It’s a big day for J.R.R. Tolkien fans here in the Philippines for today marks the release (yes, our country is ahead of the worldwide screening date, just how swell is that!) of the film adaptation of the classic children’s … Continue reading
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
Interconnected Tales, Interconnected Lives: A Literary Orchestra of Eternal Recurrence ( A Book Review of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas ) Transcending genre, narrators, setting, language, and time, Cloud Atlas is David Mitchell’s symphony of storytelling dynamism seamlessly interlaced in an … Continue reading
Mahapdi, Madugo, ngunit Masaya: Mga Alaala ng Kamusmusan ( Suring Aklat ng It’s A Mens World ni Bebang Siy ) Naranasan mo bang maglaro ng mataya-taya, patintero, langit at lupa, at Chinese garter sa kalsada? E, mangupit ng pera o … Continue reading
Of Chickens, Journeys, and Forever (A Book Review of Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto) With its share of joys and aches, Shelley Sullivan’s love story, on its surface, is something we have known and heard before — that is … Continue reading
Flight of Fancy (A Book Review of William Pène du Bois’s The Twenty-One Balloons) After busting a literary heavy I noticed that from time to time there’s this feeling, an emerging need to clear the palate, to freshen up and … Continue reading
A Lightning Read (A Book Review of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief) The Lightning Thief is the first book in The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan for young, middle grade readers. I first heard of the … Continue reading
A Day Like No Other (A Review of William Joyce’s A Day with Wilbur Robinson) Few children picture books have that rare quality to equally charm and enchant youngsters as well as adult readers. William Joyce undoubtedly has it; this … Continue reading
The Best Dinosaur a Family Ever Had (A Review of William Joyce’s Dinosaur Bob and his Adventures with the Family Lazardo) The Lazardo family is anything but normal, so it’s not quite surprising that when little Scotty finds a dinosaur during … Continue reading
The Phantom Phallus (A Review of The Princess and the Penis by R J Silver) Yes, you’ve read that right! And your eyes are not playing tricks on you. Mind you, don’t also get easily fooled into thinking that this … Continue reading
A Can of Humor and Warmth (A Book Review of Polly Horvath’s The Canning Season) Thirteen year old Ratchet Clark is a girl living in a windowless and grimy “sub-basement apartment” in Pensacola, Florida with her self-centered mom Henriette who … Continue reading
Gone Hitchhiking for March (A Not-So Book Review of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy) Pardon me Gentle Readers, I still feel a little bit woozy today, it must’ve been the Infinite Improbability Drive… or the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters … Continue reading
A Giant Tale with a Giant Heart (A Book Review of Candy Gourlay’s Tall Story) Author’s note: First, I want to give my thanks to Ms Tarie Sabido of Asia in the Heart, World on the Mind, where I won … Continue reading
Digging Holes (A Book Review of Louis Sachar’s Holes) Welcome to Camp Green Lake! Only it’s not the kind of lake or the sort of camp you have in mind. It’s a dry, flat wasteland and it’s a boys’ juvenile … Continue reading
