Overbooked Reader

Last Saturday, I attempted to leave three books-- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey (very used), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (brand new), and The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (brand new), but my plan was thwarted by the staff of Starbucks 515 Shaw. The photo's a bit glared, but here's where i was supposed to leave  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens That particular Starbucks being my second home ever since my college years (when it was still located in Lee Gardens a block away), I decided to ask the barista (whom I knew) for permission to leave the books on empty tables. He said 'yes,' but a few minutes later his superior said 'no.' She said I had to have permission from their head office prior to doing the book drop. I didn't want to argue, so I just let the issue go and sat down to read The Dome by Stephen King. John Green's The Fault in Our Stars is one of my favorite novels

As part of the POPtastik Pinoy! program of activities held in celebration of Text in the City: The 4th Philippine International Literary Festival , Ayala Museum will hold City Fiction 100 , a flash fiction masterclass, on November 15, 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. This workshop is open to professional and budding writers of all ages. Participants will get feedback from acclaimed writers Sarge Lacuesta and Krys Lee , and the country's first literary agent Andrea Pasion-Flores , with travel writer Kristine Fonacier as moderator. Korean-American writer Krys Lee is our special guest for this year's LitFest. She will be discussing and launching her book Drifting House on the morning of November 15. She will also join the City Fiction 100 panel in the afternoon. The goal is simple: in 100 words or less, write about a city, real or imagined. More than a dozen people have already submitted their works of flash fiction, less than a week after the masterclass was announced!

Filipino writers will discuss folk and popular literature as shown in komiks, TV, and film as the National Book Development Board ( NBDB ), Filipinas Heritage Library ( FHL ), and Ayala Museum hold POPtastik Pinoy! this November. P leas e click to enlarge poster. The event is part of the 4th Philippine International Literary Festival. Titled Text and the City , the LitFest will take place in the major universities in Metro Manila from November 11-14 and at the Ayala Museum on November 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The Lit Fest will feature local and regional writers. Xu Xi, Hong Kong-based writer of Access: Thirteen Tales will speak in UST; Singapore-based writer Kamini Ramachandran and London’s Jasmine Anne Corray, writer of Everything We Don't Say will speak in DLSU; Peter Swirski, Canadian scholar, literary critic, and writer of From Highbrow to Nobrow will speak in ADMU; Singaporean Suchen Lim, author of The River's Song , will speak in UP; and American

The Books of My Childhood If there's one thing I like more than reading, it's playing video games (especially role-playing games), and that's what I spent most of my leisure time doing as a child. Of course, my parents, especially my mother, didn't want me glued to the PC monitor or TV screen all day, so she encouraged me to read books. She gave me all The Chronicles of Narnia novels by C.S. Lewis, of which I have only read Prince Caspian and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe , to this day. She also bought me several of Roald Dahl novels of which I remember reading Esio Trot , The BFG , and James and the Giant Peach . There were others, like Matilda and The Witches , which have lain dormant on my bookshelf form more than a decade. I also remember reading several Hardy Boys and combined Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew mysteries, with encouragement from my mother. My uncle gave me the first three X-Files novels , which I thought was really cool. Goosebumps a novel

Carrie , Stephen King's first published novel, means a lot to me. It was the first non-required school reading I bought and read myself. It was thoroughly traumatizing and enjoyable in equal measures. And so began my love for reading, and eventually, writing. Official Poster for Carrie by Atlantis Productions (click to enlarge) I was delighted to find out  through Facebook (if memory serves me right) that Altantis Productions was staging a local version of Carrie the Musical . Previously not knowing a Carrie musical even existed, I did some research and read about how it was a flop the first time it was staged so on. Still, I'm a big fan. I invited one of my reader friends and bought us two tickets to see the play at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium in RCBC Plaza, Makati. Moerover, Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo's playing Carrie's mother was also a major factor in my decision to watch. I saw her as Diana in Atlantis Production's 2011 re-staging of Next to Normal ,

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Title: The Marriage Plot Place Published: New York, USA Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Grioux Year Published: 2011 No. of Pages: 406 Price: Php 720.00 Place Bought: Fully Booked Rockwell The Long and Winding Tale of three Graduates (a.k.a. The Bizarre Love Triangle) In this follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning novel Middlesex , Jeffrey Eugenides explores the 19th century “marriage plot” and how it fits in to a contemporary love story. Unfortunately, I haven’t read many works by Jane Austen, George Eliot, and other English novelists who are the purveyors of this literary trope. This, coupled with my lack of knowledge on theology, philosophy, and literary criticism, among other subjects, made finishing the novel a chore, despite plenty memorable lines and flashes of brilliance. The Marriage Plot follows the story of Madeleine Hanna, Leonard Bankhead, and Mitchell Grammaticus as they graduate from college and join the real world. Hanna is an Eng

This is my first time to do a Filipino Friday post, ever! I'm so excited. For those who don't know what Filipino Friday is (like me, until recently)--"Filipino Friday is a meme series that encourages the participation of Filipino readers everywhere." - Source: Filipino ReaderCon Blog . Introductions, with a twist, is this Friday's theme. The question: "What Reader Species Are You?" based from this appropriately wordy and detailed infographic by Laura Kelly   (click to view full-sized image): Visit Laura-e-Kelly.com for more about books, reading, and authors. Reading the inforgraphic, I realize that I fit into a number of different species, like:  The Reluctant Reader I'm a reluctant reader because I only started to enjoy reading during first year high school. Josh, my best friend at the time, was an avid fan and reader of Stephen King. He got me curious, so I asked him what SK novel would be a good introduction to the master of