Introduce yourself! Tell us about yourself, which books you like, what books do you want to read, etc.

Tell us about yourself muna dear Moderator :)

OO nga naman. We abide by the follow-the-leader/moderator rule. :D

oo nga naman.

Okay, fine. I'm Marco. I'm 14. I used to live in the Philippines but my parents and I moved to England about 4 years ago.

I'm studying here at school in a place called Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The school is called Ivanhoe Specialist Technology College. At school, there are students who help run the school library called Student Librarians, of which I am a member. So I get to see books everyday at school. In the Philippines, in the humdrum of school, I didn't really like reading, anyway the school library in the Philippines will only let you borrow the book for a day - overdue books cost 10 pesos each day that it hasn't been returned.

Moving to England, where libraries allow 3 weeks for returning books :), my love for reading bloomed and so here I am, in GoodReads. With fiction books, I like fantasy or science fiction, maybe some humour and horror as well. I love reading books with words from other languages in; I love reading about the culture of different places.

Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist had been my favourite book last year, with some Arabic and Spanish words and recently, I've been engrossed in Brisingr, the 3rd in the Inheritance Cycle. The words are obviously made-up but they still bring a light to my day when I see another "foreign" word. =) You can say I'm a xenoverbophile (my made-up word =).

Okay, your turn!

OK!!! The assistant moderator then follows....


Ako si jzhunagev, ang taong me pinakamahirap na bigkasing pangalan sa Goodreads... Alien kasi ang mga magulang ko kaya mukhang alien din ang anak...
Isang kong le-out artist at maramming gustong tuparing pangarap sa buhay.... paisa-isa lang... masyadong matataas yung iba eh....


Isang akong realist fiction at magical realist fiction reader... Noon pa lang mahilig na ako sa mga klasikong obra kaya mukha akong boring... Nakakainis lang hindi gaanong tinuturo rito ang mga librong ito... Namamangha ako sa mga gawa ni Ernest Hemingway... siya ang kauna-unahang Modernong maununulat na aking nabasa.. gustong-gusto ko ang konsepto niya ng tinatawag ng mga kritikong Code Hero... Sa nagyon ay sinisikap kong makabili at basahin ang ilang libro ng mga manunulat na nanalo ng Nobel Prize in Literature at Pulitzer Prize in Fiction....
Sa mga Filipinong manunulat naman ay labis kong hinahangaan ang National Artist na si Nick Joaquin at F Sionil Jose. Isa rin ako sa huhamahanga sa mga gawang tulang klasiko ni Amado V. Hernandez....tas nabasa ko na ring ang nobela niyang Luha ng Buwaya at Mga Ibong Mandaragit, ang sinasabing sequel ng El Filibusterismo....
Ako'y avid Booksale buyer... halos kilala na ko ng mga saleslady ng mga branches nito... Naiinis ako sa mahal ng benta ng libro ng National Bookstore... Sana ay may magawa sana ang gobyerno para mapababa ang presyo ng libro....
Isa sa mga librong nagbigay liwanag sa aking buhay ang The Alchemist ni Paulo Coelho... ngayon ay nasa proseso ako ng pagbili ng mga libro niya sa murang halaga mula sa mga nakaw na libro sa Recto... Naiinis lang ako sa dami ng taong naenkwentro ko na nabababawan sa The Alchemist... marahil sila yaong mga taong hinidi naniniwala sa kapangyarihan ng taong mangarap....
Sa magical realism ng mga manunulat ay hinahangaan ko sina Gabriel Garcia Marquez at Jose Saramago... parehong nanalo ng Nobel... nakakalungkot nga lang ay konti o wala pa akong libro na akda nila... mahal pa nga kasi ito sa National....
Sana naman ay may konti akong naibahagi ng aking sarili sa mga taong kabilang sa grupong ito....





P.S. nanggaling nga pala kami sa lahi ng mga Alieng sinungaling... bbbppppptttttzzzztttkkkk.........
Ryan Secreast out..... ^_^

WOW! Amazing Filipino! By the way I don't understand half of that Filipino :(

who's next?

ehhh di 'kaw....? Chikletz...

gO, CHIKLETZ!

pwedeng 'kaw din ang sumunod Lynai...

Oh. Okay...mag-iisip muna ako kung papano ko ipakilala sarili ko...

