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Book Budol Time! Check out these 22 Books and Booths at the Manila International Book Fair 2022 #mibf2022
by BM The biggest book fair in the country is back, and the book budol will be worth it! Held from September 15 to 18, 2022 at the SMX Convention Center Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City, the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) reopens its doors to all readers after two years of being…
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Meet 5 More Filipino Young Authors from the Book Writers Club
by Rhoda Osalvo While many students in the Philippines spent their school break doing different activities, five homeschoolers from the CFA Homeschool joined the Book Writers Club (BWC) Batch 2. They are Kiersten Cheryl Abadicio (13), Pio Timothy Calungcaguin (9) Jannah Brielle Lising (12), Ruel Miguel Lorenzo (13), and Nikita Santos (10). The BWC is…
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Why Filipinos Should Read: ‘To Be Poor and Obscure: The Spiritual Sojourn of a Mindanawon’ by Karl Gaspar
by Bryan Meniado Last weekend, Dabawenyos celebrated the first in-person Kadayawan Festival after a two-year hiatus brought by the pandemic. The Kadayawan is an annual thanksgiving of life, culture, and bountiful harvest. It is derived from the local term “madayaw,” which loosely translates to good, valuable, and beautiful. This year’s celebration was also my first…
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Filipino Readers’ Choice Awards 2022: Public nominations are now open!
The Filipino Readers’ Choice Awards (FRCA) is returning this year! Previously held from 2012 to 2015, FRCA “gives the readers a voice in the Philippine book industry” by encouraging the public to nominate and vote for their favorite locally published work. Now with the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP), this year’s FRCA will…
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Why Filipinos Should Read: ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ by Paulo Freire
by Bryan Meniado A recent World Bank report says that “nine out of ten Filipino children still struggle to read simple text by age 10.” This reasserts another report released by the Programme for International Student Assessment in 2019 where the Philippines ranked the lowest in reading comprehension among 79 countries. Coupled with the “history…
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Bookbed recommends: ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Brönte
by Ella Mae Masamayor I’ve always dreamed of reading Jane Eyre. It sounds exactly like the sort of story I would enjoy—a coming-of-age tale of a girl with a tragic origin story who manages to find her way in life. It’s one of those classics that we always hear about but never actually read. And…
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Why Filipinos Should Read: ‘Rizal in Saga: A Life for Student Fans’ by Nick Joaquin
by Bryan Meniado I recently attended a writing class with Write Things PH and historian Ambeth Ocampo, author of Rizal Without the Overcoat, on the eve of Jose Rizal’s 161st birth anniversary. In that session, we discussed writing about the past and how to make history more meaningful for everyone, especially for younger generations. It…
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The 2022 Pride Reading List: 24 LGBTQ+ Books to Read Anytime
by H. Bentham Happy Pride! I know that we should be celebrating pride and all forms of love every single day, but it’s also fun to have a whole month dedicated to it. 🙂 Today, I will be recommending queer books I’ve enjoyed in the last three or four years that have given me joy…
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12 Books on Philippine Independence to Read Anytime
by BM Question of Heroes by Nick Joaquin An acceptable holocaust: Life and death of a boy-general by Teodoro M. Kalaw Mabini and the Philippine Revolution by Cesar Adib Majul The Propaganda Movement 1880-1995 by John N. Schumacher, S.J. The Other Philippine History Textbook: Precolonial Philippines to the Philippine Revolution by Christine L. Diaz 101…
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Why Filipinos Should Read: Akin Lang Naman: Mga Tula by Aristotle C. Pollisco a.k.a. Gloc-9
by Bryan Meniado The recent national elections may have been the most polarizing and divisive one in recent memory. While I’m disappointed, I’m not that surprised by the results. With all the miseducation, disinformation, historical distortion, and blatant lies we have been fed over the past years, it’s not far-fetched why many of us still…
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