Nothing Deep
By: Richard Bolisay
4.58
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
In his second collection of essays, Richard Bolisay speaks to personalities from Philippine cinema …
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1. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
By: Yoshida Kenkō , Meredith McKinney
3.74
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune wi… read more
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"It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky"-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
2. Dark Hours
By: Conchitina R. Cruz
4.26
Format: 68 pages,
“At this historical moment when the issue of how to respond to suffering is so fraught as to leave … read more
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3. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
4. But for the Lovers
By: Robert Coover , Wilfrido D. Nolledo
3.91
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the 25 years since its original publication, But for the Lovers has acquired an underground repu… read more
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5. Pesoa
By: Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
3.44
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Mga tala sa alala ng paglimot ang laman ng aklat na ito. Ngunit mga talaga nino, alala nino, pagli… read more
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6. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
By: Oscar Wilde
4.30
Format: None pages,
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7. Strangers
By: Taichi Yamada , None
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Set in the great human maelstrom of Tokyo, Strangersis a thinking man's ghost story. When Harada, a… read more
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8. Enshrining The Nation: Monuments To Forgetting And The Invention Of Historical Memory
By: None
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
What purpose do monuments serve in Filipino society? Defaced, politicized, personalized, or simply … read more
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9. The El Bimbo Variations
By: Adam David , None
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
To write ninety-nine versions of a single line sounds like the idle boast of a literary geek in res… read more
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10. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
11. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
12. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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13. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
14. Happy Hour
By: Marlowe Granados
3.50
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more
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"Being unattached is exhausting."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"being a muse is not for the weak"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"Money was limited, but my taste was not."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
15. Intimations
By: Zadie Smith
3.99
Format: 97 pages, Paperback
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of loc… read more
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"Strange inversions proliferate."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"When in the presence of a child, get on the floor."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"The enviable style of the young is little protection against catastrophe."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
16. People From My Neighbourhood
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.53
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interl… read more
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"Even the smallest hole is enough to send a balloon spiraling to the ground. The falsification of memory is like that. All it takes is one individual who remembers the truth, said Romi, for the whole …"-Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood
17. Tokyo Ueno Station
By: Yū Miri
3.47
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more
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"There’s that sound again."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
18. The Quiet Ones
By: Glenn Diaz
3.89
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
During a regular shift at the call center, Alvin Estrada discovers a way to embezzle money from the… read more
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"All that we did in this world was to salvage scraps of freedom."-Glenn Diaz, The Quiet Ones
"Learning English was like lifting a veil, one which would be, he'd learn, impossible to fully restore."-Glenn Diaz, The Quiet Ones
"She gave it a shot' was how she planned to euphemize the five-year detour: to her therapist, to curious friends, to herself. Had she been younger, there would have been wailing for the lost years, bu…"-Glenn Diaz, The Quiet Ones
"A few moments into the ride, I saw Reynaldo's figure down the road, walking erectly, holding something. Seeing him there, amid the banana trees and huts and roadside stands with petrol in Coke bottle…"-Glenn Diaz, The Quiet Ones
19. Some Days You Can’t Save Them All
By: Ronnie E. Baticulon
4.67
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"In the event of an error, the only thing a writer loses is a chunk of swollen ego. But a physician… read more
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"Some days, you could not save them all, but my patients - with their promise of a good story - reminded me that I should never stop trying."-Ronnie E. Baticulon, Some Days You Can’t Save Them All
20. Kulang na Silya at Iba pang Kuwentong Buhay: Essays on Life and Writing
By: Ricky Lee
4.55
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
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"Yang hawak mong diploma, para 'yan sa iba, hindi para sa'yo."-Ricky Lee, Kulang na Silya at Iba pang Kuwentong Buhay: Essays on Life and Writing
21. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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22. Yñiga
By: Glenn Diaz
4.06
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Yñiga Calinauan’s quiet life is upended when a retired army general wanted for the murder of peasan… read more
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23. How to Grieve
By: Jade Mark Capiñanes
3.85
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
How do you deal with a broken heart? In typical Jade Mark Capiñanes fashion, How to Grieve offers h… read more
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24. Tonight We Slurp in Color
By: Andrea V. Tubig
4.41
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
From Tonight We Slurp in Color's cover: "Tonight We Slurp in Color delights in its desire to dis… read more
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25. Lola Coqueta
By: Isabela Banzon
4.06
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
Direct rhythms, a wry yet personal approach to experience and memory, oblique with evasion, and ani… read more
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26. Partial Views: On the Essay as a Genre in Philippine Literary Production
By: Conchitina R. Cruz
4.88
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
This monograph explores key concepts and issues that undergird the essay as a genre in Philippine l… read more
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27. Nothing Deep
By: Richard Bolisay
4.58
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
In his second collection of essays, Richard Bolisay speaks to personalities from Philippine cinema … read more
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- film
28. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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29. Brief Histories
By: Don Jaucian
4.21
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
Is queer happiness possible? Brief Histories explores this question through 16 sketches hinged … read more
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31. Bago Mo Ako Ipalaot
By: Luna Sicat Cleto
3.75
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
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