*scurries off to her room to think*

hi there...am a newbie here...

i think am goin to love this site..

am avid fan of the twilight saga and i love to read novels about vampire..
how did it started? okay so heres the thing.

when i was a kid i was so fond of playing with bats..
my mom always scolding me becouse i used to put this tiny little creatures in my room and when she's going to inter my room these bats fly accross her hair..she used to scream and shout this words "charles van!!!your always freaking the shit out of me"..heheh..i can still remember exactly her reactions when she got in to my room.. but i love my mOm..am just quite mischievous back then..

theres a lot of bats between our house and the fire wall..even now we cant get rid of them..but thier nice its just that the shit of them stinks..hehehe..

then my granny visit me one afternoon and caught me playing with one of my so called friends(the bats)..
and just like the usual granny of ours told me a story about the bats and how its was link to vampires..i was so fascinated of her story but after sh told me about it i ceased playing with the bats becouse i was afraid of bloodsuckers though these bats never suck my blood..then when i got to high school she sends me of books about vampires..and thats how it'started..heheh..until now i collect books about vampire and of course fiction novels..

i was worndren' vampire fan din siguro c Granny.. that why i inherited her the fond of reading stuff about vampire..

filipino books are somewhat rare to me..ang bobo ko sa Filipino and am so damn slow when reading these national language of ours..i dont know but i never used to read such..pero sa ngayon kaylangan ng magbasa kasi we Filipinos have to be broad when it comes to what we are reading..yan yung sabi ng isa kong professor so since am obedient am trying to read such...am currently reading books of bob ong..hehhe..ka2tuwa na man..

well more books to come guys..

welcome bats, ehrm, i mean, Charles! :)

Ang cool naman ng grandma mo, Charles. I wish mine would send me vampire books too. :)

Charles, you'll find most of us avid fans of Twilight as well =)

Charles wrote: "filipino books are somewhat rare to me..ang bobo ko sa Filipino and am so damn slow when reading these national language of ours..i dont know but i never used to read such."

Same here =]

Sorry I'm not a huge Twilight fan but am fascinated with Vampires...

At least the creatures of the night are coming into completion in this group... me an Alien and now we've got a Vampire...fan I mean... LOL!!!
I couldn't wish for more!!!

I'm neither a Twilight nor a Vampire fan. But I can still make friends with those who are. :)

Mabuhay ka charles van! I can imagine your mom screaming, "Charles Van!!! You're always freaking the s*** out of me!"

Maybe you are the Pinoy counterpart of batman hehe. Welcome to Goodreads. =)

i had a fever yesterday and i wasn't able to check my good reads..wow..am so overwhelmed..thank you for welcoming me here..

anyone of you guys here read the four books of twilight saga?
kakatuwa kasi c Bella..a silly, beautiful, oversensitive girl..heheh.

to Lynai,Ria,Marco,Maryse and jzhunagev(though i dont know how am i goin to enunciate your name:) thank you..
i hope we could have a great bond here..

:))

No problem, Charles :)
Haven't read Twilight myself -- not really a fan, eh. I read the first chapter of the 3 books, I think, kase libre sa interenet. Ehehehe.
Hope you'll have fun here :)

thanks Maryse..mMmh am really having fun here while reading the Paolo Coelho's The Alchemist..

by the way may i ask..
what is it being a moderator here?am just curious..
Marco seems so active in here..

can you tell me some more about goodreads?

Charles, a moderator is the one who manages this group. But I guess our moderators are the ones who could best tell you about their roles. :)

Ann - tunay na pangalan
I work in the IT industry. I spend at least 3 hours everyday commuting. That's what you get when you live in Malabon, work in Taguig and refuse to rent a place much nearer to work.
I LOVE Neil Gaiman. I my book, he can do absolutely no wrong. I got into goodreads because of Neil Gaiman.
I'm uber jologs. I love John Lloyd Cruz and Piolo Pascual =)

My fave books include HP Series, Neverwhere and The Alchemist. I loved the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice as well. Twilight? ehehe.. next question please. Sabi ko nga, mahal ko si Neil Gaiman, kaya lahat ng i-publish niya na libro babasahin ko. :) Isa akong dakilang hoarder ng libro, siguro merong higit isang dosena sa cabinet ko na di ko pa nababasa. Kaya excited ako sa book club. Finally a reason to squeeze in that book that I received last Christmas. Bihira din ako magbasa ng local works, hirap kasi ako magbasa ng Tagalog. Masyadong mabagal. Pero nito lang nakabili ako ng Para Kay B, maganda siya subukan niyo ring basahin.

