Welcome Poetry Friday enthusiasts! We are glad to be your hosts today – Valentine Week no less! While I am anticipating quite a number of romantic love poems, I shall prepare to be surprised by the poetry-loving community. No matter whether your poems are dark, heart-wrenching, spiritual, disturbing, creepy, romantic or totally-non-Valentine-related – leave your [...]

Amazingly, the first month of the year is nearly over. Before we know it, December 2012 is upon us! Is it just me or does time seem to be on overdrive lately, zooming and streaking past, leaving specks of dust from unfinished tasks in its wake. Before I get lost in my random ruminations, let [...]

We have just recently signed up for the Comment Challenge 2012 that is being hosted by Mother Reader (The heart of a mother. The Soul of a reader. The mouth of a smartass) and Lee Wind from I’m Here, I’m Queer, What the Hell do I Read? (you just gotta love those blog titles! How come I haven’t [...]

For those of you who may be in Singapore, you might be interested to attend what-is-bound-to-be-a-fabulous conference as organized by the Singapore American School. Here is the flyer for more details: Just look at that list! Eric Rohmann! Pam Muñoz Ryan! How I wish I can come too! Registration is open until 7 February 2012. [...]

We are happy to announce our cast of characters for January and February. Drum roll please! Academic Nook: Michelle Ong, Ph. D. Cand. I am proud to welcome Mitch Ong, a very good friend of mine (and fairy godparent to my ten year old daughter as well) here in GatheringBooks. Truth be told, I rely [...]

365 Project for 2011 Last year, we started the tradition of documenting the books we read on a monthly basis. Our goal was to collectively read 365 books for the entire year among the three of us. Here is our update for our own self-imposed challenge:   Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun July/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec Total Myra [...]

Yes! We are hosting a Reading Challenge from January-December 2012. I am inviting you all to sign up for the Award-Winning-Books Reading Challenge that shall begin from January until December 2012. We are not restricting this to children’s and YA book awards. We are also not restricting this to books that have received recognition for [...]

This meme is hosted by The Perpetual Page Turner. I remembered that we did something similar to this last year (click here to be taken to my post). We (Fats, Iphigene and myself) thought that we could do another one to welcome 2012. Rather than make three separate posts, we shall be dividing the list [...]

The year 2011 has been a fruitful year for Myra, Iphigene, and me. We kicked off the year with a new concept – bimonthly themes. It was what I would call the grand scheme of “themes.” (*wink) In January and February of 2011, we launched our first bimonthly theme: Click on the image to be [...]