Read | The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

Before the pandemic and the subsequent quarantine most of us are experiencing, I think I didn’t touch the blog for a couple of years aside from embedding my IG posts. I actually debated if I wanted to start it up again, because if I did, I knew I wanted to move the blog to WordPress….

Watch | Jo Koy: In His Elements

Watching comedy specials is more of my husband’s jam, so, while I did hear hilarious snippets when he watched Jo Koy’s stand up acts, I didn’t think much about it until I decided to get Marvin tickets to the comedian’s stop in Manila as a Christmas gift. I didn’t want to attend without having an…

Watch | One-Punch Man Season 1 and 2

For me and my friends, action or the fighting genre was our starting point in watching anime. Never mind that shounen is targeted for young male teens, most of our earliest anime memories are the ones featuring battles… Dragonball Z, Flame of Recca and Ghost Hunter for us, and Naruto, Bleach and One Piece for…

Read | The Devil’s Thief by Lisa Maxwell

Given the chance, I would choose to read the sequel in a book series right after the previous volume. Details are still fresh, so there’s less of a struggle to remember characters or events. And it’s such a relief when the previous installment ended on a cliffhanger, just like The Last Magician. Betrayed by the…

Watch | His Dark Materials Season 1

When film and TV series adaptations of books are announced, there’s usually a mix of excitement and anxiety for readers. A good adaptation means that the story you love will be shared to more people, but a bad one will hurt your case in getting more people to read the source material. And I’m sure…

Read | The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

When I attended the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale in 2019, I found a hardbound copy of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell on the fantasy table. I decided not to get it because I had planned on only getting paperback books on account of limited shelf space. A few days later, I watched booktuber…

Watch | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Season 1

My anime series backlog is embarrassing. But if there’s one thing to take advantage of during community quarantine (and our current self-imposed quarantine despite loosened restrictions) while schools are still on vacation, it’s that extra bit of free time to read and watch. I made it easy on myself and chose an obviously popular title…

Read | The Toll by Neal Shusterman

The Toll is probably one of my most anticipated reads of 2020, given how much I loved the earlier installments, Scythe and Thunderhead. I had planned on purchasing my copy once my daughter’s school year was done, so it would be easier to carve some solid reading time and give me a chance to relish…

Read | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Read | The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

I’m usually late when it comes to book releases. My reading backlog is rather extensive, so it’s a huge deal if I can read a book a few months after the release. I really don’t mind since I choose books based on what I feel like reading at the time, but it was hard to…