Ayan kayo naman =)

Moderators are people who manage a group, start group discussions (although you are welcome to start ones as well), organize meetings, group reads, etc.

We keep things clean, no spam or personal attacks on anyone.

Ann wrote: "Bihira din ako magbasa ng local works, hirap kasi ako magbasa ng Tagalog. Masyadong mabagal."

Finally, someone I can relate to!

Masarap magbasa ng Tagalog.
Nakakabag-bag ng damdamin.
Kaya napamahal na sa akin ang manunulat ng Bata-Bata Paano Ka Ginawa?; Gapo; at Dekada 70. Si Lualhati Bautista.
Medyo mahirap lang mag-sulat ng tagalog gamit ang "keyboard" ng kompyuter.
Ang pangalan ko po ay nasa tabi lamang ng aking larawan. Makulay at medyo hango sa mga aktibidades ng simbahan.
Nagbabasa din ako ng mga libro na sulat ng mga taga-ibang bayan.
Minsan, umaapaw pa ang interes ko sa mga sulat nila keysa sa mga sulat ng mga Pilipino. Maari'y dahil dala na rin sa kultura ng mga Inglis na dumapo sa istruktura ng ating mga paaralan.
Hindi ko ikinahihiya ang wikang tagalog, kahit hindi ako tagalog. Mas malaman kasi at mas makahulugan ang mga wika natin kesa sa wika ng ibang bansa. Ika nga e, mas nakaka-antig pa sa puso natin.

Halimbawa:
a. You filled my mind. (Hindi kita maiwaglit sa aking isipan.)
b. I saw you. (Ang imahe moy nakalimbag sa aking mga mata.)

Pero okey lang. Kasi bihira na rin kasi sa mga magigiting na Pilipinong manunulat ang sumusulat ng Pilipino. Lahat nasa Inglis na. Kung may-nanagalog man e, 'yong mga tabloid na lang na ang laman ay mga mga tsismis ng bayan.

Hindi ko alam kong may-makakaunawa (relate) sa mga sinabi ko. Bagamat ma-ikokonsidera nating "language under threat" ang Pilipino (gaya ng extinct species), okey lang sa akin kung mag-Inglis kayo. Ako naman kasi'y isang Bisaya.

may nakalimutan lang ako.
Gustong-gusto ko nga pala ang mga libro ni Jose Rizal gaya ng El Filibusterismo (na ang kahulugan ay Touch Me Not), Noli Me Tangere, Ibong Adarna at iba pa. Sa sobrang pag-mamahal ko sa kanyang mga sulat ay pumunta talaga ako sa bahay niya doon sa Luzon at doon sa Dipolog kung saan sya ay nagkaroon ng kasintahan na ang pangalan ay si Josephine Bracken. Pinuntahan ko rin yong bahay ni Josephine.
Ang nakakalungkot lang ay parang kelangan ko pang maghanap ng isa pang Rizal na ang mga sulat ay makakabago sa ating lipunan.

Malay natin ano kung baka isa sa inyo ay makakagawa noon.

I'm Angeli (not my real name... because I don't give out my real name on the internet) :D

I'm 16, currently in 4th year HS here in the Phil. Right now all I have to take care of in school is our oral defense for our thesis and then after that we're all pretty much relaxing 'till graduation (puro practices nalang).

I don't like reading books that are "mainstream" like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, the Twilight series, etc. I don't like it when books are turned into movies either. I like historical fictions and family-oriented tragedies :D. My favorite author is Jodi Picoult. I hate romance novels. As for Filipino works, I'm a fan of Bob Ong and Jessica Zafra. I also liked Noli me Tangere and El Fili (required reading sa school eh :D pero maganda talaga yung kwento).

nice to meet you all :D

Welcome Angeli and Violeta :)

anne...same here..i love Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles..hehe..hope you do like here in good reads..have fun...

welcome in goodreads Angeli and Violeta..mga mabubuting mamamayan ng aTIng bansa..:)keep it up..

