An Announcement and a Few Other Things

(Mis)readings will have lesser posts from now on. Updates will also lag behind in terms of contemporaneity, as this very post itself exemplifies: what is being announced has become the norm for this blog since the start of the month. Hence, please allow me a brief (and obviously delayed) recap of a few things I find noteworthy. The first is a good news:

1. Kabataan Partylist, the sectoral party of the Filipino youth, is now in the Philippine congress with Mong Palatino as its representative. Read Mong’s message to the Filipino youth commemorating this historical event.

2. This second one is not so good: Philippine Bureau of Customs, in contravention of a United Nations Treaty which the Philippines is a signatory of, is now imposing taxes on imported books! Columnist and historian Manuel Quezon III is closely following the issue.

3. I just read Pride and Prejudice, my first book by Jane Austen. It was cute, but I would like this one better: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!.

4. Lastly, check out the cool book covers posted at The Art of Penguin Science Fiction:

Fascinating!