There’s something about fables that makes it easier to teach values to children – and Gaya’s Gift, a story of a carabao who believes that she does not have any special talent is one of those modern day fables that help mothers like me share the value of self worth …
Cris Evert’s Note: I stay in all types of accommodation in Cebu City. Name it, I have tried it. Last week, I stayed at the Elicon House and Jeff said he wanted to go with me. This was unexpected and I was pretty sure that he won’t like it because …
If and when I grow up, I’d like to have the literary and artistic genius of Shel Silverstein, who in Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein, successfully brought out common childhood images and doodles and transformed them into poetry and arts that reach out to …
How on earth is it possible for a murder-mystery plot to be in sync with mouth-watering food in a precious gem of a town named Jewel Bay? The answer: Agatha award-winning author Leslie Budewitz. In Crime Rib, the second book in her Food Lover’s Village Mystery series, Leslie brought us …
Let me start this review with a confession. This is my first time to read a literary work that has something to do with the revolution that happened here in Cebu. Since I just started my foray into the world of Cebuano history, heritage and culture, I feel like Emil …
Truth be told, I have participated in too many massive open online courses. I also took one graduate degree on an online platform and I am still finishing another one still in the same digital learning environment. You can say I am a little bored with it. So when I was told …
I hate you Robert James Waller — and I hate myself for only knowing you just recently through your book, The Bridges of Madison County, which, without my editor Edra Benedicto’s recommendation would have sat for ages on my bookshelves gathering dust, waiting to be read by their book hoarder of an owner. …
The very first time I saw the first edition copy of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, I thought I was in for a written version of The Conjuring. The book oozes a mysterious, scary ambiance that invites readers inside the doors of one unusual orphanage where …
Published in 1999, two years after Falling Leaves hit the book stands and took the world by anguish and scorn, Chinese American author Adeline Yen Mah came out with Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter, a more detailed account of her childhood until her foray into the world of medicine in England. Continue reading“The little triumphs of the unwanted (Chinese Cinderella)”
Rogelio Braga was fearless as he wrote Colon, a bold take on history — or a part of history that I have never read in any book or discussed in any forum or symposium that places the war in Mindanao under the blinding, pretentious attention accorded by a spotlight. Braga’s literature is free and …
