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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...