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[PurplyCookie]

Thanks Rhys! :D

Rhys wrote: "Purplycookie wrote: "Hi, my name's Purplycookie (guess I'm not into giving out my real name online). I'm an English teacher to Gr. 7 students. I looove reading; I simply can't deal w/o reading a fe..."

[PurplyCookie]

Thanks Marco. That bit freaked me out a tad

Marco wrote: "James wrote: "Purplycookie wrote: "Hi, my name's Purplycookie (guess I'm not into giving out my real name online). I'm an English teacher to Gr. 7 students. I looove reading; I simply can't deal w/..."

[PurplyCookie]

That's one thing that's a dream of mine to see happen in the Phils., for each town/city to have a fully acessible public library :)

Nenette wrote: "Sali na rin ako, para may kasama si Doni na 45 y/o din. Ako si Nenette, at kahit "elder" na, mahilig din magbasa katulad nyo. Like Angeli, I love Jodi Picoult books, but I don't want to read them..."

[Maryse]

Jalandoni wrote: "Alin ba ang pinakamagandang (pinakamaraming selections) Booksale? "

The best Booksale for moi is BS SM Manila and BS Pirates' cove..er, I mean, Booksale Makati Cinema Square. Medyo malayo nga lang from your place. But I love SM Manila because they have a 10-peso hardbound bin. No best-sellers there, but if you have an eye for rare, good books and the knack for finding them, then it's a steal.

The Makati Cinema square branch carries a lot of hardbounds as well and if you're lucky you can find best sellers for like 30 pesos a pop. The trick to booksale buying, IMO, is luck so really it doesn't matter which branch you go to. I personally think (as jhunagev once mentioned) it's the book that finds you. Happy Hunting :)

[Christine]

eyow..welcome po s mga nakisali dn. :D:D nanayts :) >:D<

[James]

you dont need to freak out ma'am. i dont bite. parang may nakita lang kasi akong gan0n

[Apokripos]

Maligayang sali po sa aming grupo Mr. Jalandoni at Ms. Nannete. Lahat naman po ay maaring sumali sa aba naming grupo kahit hindi ka pa purong Pinoy basta Pilipino ang pintig ng puso mo, pwede na... Sa aking opinyon po ang paghahanap ng libro ay purong swerete pagka't ang lbro ang syang pumipili sa taong babasa sa kanya... kaya't naniniwala po akong may mga pagkakataong dumarating ang isang libro sa ating buhay sa puntong wari'y kailangan natin itong mabasa...
Nawa'y hindi sana maging hadlang ang iyon edad sa partipasyon sa bawat thread sa grupong ito...
Ang aking mainit na bati at maligayang pagbabasa....
muli po, maligayang sali!!!

[Lynai]

Huwaw! We're getting bigger and more diverse! Welcome to all! Happy! :D

[K.D.]

Thanks, Lynai. Diverse sounds like no age discrimination to me.

Marco, yes, I take it back. Bagets means Aga Mulach and you are a lot young aer than that! In fact, yours will be more like Jonas Brothers' era. You are as young as my daughter.

Salamat, jzhunagev! Puwede bang palitan ang pangalan mo? Hirap i-type.... jzhu na lang kaya?

Nenette, thanks for joining me. I will invite my older brother Tata J so I will not be the oldest here. har har har

Thank for the welcome, Christine!

[Apokripos]

Jalandoni wrote: "Thanks, Lynai. Diverse sounds like no age discrimination to me.

Marco, yes, I take it back. Bagets means Aga Mulach and you are a lot young aer than that! In fact, yours will be more like Jonas ..."

Whatever suits you Mr. Jalandoni...

[PurplyCookie]

Glad to hear of it :) Thanks for the clarification

James wrote: "you dont need to freak out ma'am. i dont bite. parang may nakita lang kasi akong gan0n"

[[deleted user]]

Jalandoni wrote: "Hope you accept me here. Para ko na kayong mga anak. har har har "

Nanette wrote: "Sali na rin ako"

Welcome po to both of you! Diversity is a great thing especially when it comes to book discussions. Please join us in any thread you prefer, sana kahit doon sa mga kulitan. ^_^

Jalandoni wrote: Puwede bang palitan ang pangalan mo? Hirap i-type.... jzhu na lang kaya?

