star wars
Rogue One: a Star Wars Story, movie reaction + book review
The latest movie in the Star Wars franchise, The Last Jedi , started showing here last December 13. I watched it the first day so the Internet can't spoil the movie for me. I actually watched it…
work
Book Review: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, New York: Simon & Schuster. ©1936 Dale Carnegie, Revised edition ©1981 Donna Dale Carnegie & Dorothy Carnegie This book is a class…
philippine tv
Book review: Yup, I Am That Girl by Maine Mendoza
Yup, I am that Girl by Maine Mendoza, ©2017 Summit Books Let's get things clear first: I am a fan of Maine Mendoza. The KalyeSerye/AlDub explosion of 2015 was an unexpected moment in Philippin…
movies
Book review: Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan
Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan is a Filipino crime novel which has won numerous literary awards: the Carlos Palanca Grand Prize for the English Novel in 1999, the National Book Award 20…
books
My top 11 stories from Jorge Luis Borges' Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is an Argentine writer and Librarian. He was the Director of the National Library of Argentina in 1955. Collected Fictions is a comprehensive collection of all his …
Zines
Reviews and Reactions: Zines from #Zinezoned3
I wrote about the experience in the #ZineZoned3: Iloilo Zinefest 2017 last time, and now here are my reactions to the few zines I bought during the event. I think next time I should buy as much as I…
Shirley Jackson
Book review: THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, New York: Penguin Books, ©1959 “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids a…
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psychology
On Quiet: the power of Introverts in a world that can't stop talking [book review]
Introvert. For a long time, I thought that it was a bad word. At first, I hated the word when other people used it to describe me, because I don't care much about labels and the common or dam…
movies
A short book review: Belle's Library
Belle's Library: a collection of literary quotes and inspirational musings , written by Brittany Rubiano and art by Jenna Huerta. Disney ©2017 Someone once told me that I wasn't used to a…
Margaret Atwood
Book review: THE BLIND ASSASSIN by Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin: a novel by Margaret Atwood, Anchor Books ©2000 Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. Imagine a braid: three strands interwoven to form a w…
Libraries
Book review: THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things: a novel by Elizabeth Gilbert, Viking ©2013 Writer Elizabeth Gilbert is best known for her memoir Eat, Pray, Love. Suspicious of bestsellers, I avoided the book for a…
the last time we say goodbye
Book review: THE LAST TIME WE SAY GOODBYE by Cynthia Hand
Suicide is always a complicated issue, especially teen suicide. Adolescence is a complicated time of your life, with peer pressure and crazy hormones and all the negativity. People always say tha…
YA
Book review: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
" And oh there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. " -Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (quoted at the beginning of the book) Travel is often a test of patience. We need…
David Levithan
Book review: EVERY YOU, EVERY ME by David Levithan
Evan is haunted by the loss of his friend Ariel. Then he finds a picture in his path. Pictures of nothing. Then pictures of him. Is Ariel back? Who is this unseen photographer who is following them,…
thrillers
Book review: REMEMBER ME THIS WAY by Sabine Durrant
“Just because someone loves you doesn’t mean you can trust them.” I love accidental Booksale finds (and books are always ‘calling out’ to me) and this was a good psycho-thriller slash romance whe…
Mark Z. Danielewski
Book review: HOUSE OF LEAVES by Mark Z. Danielewski
We all create stories to protect ourselves. If there's a book that had influenced how I view stories and literature, House of Leaves would be it. How would I begin to explain it? It is a boo…
Rob Reger
Book review: EMILY THE STRANGE, THE LOST DAYS by Buzz Parker, Rob Reger
The first time I encountered the advertising mascot Emily the Strange, it was in a red shirt I bought in an ukay-ukay . I loved her aesthetic, some pale girl with straight, jet-black hair looking b…
Malditang Librarian has been blogging about books, librarianship, and Iloilo City since 2016. I am a member of Iloilo Bloggers Society and I write for IBS Digital Network.
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