… 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. She [...]
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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 [...]
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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 some [...]
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There is only one period of English history that I studied with genuine interest—the reign of Elizabeth I. Because she was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, whose three-year reign ended when Henry ordered her beheaded, it was natural that I would get to read about them too. If I [...]
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you about me, this blog and a few irrelevant things as well.