Alien po sya; may pagka-makulit, pero okay sya. One of the reasons kaya anti-stress ko ang Filipinos here in Goodreads.

[Apokripos]

I didn't know that, Beng. Well ain't that swell. May anti-stress fasctor pala ako... nyahahaha!! Dahil jan bigay mo sa kin ang hardbound mo ng Alienist... Hahahaha!! XD

[[deleted user]]

jzhunagev wrote: "I didn't know that, Beng. Well ain't that swell. May anti-stress fasctor pala ako... nyahahaha!! Dahil jan bigay mo sa kin ang hardbound mo ng Alienist... Hahahaha!! XD"

Ngehehehe, I take it back. Bigla akong na-stress dun.

[Christine]

good morning na ata :) 12:54am on my clock :) aun..mukhang maganda ang "Alienist" aah :) sir alien assistant moderator hanap nlng kau ibang kopya XD kay beng na un hehehehe :D

aun :) mornyt po sa lahaaaaaaaaaaaaat ^_^ gg sirs :)

[[deleted user]]

Christine wrote: "aah :) sir alien assistant moderator hanap nlng kau ibang kopya XD kay beng na un hehehehe :D"

Thanks Christine for talking some sense into jzhun. :-)

[Apokripos]

Now, I'm the one who's stressed out...
puyat-mode I watched back to back episodes of Lost...
Awwwwww, I need some sleep...
Damn that series...
But I do love it...
Now, Beng, it's your time de-stress me... I stil wouldn't say no to a copy of The Alienist, BTW...
(--,)

[Rhys]

beng, I've been having a hard time looking for The Alienist in hardbound...Though I spot another one in paperback in Booksale...super new! hehe.. I'm thinking of buying that one...the one I bought last week is no doubt very old.. Did I mention subversive? :)

[Rhys]

jzhunagev wrote: "Now, I'm the one who's stressed out...
puyat-mode I watched back to back episodes of Lost...
Awwwwww, I need some sleep...
Damn that series...
But I do love it...
Now, Beng, it's your time de-stre..."

Jzhun, dear.. Do you want me to send you a copy of The Alienist? hehe... hahahaha!

[Apokripos]

Nah... I guess that would take all the fun hunting down a hardcover of this one...
Anyway, thanks darling.... &_&.... very nice of you...

[Rhys]

jzhunagev wrote: "Nah... I guess that would take all the fun hunting down a hardcover of this one...
Anyway, thanks darling.... &_&.... very nice of you..."

It's worth the fun...

enjoy the hunt.. :) So I'll buy it for myself...

[Christine]

good for you guys who have the time to hunt down and the money to spend..well i suppose it's worth for the book :) good luck everyone :) ingats >:D<

[Tyler]

Hello. My name is Tyler. Amerikano ako, pero two years ako tumira sa Pilipinas. I love the Philippines and Bob Ong books (yan pa lang kasi yung nabasa kong Filipino books.)
Estudyante ako sa Utah State University. English yung course na kinukuha ko. Some of my favorite books are East of Eden, Slaughterhouse Five, The Sun Also Rises, Things Fall Apart, and Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas (syempre, ah!)
Anyway, I'm happy to see such a large group of Filipino readers. I'm looking for more Filipino writers to read (because, like I said, Bob Ong is the only one I really know...besides Rizal, I guess), so any recommendations are welcome.

[Apokripos]

Welcome to the group,Tyler!!!

just feel at home ka lang dito... ^_^

[Apokripos]

Okay lang yan Aaron Vincent, the better for our friends abroad to understand you...

