On Coffeespoons' 3rd Anniversary on Jan 21, 2012 in Blogiversary Blogging It's Coffeespoons' 3rd birthday! Three years ago, on this date, I made the first post of this blog live. I always have a certain fondness for that post whenever I read it. It's not one of those things I write that I cringe at (I have a lot of those),...
The Ulysses Read-along on Jan 16, 2012 in Bloomsday Classics James Joyce Ulysses read-along Ulysses wordle (img src) Early this year, during a conversation on Twitter, Jaclyn of a book diary and I decided that we'd have a read-along. I'd never done one before and I thought it might be fun. Besides, I figure that, sometime during the year,...
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides on Jan 8, 2012 in jeffrey Eugenides Pulitzer Project literary fiction Contemporary Lit Book Review literature marriage Summary "Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while an old friend resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny." - from NPR.org The good stuff...
A Perk and An Assessment on Jan 5, 2012 in Digital Kindle Touch Reading Kindle ebooks My new Kindle Touch. Forgive the sucky picture. It was night, I was using my iPad camera, and I really take sucky pictures. I work in digital publishing. So, though I have my own trusty Kindle 3, now being rebranded as the Kindle Keyboard, I was i...
Keeping It Real (or, My Reading Goals for 2012) on Jan 3, 2012 in women Graphic Novels Filipino Reading Reading Challenges Africa Blogging Reading Goals I plan to chill, just like her. (img src) This year in reading, I'll... relinquish my little semblance of control and be entirely honest with myself. Ergo, I opt not to formally join any reading challenge this year. let my reading develop organi...
Best Books I Read in 2011 on Jan 2, 2012 in Reading Book Lists Blogging Best of Of the 69 books I read last year, these were the most memorable. They're ordered according to when I read them. The El Bimbo Variations by Adam David - Adam's a valued co-worker, but before he was a co-worker, I'd already read and loved this p...
The Year That Was on Jan 1, 2012 in Reading Reading Challenges Blogging ReaderCon This was my reading life in 2011... On reading goals and challenges: I'd like to think I started out well. I aimed to go through at least half of my 2010 TBR. I joined the TBR Dare, which lasted for me until the end of February. I a...
On Writing by Stephen King on Dec 7, 2011 in Reading Writing Book Review Non-fiction With the work I have now, I thought it was high time for me to finally read King's On Writing. Let me put forth a few home truths: I am not a writer. The extent of my claim to being a writer goes as far as authoring around 7 teacher's modules, cont...
Oh yeah? on Nov 4, 2011Yeah, gonna smack you down, bitch. (img src) During one of the sessions in last year's Manila International Literary Festival, I remember someone saying that it makes sense for an author like Neil Gaiman to be on Twitter, but not really for literar...
Surgeons Do Not Cry by Ting Tiongco on Oct 9, 2011 in Filipino Memoir Book Review Non-fiction I've been pimping Surgeons Do Not Cry by Ting Tiongco for a while now for two reasons. The lesser of these reasons is that our company co-published the ebook edition. So that's my "full disclosure" statement. But the bigger reason is that I read the...
