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Bookbed reviews: ‘Orphan Price’ by Joel Donato Ching Jacob #OrphanPrice
BY KB MENIADO This is a sequel to Wing of the Locust by the same author. Read my review here. Orphan Price can be read as a standalone. THE STORY Gilas and Liksi accompany Tuan to investigate the death of a Maginoo in a neighbouring barangay. What they discover forces them reflect on the part…
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Bookbed reviews: ‘Wing of the Locust’ by Joel Donato Ching Jacob #WingoftheLocust
by KB Meniado Filipino mythology was something I hadn’t been reading plenty of, and not because of a lack of offering but energy (for shame), but this year has allowed me to explore a few facets of our prehistoric origins and found the experience both fascinating and well, guilt-ridden. So when I was offered the…
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15 Books to Buy from the Manila International Online Book Fair 2020 #MIBF2020
BY KB Meniado and BM Readers from all over the Philippines and even abroad can now attend the Manila International Book Fair… because, yes, that’s right, it’s now online! Click here to register for free and browse, and if buying, here are 15 titles in no particular order that we think you should add to…
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#BookbedFictory 024: ‘The Twelfth Step, A Twelfth Ingredient’
by Joel Donato Jacob This year’s Fictory is for a cause. We donate P100 to a chosen beneficiary for every fic submitted this July. Participate here if you can. Enjoy this one! Prompt: It’s the first time you’ve visited your home province in 20 years. Nothing has changed. Adobo de Sansinukob I. Warm (1) a…
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#BookbedFictory 016: ‘The Bowler Hat’s Lover’
by Joel Donato Jacob This year’s Fictory is for a cause. We donate P100 to a chosen beneficiary for every fic submitted this July. Participate here if you can. Enjoy this one! Prompt: He wanted to tell him how much he loved him but… The red satin lining of the black bowler hat clung to…
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#BookbedFictory 015: ‘Artifacts from the Parent’
by Joel Donato Jacob Prompt: The cure for a new deadly epidemic is almost scarier than the disease. Arvin C. Diesmos, Mae L. Diesmos and Rafe M. Brown Abstract The Philippine amphibian fauna introduced species of frogs: Bufo marinus (Linnaeus), Raba catasbeiana (Shaw), Hoplobatrachis chinensis (Osbeck), Rana erythraea (Sclegel), and Kaloula pulchra (Gray). Bufo marinus…