book-reviews

  • I gotta be honest here, I first downloaded this book to my Kindle way, way, way back. Back when I was still writing for a newspaper, I think. Back when it still had the title Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada and not Cody, which is what’s it titled now, apparently. But after literal

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  • I’m back with the third and final episode of this audio erotica! So far, The Trials have been delivering when it comes to the erotica, which is what you’re paying for after all. I did have some gripes about the fantasy elements in my previous post about The Trials, but that’s more of a me

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  • Your Week in Books #30

    The new Chasing Waves cover, Dolly Parton’s new book, the Philippines at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, and Día del Libro in this week’s edition.

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  • Your Week in Books #28

    Water Moon book talk and signing event, L.J. Smith, and Mark Ronson in this week’s edition.

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  • I hadn’t really planned to review or even read this book at all. I was supposed to read another independently published book I bought during the Philippine Book Festival but it wasn’t grabbing my attention with the first few chapters so I decided to look for something else to read instead. I found this book

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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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  • 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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