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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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  • I know, I know, late again! But my work life has been keeping me so busy that I often just fall asleep right after. I haven’t even been keeping up with my physical journal! Life’s been hectic! But now I have a day off and it’s raining outside so I have all the time in…

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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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  • Unfortunately, dear readers numbering in the ones, this is the part of the series where we dive into That Plot. That I hate. But what can I do about it but just dive in?

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  • I know, I know I’ve been lagging behind when it comes to this show again, but I did caught up with actually following Secret Ingredient as it happens. There’s also been the fact that I’ve had a busy couple of days when it comes to my actual paying job, so I haven’t been able to…

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  • I found out about this show completely by accident — while I was scrolling on Twitter the trailer for this series just happened to be retweeted onto my timeline. And you know what, I thought that it was cute! And the fact that it had stars from three different countries? Very interesting! It finally debuted…

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  • My goodness it actually looks like I am going to catch up with everybody else when it comes to this series. And by catch up I mean it won’t take me weeks after the finale before I finally finish watching the series. Let’s go!

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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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