If you’ve ever spent long hours hunched over a book that’s lying open on your desk, then you must be familiar with the pain in your neck, shoulders, or back that comes with the...
When my son was reading “The Alchemist” last summer, it struck me how much of the book I’d forgotten despite its being one of my all-time favorites. I wanted to discuss important plot points...
The first of the ‘ber months has arrived, and so have free tickets to the 2022 Manila International Book Fair (MIBF). The biggest and longest running book fair in the Philippines returns on-site, as...
I was 12 years old when I read my first Hardy Boys mystery. It was “The Crisscross Shadow,” #32 in the Flashlight series (so-called due to the flashlight in the title logo). I’d been...
Christmas 1984, lunchtime, somewhere in Makati: My brother walks into the kitchen with leaden footsteps, his shoulders hunched forward in defeat. He tosses a gaily-wrapped package on the dining table before slumping on his...
Audiobooks are a fun and effective way to get your children to read more. They’re portable, allow multitasking, don’t strain the eyes, and provide an immersive reading experience. Audiobooks are especially useful for introducing...
One of the toughest things to make school-age kids do, aside household chores, is read a book. If your child prefers curling up with a good paperback to completing missions on Overwatch, give yourself...
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a sermon from his book Strength to Love (1963) Back when Philippine...
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…a monay?! On July 16, 1972, Typhoon Gloring (international codename: Super Typhoon Rita) tore through the Philippine island of Luzon, leaving 214 Filipinos...
My interest in reading for pleasure was sparked by an “attractive girl of eighteen.” It all started when our fifth-grade English teacher shepherded the class to the school library. Upon seeing the 30-odd girls...
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