Spoilers ahead for Forgotten Island. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch it first and come back. I have no idea what to expect from Forgotten Island. The only things I knew before watching it were that Lea Salonga, Liza Soberano, and Dolly de Leon lent their voices to important
Category: culture
I finished another book. I have been struggling to finish reading anything for months, but I somehow went from Matcha on Monday straight into another book, and now I’m wondering if my reading slump is finally over. This time, I picked up We Are All Alone in This Anyway, a
For the first time in years, I wasn’t particularly excited about the Manila International Book Fair. Which felt weird, because I’ve been going to MIBF every year since 2016, except during the pandemic when, well, there was obviously no book fair to go to. Over the years, the fair had
I finally finished a book. After months of being in a reading slump, I finally reached the last page of Matcha on Monday by Michiko Aoyama. And of course, finishing the book wasn’t enough. I had to sit with it for a while and think, okay, what exactly did this
If you are given the chance to go back in time, which timeline are you gonna go to? No, this is not Before The Coffee Gets Cold or any book in that series. It’s The Memory Bookshop by Song Yu-jeong. This book is on the list of books I look
I used to dislike Thursdays. For me, it’s like the word almost. Almost the weekend. Almost rest. Almost… everything I was waiting for. But maybe it’s a bit unfair to Thursday because, hey, it’s not its fault it sits right after midweek and just before Friday the party day. Also,
After Maud’s bone-chilling murders, my entire being craved for more… horror? I wanted something that would make my heart beat race so fast it’d fall off my chest, besides coffee and my filthy inhaler! Not gonna lie, I jumped from one book to another until I settled on V. Castro‘s
It’s been a while since I read a good crime book. The last one I’ve read was, I think, Yoko Ogawa‘s Revenge. Anyway, An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good is unexpectedly… cozy. There was something super calm about the whole thing, maybe because dear old little Maud does
Rika Horiuchi is an interesting character, and I envy her for landing a part-time job at the museum. Magical or not, who wouldn’t want to be surrounded by art that has existed far longer than our anxieties? Every sculpture, every chipped marble, every broken nose and missing limb… all of
I was starting to worry about my attention span lately, as I could only finish short-form videos (hello, doomscroller me!). But it turns out all I needed was a really good series to focus on. A Calm Sea and Beautiful Days With You ended up being the very first series