Category Archives: My Life in Books

Free Comic Book Day!

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Ronald

The crowd at National Book Store’s Free Comic Book Day celebrations. First of all, I’d like to apologize to the handful of people who read this blog. Real life has been a lot hectic lately, and it’s been really hard … Continue reading →

Posted in My Life in Books | Tagged a history of violence, alan moore, art spiegelman, dc, free comic book day, john wagner, marvel, my life in books, paolo fabregas, superman, the avengers, the complete maus, the filipino heroes league, v for vendetta | Leave a comment

Scholastic Asian Book Awards looking for entries

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Ronald

The Scholastic Asian Book Awards (SABA), a joint initiative of the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) and Scholastic, is currently looking for entries. The Scholastic Asian Book Award is awarded every two years to an unpublished manuscript (original … Continue reading →

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Welcome 2013!

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Ronald

Photo by Paolo Nacpil Happy New Year everyone! 2012 was a great year for me. Thanks to National Book Store, I was able to interview authors like Lauren Oliver, Alyson Noel, Jennifer Hillier, Alex Gilvarry, Gregg Olsen, and Merwin Ignacio … Continue reading →

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Buy my books!

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Ronald

So I organized my books last Saturday. It was a lot more work than I thought it would be, as it seems I have accumulated far more books than I thought I had over the course of many, many years. … Continue reading →

Posted in My Life in Books | Tagged 6 sick hipsters, a crown of swords, a shore thing, abraham lincoln vampire hunter, accordion games, adrienne kress, alan paton, aleph, alex and the ironic gentleman, alexandra adornetto, ang mag-anak na cruz, angel time, anna godbersen, anne rice, annie proulx, arlene l chai, azucena grajo uranza, bamboo in the wind, beat the reaper, beauty's punishment, ben h winters, blue bloods, boris akunin, boris pasternak, brandon sanderson, bret easton ellis, c s lewis, candace bushnell, carolyn mackler, charlie and the chocolate factory, charlie and the great glass elevator, chinua achebe, christopher paolini, crossroads of twilight, cry the beloved country, cynthia leitich smith, doctor zhivago, eclipse, edith wharton, eldest, elizabeth wurtzel, elmore leonard, envy, eragon, eternal, first love, ford county, gabriel garcia marquez, gathering blue, glitz, great american short stories, great vampire stories, gyles brandreth, halo, heartbreak, henry james, holly black, i am number four, imperial bedrooms, james frey, jane austen, jay asher, jeanne duprau, jobie hughes, john grisham, josh bazell, kazuo ishiguro, kiera cass, knife of dreams, la candy, lauren conrad, laurie halse anderson, lili st crow, liwayway arceo, lois lowry, lord of chaos, love is in the bag, main street, masquerade, matilda, meg cabot, melissa de la cruz, memories of my melancholy whores, misguided angel, murder on the leviathan, my life in books, never let me go, new moon, nicole "snooki" polizzi, of love and evil, oscar wilde and the ring of death, paulo coelho, pittacus lore, pride and prejudice and zombies, prozac nation, pseudonymous bosch, q and a, rayo casablanca, red glove, revelations, roald dahl, robert jordan, rumors, sa bodeen, sara gruen, sense and sensibility and sea monsters, seth grahame-smith, sinclair lewis, songs of the seraphim, splendor, stephen glass, stephenie meyer, strange angels and betrayals, sweet little lies, the 50 greatest love letters of all time, the carrie diaries, the city of ember, the claiming of sleeping beauty, the compound, the diamond of darkhold, the dragon reborn, the eye of the world, the fabulist, the fallen, the fires of heaven, the future of us, the gathering storm, the great hunt, the house of mirth, the last time i saw mother, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, the luxe, the path of daggers, the people of sparks, the portrait of a la, the princess diaries, the prophet of yornwood, the secret society of demolition writers, the selection, the shadow rising, the van alen legacy, things fall apart, this isn't what it look like, thomas e sniegoski, vikas swarup, water for elephants, white cat, winter's heart, wintergirls, witches of east end | 10 Comments

Losing my Warehouse Sale virginity

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Ronald

Fun fact: The great guys over at National Book Store actually invited me to check out the Warehouse Sale (#NBSWarehouseSale) before it opened to the public last Thursday. I haven’t been to one before, and I really wanted to go, … Continue reading →

Posted in My Life in Books | Tagged armistead maupin, behemoth, david mitchell, fire in the blood, hillary mantel, irene nemirovsky, man booker prize, michael tolliver lives, my life in books, national book critics circle, national book store, national book store warehouse sale, scott westerfeld, the thousand autumns of jacob de zoet, wolf hall | 4 Comments

There is a vacancy and it is casual

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Ronald

Don’t even front that you don’t want to be all up in this thing.

Posted in My Life in Books | Tagged jk rowling, the casual vacancy | 2 Comments

My post-MIBF report#2

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Ronald

Admittedly, I didn’t spend as much time at the MIBF the way I would have wanted to. Since I was mostly either attending a talk, covering a book launch, or interviewing an author, I often only popped up at the … Continue reading →

Posted in My Life in Books | Tagged alex gilvarry, creep, dr seuss, e l james, fifty shades of grey, freak, from the memoirs of a non-enemy combatant, jennifer hillier, manila international book fair, my life in books, the lorax | 2 Comments

My post-MIBF report#1

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Ronald

Unless you were hiding under a rock for the past week or so, you’d have known that the country’s premiere event for bibliophiles, the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF), was going on at the SMX Convention Center at the SM … Continue reading →

Posted in My Life in Books | Tagged 120 days of sodom, alice's adventures in wonderland, anais nin, anvil publishing, arthur conan doyle, carlos celdran, dante alighieri, david levithan, delta of venus, e l james, edgar allan poe, fifty shades darker, fifty shades of grey, henry miller, jane austen, john green, lauren myracle, let it snow, lewis carroll, looking for alaska, manila international book fair, marquis de sade, maureen johnson, nexus, paper towns, pauline reage, plexus, return to the chateau, sexus, story of o, the complete sherlock holmes, the divine comedy, will grayson will grayson, william shakespeare | Leave a comment

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Ronald

It’s the Chinese New Year this Monday, and if you guys are lucky, you can find a bag like this one at your nearby National Book Store. It’s National Book Store’s Ang Pao Bag, available at selected National Book Store … Continue reading →

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Book Blockade defeated!

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Ronald

Or at least, that’s what MLQ III says in his latest Tumblr post. In any case, I would suggest that all my friends who buy books online or get them from Book Mooch to print out a copy of that Department … Continue reading →

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Free Comic Book Day!

Scholastic Asian Book Awards looking for entries

Welcome 2013!

Buy my books!

Losing my Warehouse Sale virginity

There is a vacancy and it is casual

My post-MIBF report#2

My post-MIBF report#1

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Book Blockade defeated!

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