If You Could Read My Mind: Two novels today, ‘The Echo Chamber’ and ‘Little Siberia,’ are humorous and playful. ‘The Sweetness of Water’ is a dramatic depiction of post-Civil War and ‘The Plot’ is about literary fraud and the consequences paid. ‘The Echo Chamber’ and ‘Little...
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: An interesting meditation on physical loss and impermanence, and three varying versions of the American Dream, imbibing the Past, the Present, and the Future. These are the four novels reviewed here. Mistakes? 'An Inventory of Losses' by Judith Schalansky Here is a very...
The Cultural Center of the Philippines continues to extend a helping hand ORMOC CITY - CCP BOOK DONATION Like many of the public schools in the country, the teachers and staff of Ormoc City High School have been dealing with the immense challenges brought by the ongoing pandemic, particularly the...
Time to get to know more about our Olympic gold medalist It doesn't hurt to dream big dreams, and Hidilyn Diaz finally reached one of her biggest dreams—to bring home the gold medal from the Tokyo Olympics. All throughout the years of training, she found time to help those in need through her...
Bringing the love of reading wherever they go Jacqueline Ng and Andrew Yap Driven by passion, Andrew Yap and Jacqueline Ng first launched the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale in 2009. It started as a warehouse sale in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where they provide an exciting array of excess books from...
Let’s make reading more accessible to everyone The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) recently donated various books and other materials to a youth group called Lahat ng Bata in Singalong, Manila. Lahat ng Bata Lahat ng Bata is a youth group that intends to make reading accessible to the...
Plunging into the world of mystery, murder, and elite colleges Vintage books in an aged bookshelf (photo by Thomas Kelley via Unsplash) An intellectually-engaging lifestyle is one of the main aspects of Dark Academia, and a book is definitely a tool for it. You can often see people who are into...
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: European Crime Fiction takes the spotlight via the debut novel of a Swedish author, a French graphic novel, and one set in the UK. And we have a sci-fi alt-history tale set in Germany 1945. ‘La Grande Odalisque’ and ‘Geiger’ ‘Geiger’ by Gustaf Skördeman...
Is digital learning the beginning of the end for printed textbooks? Photo from Rex Education In our pre-pandemic times, studying for many Filipino youth involved getting their noses buried inside the pages of a book. Those bounded pieces of paper have been the sword and shield of many students...
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: From the Hamptons to upstate New York, it’s the criminal life in that state for two of our novels. Then two from London or the nearby outskirts. Set in the streets of New York ‘The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer’ by Joël Dicker If you’re looking for sleepless...
The House Committee on Public Accounts is convinced that ‘nil to zero’ error in textbooks and learning materials given to students can be achieved by putting in place more stringent measures for publication standards, aside from imposing penalties against those who committed mistakes, whether...
Moms have always gone crazy over books for their children—anything to make learning fun for them, right? Education, as they say, is priceless; but it doesn't hurt if we get to save a little. We know everyone misses the annual Big Bad Wolf event, especially since it wasn't able to mount one last...
