My Personal Rating: Miracle Cure is Harlan Coben’s second novel and, if Wikipedia is to be believed, no longer published or printed. The story begins with the murder of an epidemiologist, where the readers get a glimpse of the cold-blooded, unemphatic, and highly effective assassin. It is usually labeled as a medical thriller because it […]
Playlist For The Dead: An Admirable and Compassionate Friendship by Michelle Falkoff
“You never know someone until you listen.” My Personal Rating: I actually finished the Playlist For The Dead by Michelle Falkoff on the last day of this semester, and now I have time to share my thoughts about this. This book talks about Sam and Hayden. They were best friends and weird as they described […]
The Writer, the Workspace, and the Quest for Productivity
Have you ever wondered how your favorite author or writer managed to write such magnificent books? Do you sometimes wish you can write about your dreams too than just dream about writing? Because I do. I’m guilty of too much daydreaming and never having the time to write. I admire Haruki Murakami’s dedication to writing […]
Literature and Its Untold Universe
Ever read a book, poem, or any piece of literature that made you sigh in relief? I have. It has always been a pleasure to lay back down and daydream about the adventure of a lifetime (an hour) but, as I kept on reading other books, the more I realized that these books are just […]
The Comic Parable: Twice Blessed by Ninotchka Rosca
My Personal Rating: Only an author hailing from your own country is capable of accurately describing intergenerational cultural diversities, the striking realities that we live in, and capturing emotions that only we could truly understand. That’s what Twice Blessed by Filipina feminist Ninotchka Rosca evoked, a book published in 1992 and 1993 American Book Award […]
Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson
“… We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough, we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.” -Dr. Nash, Before I […]
Encompassing Father’s Love: Two By Two by Nicholas Sparks
My Personal Rating: At the time of writing, I’ve read this book a total of four times. Initially, I wasn’t impressed by the story and can barely believe that it was written by the same guy who gave my teenage heart a somersault with The Notebook and A Walk to Remember. For a year, the […]
The Outsider – Hints of Dark Half and Other Twists
It has been months since I read anything, but because of the ongoing community quarantine, I thought it best to get back to this old habit of mine. My best friend knows I am a huge fan of Stephen King and was kind enough to send me Outsider and Cell as my birthday gifts last […]
Quarantine Reads: Granny by Anthony Horowitz
12-year-old Jordan “Joe” Morgan Warde lives a lonely life in the glamorous Thattlebee Hall in North London. He is often neglected by his tycoon father, Gordon Warden, and his illiterate and piano, trapeze, and tennis lessoning mother, Maud Warden. The Wardens never wanted a child in the first place, and so they weren’t quite sure […]
Quarantine Reads: Patron Saints of Nothing
Jayson “Jay” Reguero has planned to spend the last semester of his senior year of high school playing video games with one of his closest friends, Seth, before heading to the University of Michigan. All of that changed when he discovered that his cousin, Jun, was killed in the president’s war on drugs. When nobody […]