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O sige, I will try reading it again. Bago dumating the Jodi Piccoult month next year. May officemate akong katabi dito na avid fan ng Piccoult books. May collection sya. Sabi ko, try ko. Yong pinakamaganda na tinggin mo magugustuhan ko. So she gave me My Sister's Keeper. Hay, pinilit ko talagang basahin just to make her happy. Sobrang drama, Joyzi. Kahit sa mga bookstores o airports, etc. Kadalasan middle aged women ang nagbabasa ng Jodi Piccoult eh. I know this is wrong but you know, I always believe that just like most products in the market, they have niches. Minsan, may clear gender ang ibang books. For example, James Patterson is for young to middle-aged men (I think) who loves thrillers and crime stories.
Oo nga baka ganun kasi girls naman commonly ang into drama e tapos guys are into action/horror
Naku Lyle wag mo na ako tanungin at pag Filipino author ang masusugest ko lang e si Bob Ong, pero type ko rin yung Bata, Bata Paano Ka Ginawa kaso parang girly yun
Yan din dilemma ko, Lyle. Wala pa talaga akong nagustuhang Tagalog books. My brother told me yesterday that Time Magazine came out just this week a list of Top 50 Women Authors (around the world), two Filipinas landed there and one of them is Hagedorn (I forgot the other one). So, just this lunchtime, I bought her Dogeaters. Pero it is in English and I think Hagedorn is already a Fil-Am. Sa mga narito pa sa Pilipinas, mas authority dyan si Tina who I hope will be a full-fledged Pinay writer someday. Para meron tayong friend na author na sikat. Para someday na yon feeling sikat na rin tayo ha ha!
parang nakita ko me picture si Bob Ong dito sa GR, totoo kaya yun o fraud lang?Si Tina pala e writer as in novelist?
Lam mo Joyzi, may bagong book si Bob Ong. I forgot the name. Many christmases ago, an officemate gave me NKKBSNPLAKO? I read it while I was in the toilet. Natatawa ako. Pero nawala ko yong book. Ha ha. Baka na-flush sa toilet. Tapos wala naman akong motivation na bumili ng copy nun. Kasi parang sayang ang pera. Tapos one time sa Book Fair (MOA), nakita ko table nya, tapos parang nakalagay doon "Please line up here for signature signing. However, Bob Ong is just on break". So, medyo naghihintay ako. Eh nainip ako. Sabi ko "matagal pa ba si Bob Ong?". Hindi, sir andyan lang yon. Eh, ayaw ko na. Ano ba, sobrang pagod na legs ko para sa kanya eh di naman ako fan. So, go na ako. Yon pala, sabi ni Jzhun, alias lang daw ang Bob Ong at di nya totoong pangalan at ni minsan di pa sya nagpapakita sa public. Kung sino man sya, sorry na lang. Di ako fan ha ha. Kasi niloloko nya ang mga tao.
Oo I know about it kasi si Bob Ong parang kinwento niya na di nga siya nagpupunta in autograph signing ever sa Stainless Longganisa ata.He actually join Who Wants to be a Millionaire but he uses his real name so no one really knows that Bob Ong was able to join in that show up until he wrote the experience in one of his books.
Pero I love Bob Ong parang parehas kami mag-isip haha, pero maganda books niya puro kalokohan pero may laman.
Ah she's like a freelance writer ganun??? grabe di ko pa rin alam kung makakapunta ko but my other problem aside my magulong schedule is that I really can't travel to Manila alone grabe bobo ako mag-commute baka mawala ako
Oo. Nakakatawa naman. Sabi nga ni Jzhun, hindi raw sya high-brow reader. "Me too" react ko. Bakit naman di babasahin kung maganda at nakakawala ng problema ha ha. Pero ayon nga, baka gusto mo na lang akong pahiramin. Kasi baka ma-flush na naman sa toilet. Di ba maninipis lang yang mga yan? Nabasa mo na ba yong "Ligo ka na Ling, Lapit na Me" parang ganoon ang title, parang nakakatawa rin yon. Kaya lang parang copy cat ni Bob Ong.