Sa lahat ng mga bagong salta dito sa Goodreads... Welkom sa inyong lahat!!!!
kung may patimplalak tayo sa pinakamagandang magpakilala ng kanyang sarili sa gropung ito, iboboto ko si Violeta... Kakaunti na lang ang ganireng mga katauhan sa ating bansa... mga taong marubdob ang damdamin sa kanilang lupang sinilangan.... Ako'y lubos ngang sumasangayon sa iyong mga kasiphayuan na isa na ngang "language under threat" ang tagalog... ehhhh pano pa kaya iyong mga bernakulong hindi gaanong nabibigyan ng pansin sa mga karatig lalawigan... sila'y talagang masasabi na nating nasa dapit-hapon na ng pagkalaos...
Naniniwala akong ang wika nga natin ay may angking lambing at matalinhagang taglay... Isa sa mga adbokasya ko ang magkaroon tayo ng tinatawag na language apppreiation... ngunit sa kasamaang palad ay natatabunan ang ating lenguahe ng media boom ng wikang pangkaluranin.... Sa iyong hiling na sana ay magkarooon ng isang panibagong Rizal na babago sa lipunan... hintay lang...

anne...same here..i love Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles..hehe..hope you do like here in good reads..have fun...

welcome in goodreads Angeli and Violeta..mga mabubuting mamamayan ng aTIng bansa..:)keep it up..

charles, coolness :)

i love it here in goodreads!

Violeta wrote: "Masarap magbasa ng Tagalog.
Nakakabag-bag ng damdamin.
Kaya napamahal na sa akin ang manunulat ng Bata-Bata Paano Ka Ginawa?; Gapo; at Dekada 70. Si Lualhati Bautista.
Medyo mahirap lang mag-sulat ..."

Bisaya ka, day? I'm impressed -- ang galing mong mag-tagalog. I grew up here in Manila and I can't even write like that. Ironically, I always used my mom as an excuse for my poor Tagalog -- bisaya din siya eh and nahihirapan siyang mag-tagalog. :)

its really cool here oh dearest Ann.. same here..am so slow in reading Filipino books but am trying to read such books lately...shame on me if i dont read such, naturingan pa naman akong Pinoy..hhehhee..

yOOoohOooo Violeta..your so cool...

Maraming salamat sa mainit na pagtanggap nyo sa akin dito.
Kaya pala medyo nilagnat ako kaninang hapon. Ngayon ko lang nawari.
Hehehe.
Charles, Maryse, Jzhunagev, Marco... maraming salamat. Pinaparamdam nyo sa akin na maging komportable ako sa inyo, kasing komportable sa pag-upo sa isang maselang kutson na upuan.
Sumasang-ayon ako sa'yo Jzhunagev na kelangan nating magkaroon minsan ng language appreciation o pagpapahalaga sa ating sariling wika. Masarap kasing mawari ang ganda ng mga wika kung ito'y sinasabi ayon sa takbo ng ating buhay at paano natin ito binigkas kasama ang ating damdamin. Gaya ng isang pag-ibig. Isang pag-ibig na namumutawi sa iyong puso na sinabi o binigkas mo ng walang batid na hiya. Parang... parang pag-ibig na walang hiya.
Pero Jzhunagev, wag mo na akong iboto dahil nagandahan ka kung paano ko ipinakilala ang aking sarili. Makakaasa ka na ako'y hindi isang politiko na maglalaro sa inyong mga damdamin o di kaya'y isang maingay na palaka sa inyong kaisipan. Ako'y isang simpleng tao lamang na walang maiaalay sa inyo kundi ang aking matinong kaisipan (tapos dinama ang puso kung tumitibok pa ba). Wagnalang isali ang puso ko... dahil duda ako kung sakto pa ba ang pintig nito.
Nakapanood din ako ng Twilight... napilitan akong panoorin iyon para maintindihan ko ang pinag-uusapan nila.
Kung bakit ba kasi di nalang natin panoorin ang mga aswang sa ating paligid. Hahaha! Siguro din naman...kaya ng mga Pilipinong aswang at bampira ang magdala ng isang magandang dilag sa taas ng pinakamatarik na puno upang doon ihayag ang makamundong pag-ibig.
Eh, ang ibig kong sabihin nito ay... doon kasi sa ibabaw ng kahoy, makikita mo ang ma-berdeng ganda ng mundo. Naranasan nyo na bang makikipagtampisaw sa tibok ng inyong mga puso sa pinakatuktok ng mataas na kahoy?
Hindi ko pa kasi naranasan ito. Malas lang at hindi ako nga-kaboypren ng bampira o di kayay aswang.
Hayaan nyo, hindi ko rin yan naging sagabal sa buhay ko o naging sanhi ng pagkabigo o pagkadama ng siphayo.
Magandang gabi sa inyong lahat!
Sana'y hindi tayo maging marupok.
Be happy...

I'm leaving this topic, I can't understand :'( haha

LOL Marco!

