Book catalog
Posted on January 20, 2009 · 15 Comments
(Today’s column) Some people collect shoes, others collect trinkets, I collect books. See, I have a bad habit. I can’t seem to pass by a bookstore without buying a book. And since I buy books faster than I can read them, and because I tend to read what seems to be the most interesting at ... (more)
I have a lot to thank manga for
Posted on November 19, 2008 · 13 Comments
Many people say it isn’t good to provide children with their own computers and internet access. More say it’s a mistake to let them go online unsupervised. I say that depends on how you teach your kids to use the computer and the internet. And it depends even more on what example you show. If ... (more)
Revisiting Manderley
Posted on November 11, 2008 · 4 Comments
I’m reading Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for the second time. The date on the flyleaf of the book says I bought it when I was 15 years old and I must have read it not too long after I bought it. When you buy books out of your school allowance, you tend to buy one ... (more)
Love and lawsuits
Posted on August 8, 2008 · 10 Comments
(Yesterday’s column) “How to get sued” is a hilarious yet truthful look into the world of litigation. Its author, J. Craig Williams, is a practicing lawyer in California and is one of my earliest online acquaintances when I started blogging in 2003. I went on to write for the print media; Craig became a broadcast ... (more)
Interior design books that inspire
Posted on June 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment
If you need interior design inspiration, there’s nothing like browsing through books. The idea, of course, is not to copy what’s in the book but to come up with a personal version of what’s in it. 600 Decorating Ideas is filled with picture-pretty ideas. Although most are ornamental without being truly functional, this book provides ... (more)
Encourage your kids to read…
Posted on May 19, 2008 · 37 Comments
… And never tell them that the only things worth reading are those labeled by the high-brows as profound. Alex reads a lot of manga online. There was a time when I worried that it might affect her reading pattern. Manga — or Japanese comics for the uninitiated — are read from right to left. ... (more)
One war, two stories
Posted on May 14, 2008 · 5 Comments
So you’re tired of my rants about PLDT DSL. So am I. If anything good came out of my very limited time online for the past so many days, it’s the fact that I was able to catch up on my reading. I finally found the time to read Anthony Capella’s The Wedding Officer sent ... (more)
How many memoirs are true stories?
Posted on March 6, 2008 ·
The full text of my opinion column today, “How many memoirs are true stories?”: In the case of Margaret Jones’ Love and Consequences, the memoir of a half-white and half-Native American girl who ran drugs and lived in foster homes, the word truth does not apply. After all the critical acclaim and the sale of ... (more)
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