZ (A Book Review of Michael Grant’s Gone) On a quiet, ordinary day everyone began to disappear. Adults just poofed. Gone. In the blink of an eye. But there are some that remained. Kids not over the age of … Continue reading
Baptism of Blood: My Initiation to Horror (A Book Review of Richard Matheson’s I am Legend) After reading this masterpiece by Richard Matheson, I was overtaken by a great feeling of regret. Regret that I had to wait for so … Continue reading
Through a Needle Darkly (A Book Review of Ken Follett’s Eye of the Needle) At the young age of twenty seven, Ken Follett met with instant success — both critical and financial — with his first international bestseller Eye of … Continue reading
Chasing After a Lost Masterpiece (A Book Review of Ken Follett’s The Modigliani Scandal) The Modigliani Scandal is a lighthearted early caper from internationally renowned master thriller Ken Follett. The plot concerns Dee Sleign, an art historian on the hunt … Continue reading