Aaaaay I haven't read yung My Imaginary Ex
No I haven't read that too, ano ba yang mga books na yan never heard, alien ba 'ko?Haaay naku KD nakakainis kaya yung mga taong nakakawala ng books matapos manghiram grabe ganyan yung mga friends ko nun High School
Di naman sa Maynila yon. Sa Quezon City. Sa UP, hindi magulo ron.
Oo lahat yan friends ko dito kaso di ko sila nakakausap dito.
Ha ha. Parang ako. Nakaka-misplace ng books na hinihiram ko. Pero di pa ako nakakawala. Di naman ako burara. Sa sobrang dami lang ng books ko, dapat na akong maglagay ng library card at numbering system sa bahay ha ha. Every month, nagpupunas ako ng mga libro at nago-organize. ha ha
Ayan sabi na nga ba hindi ako magaling sa lugar e, maliligaw talaga ko, naalala ko tuloy yung ang Leyte e nasa Mindanao dun sa thread dito na Book Swap? grabe nakakahiya
May narinig na ako na natutuwa sa reviews mo. Ha ha. Friend ko at friend mo. Pero baka ayaw nyang banggitin ko ang name nya so silent lang ako. Bihirang syang makagusto sa reviews ko. Since we joined together parang twice pa lang syang nag-Yes sa review ko. Imagine out of 300 read books, twice pa lang. And yet she is my friend not only in GR but most especially in real life ha ha! Pero sa yo, natutuwa sya ha ha!
Okay lang. Most of the girls and ladies I know are not good in Geography. That includes my mother, sister, wife and daughter. ha ha
Oo grabe talaga KD weakness ko yan dati kamo nung Grade 2 ako di ako makauwi sa bahay namin nasa school ako nun, di ko talaga matandaan yung way pabalik bali gabi na nun nasa labas lang ako nung classroom tapos pinuntahan ako nung mama ko sabi ba't 6pm na nasa school pa ako at ayaw ko pa umuwi(mga 4pm yung tapos nung klase)...sinabi ko na lang di ko matandaan pano umuwi to think na malapit lang yung bahay namin sa school
Dapat binaliktad mo ang tshirt mo, Joyzi.
Grabe kamo papaiyak na ko talaga nun kasi grabe dumidilim na, first day of school pa naman yun, akala kasi ni mama matatandaan ko yung mga dinaanan namin nung pumasok ako ng school kasi nga malapit lang, tas sinabihan niya na ko na di niya ko susunduin sumabay ako sa pinsan ko, e yung pinsan ko walang hiya di naman ako inintay nung uwian pinabayaan lang ako
mahirap talaga ang anak mayaman, Joyzi. di sanay mag-commute ha ha. ako kasi lumaki sa province, naka-tsinelas lang kung pumasok sa elementary at sa bahay kumakain ng tanghali at naglalakad lang ha hasobra naman yang pinsan mo, inupakan mo sana!
hoy KD di naman ako anak mayaman, sa public school kaya ako nag-aral up until High School, di ako sanay lang kasi di ako matandain talaga sa lugar.Oo yung mga pinsan ko inupakan nung Nanay ko tapos nung kinabukasan binigyan pa ko ni mama ng parang mapa/sketch kung sakaling di ko matandaan pauwi
Ay sorry na pa hoy ako, ano ba yan walang respect, sorry po
anokaba, Joyzi. ang basa ko dyan ay HOY (yong tono ng bading o mataray na babae). Ginagawa yan sa akin ng wife ko kaya sanay na ako. "Hoy, anong oras ka na naman umuwi kagabi? Saan ka galing?" ha ha. Sagot ko: sa Goodreads friends ko. ha ha
di ka ba anak-mayaman? humble ka lang yata. bakit ang galing mong mag-inggles? parang miriam o st. scho inggles mo eh.
member kasi ako ng school publication, pero magaling ako pag sa writing but if I'm going to speak English naku no comment na lang
Wala pala masyado, naalala ko kasi yung mga pinapabasa sa amin nung HS, mga short stories na nanalo ng Palanca. Ganun sana gusto ko, mga tagalog din yung sulat.Meron ako nakita sa fullybooked, Ilustrado yata yun. Mukhang maganda cover eh, pero ngdadalawang-isip pa akong bilhin.
