reading

  • 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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  • No Two Ways acquisition by Blush Books, Stories We Tell When We Tell Stories About Ourselves pre-orders, and an article on AI and audiobook narrators in this week’s edition.

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  • Audiobooks, Nicole Kidman, poisonous books, and Edmund White in this week’s edition.

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  • I know, I know, I haven’t been doing one of these for a bit because life has been busy. But I’m getting back to it! In this week’s edition, we have Renren Galeno, the Severino Reyes Medal, New Philippine Speculative Fiction 2, and the Juggernaut book launch.

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  • There was a point in my life when I was a regular at the Instituto Cervantes’ annual Día del Libro celebrations because 1. I had to do it for my job, and 2. Their old location at Kalaw was literally just a short jeepney ride away from where I used to work. Once I left

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  • Your Week in Books #29

    #romanceclass2025, Filipino nominees for the Hans Christian Andersen award and the Silent Book Contest, and a new Virginia Woolf book 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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  • Your Week in Books #25

    Virgilio Almario’s birthday, Anthony Hopkin’s memoir, Erin Entrada Kelly’s new book, and “Oculus” at the Frankfurt Book Fair in this week’s edition.

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  • Your Week in Books #19

    The Philippine Book Festival, Jeremy Renner, James Baldwin, and OpenAI in this week’s edition

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  • Okay, when I started reading this series I thought it was only a total of five volumes. Which is kinda true because there are only five volumes out now, but there’s a sixth and final volume that’s still to come out. So it kinda messed with my feelings at the end of the book, which

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