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When this book was chosen by the book club as the group read for April, I was eager to join the read-along for a number of reasons: 1) I already have a copy which I bought from Booksale, 2) a very good friend whose book reviews I avidly am a . . . → Read More: GILEAD/Marilynne Robinson image from Goodreads
What I love about young adult fiction is that it is very easy to read and the language is easy to follow. It feels like listening to my high school self talk and rant about school, parents, friends, and of course, enemies. Hate List is one such book, . . . → Read More: HATE LIST/Jennifer Brown image from Goodreads Hunger as a social condition is something not very new. I have seen documentaries on local TV depicting miserable conditions of hunger and poverty, and I can’t help but shed some tears every time, especially when I see children and even babies suffering from lack of food. Suffice it . . . → Read More: HUNGER/Knut Hamsun image from Goodreads This Lullaby is my second Sarah Dessen book, the first one was The Truth About Forever which I rated 4/5 stars. I haven’t really gotten around to writing a blog post about my first Dessen book, but suffice it to say that I immensely liked it, especially the character . . . → Read More: THIS LULLABY/Sarah Dessen image from Goodreads Is it possible to like a book even if you do not understand everything in it? This is what I feel after reading Julian Barnes’ award-winning novel, The Sense of An Ending. The story is told in the voice of Tony Webster, now retired, once married, got . . . → Read More: THE SENSE OF AN ENDING/Julian Barnes
Let me start this post by saying that this is such a beautiful book. The setting, the plot, the characters, the prose. Most especially the prose. But let me backtrack a little and try to compose an intelligible summary (operative word is TRY). A Northern Light weaves fiction . . . → Read More: A NORTHERN LIGHT/Jennifer Donnelly
For the love month, my favorite book club picked this short story as book of the month. Published in 1925, Dead Stars is considered as the “short story that gave birth to modern Philippine writing in English.” The author, Paz Marquez Benitez, “was among the first generation of Filipinos trained . . . → Read More: DEAD STARS/Paz Marquez Benitez
Ooh, but this is such a beautiful, beautiful book. Vaclav & Lena is a debut novel of Haley Tanner and it tells the story of, of course, Vaclav and Lena. Vaclav and Lena are both Russian immigrants in America. They meet in an ESL class in school and . . . → Read More: VACLAV & LENA/ Haley Tanner 84, Charing Cross Road is what we call in the book club as our traveling book where a book will be passed on to each member who signed up right after he/she has finished reading it. I was third in line on the list and when it arrived at my office a . . . → Read More: 84, CHARING CROSS ROAD/Helene Hanff For an intro to Pinoy Reads, please click here. *****
Love Your Frenemies by Mina V. Esguerra Reading chick-lit is like my comfort food which consists of fried chicken, spaghetti, and Coke. It is a welcome respite every time I finish books I . . . → Read More: PINOY READS: Love Your Frenemies by Mina V. Esguerra (and a novelette) |
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