Dusk, F. Sionil Jose, 1984
- Philippines, #15
- Paperback, $2.00 from Half Price Books
- Read April 2018
- Rating: 5/5
- Recommended for: The clear-sighted and warm-hearted
Dusk
Asian Literature
The Woman Who Had Two Navels: A very inaccurate synopsis
The Woman Who Had Two Navels, and Tales of the Tropical Gothic, Nick Joaquin, 2017
- Philippines, #14
- Paperback, $13.98 from Amazon
- Read January 2018
- Rating: 4.5/5
Philippine Food and Life
Philippine Food and Life, Gilda Cordero-Fernando, 1992
- Philippines, #21
- Borrowed from SF public library
- Read March 2018
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: Patient foodies
This week’s readings: Stories from Thailand, plus a bonus Malaysian novel
I had a very long travel day this week, so I got most of my reading done while stuck on a plane holding a sleeping or nursing baby. Jet lag is way more brutal when there are two little (also jet-lagged) people in your house and no one seems to want to sleep at the same time, so I got very little done the rest of the week. Continue reading
America Is in the Heart
America Is in the Heart, Carlos Bulosan, 1946
- Philippines, #11
- Paperback, received as a gift
- Read January 2018
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: enthusiastic communists
Shadow and Solitude: A play in one stupid act
Solo Entre las Sombras (Shadow and Solitude), Claro M. Recto, 1917
- Philippines, #9
- Print-on-demand paperback, received as a gift
- Read November 2017
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: False dichotomists
Philippine Short Stories 1925-1940
Philippine Short Stories 1925-1940, Leopoldo Y. Yabes, ed., 1975
- Philippines, #8
- Borrowed from SF public library
- Read December 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: completists
Noli Me Tangere: Yesterday’s news
Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal, 1887
- Philippines, #7
- paperback, received as a gift
- Read October 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Harriet Beecher Stowe fan clubs
Cuentos Filipinos: Colonialism and condescension
Cuentos Filipinos, Jose Montero y Vidal, 1883, translated by Renan Prado
- Philippines, #5
- Borrowed from SF public library
- Read October 2017
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: Miss Eleanor Lavish
Florante at Laura: Two guys crying in a forest, essentially
The History of Florante and Laura in the Kingdom of Albania: Adapted from some “historical pictures” or paintings of what happened in early times in the Greek Empire, and were set to rhyme by one delighting in Tagalog verse, Francisco Balagtas, 1861
- Philippines, #4
- Read online
- Read: August 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: imprecise Romanticists and their kick-ass girlfriends
Around the World in 2000 Books 