Posted on July 29, 2008 by cotton yuson

The movie adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire made me very much eager to read the book. Lestat’s character is truly very mysterious though a bit scary and arrogant while Louis played something akin to a woman’s role in Lestat’s life. Very gayish as most vampire movies I’ve read take on more [...]

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Laureen Gonzaga

Sophie’s World is a novel written by Jostein Gaarder. It was originally written in Norwegian with title Sofies verden in 1991, later on translated into English in 1995.
Sophie is a fourteen year old girl living in Norway with her cat named Sherekan, a goldfish, a tortoise and her mother. Her father is a captain of [...]

Posted on July 26, 2008 by happybroomstick

A favorite book by Audrey Niffenegger.
This is not your typical love story.The book talks about how one’s love can really stand the ultimate test of time. Claire Abshire found her soul mate in Henry DeTamble – a man he knew when she was still a child. She is an ordinary girl, and he is not; [...]

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Raul Martinez

i’ve just stated reading this book and i’m already in love with it. i’ll write more when i’m done but for now Lewis Black remains my hero.

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Meg

Why travel in China is like being the protagonist in a fantasy novel… Not a comparison that leaps to mind, but here are some convincing arguments!
I’ve noticed a certain similarity between my reading matter and my life. Some of the reasons overlap with Sinoplice’s brilliant “Why China Is Like An RPG”. Travel in [...]

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Meg

Learning to read in China… or at least trying.
“You should teach them to put their finger under each word when they chant, so the parents will know their children know English,” one of the TAs suggested yesterday. She went on to explain that this is not reading, and any further attempts by me to teach [...]

Posted on July 21, 2008 by cotton yuson

This is the first Dan Brown book that I’ve read and I think the author really deserve that much commendation not only for his every famous Da Vinci Code (which I haven’t read yet) but also for his other books which I believe would be as good as the others.
Digital Fortress is said to be [...]

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Rene Karpati

I do not know what it was that had me hooked. Was it the idea of anthropomorphic furry woodland critters? The sense of adventure imbued on every page? The mouth watering descriptions of feasts?
Since I was young, I found immense enjoyment in Brian Jacques’ Redwall series. I do not remember which book I read [...]

Posted on July 13, 2008 by cotton yuson

Do you get crushes for a hero or a heroine in books that you read?
I do. Authors that has this great talent for conjuring up a very likeable – meaning sensitive but masculine, sweet and caring and other characteristics makes them almost perfect. I have a weakness for them, yup them knight and shining [...]

Posted on July 11, 2008 by twinkycess

Komiks, as entertaining as it is, has been a commodity, a phenomenon, an industry that caters to the taste of thousands of Filipinos nationwide. It offered the pulse of the masa. Created and distributed to and for the masses, its audience simply answers why this visual form of art, literature and entertainment has spread like [...]