If there’s one thing that 2025 taught me, it is how to take care of myself with intention. Social media has given us the superficial definition of self-care. Skincare routines, solo dates, spa sessions, and we were even told bed-rotting should be normalized. Not gonna lie—for a while, I fell
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 lost count on how many Project 50s I’ve started only to stop at maybe day 16 or even day 4, and I am realizing just now that maybe, I have been too hard on myself on my previous attempts—like I always do. Today, I am on day 1 once
Some books don’t just tell a story. Some leave gentle reminders about life, just like this one. From the same author who created the masterpiece, What You’re Looking For Is In The Library, Michiko Aoyama‘s The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park introduces us to Kabahiko, a stationary hippo ride in
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
R.L. Stine will always be a huge part of my being a book lover. While most teenage girls in my time were swooning over Sweet Valley High, I was that loud kid spending her downtime crouched in a far-end corridor, nose buried in a Fear Street book I borrowed from
I did my Spin The Wheels, Read The Feels (more on this on the next post!) for the first time and Mga Tala at Tula by Ron Canimo is what the wheels wanted me to read – aaaand what an opening pick! The book is written in the second-person POV,
There are stories that surprise you, not just with their plots, but with the emotions they stir long after you close the book (or in this case, komiks). Tepai Pascual‘s Duty Ka Ba? is one of them. I first met Doc El and Melba in 2022. Their story in Volume