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Through the Eyes of Anne: Revisiting the Girl from Green Gables

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Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery

      Anne is an orphan girl who found for herself a home in Green Gables and in the hearts of the people of Avonlea.  For a girl who has lived most of her young life in an orphanage, she considers Avonlea a paradise and a haven for her unbridled thoughts.  Though thin and frail, she has got a big mouth and a sharp wit that compensated for a childhood characterized by desertion, poverty and the unmet need to identify with a family of her own.  Always kept company by her unfettered imaginations inspired by her charming sentimentality, she manages to survive the difficulties that

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A world gone with the wind

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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

I  was in fourth-year high school when I got hold of a copy of Gone with the Wind. I barely knew anything about the book except that there was a series playing on TV with the same title. What I remembered, though, was the infamous line uttered by the dashing Rhett Butler, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

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A review on Viva Andrada's book on "SURVIVAL: Unleash Your Inner Survivor" by Danny Sillada

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SURVIVAL: Unleash Your Inner Survivor (Your Guide to Life)
Genevieve “Viva” Andrada

          A Hong Kong expat named Frank Cancelloni related his first impression of Filipinos as “domestic helpers or singers abroad”. He even had a part-time “Filipina maid” who came to his apartment few times a week. 

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Cracking the Secrets

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out of 10

I learned about this book way back in April 2004 when I was in Thailand for a short trip. I had the chance to read its review in the film review section of a newspaper. I was really excited to grab a copy of it. When I arrived Singapore (as my final destination) I immediately purchased it from the bookstore!


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Brilliant

10
out of 10

This is how a sports book should be written -- engaging and doesn't let you go from the get-go. I was fortunate not to know what exactly happened -- although I had an inkling -- so to me, the book was very suspenseful. It's the story of three top middle-distance runner in the 1950's who had very different personalities and circumstances but similar goals -- the first to run the mile in less than four minutes, and also to beat one another.


The Grand Inquisitor by jonas_01

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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

With the growing agitating report from people who said to have been much offended by my website, so I've decided today, just for today, to be nice and write only about wholesome literature.

Silo

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My Brother, My Executioner
Francisco Sionil Jose

I. The Poster

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A Compelling Journey with Manny Duldulao's Book on Nude Art & Artists

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THE LIVES AND LOVES OF ARTISTS AND MODELS*
Manuel D. Duldulao

For full article, please click this link to Manila Bulletin

Chasing Cars - the postscript

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Chasing Cars
Snow Patrol

Music can make the world a much more bearable place, definitely. We couldn’t live without other people's music and making our own.- Gary Lightbody

 
A fishbone had been stuck somewhere in between my pharynx and epiglottis, so I guess. it has been there for two days now and it’s so awful to imagine swallowing eternally rice balls for a cure. (At least you’ll gain a few pounds for that-Mr. Standard). I couldn’t bear so much of the chewing but for the pain of gulping down because of that little fishbone which surreptitiously entered my system.

Of Kill Bill and the Aviatrix

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West With the Night
Beryl Markham

If I start to hear rhythmic whistling in my ears as if in a hiatus of moment in Kill Bill where in a split of second the tendering slices of the samurai upon unnamed and unheard antagonists spurts out splashes of the red ink on cam in an endless bloodbath, I also try to find ways to live out an addiction of inexplicable wandering. I try to burden my back with my bulky mailbag and sore the toes of my feet with this striding-along-addiction with a matter of miles in mind to and from points of departure and arrival. (Weird for you, normal for a natural weirdo.)