Asian Literature Purchase from Big Bad Wolf Books

Finally, I received the books I ordered from Big Bad Wolf Books last March. It's all Asian lit: - Silence by Shūsaka Endō- Ticket to India by N.H. Senzai- The Windfall by Diksha Basu- Selection Day by Aravind...

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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...

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Booksale Finds of the Week

 Booksale haul. All for only 125 pesos. I swear, Booksale has gifted me with way better and interesting reads than NB and Fullybooked combined.- The Speech of Angels by Sharon Mass (and because I'm a sucker for...

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In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

 It was a chance encounter with a long-coveted title—Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood—that led me to Fully Booked at Gateway Mall. There, among the fiction and nonfiction, was Capote’s so-called “nonfiction novel,” a genre-defining...

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Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami’s 1988 novel Dance Dance Dance, was my very first foray into his peculiar world (on the recommendation of my former and late officemate named Fae), turned out to be a strange, fascinating initiati...

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Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis

 In Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis turns the scalpel inward, dissecting not only his persona but the legacy of his fiction. The novel opens with the style of an autobiography, recounting his meteoric rise to literary...

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The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

 If On the Road was Jack Kerouac’s ecstatic hymn to youth, movement, and rebellion, then The Dharma Bums is its quieter, more contemplative sibling. Published in 1958, just a year after On the Road transformed Kerouac...

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