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 man…
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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 …
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 w…
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 …
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 mus…
Book Review: Liryo, Magtira Paolo
I don’t own comic books—except for a few volumes of Pugad Baboy that my brother bought years ago. I wanted text-y materials - something I could read…
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 Whe…
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 m…
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…
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. …
It all comes down to who’s By Your Side
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, a…
Book review: Doppelganger by David Stahler Jr. and the discovery of one’s self
This book heavily reminded me of David Levithan’s Everyday series. Stahler actually released this book in 2009 and I wonder if A’s story is based on…
I Swear by Lane Davis book review: Bullying is a social crime
The moment I closed this book, I want to strangle Macie Merrik and all the likes of her. It was in 2015 when I got absorbed in reading YA books ab…
Books to read during the long, rainy weekends
I love rainy days, and if the word pluviophile is legit, then I’ve found a new word to describe myself. The white sound that is the raindrops on m…
Book Review: Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
To be fair, this isn't the worst book I've read, but god... I wonder why this book exists. Okay, maybe I sounded a little bit too harsh…
Book Review: Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
I remember I told myself, "let's not buy YA books anymore because I think we're past that," but this book simply made it to my sh…
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-suk Shin is a beautiful tribute to all the moms of the world
Please look after mom is so ironic, because moms usually look after their children, and not the other way around. I picked up this book when I saw…
Paulo Coelho's The Spy is a celebration of womanhood... or maybe not
It's been a week since I finished reading The Spy, and I am still undecided if Mata Hari's life story invites us to dare to be different, o…
Insurrecto: An alternative source to finding truth in history
Not gonna lie - as I was reading the first few pages of this book I thought it wasn't my cup of tea. Now I'm glad I finished reading the ent…
Book review: I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman
It was after reading a Gayle Forman book that I became determined that I should travel the world in the hopes of finding something that would "…