Meeting fellow book bloggers is always a joy. These are my people after all. So imagine how happy I was when I finally met Joséphine of Word Revel, my blog twin from Singapore. In one awesome afternoon, we visited Library@Orchard, ate fantastic ice cream and explored the artsy Haji Lane and colorful Arab Street. 

Many international authors have come and gone to the Philippines but only just recently did some fabulous New Adult rockstars come to meet their Filipino fans! Last weekend, Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher and Christine Brae rocked Cebu and Manila and signed thousands’ of books, at their book tour event hosted by National Book Store. If you guys […]

Being a die hard fan of YA Contemporary, I was so excited when National Bookstore announced that they were bringing not one but three YA Contemporary authors to the Philippines: Katie Cotugno, Melissa Kantor & Robyn Schneider. I’ve read one or two books from each one of them that I really liked (and loved!) so […]

I’ve been a fan of Abbey Sy’s hand lettering work for a few years now (as well as her amazing blog, Artistic Dreams) and even attended one of her workshops over the summer, so I was definitely psyched to hear that she was releasing a book! I’ve always been a lover of artsy things, being a design […]

I feel like the book gods have blessed me this year. Six months have passed now and I’ve read nothing but good books. Some fabulous, amazing, I’ll-love-you-forever books too. I’ve got an awesome reading streak going and I’m very much hoping this continues onto next half of 2015. Current Reading Stats: 48/100 books read I’ve been behind […]

I never knew I’d come to love YA Fantasy until I came across Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone. I bought it on a whim, not really knowing much about it, and decided to crack it open one day while stuck in a car going on a seemingly endless dreary road. From the point I began […]