Belated Christmas Wishlist

I got an early Christmas present last December when a package full of books, DVDs, and foreign publications arrived straight … More

Reading Highlights of 2014

The year 2014 was particularly productive in terms of reading, my new disposition being more conducive to reading more books … More

A month ago, I began a ‘Great Purge’ of my books to solve the problem of the acute shortage of … More

I’ve been too busy with other things to write anything here lately. Given Hello.Lenin!’s beginnings as a personal blog about … More

I got this book survey from the The Book Hooligan: Author you’ve read the most books from I’m still debating … More

Out of curiosity, while waiting to board my flight at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport the other day, I dropped by … More

No, this is not your usual porn. The Bookshelf Porn is the self-described “Porn for book lovers.” It is, according … More

We need history, but not the way a spoiled loafer in the garden of knowledge needs it. –Nietzsche, Of the … More

A semi-recent piece from The Hindu Literary Review looks at the book beyond its literary content and illustrations. It looks … More

I have always been a voracious reader. I read anything I can lay my hands: from novels to religious pamphlets, … More

[I]f woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the … More

Snow is falling but it’s hardly visible because my (Mis)reading’s background is white. I don’t see it melting. The screen … More

I plodded through Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead before I entered college. I detested her loathsome individualism and proselytizing of the laisezze … More

It’s a book against war. It’s a book against the self-interested materialism of modern capitalism. It’s a book about the … More