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
Even Wallflowers Bloom (A Book Review of Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower) Meet Charlie. Not in the slightest one of the popular students at school, even though his brother is the school’s star football player. In no … 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 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
Because of Dust (A Book Review of Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust) Since reading John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, I’ve often wondered how life could’ve been to the Oklahoman farmers and families who opted not to leave their land. … Continue reading
Defying the Odds (A Book Review of Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) The first volume in a five part nonfiction autobiography series, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings chronicles Maya Angelou’s coming-of-age in the segregated … Continue reading
Web of Friendship (A Book Review of E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web) My first encounter with E.B. White is through this slim book called The Elements of Style, written in part by his former English professor William Strunk Jr., and a … 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
Steinbeck’s Got a Hold in Me (A Book Review of John Steinbeck’s The Red Pony) It all started on a lazy Sunday afternoon, a day I presume to be just like any other. However, what made it a little bit … Continue reading
Yesterday’s trip at Booksale once again proved successful as I found a copy of Pete Hautman’s Godless for only 115php, and YES I freaked out the first time I saw it! I would like to thanks my Goodreads friend Jofer … Continue reading
Grand Possibilities: Things we Seek, Sometimes Lose and Always Gain (A Book Review of John Green’s Looking for Alaska) In Looking for Alaska, John Green explores the themes of friendship, suffering, loss, grief and coping. The novel follows a … Continue reading
Dare to Speak Up (A Book Review by Laurie Halse Andersen’s Speak) “Where can you run to escape from yourself?” That line taken from the song Dare You to Move by the band Switchfoot come to mind while I was … 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
Reading a Celebrated Classic (A Book Review of Haper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird) July 11 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, and arguably one of the most influential … Continue reading
Dark Chest of Wonders 