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
Southeast Asian Literature
Readings from the week: ceremonial rigidity in turn-of-the-century Thailand
This week I’ve been reading Four Reigns, Kukrit Pramoj‘s doorstopper of a novel about life in the Thai court in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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
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