Keeper promotes Filipino Literature! (It's in English)

I was searching for books to read from Filipino writers when I remembered the publishing company staticdream mentioned. I found their website, found one that is rather interesting and bought the ebook from Amazon, even when I'm saving for the last book of The Heroes of Olympus: The Blood of Olympus, which will be released on the seventh. Rick Riordan already posted the first chapter in Scribd by the way. Read it here.

The reason for this impulsive buy is this:

Caitlin's friendship with Marcus, the de facto frontman of the world's biggest boy band Gezellig, has long been an object of scrutiny by almost everyone--their friends and families, the media, and his fans--ever since they "went public" a couple of years back. Who wouldn't be interested? She was a nobody, catapulted into the limelight of his fame when he struck an unusual friendship with her. 

To both Caitlin and Marcus, what they have is a "perfect little thing." But then something comes along and threatens it. 

In a no-holds-barred interview, will they finally be forced to settle the score?

 

I'm a fangirl, so this plot is something I would read (most likely) and heh, the four and five stars it received made the decision easier.

Interested? Curious?

Presenting.... *drum rolls* Kesh Tanglao's The Real Score (Gezellig Book #1). Buy the book or just read the reviews, here.

(I am not paid to do this, okay. I'm just nice <--- hahahaha xD)

If you like short stories, editors/authors Dean Francis Alfar and Angelo R. Lacuesta publised the first issue of MAXIMUM VOLUME: Best New Filipino Fiction 2014:

Maximum Volume is about creating spaces for emerging Filipino writers and new narratives.
 
Here is a baker’s dozen of the best contemporary writing, ranging from small personal tragedies to fantastic voyages of the imagination to our nation’s past and present.
 
It is available at National Book Store. Read this article to know how this collection/magazine came about. Be inspired about their real life stories and how they pursued writing. And check out their favorite Filipino short stories too (some of these are in English).
 

I'm scared of dolls. Their life-like marble eyes give me the creeps. But I wasn't always afraid of them. I had a doll when I was kid named Colleen. She wears a yellow dress and her mop of brown curly hair is tucked inside a cap. She has hrown buttons for eyes, a tiny nose and a single curved line for her lips. She looks really kind. And every Christmas until I turned six, I received Barbies as gifts. She's pretty.

 
But horror movies just had to ruin it for me that everytime I see a doll, the hair at the back of my neck rise.  Anyway, after reading this short story, I think I can replace all the bad images with something beautiful.
 
Basahin ang Kwento ng Manika by Francis Morilao dito.
 

Why all of a sudden? The reason is that someone in facebook really pissed this Keeper off.  You'd find out eventually, hahaha! It's a long story and I won't bore you with the details and their nonsense and my lengthy replies/comments. 

It is never right to put down another writer/s for any reason. They didn't like (hated is more appropriate) the author's facebook posts on love and his book, as well as the stories published in Wattpad and so they put up this facebook page dedicated to "criticize" them under the guise of a #SaveLiterature campaign. They slapped this hashtag in a crude photo of someone giving the author's books the dirty finger. And then they filled the page with mockery, shaming and curses calling the readers BOBO (stopid) and MALANDI (ty), in their attempts to "enlighten" them that the books they are reading are garbage.  I admit that I am not a fan of these authors but what they are doing in that page is too much. The writers in Wattpad reminded me of the writers here - young, excited, eager to share and improve... And so you can imagine what happened afterwards... (You know me when I get riled up. I'd entertain you some other time but it's getting late... so...)

I can't understand why they had to stoop so low. Instead of hating on the authors, focus on what you like. I should follow this advice before I got myself involved. (Why one of its followers told me that "Self-esteem doesn't exist because it can't be observed and measured and since bullying/cyberbullying is grounded on the fact that bullying degrades one's self-esteem, therefore bullying doesn't exist." I asked him for a proof of his fallacious statement. Gah, if not that kind of response, I get nonsense. (like how I should not even expect decency in the internet or that I should talk to the Senate -_- ).

 

Good to be back here though. I uploaded layouts to de-stress a bit. And then, I'll be reading ;3 If you read all this, I'm sending you a hug. /hug/

 
 
 
 
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staticdream #1
Eliza Victoria might interest you, too. She deals with a different kind of Filipino literature thats worth a look. My personal favorite is the Trese series by Budgette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo. It's a graphic novel, and thus twice the fun. There's a lot to discover in that genre, too.
kpopartory #2
/hugs back
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