20 Books on the Marcos Dictatorship

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana 

But sadly, these books are not easily accessible nor available to most Filipinos today. 

What are easily available to them are TikTok and Facebook history revisionism content. 

Plus, our education system has faltered in promoting reading literacy and comprehension that most people today are easily swayed by fake narratives flooding the most accessible medium -- social media.


Pika Yonzon reads a book about the Marcos Dictatorship




My Book Haul in India

My book haul in India. Got these at around 200-350 Rupees (150-260 PhP). Would have bought more if I got extra space on my backpack. (the two fictional Theroux books were set in India) and the one from Rabindranath Tagore (whose former house - now turned into a museum, we visited in Kolkata) is a collection of short stories. 


Isa Rodriguez shows her books bought in India

The opening chapter of "The Granta Book of India" titled "Blood" is a gripping account of the infamous "Partition" event between Pakistan and India. I've a lot to learn still and I regret not buying more India-related literature.

"The Postmaster" - Rabindranath Tagore

"A story of Mughal India" - Timeri N. Murari

"The Great Railway Bazaar" - Paul Theroux

"A Dead Hand in Calcutta" - Paul Theroux

"The Granta Book of India" - Ian Jack

"The Elephanta Suite" - Jack Kerouac

On the Road: The Original Scroll | Jack Kerouac

How important for some of us to be able to read the “On The Road” novel in its original draft, the legendary scroll typewritten in thick tracing paper (a continuous, one hundred twenty-foot scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size) without any paragraph break or whatsoever, taped together by Jack Kerouac to form a figurative road in its entirety, the result of Jack’s “spontaneous prose” fueled by one long arduous burst of creativity spanning 3 weeks in April of 1951.


Lauren Denoga reads a copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road novel

Watchmen | Alan Moore

Let me start this review by quoting Harlan Ellison “anyone who misses this milestone event in the genre of the fantastic is a myopic dope.”

I’m glad that after reading Alan Moore’s “Watchmen” i am not a myopic dope anymore. For some they ask the question “Why comic books should grow this far?”


Sophie Gianan holding a copy of Alan Moore's Watchmen