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This magnificent series deserves more attention. The book was good, but I think the show was better! Has anyone been following the show on Apple?

Manamit kag kahilidlaw! It’s been a long while since I had this and it’s still the same taste I remember from childhood. I only wish they were more accessible for deliveries! Ano inyo paborito sa Tibiao?

It took me a while to actually read John Wyndham. Many of his books are awfully hard to find in physical stores and so I had to wait and search online for a copy of this 1955 science fiction classic. When I did land one, it landed, sadly, on my shelf first, and it took several months more before it finally landed on my reading desk. But there's no stopping a brilliant book the moment you turn its first page. And now that I've just turned its last, allow me to go back and share with you the beginning:

"When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city — which was strange because it began before I even knew what a city was. But this city, clustered on the curve of a big blue bay, would come into my mind. I could see the streets, and the buildings that lined them, the waterfront, even boats in the harbour; yet, waking, I had never seen the sea, or a boat. And the buildings were quite unlike any I knew. The traffic in the streets was strange, carts running with no horses to pull them; and sometimes there were things in the sky, shiny fish-shaped things that certainly were not birds. Most often I would see this wonderful place by daylight, but occasionally it was by night when the lights lay like strings of glow-worms along the shore, and a few of them seemed to be sparks drifting on the water, or in the air.

It was a beautiful, fascinating place, and once, when I was still young enough to know no better, I asked my eldest sister, Mary, where this lovely city could be. She shook her head, and told me that there was no such place — not now."

If that's not enough to pull you in and see the book through until its stirring conclusion, then I don't know what will. This short yet powerful work (a mere 187 pages in my edition) is beautifully written, highly readable, and remains - even after 65 years since it's first publication - deeply relevant. You'll know what I mean after you've read it. If you're after excellent dystopian literature, especially one from Science Fiction's golden age, then this book is for you.

Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826845

This was a great show! Loved Mare of Easttown and this one did not disappoint!

Got these today from Exploding Galaxies. I admit, I don’t read a lot of Philippine lit and I plan to change that this year. Aiming to get copies din of Sionil Jose’s Rosales Saga. Anyone here who have read these books?

Just finished Season 2 and eager to finish the whole thing soon. Truly one of the TV greats!

This book is fire! If you've read his Night Trilogy, and loved it, then this is a book you shouldn't miss.

From Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192992.The\_Oath

When a Christian boy disappears in a fictional Eastern European town in the 1920s, the local Jews are quickly accused of ritual murder. There is tension in the air. A pogrom threatens to erupt. Suddenly, an extraordinary man—Moshe the dreamer, a madman and mystic—steps forward & confesses to a crime he didn't commit, in a vain attempt to save his people from certain death. The community gathers to hear his last words—a plea for silence—& everyone present takes an oath: whoever survives the impending tragedy must never speak of the town’s last days & nights of terror. For fifty years the sole survivor keeps his oath—until he meets a man whose life depends on hearing the story, & one man’s loyalty to the dead confronts head-on another’s reason to go on living.

Sharing this job opportunity for CE grads with at least a year of relevant experience. This is for Crawford & Company’s in-house global service center in Iloilo.

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A true page-turner! Highly recommended for readers of historical non-fiction and for any reader looking for an engaging, well-researched, and well-written book.

Sharing the Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61714633

This won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928.

A footbridge in Peru breaks and five people hurtle to their deaths. For the monk who witnesses the tragedy, the question is inescapable: Why those five?

I recently talked about this book at our online book club, so I think this deserves a post. If you've read the book before, l'd be glad to know what you think. If you haven't yet, and this got you interested, I hope you can find a copy soon because it's worth it.

"Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan."

"We ourselves shall be loved for awhile and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses
of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

- Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

This line stopped me in my tracks when I first read East of Eden. That was several years ago, but this line moves me still, as it moved me then. What’s your favorite quote or passage from the book?