Nice learning about the people in this group. I just realized that I haven't really introduced myself yet, though I'm not really new ^^;

I'm a fresh graduate, already working, but my mentality is still of a ten year old's. Haha!

I have a lot of fandoms. I love to read books or comics/manga, and watch cartoons/anime or tv series/drama or movies. I am also into drawing, blogging, cross-stitch, etc.

My parents think I have colonial mentality because I don't adore much local actors and actresses nor do I stay tune on local movies or tv series, but honestly it just so happened that many of the contemporary local media are . . . not my type.

I read books in Filipino. I prefer them in pure tagalog/filipino, but not too deep because my vocabulary sucks. Though I speak/converse in taglish, I hate reading novels or watching shows/movies/dubs that are in taglish (unless there's no tagalog equivalent). I don't know why but I find it annoying.

Back to my likes . . . my tastes vary so much which makes me watch or read a little of everything. I mean, I don't only focus on the romance genre, or just young adult ones, I like almost all genres! Though of course there are ones which I didn't appreciate and I am not afraid to voice out my . . . disgust . . . towards such media. However, I don't bash fans. Our tastes differ, as simple as that. We should respect everyone's opinions ^_^

Alright, that's all. I look forward to making some friends from this community =)

Marco wrote: "I'm leaving this topic, I can't understand :'( haha"

LOL din. hahahahahah!

"I'm a fresh graduate, already working, but my mentality is still of a ten year old's. Haha!"
>>> I think i am going to like you Sapphire... although we cant be cinema partners. I felt my academic life immersed me to serious paradigms that's why im shifting to lighter movies... for fun. I'd prefer to feel kilig and to chuckle over simple things than on serious matters. I'd like to be a 10-year old child again... for the record... although last night, i watched "The Day when the World Stood Still'"
Made me wonder if its possible to be in love to an alien with an eye that can put off all lights and all satellite-based devices?
Haha
Feel happy here.
This barangay is filled with happy people. Very Filipino although they are speaking English.

I'm not really a newbie but I haven't had time to introduce meself either.

I'm Maryse, med student by day and writer/illustrator/movie addict/internet addict by night. I adore stories, fiction or not, silly or intellectual, so long as it feeds my over-active imagination.

Most of the books I've read are classics, although I've just recently started reading more mainstream books like "Harry Potter" & the best sellers. I love horror stories, so naturally I'm a big Stephen King fan. I like nonfiction horror stories, though, vs fiction.

I generally don't like romances, but thanks to my cousin's influence, that's starting to change now. Ehehehe

I like dystopian/utopian stories, morality tales and what not. Don't really know why, but I really enjoy reading them. Hence, most of my favorite books then to be dark ones like "A Clockwork Orange", "A Handmaid's Tale" & "Jurassic park". I also enjoyed "El Fili", even though I honestly didn't like "Noli".

Unfortunately, I haven't read much Filipino books. I''m hoping with our upcoming Filipino book club, that will change too. :)

I'm with Sapphire -- I don't like it when they dub TV shows taglish. I miss the days when they dubbed shows in pure Tagalog. It sounded better in straight Tagalog.

A little off topic, but it's funny that some schools insist in putting more emphasis on English than Filipino. Sure, it's helpful except when you go to Med school and have to talk to patients who speak deeper Filipino than you. They have all sorts of names for all the different body parts and ailments that I haven't even heard of. At least, my Filipino is improving thanks to them. :)

"A little off topic, but it's funny that some schools insist in putting more emphasis on English than Filipino. Sure, it's helpful except when you go to Med school and have to talk to patients who speak deeper Filipino than you. They have all sorts of names for all the different body parts and ailments that I haven't even heard of. At least, my Filipino is improving thanks to them. :)"

>>>> Great! I'm happy to get to know you.
How should I describe that? Language barrier or communication gap? Or, our school is too busy attuning our minds to the needs of foreign lands
that we forgot our needs...
I'm honestly nanghihinayang that many of our Filipino doctors, specially the bright ones, would leave our patients here to serve the patients of the other countries.

In my school in the Philippines, if you talk in Filipino during any lesson apart from Filipino and Geography, you get punished :P It's a weird system but it gets everyone to speak English.

right. i remember we pay P.25 cents per word. i didn't realize its actually part of Americanization. hehehe

Hehe. Kami rin, pero it was 25 cents per syllable and the money went to fund our Christmas parties. Needless to say, we ended up with nice parties. :)

:O We had to pay P1!