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  • Your Week in Books #21

    Another Vibal acquisition, Tara Frejas’ cover reveal, new books from Joan Didion and Ian McEwan, Ateneo book launches and more in this week’s edition.

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  • Your Week in Books #18

    Tara Frejas’ new book, the National Book Development Board’s 2025 Publication Grant, and publishing reaction to the Neil Gaiman accusations in this week’s edition.

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  • Your Week in Books #11

    I wasn’t able to make one of these last week because it was the start of a busy week for me and I just spent the whole of last day just trying to recuperate. But now I’m back although I am literally still feeling tired from my week.

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  • Your Week in Books #10

    Another week has gone by, and with it is a weeks worth of books news from here and abroad. Let’s dive in!

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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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  • Ron Reads Kilig

    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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