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By Sandie Star on Sep 24, 2012 in: Books, books, Filipino Literature, Poetry, UP Writers Club
“… Love, when invited over, sings. Love, when questioned repeatedly, gives the wrong answer on purpose. And love, when loved” – 100: The Hundreds Project, Petra (#46) 100: The Hundreds Project or simply Hundreds is one of three...
By Indio Bravo: A Blog of a Filipino Historian on Sep 18, 2012 in: Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos, Prometheus Unbound, Ruben Cuevas, Philippine literature, Philippines, 1973, Filipino literature, literature, poem
Perhaps one thing that we can credit for the Martial Law years was how creative Filipino artists and writers were in depicting their misgivings on the uptight Marcos dictatorship. To even exercise their human right to speak out then was dangerous. Ma...
By Nite Writer on Apr 19, 2012 in: Literature, Short Stories, Smorgasbord, Filipino Literature, Kwento ng Pagi-big, Kwento ng Sakripisyo, Maikling kwento ng pag-ibig at sakripisyo, Nite Writer
“Maligno, Maligno, ayan na yung maligno, magtago tayo, ayan na sya, magtago tayo dali” Mabilis na umakyat sa kanilang kwarto si Anne dahil sa narinig na sigaw. Dinatnan niya duon si Marco na nakaupo sa isang sulok at mistulang larawan ...
By ArtSeblis on Jan 31, 2011 in: filipino, book review, filipino anthology, filipino author, Filipino literature, filipino short stories, marianne villanueva, the lost language
It’s like I was reading a diary. But it wasn’t truly voyeurism, because sometimes it felt like reading something from my own diary. I didn’t understand many of the mythological references, though. Isn’t our psyche already unfathomable that to...
By ArtSeblis on Jan 30, 2011 in: filipino, scary, filipino anthology, filipino author, filipino ghost stories, Filipino literature, ghost stories, horror fiction, sitio catacutan, tony perez
“Hanggat hindi nawawala ang pang-aapi sa mundo, hindi rin mawawala ang mga multo.” Six ghost stories set in Cubao, Metro Manila’s go-to place for the weird and uncommon. My kind of place. Not my completely my kind of book.
By ArtSeblis on Oct 14, 2010 in: filipino, mushy weird, book review, filipino author, Filipino book, Filipino literature, filipino novel, Filipino Young Adult, lookslikerein, under lock and key, YA fiction
Every last Saturday of the month, they would meet in the park and drop another memory into a little box... Read this book if you like Young Adult fiction about loss and acceptance of that loss; books about friendship and growing up; to support works...
By ArtSeblis on Oct 12, 2010 in: filipino, scary, book review, book to read for Halloween, exorcism story, filipino author, Filipino book, Filipino fiction, filipino ghost stories, filipino horror, Filipino literature, filipino novel, ghost story, gm coronel, Halloween reading, haunted building in the philippines, horror novel, manila film center, tragic theater
What's scarier than angry ghosts? At the Manila Film Center, a group of psychics and mediums found out. Turn off the aircon before you read it. The air will feel chilly soon enough.