Really, I do want to use my ancient tongue Zapoid here, course no one will understand me... he.he.he.je.je.je ~^^~

[Aaron Vincent]

@Marco thanks Mod :)

@jzhunagev Ill still try use Filipino here though so it'll be cooler. And from what place is Zapoid exactly spoken??! Kidding. Thanks for the f.request btw. :)

[Apokripos]

@Aaron, that's the planet where I came from... i've been stuck here on Earth for years now... and then I imbibed their culture...

BTW, tokneneng tastes GREAT! you should try them...
I'm learning how do they cook it and I'm gonna set my self a business empire out of tokneneng!! hahaha...
Too bad I can't return to Zapoid...


HHHHEEEEYYYYY!!! I got an idea! Since you're a system programmer why don't you help me fix my spacegyro!

That would be swell don'you think?

[Lynai]

To Tyler and Aaron Vincent: Welcome to you all!

[Aaron Vincent]

@Lynai thanks. :)

@jzhunagev dude you're weird.!!! You need a genius to fix your spacegyro not a system programmer.! hehe. what's a tokneneng??

[Apokripos]

yeah! weird is my middlename... not counting loony which is my surname...

Are you a Pinoy? Really, everyone here knows what a tokneneng is... and by golly someone might've ate one...

[Aaron Vincent]

Yeah. I believe I am 100% Pinoy. Although I really dont know what a tokneneng is. I ask Mr. Google about it. :)

Edit: Oh. its the quail egg with the orange covering sold at the streets. I have eaten that, i just didnt know that tokneneng is its name. 8)

[Apokripos]

Palusot... Ahihihi... ^.^

[Lynai]

Aaron Vincent wrote: "Yeah. I believe I am 100% Pinoy. Although I really dont know what a tokneneng is. I ask Mr. Google about it. :)

Edit: Oh. its the quail egg with the orange covering sold at the streets. I have eat..."

I thought it's called kwek kwek.

[Aaron Vincent]

Yeah., Lynai is correct. I remember my friends calling it kwek-kwek. See, Im 100% Pinoy.!!! :)

@Charles thanks. :)

[Lynai]

Tyler wrote: "Hello. My name is Tyler. Amerikano ako, pero two years ako tumira sa Pilipinas. I love the Philippines and Bob Ong books (yan pa lang kasi yung nabasa kong Filipino books.)
Estudyante ako sa Utah ..."

Bakit ang galing mo mag Tagalog? Just wondering. :)

[[deleted user]]

Hello there, new to Goodreads and new to the group, fortunately not new to books, actually my bibliophilia was only revived 5 years ago, thanks to video gaming (fortunately toned that down to accomodate reading), the books that i read when i was younger(8-14 yrs old i think) were more of the mystery genre (hardy boys, nancy drew), these days i prefer sci-fi and fantasy books.. i wish i never gave up books

[Apokripos]

Welcome Jon! Kamusta ka!

I myself is a sci-fi and fantasy buff... Try mu yung RiftWar Saga ni Raymond E. Feist... ganda nun... Sa sci-fi, I'm just starting to collect some of Ray Bradbury's books...

Feel at home ka dito, Jun!! ^_^

[[deleted user]]

jzhunagev wrote: "Welcome Jon! Kamusta ka!

I myself is a sci-fi and fantasy buff... Try mu yung RiftWar Saga ni Raymond E. Feist... ganda nun... Sa sci-fi, I'm just starting to collect some of Ray Bra..."

hehe salamat, dalawa pa lang nabasa kong libro ni Raymond E. Feist, "Honored Enemy" at "Magician" ata yun, liked it though, maybe i'll come around to read his other works

[Apokripos]

Gald you like him Jon... mas nauna ko pa nga siyang basahin kaysa kay Tolkien... What I like about the guy is he is true to his world... Lahat ng books niya is set in Midkemia... hindi katulad ni Terry Brooks na masyadong maraming ginagawang mundo... Hahaha!
I'm hunting for some of Terry Goodkind lalo na yung series niyang Sword of truth Series...

For now ang trip ko ay mga horror-suspense novels. Most particularly the works of Stephen King...

