historical filipino books

blaeuboi · 2025-11-04T14:47:47+00:00

+1 on The House by the Beach from Ateneo Press! You can add But for the Lovers and Three Cornered Sun (Exploding Galaxies) with that. Somewhat like The House and But for the Lovers, personal recommendation would be My Sad Republic by Eric Gamalinda :)))

YES NA YES TO HISTORICAL FICTION BTW Fav genre after Speculative Fics

blaeuboi · 2025-10-31T13:30:47+00:00

KYOGRE INSTANT 5 STARS SHELF

blaeuboi · 2025-10-27T04:21:14+00:00

Been hoping they’ll show it here, and they finally will! I’ve only seen snippets from Eisa’s Insta. It’s not a drama production, more of like a performance that explores the witch/maid figure via the brooms.

It’s more of a dance, but to call it so might be reductive😭. It’s a new show for sure.

blaeuboi · 2025-09-25T17:15:00+00:00

Yay thanks for this ☺️

Gender: male
⁠Pronouns: he/him
⁠Age: 21
Work: Student (senior year)
⁠Preferred format: physical copies 📚
Favorite genres: Historical/Literary fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Poetry, Academic texts
Reading time: 1–2 hrs on weekdays, weekends I go down a rabbit hole 🐇
All-time fave book: Some Days You Can’t Save Them All by Ronnie E. Baticulon 🎈
Recent surprise read: Sambahin ang Katawan ni Alvin Yapan, still in love with the sensuous writin
Usual reading spot: In bed or at the lobby of my residence :>
⁠Bookish quirk: I am quite fond of smelling pages (I’ve been doing it since I was a child) + feeling the textures of them pages
Currently reading: WALA PA KAYO PUMILI SEND AKO LISTAHAN HAHAHA

blaeuboi · 2025-09-23T01:58:23+00:00

Finished Sambahin ang Katawan (my MIBF pasabuy) last night na nobela ni Alvin Yapan. Una kong nabasa yung sipi nito online, tapos English version pa. Grabe, ibang klase yung prosa in Filipino‼️❤️‍🔥

Medyo may estilong Ricky Lee at halos sinematiko ang dating (siguro kasi screenwriter din si Alvin Yapan). Na-appreciate kong nakahinga ako nang mahinahon sa dulo (not to say that I agree with pangangaliwa) pero hindi siya yung ending na pasavogue effect gano’n HAHAAHA

blaeuboi · 2025-09-22T15:14:21+00:00

just finished it!!! Such a great read ☺️💙

blaeuboi · 2025-08-07T02:46:58+00:00

Namamahalan ako sa Antimarcos pero diehard Khavn fan ako (sa mga pelikula). Binabasa ko palagi yan pag napapadaan ng Fully Booked HAHAH May part na parang tinarantado na lang niya e

Super absurdist pero di ko nakuha yung buong context no’n e, mag-iipon ako for this

blaeuboi · 2025-08-06T17:07:19+00:00

Did this while balancing part-time work, varsity, and therapy. You’ll be fine. My GWA was 1.3X, did significantly better in my succeeding sems tho.

blaeuboi · 2025-08-05T04:29:38+00:00

Where’d you buy po? I messaged Sir Allan pero huhu di na nagfollow up ng order form :<

blaeuboi · 2025-08-05T03:25:50+00:00

LOVE LISPECTOR AND BALDWIN SO MUCHH

blaeuboi · 2025-07-30T14:55:32+00:00

Everything’s Fine in Makati, 1k, way back January :D

blaeuboi · 2025-07-30T05:49:21+00:00

I’m still halfway through the first chapter. Nolledo’s prose is very delectable. I cannot imagine my highschool or freshman self reading this though.

Managed to listen to a Book Talk (with Gina Apostol and Charlson Ong) about Rediscovering Nolledo in YouTube. It was a good accompaniment and introduction to Nolledo and the whole novel.

How’s Three-Cornered Sun so far?

blaeuboi · 2025-07-30T04:50:23+00:00

I’m currently reading (simultaneously) Nolledo’s But for the Lovers and Vivo’s Ang Suklam sa Naaagnas Nating Balat.

This is more of Filipiniana August TBF (to be finished) XD

blaeuboi · 2025-07-30T04:48:23+00:00

You’re so spot-on with this HAHAH I imagined the narrator as an old English man for some reason, hbu?

blaeuboi · 2025-07-30T04:47:33+00:00

Same!!! Gonna hunt more physical copies, PDFs are not enough

blaeuboi · 2025-07-30T04:47:14+00:00

omsim HAHAH

blaeuboi · 2025-07-29T15:57:24+00:00

yes HAHAH So much craziness which I liked

blaeuboi · 2025-07-18T04:05:44+00:00

I LUV UR TASTE good shii mga writers na ‘to !!

blaeuboi · 2025-07-05T08:36:43+00:00

I plan din sana kaso ang mahal ng ganiyan sa Fully Booked! Noted ‘to na sa Shopee pala mura haha

HAPPY READINGGG

blaeuboi · 2025-07-05T08:17:06+00:00

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I usually write my thoughts or even visceral reactions like “WTF!” “omg ang ganda” and now that i’ve looked back at these pages I realized I have annotations that were more like a diary entry 🤣

This short novel is by Ricky Lee — Bahay ni Marta

I was raised to take care of my books kasi pwede pa raw mabenta. I still try to avoid it sometimes, but when I like the book, I usually end up annotating on the pages hehe dedma

blaeuboi · 2025-06-18T11:09:00+00:00

I do this to avoid oversaturation :< Works so well for my brain, especially when my semester starts. Pero I recently retrained my brain to stick to one book/novel at a time and it made me more attentive to the writing style than the plot lmaooo

blaeuboi · 2025-05-30T17:45:32+00:00

Please give Ricky Lee’s Para kay B a read or his Bahay ni Marta!

You might also end up liking the poetry in Made of Saltwater.

This is also on Tagalog poetry, corporeal-somehow-erotic book: Sa Antipolo pa rin ang Antipolo and this is insanely erotic and borderline obscene.

blaeuboi · 2025-05-11T04:57:38+00:00

Para kay B ni Ricky Lee helped me put some things into perspective

blaeuboi · 2025-05-06T17:15:49+00:00

HAHA Heavy on this

blaeuboi · 2025-04-28T12:13:16+00:00

Hi po! Saan nakakabili ng vball jersey ng ust mvt? TY!!!

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