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January Reads
Former CNBLUE member once said, "two books a month is a lot" ( video at 10:57 ), and guess who took it by heart. Of course, I didn't force myself to read more than two books this month because 1) 2 books is a lot, a…
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Book review: Convenience Store Woman
These days I find it a privilege to be able to finish reading a book. Convenience Store Woman is only 94 pages though, perfect for when you've got nothing to do but roll over your bed for the rest of the night. At first, I th…
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You Can Wind Down From Time To Time
After a few months of staring at my bookshelf wondering if it somehow just became a decoration in my room to make me feel and look smart, I finally finished reading a book! Apop has graciously provided us with books we can turn …
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Book review: The Nakano Thrift Shop
There might be spoilers ahead. It wasn't until I updated my Goodreads reading challenge that I realized it took me almost an entire month to finish reading this book. The Nakano Thrift Shop is a slow read, a book that I'd…
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Weekend read: Some Days You Can't Save Them All
If hospital walls could speak, what kind of stories could they tell me, I would often wonder during the lonely afternoons I spent in the ICU many years ago. I figured it must be fascinating to hear stories of triumph over death, …
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Book review: Broken Bard, The Path of the Pacifist
Psychology, factions, secret societies, and maybe even conspiracy theories - these are just some of the things you can expect from this action-packed suspense, written by Filipino author Christian Khiel Pineda Unto. Broken Bard i…
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Book review: Strange Weather In Tokyo
I didn't plan on reading this book - but after reading Before The Coffee Gets Cold , I figured I need more dose of Japanese literature. I loved Strange Weather In Tokyo just as much, despite the time I took to finish reading …
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Take me back in time: Before The Coffee Gets Cold book review
If you are given the chance to travel back in time, who are you going to meet? Would you rather go back to the past or see the future? What if there's a lot of conditions? What if there are limitations? Are you still going to…
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From my bookshelf: How I choose my books
It's Tuesday morning and I dread logging in for work. I've been working since Sunday night (not sure how I was made to work ON A SUNDAY but apparently I did), and it felt like my private time is violated. As if I could ge…
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Shadowed Truths is a book that'll make you face your truth
The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution, says Albus Dumbledore to Harry during one of his many hospital wing moments. I never handled the truth as such. What I believed was …
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Pages In Between is born
It was a quarantine Tuesday afternoon when I chatted Nicole and ask her if we can read a book together. Well, not really together but more like read a book and discuss it after. When she agreed, we thought it'd be best to cal…
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2020 reading challenge: My first quarter reads
It's been a tough time for all of us, being confined in our homes with nothing much to do but to rummage the kitchen, stare blankly outside the window wondering if the little money left in our bank accounts would be enough to…
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Book review: Soledad's Sister, Jose Dalisay
Just like Dekada '70, this wasn't on the list of books I plan to read this quarter, but it made it there somehow. But it's on my reading list nonetheless, a book that fits one of the items in the 2020 reading challeng…
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Book review: Dekada '70, Lualhati Bautista
No, this is not in my TBR list for this quarter, but I squeezed it in unannounced. I wasn't even planning on reading it, but after seeing the musical which gained a lot of positive response (including me), I just knew I had …
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Book Review: Liryo, Magtira Paolo
I do not have comicbooks, except for the one volume of Pugad Baboy that my brother bought several years ago. My logic was that, I need to get my money's worth, and by this I mean that I should be able to read a full novel, or…
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Book review: Right Where You Left Me, Calla Devlin
Maybe the quarantine did some good - now I have an ample amount of time to read at night. I discovered this book when I Googled my own book Right Where You Left Me . Thankfully this is the only other book with the same title as m…
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2020 reading challenge (for all types of readers)
Every year I challenge myself to read at least 20 books - and each year, I've failed. Last year I only read 12, but I decided not to be hard on myself because I read Insurrecto for six weeks (or maybe more!) and anyone who h…
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Book review: Not That Kind of Girl, Siobhan Vivian
One thing I want to do this year is to read all the unread books in my shelf. I got this from NBS's Book Binge Bazaar back in 2018, and I read it just now because I allowed myself to be distracted by other books and things th…
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Book review: Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
Children's curious thoughts oftentimes teach a lot of things that adults may find extremely useful when discerning on one's life purpose. Raymie Nightingale is a children's book, and I picked it up because it was f…
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It all comes down to who’s By Your Side: A book review
Kasie West has to be one of the contemporary young adult authors who writes interesting plots. I read The Fill-In Boyfriend a couple of years back, and that’s why I picked By Your Side as one of the items to complete my NBS Than…
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I am a writer, a coffee addict, and born to be a fangirl.
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I dislike pathological liars, cheaters, and thieves.
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