Enjoy!! ^_^

[Jasiel]

Hello! I think I'm definitely one of the new people here in this group! :D

I'm MJ (a nickname. I really don't like my "M" as it is for Maria. Ugh, my parents are too classy.Hehe!)

I'm a sophomore student at UP-Los Banos, taking up BA Communication Arts, major in Writing. Believe it or not, I just recently (a few weeks ago, maybe?) discovered this website. How? I was looking for a good quote/line from Paulo Coehlo's The Zahir, but I got too tired to flip through my own copy. So anyway--BOOM! Goodreads was linked in when I googled Paulo Coelho.

I usually put in my book reviews at my Multiply site but recently, I've only been putting film reviews there, so I decided to join somewhere else.

Goodreads is an awesome website. A true haven for booklovers (like us!) :D

About the books I read, I'm not really into a particular genre. I usually read books that are recommended (that's why goodreads is such a helpful site for me!) But recently, though technically an adult now, I have been reading some young adults stuff like The Mortal Instrument trilogy, Percy Jackson, and some titles from Alex Flinn (Beastly, A Kiss in Time, etc.)

Nicholas Sparks novels are some of my favorites, too. It's a guilty pleasure to read some pop-romance from him and sometimes from Cecilia Ahern as well!

One Hundred Years of Solitude and Revolutionary Road are the greatest novels ever written! Not to mention the Catcher in the Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird.

Anyhow, I really think I will be enjoying my time here. (I actually am already, to tell you the truth.)

Nice to meet all of you! :D

[Apokripos]

maligayang Welcome sa iyo Mj dev Jesus!

Please feel free to join the discussions in this group..

Thanks!

Creepy cheers to you! ^_^

[Aaron Vincent]

Hi MJ! Hi Jon! Welcome to both of you. Thanks to you, Im not the "greenbean" (The term coined for the newest newbie by the Gladers from James Dashner's The Maze Runner.). :) Enjoy here.

@MJ glad we share almost the same reading list. I also finished TMI and I'm now working on PJ&O second book. :)

[Claire]

Hi! newbie here. :) I can't believe I found this site just now :( cn i join here po?hehe

Anyways,I'm a fellow booklover/bookworm.you can call me Claire.I'm from Bacolod City.I started with Archie Comics nd Sweet Valley series nung elementary ako. Most of the books I read are chick-lits, I dunno,I just have a thing for this genre,it's as if I'm biting into a blueberry cheese cake pag yan ang genre na binabasa ko.hehe. But sometimes it depends upon my mood,I also read Dan Brown's, Bob Ong's, Anne Rice's books and so on, though I'm not really into the Romance genre. For me kasi reading is a hobby, I really enjoy doing it. I hope I'm welcome here :)

[Aaron Vincent]

Ofcourse you are welcome here Minerva_clara., Have fun.!! :)

[Apokripos]

Feel at home here Minerva_clara!! Magdiwang ka lang!! ~^^~

[K.D.]

It was P0.05/word during my elementary days in the province (mid 70s). LOL. I was so scared because my daily baon is only P0.75 and snacks are normally P0.25. I had to be careful not speaking any Tagalog words except during Pilipino and Araling Panlipunan subjects.
Now, in the office building where I work at, there are many call centers and in the gate I could see "English Speaking Zone - Speak only English from this point"

[K.D.]

Hi Minerva! Welcome to Goodreads. I like Dan Brown too.

HI Marco! Yeah, I am decades behind. LOLZ.

Happy New Year to both of you! Let's read more books in 2010!

[Claire]

thanks for the warm welcome everyone :)

hey jzhun,kaya pala your pic looks familiar,I think I saw you in one of the bookstores sa multiply.wula lang.ahehe.

[Claire]

Probably just a coincidence Marco. Lol.

[Apokripos]

yeah, the internet's a small world too, Marco...
Maybe you've seen one of my comments from Julie's Sari-sari store...
I'm always browsing some of the books there...
And with a picture like mine... Now, that's an easy one to spot there... :D