Several Philippine officials on Monday paid their last respects to former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at the residence of the Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines in Makati City. Among those who went to Ambassador Koshikawa Kazuhiko's residence were Vice President Sara Duterte and...
Ines Aurora Athene Angara may seldom be in the limelight, but her little advocacies in life is gaining traction with the launching of her project “Pages of HappInes.” Ines Aurora Athene Angara and her “Pages of Happiness” mobile book truck. (Contributed Photo) Senator Sonny Angara’s...
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: If you’re looking for books that can serve as traveling companions, here are four new novels that take storytelling to new heights. Garmus’ novel is historical women empowerment, while Goddard’s is dependable crime fiction. Chao has her own take on the immigrant...
Agos Studio’s latest showcase will be part of the Ortigas Art Festival 2022 For the second time, Agos Studio brings creatives together for an exhibit that is founded on honing the talents and skills of budding Filipino mid-career artists. Dubbed “A Seat At The Table Book 2,” the exhibit puts...
When was the last time you read a book? Do you click a title that says ‘five-minute read’ – and finish reading the whole article? Reading is one of the most important skills because it leads to knowledge, self-improvement, and better comprehension of the world around us. Even though that is...
‘BORACAY: A Paradise Reborn,’ a coffee table book featuring the rehabilitation work at world-famous Boracay Island. (EMB-6) ILOILO CITY – “Boracay: A Paradise Reborn,” a coffee table book featuring the rehabilitation efforts at world-famous Boracay Island, was launched here Thursday, June...
... and presents a ‘hybrid’ version Since the pandemic, the Manila International Book Fair has taken its events online to cater to bookworms and avid readers’ needs everywhere in a safe manner. Now that we are on the cusp back to our normal lives, the “largest and longest-running book fair...
Whether moving back in time to provide engaging historical fiction, or traveling at warp speed to an alternate near future or present, and throwing cautionary tales our way—these four novels know how to elucidate, teach us something new, and entertain. Plants and highway men ‘The Plant...
And neither is this book history, though someday it might well be “Chinatown is not a place,” declared journalist-author Jullie Yap Daza to her friends. Now that sentence is the title of her latest book. Technically, Chinatown is one square kilometer in size, an area surrounded by streets whose...
And it became a worldwide project PANDEMIC EDUCATION Q is for Quarantine cover ‘It was very scary, and it made me think about how I would explain this to my son—and how other parents and children must be trying to understand this really confusing time.’ The Covid-19 pandemic drastically...
Día del Libro is back! Did you know that Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes and English playwright William Shakespeare both died on the same day? Two of history's greatest writers coincidentally passed away on April 23, 1616. And this prompted UNESCO to declare in 1995 that from then on April 23...
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: Two of the novels reviewed here are brilliant examples of where sci-fi today is taking us; and there are two detective mysteries that similarly show the broad range of the genre Sci-fi tales in fantasy worlds ‘Mickey 7’ by Edward Ashton The first big news about this...
