Book Reviews
A Woman’s Life: A few thoughts on Lost and Found
Over the years, I have acquired a liking for non-fiction, specifically Filipino non-fiction. Every trip to the bookstore includes a long, patient investigation of the Filipiniana section seeking a few surprises and some dose of Filipino non-fiction. I’m not sure how it began, maybe I started to acquire the taste via Bob Ong’s humorous essays [...]
Filipino Lit
Life in the Overseas for Poetry Friday
For today’s Poetry Friday, I’ve been given the opportunity to post my contribution to this ongoing meme. In the tradition of Gathering Books, today’s poem coincides with our bimonthly theme: Festival of Asian Literature and the Immigrant Experience. Check out Katya of Write. Sketch. Repeat. for this week’s round-up. The poem I chose is representative [...]
- Poetry Friday: There Are No Happy Endings [because] We Have Such Solid Measures for Pain // Two Poems by Joel M. Toledo
- Poetry Friday: A poem for 2012 – Joel M. Toledo’s ‘The New Hollow’
- Poetry Friday: Joel M. Toledo’s Learning to Swim
- Poetry Friday: Joel Toledo’s Other ‘Heart’
- Hands like Sand Paper: A short review on Papel de Liha (Sand Paper) by Ompong Remigio
Nonfiction for Adults
Nonfiction Monday: A Different Kind of Love in Ralph Helfer’s Modoc, The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. It is with pleasure that we bring you stories and verses that tickle the heart. We begin this week with a story that is perfect for both the season of hearts and our beloved weekly meme, Nonfiction Monday. Today’s edition of Nonfiction Monday is hosted by Wrapped in [...]
NYRB
GatheringBooks Asks: Myra
Happy New Year One and All! Thank you Mary for coming up with this idea. This is really cute. And as you warned when you emailed me and Fats, the post might possibly be a long one, and yes it’s like a soliloquy of sorts, but in good taste, not to worry. It is about [...]
- An NYRB Children’s Classic – Rumer Godden’s The Mousewife, Pictures by William Pene du Bois
- NYRB Reading Week: A Reflective and Summative Postscript
- NYRB Reading Week: The Magic Pudding written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay
- NYRB Reading Week: A 2in1 Special – James Thurber’s The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O as Illustrated by Marc Simont
- NYRB Reading Week: The Company They Kept
Picture Books
Blooms Around Life’s Edges: The Gardener by Sarah Stewart and Pictures by David Small
I have just recently posted a review of David Small’s book, Imogene’s Antlers for Perfect Picture Book Friday. I am happy to feature another ‘Small’ book, this time written by Sarah Stewart and pictures by David Small yet again for our bimonthly theme on Girl Power and Women’s Wiles. Letters from Lydia Grace: Missives from Far and Away. [...]
Young Adult (YA) Literature
Chaos Walking Trilogy, Book 2 -The Ask and the Answer: The Healing Powers of Mistress Coyle
A few weeks back, I have done a review of The Knife of Never Letting Go with a special focus on the silence of Viola Eade as we are doing a Girl Power theme here in GatheringBooks until next week. As I review The Ask and the Answer, I would be focusing on ‘the answer’ [...]
More Articles
Hunger Games in Singapore!
Yes, you heard right! I received an email a week ago about this wonderful event organized by our libraries here in Singapore, and I thought that it would be a great time to share this with you. Check out this poster. There will be short-story writing competitions and drawing contests based on the Hunger Games [...]
The Torrance Legacy Awards for Creative Writing and Visual Arts
I have just recently received an email about the Torrance Legacy Awards for both Creative Writing and Visual Arts since I am part of the National Association for Gifted Children’s (NAGC’s) sub-committee on the arts. Professor Stephen T. Schroth describes this as a “tremendous opportunity for young people throughout the world to gain recognition for [...]
Photo Journal/ A-Z Photo Challenge: V is for Velvet
Ever since we joined Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Challenge, I look forward to Tuesdays. This week, the letter is V and the theme that I chose is Velvet to stand for the velvety feel of flower petals. These are photos taken by our featured photographer, Elena Yamamoto Flores. Velvet I will be the gladdest thing Under [...]
Book Hunting Expedition (2): More Bras Basah Love
It’s that time of the week once again when we share some of the books we hunted down during the past week (or so). Fats has graciously opened our new section here in GatheringBooks last week called BHE or Book Hunting Expeditions where we are planning to feature books that we have bought, borrowed, stolen, [...]
On Myth, Magic, and Multicultural Storytelling: Candy Gourlay’s thoughts about Tall Story
Two days ago, I posted my review of Candy Gourlay’s Tall Story. We also posted the first part of our interview with Candy in Behind the Books. Today, we are privileged to have Candy in GatheringBooks yet again, as she shares her thoughts about her award-winning-debut novel Tall Story. Candy has been asked a lot [...]
’tis the night before AFCC
It is the evening before the Asian Festival of Children’s Content here in Singapore and the excitement is growing as we expect artists, illustrators, writers, publishers, book enthusiasts from various parts of the globe to slowly start trickling into The Arts House at the Old Parliament where the festival is being held. I am fairly [...]
Poetry Friday: Immigrant Blues
I am so excited to join Poetry Friday today for two wonderful reasons. First, our featured poem fits perfectly with our bimonthly theme, Festival of Asian Literature and The Immigrant Experience, written by a poet who is an immigrant himself. Second, the roundup post for Poetry Friday today is hosted by the fabulous Linda from [...]
Meet the Storyteller: Candy Gourlay in GatheringBooks
We are truly privileged to have Candy Gourlay in Behind the Books as our Featured Storyteller for our Festival of Asian Literature and Immigrant Experience bimonthly theme until the first week of July. This will be the first installment of our 2-part Feature on Candy. Click on the title below to be taken to our Behind the [...]
Photo Journal/ Photo Challenge: U is for Unconditional, Universal, Unnerving
It is Tuesday once again. Time for the A-Z Photo Challenge as hosted by Frizztext. Letter for the day is U. Our theme this week is U for Unconditional, Universal, Unnerving. The photos are coming from our featured photographer, Elena Yamamoto Flores. Unconditional Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another [...]
Book Hunting Expeditions: The Beginning
Today we are launching a new feature in our blog called Book Hunting Expeditions (lovely widget courtesy of Iphigene, of course). Nothing excites us more than brainstorming, planning, and coming up with new ideas. Still pumped up from our previous bimonthly theme, our current one, and the AFCC hype, we came up with Book Hunting [...]