I haven't read Ilustrado yet but I heard that the book uses Big words that you need a dictionary as a companion to read it and that kinda turn me off.
Gusto ko yung Ilustrado! Nacurious din ako kasi sabi ng mga professors ko na maganda.
I have the book (Ilustrado), but I haven't read it yet and I'm waiting for Flippers discussion next year before I start reading it, some says it was good and some says it was like Noli and Fili and some says it has a bunch of flowery words.Wow, I've read all of your conversation and I was amaze that limited are reading books that are outside there comfort zone. (Including me, since I want to explore more books.) From reading the above conversation, it gives me an idea that only few will read the books of Jodi next year. Aw.
Babasahin ko din siguro yang Ilustrado, pero di ko priority. :D dami pa nasa TBR file ko eh. >.<
yeah Kwesi only girls will read it joke
But I think Lyle The Ilustrado won an award, it might really be great
But I think Lyle The Ilustrado won an award, it might really be great
Aw, disappointing. But never mind in the positive side there are still readers here interested in reading her books and for those people that I expected to read her books that I thought they were reading books outside there comfort zone, maybe they'll give her another chance.The book won the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2008.
What Jodi Picoult books have you read na ba?
Once, Handle With Care.
ganun ba parang I never heard yung book na yun, ang popular na books niya e My Sister's Keeper na naging movie pa and then there's Nineteen Minutes and The Pact
I see, ok lang yun and some Jodi Picoult readers recommends The Pact, so maybe I'll include that book in the list next year.
yeah but I haven't read that yet so I really don't know but I really like My Sister's Keeper and Nineteen minutes they're so good
Don't worry, same here wish I can read all of her books next year.I think one thing that makes Jodi's book interesting to me is that, she wrote books with characters that are emotionally depressed and characters that are excluded or not accepted by the society because of there current situation, like House Rules, in which the child have a mental problem and accused of killing his tutor.
Speaking of Ilustrado: A Novel, bumili ako ng copy nyan a few months ago, pero hanggang ngayon di pa nababasa XD Nakaka-curious ano?But based from the reviews, I don't think you'll like it, Joyzi. I'm not sure I'll like it either, that's why it's still in the pile. It's under my 'challenging and maybe weird read' category.
My professor was one of the judges when Ilustrado won the Palanca for Best Novel. She said she initially thought twice about voting for it because she found it too different, but in the end, she cast her vote for Ilustrado because a novel like that has the potential to change the course of Philippine literature. Galing lang. Hihihi
My professor was one of the judges when Ilustrado won the Palanca for Best Novel. She said she initially thought twice about voting for it because she found it too different, but in the end, she cast her vote for Ilustrado because a novel like that has the potential to change the course of Philippine literature. Galing lang. Hihihi
Huwag isnabin ang Michael Syjuco's Illustrado. Kasama yan sa New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010! I saw the list.
I've already read Ilustrado. Not my cup of tea.
I have a copy of the book. I heard mixed comments from friends so I am still encouraging myself to read it. It's in front of my bookshelves and I see it everyday.
I've read "Ilustrado" since it was our book club's monthly read a few months back. Hmmm, my thoughts on the book... At first, the hard words were a challenge but as I surpassed that I was able to appreciate the book bit by bit. It was told with flashbacks, excerpts from short stories, different povs and such which was intricately pieced together. It truly is not everyone's cup of tea pero galing naman ng pagkakasulat. It's something a Pinoy can be proud of. :)
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Thanks sa recommendations Joyzi. :D Lagi naman ako nagtitingin ng mga books sa mga friends ko dito sa goodreads, lalo na kay KD, andaming books na maganda. :D
Ano pala mga magandang books from Filipino authors?