Ron Reads
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So, aside from finding The Secret of Derek Guerrero, the Philippine Book Fair also helped me to reconnect with some of the publishing people I knew when I still covered the books and publishing beat for the newspaper I used to work for. After catching up on the literal past decade, I got contact information
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A long time ago, when the world was young and the temperature was much lower, I wrote for a newspaper. I did that for 10 years and since my beat was books and publishing, I was a regular attendee at book fairs, book launches, and the occasional Palanca awards night. I used to be on
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Image courtesy of the Cat Gablin Facebook page To be quite honest, the past week has been difficult. A lot of it being due to the literal unbearable heat the country is suffering right now. Even now, it’s something that just seems to be pressing on me like a blanket and not one of those
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For most of this blog’s existence, I’ve mostly been reacting and reviewing television shows or movies. But in the olden times when the world was young, I was a book reviewer. I exclusively blogged about books and other book adjacent things. But then I had to become a slave to capitalism so that I could
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It’s no secret that the American publishing industry and booksellers all over the world have ceded marketing and promotional duties of the books they’re selling to the collective known as Booktok. Which okay huge companies with kajillions of dollars, you do you. I’m bringing this up because the second book I was able to finish
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So, while most of the contents of this blog is on things that I’ve watched, I’ve really spent most of my ancient, ancient life running a book blog. A book blog that disappeared into the ether because I forgot to download the files that my service provider gave me when I decided to pull the
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