georgette s. gonzales
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Happy National #LiteratureMonth: The First Books We Loved
April is National Literature Month or Buwan ng Panitikan, and the theme this year is “500 Years of Writing the Filipino World.” Today, we look back in history and share about the first books we read and loved. Do you recognize any of these titles? “The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (for kids). It…
annie gorra, berenstain bears, bible stories, dominique gonzaga sulatra, frances hodgson burnett, georgette s. gonzales, haroun and the sea of stories, janelle almosara, jerry spinelli, kay gemzon, lemony snicket, mikki shiu, nancy drew, paola aliedo, sabrina the teenage witch, stargirl, the lion king, the princess diaries, the secret garden, the series of unfortunate events
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Continuing the Legacy: An Interview with #HeistClub New Blood Authors Part 2
by Allana Luta Last week, we featured the new #HeistClub authors who published their short stories in the anthology The Secrets That We Keep. In this interview, we talk with Georgette Gonzales, Irene Recio and J. Guibone, all of whom were part of the original #HeistClub batch. Georgette edited Secrets along with Yeyet Soriano, while Irene…
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#HeistClub Spotlight: New Blood
by Georgette S. Gonzales “But there’s no Filipino crime fiction to read!” So readers say, and the local author community could do nothing but provide them with #HeistClub. *wink* For those who have not heard of #HeistClub, it was introduced in 2015 by author Mina V. Esguerra together with Bronze Age Media, Inc. An online…
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8 Readers Whose Travels Were Inspired by Books
by KB Meniado Travelling by page is always magical, but travelling to the actual place from that very page can be surreal! Eight readers from the community (including yours truly) share their travels to places inspired by the books they read. Make sure to get your to-go and to-read lists ready! 1. The Musee du…
a cook’s tour, all is fair in blog and war, anne plaza, anthony bourdain, bookish places, chrissie peria, cindy pon, dan brown, fiction, georgette s. gonzales, harry potter, ida torres, j.r.r. tolkien, kb meniado, leigh puzon, mark manalang, memories of israel, Places, rea alducente, siri hustvedt, summer without men, the da vinci code, the hobbit, tricia gervacio, want
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#HeistClub: Writing ‘Classified’
by Georgette S. Gonzales I am not a stranger to crime fiction. As a young reader, I devoured Nancy Drew stories. Although many of the cases Nancy handled as a young sleuth were not the hardcore of crime as many adults know it from books for more mature audiences (ones that I enjoy now as an…
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Shelfwalking: Books I Brought With Me to Another Country
by Georgette S. Gonzales Here’s a shot of my bookshelf at my residence in California. That is just about 20% of all the print books I own. It will take a few more trips home to the Philippines before I can haul everything to the States. How did I choose which ones to bring first? I…
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Where A ‘Promdi Heart’ Goes (Part 3): An Interview with Jay E. Tria and Georgette S. Gonzales
by KB Meniado The start of April—which is tomorrow!—usually means vacation, and if you’re still looking for places to get away to, here’s Promdi Heart, a romance anthology set in different Philippine provinces. Did I say places? I meant, pages! Once you get your hands on this, you would definitely start planning your itinerary and looking at bus and plane…
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