Jan 07 2008
One of our big projects last year was our Filipiniana Book Donation Project for the benefit of the National Library of Cambodia and the Library of the Senate of Cambodia. We were able to collect over 60 coffee table books, yearbooks, reference materials, CDS and other reading materials about the history, government, culture, environment [...]
Sep 18 2007
Update: Zarah Grace of School Librarian in Action posted a very enlightening post in reply to this question. She says that children’s literature in the country is very young (my age… does that make me young? ). She gives an excellent assessment of the state of children’s literature as well as recommendations for [...]
Jul 30 2007
I remember when Sixter shoved me her copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and commanded me to read it. Yeah, my older siblings (and there are five of them) do enjoy bullying me around. Like an obedient baby sister, I complied meekly. But from the moment when I read
Mr. and Mrs. [...]
Feb 20 2007
Note: If you feel that you have read this entry before, that’s because it’s somewhat similar to Daphne’s Too Many Books, Too Little Time about the books she bought from the Powerbooks sale and Verns’s NKKBSNTLGAKO. Oh well, imitation is the best flattery.
One of my earliest memories was saying goodbye to [...]
Feb 18 2007
What is it about Italy that makes its inhabitants love life so much? George Clooney once appeared on the Jay Leno Show and talked about his life in Italy where he recently moved to. He said that at the end of the day, he would look out the window of his apartment building [...]
Feb 12 2007
Frank McCourt almost got fired on the first day of his teaching career for eating the sandwich of a high school boy during class. The owner of the sandwich threw the sandwich at a classmate who criticized the hapless sandwich. Amidst shouts of “Fight, fight,” by a classroom of American teen-agers, Frank pondered [...]
Jan 11 2007
One of my favorite bloggers Ajay asked me to excite blog readers by divulging my secrets with a tag. This reminds me of this book by Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret? (Like blogger Leah, I also love Sophie Kinsella).
In the book, the secrets of Emma, the proganist, include:
Secrets from her boyfriend: [...]
Dec 28 2006
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. That’s it. J.K. Rowling (pronounced like bowling and not howling) has announced the title of the seventh and last book of her Harry Potter series (see this BBC article). The seven books represent seven years of schooling in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where [...]
Dec 27 2006
Angelo tagged me with this meme:
Grab the book closest to you.
Open to page 123 and go down to the fourth sentence.
Post the text of the following three sentences on your blog.
Write the name of the book and the author.
Tag three people.
I am currently reading two books so it was a choice between a Sherpa’s account [...]
Dec 02 2006
Every woman who claims to be a hopeless romantic would know Fitzwilliam Darcy, possibly one of the most romantic male characters in modern literature. In case you are not a hopeless romantic, then allow me to give you a little background reference about what the hell I’m talking about. Darcy is the leading [...]
"We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter."
Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones
