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Song still slaps!!! 🎧

Makulimlim at Michelle Branch 🎧

Feeling this big urge to just keep songs from the ‘50s up to the early ‘00s only 😅

Ann Patchett writing and narrating is beautiful. But I don’t know why I’m still not feeling it.

Di kami masyadong sanay gumamit ng kamias as pampaasim. Pashare naman po ng recipes nyo! TY!

I love this app pa naman. What app do you use for tracking your TV shows?

Update: You can download your TV Time data by installing the TV TIME OUT Chrome extension and then logging in to your TV Time App (web app). Click the TV Time Out extension icon, choose the download format (CSV, JSON, or both), and you get the zip file of all your data.

Edit: After trying out several alternatives, I think I will move to Sofa Time. App UI looks a lot like TV Time. Free to use, or one-time purchase of ₱499 to unlock full features.

Been a busy month of books! Favorite reads: One & Only and The Best Dog in the World

Still hungover with Voicemails for Isabelle so I picked up a romcom today.

It's been a good week for movies for me. What's your favorite watch this week so far?

It's 1982 in England, and Dawn's life looks settled from the outside: a husband, a daughter, and a future already mapped out. Then she meets Hazel, the primary school teacher who recently moved to town. Dawn finds herself drawn to her in ways she can't ignore.

Forty years later, Heron knows he doesn't have much time left, and with that comes the difficult task of telling Maggie the truth about her mother.

I loved this book. It's short, very readable, and packs a surprising emotional punch.

The writing is straightforward, yet beautiful and thought-provoking. What struck me most was the historical context. It's so hard to imagine a time when being a lesbian mother could be used against you in such devastating ways. Knowing that made the story all the more heartbreaking.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5

After a tough breakup and a move to Melbourne, Ana is focused on starting over. Between a job at a tech startup and the lingering fallout from a terrible dating app encounter, she's not looking for anything serious.

But then she meets Evan, and their connection is immediate. He's kind, stable, and completely unlike her usual type. Compared to her recent dating history, Evan feels like a statistical anomaly. 
When Ana learns that his previous girlfriend died less than a year earlier, she becomes fixated on finding out more. One search leads to another, and before long, she's combing through old photos, posts, and fragments of a life she can't stop comparing herself to.

I really liked this book because of Ana. She's the kind of person who can turn a single text message into an hour-long internal debate, often making herself miserable in the process. With emotionally distant parents and a recent breakup behind her, it's easy to see why she becomes so consumed by Evan and Emily's story. It doesn't help that Evan is frustratingly reluctant to talk about his late girlfriend, leaving Ana to fill in the blanks herself.

Between the overthinking, trying to compete with a ghost, and the endless online sleuthing, I spent most of the time thinking this is exactly why dating is exhausting.

My eyes are leaking! Such heartfelt and beautifully written essays by some of our favorite authors, all bursting with love, joy, and gratitude for their beloved dogs 🐾♥️

One of my favorites talaga 🎧♥️

Happy to announce that the butiki was successfully extricated with no apparent injuries. 😁 Just didn’t know how long it was stuck in that position. Poor thing.

Kain po tayo!

The veteran singer suffered a stroke over the weekend and was under medical care. He was 75.

Source: https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/peabo-bryson-death-singer-1236262804/

So I wear my disguise ‘til I go home at night then I turn out all the lights and then I break down and cryyyy

After four months of hooking up, Lillian is convinced she and Henry are in a relationship. 

Henry is convinced they’re done. 

So, armed with a hex tutorial she found on YouTube, Lillian performs a drunken hex on him. 

She expects him to come crawling back. What she does not expect: Henry to actually die, herself to become a murder suspect, and the discovery that he had a girlfriend all along. 

But does any of that stop her? Absolutely not.

Lillian is completely convinced she’s the main character, because in her head, she absolutely is. She is the kind of person you don’t hate at first sight. It’s gradual. Every interaction, decision, and justification she makes for herself, you slowly realize just how rotten she is. 

She also loves her booze, which does nothing to make her more likable or reliable. And yet the spiral is so good you can’t look away.

For all of Lillian’s chaos, Henry is his own kind of villain. The book doesn’t let you forget that.

One of the most fun reads I’ve had this year! This is an unputdownable whodunnit with a full character study on delusion, ego, and the very human need to be chosen. Makes you laugh at yourself a little for ever being like Lillian. Even just a little. 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5