A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

Just fiddling around with Library Thing. It's a cool website which allows you to keep track of the your books and their pertinent publishing information. Tags also lets you discover other interesting books that are out there, kinda like Flickr for books. My recent reads:

Mr. Neil Gaiman, who you're probably tired of hearing from this space, had a busy month last September. His new novel came out and his first full-length film feature also made its onscreen debut. I picked up Anansi Boys when we made our trip to the Left Coast. Haven't finished it and that's why this isn't exactly a review just yet. Gaiman is still lyrical as ever and he ...

The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner Foreword by Umberto Eco "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - V.I. Lenin There's a reason that despite being presented as a graphic novel, The Plot is classified as a work of non-fiction and belongs under the category of history. The Plot was finished by author Will Eisner in the last month of ...

If, like me, you're interested in the creative process that goes into writing stories, making movies and penning songs, then Adaptations : From Short Story to Big Screen should be a treat for you. Adaptations by Stephanie Harrison is a compilation of 35 short stories which have been turned into movies in the past 100+ years of cinema. The anthology collects popular as well as little known short ...

With Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling is now one book shy of a promised seven-book series which follows the boy wizard and his friends through their education in Hogwarts. How she'll tie-up the loose ends with just one book would be no small feat -- if it won't be in 3 books with 500-pages each. While Rowling follows a formula, albeit a successful one (Summer ...

While going through the first few chapters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Petite came across this: Click for a larger viewOn page 10 of course they meant 'sight' instead of 'site.' It's nice to know that despite the billions of dollars involved in JK Rowling's creation, they still manage to botch things up like proofreading. Good read still though.

Where exactly did the idea of home come from? 'Home' - that physical place we go to at the end of the day of work. That place where we entertain guests but close off to strangers? What makes a home comfortable? These are just some of the ideas explored in Witold Rybczynski's Home: A Short History of an Idea This was a book given by a friend before ...