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now that i've started this one, i must go on or burst.
hey, it's fun. in doing this, i feel watching a parade in my town's
fiesta; complete with band and buntings and stage; for me, this is
the nearest thing to home.
i have long suspected that God invented the internet just for pinoys;
apparently, to many pinoy book lovers, this collection so far is the
same as theirs, i wonder if we have the same taste or just the same
access. it's truly great to be surrounded by authors as varied as:
 Peter Bacho whose
novels Dark Blue Suit and Cebu are award winners in
the USA;
or  arlene chai, whose
novel the last time i saw mother was a runaway bestseller in
australia;
or  jose dalisay's
killing time, the 1993 national book award winner in the
philippines,
.
to read other award winning authors consider:
marianne villanueva's
ginseng and other tales from manila
paulino lim's
trilogy books
evelina galang's
her wild american self
These will do for now, i'm itching to read Nick
Joaquin, blame it on the weather in miami. it's the summer
solstice and i want to travel back in time when the philippines
was rich, elegant, aristocratic, european-ish, and nick joaquin, who
remains as enigmatic and private today as he was when he used to
write ala Quijano de Manila (now you know why I use Alex Maskara
hehehe) wrote all about it.
Lets now read the Prose and Poetry of Nick Joaquin
Alex
Maskara
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