Marias. (Updated: Just another day out here in the Hellmouth.)
While The Women Are Sleeping by Javier Marias, Php865 at National Bookstores.
Bored. Must…reach…book.
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For three weeks, I saw them every day, and now I don’t know what has become of them. I’ll probably never see them again—at least, not her. Summer conversations, and even confidences, rarely lead anywhere.
I nearly always saw them at the beach, where it’s difficult to get a good look at people. Especially so for me, because I’m nearsighted and would rather see everything through a haze than return to Madrid with a kind of white mask on my otherwise perfectly tanned face, and I never wear my contact lenses when I go to the beach or into the sea, where they might be lost forever. Nevertheless, I was tempted to rummage around in the bag in which my wife, Luisa, keeps my glasses case—well, the temptation came from her, really, because she, if I may put it this way, was constantly transmitting to me the more peculiar activities of the more peculiar bathers around us.
Read While the Women Are Sleeping by Javier Marias.
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We were going to ignore the new Dan Brown release as we have no intention of reading it, but MMDA Chair Tolentino has just made it sound interesting.
Thanks for the free book publicity–anything that makes people read.
No thanks for speaking for everyone and making us sound like flaming idiots!
Read the MMDA’s official denial that Manila is the hellmouth.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
May 24th, 2013 at 23:25
hahahaha. hellmouth. oo nga. sa maynila, meron pang kambal na ahas na nang-re-rape ng mga babae sa fitting room ng isang mall. dapat inilagay din ito ni dan brown sa isa na namang obra maestra nya. :-)
May 25th, 2013 at 03:53
Manila, wait, Metro Manila–pollution–check; poverty–check; sex trade–check, traffic jams–definitely; BUT, “six-hours traffic jam”–so grossly exaggerated (heck, I have days of walking from Taguig to Tandang Sora, QC for about 4 to 5 hours); “suffocating pollution”–again, so exaggerating (I spend much of my life walking around–Manila, Makati, Quezon City, San Juan, and Mandaluyong, I wear face masks, but not to the point of being blacked out of being “suffocated.”) and, why not ride a taxi or an air conditioned bus instead; “horrifying sex trade”–wow, such powerful adjective, making virtually everyone in the metropolis as either sex workers or pimps–wow. Danny, Danny, Danny….
May 25th, 2013 at 11:40
i’ll wait for your review then since i have no interest in reading it either but got curious. the last forgettable book he published was a snooze fest of epic proportions. i can’t even remember the title–all i vaguely recall is some sort of a plot about masons and a giant squid– wait or was that 20,000 leagues? It took me weeks to finally read till the end and only because of my OCD to finish everything I start to read. Now that was hell.
OA talaga to si Tolentino peklat kelan ba tayo magiging di pikon ever??? and that letter, argh! really??!!
By the way, watched A Bright Star 2 weeks ago. My poor heart…
I’m getting confused about the number of emotions I am expressing– sorry, watching a certain movie multiple times is perhaps making me whoozy.
May 25th, 2013 at 12:33
If Manila is the Hellmouth, where (or who) is the Slayer?
May 25th, 2013 at 14:10
Ejia: If you will recall, there was One but all the potentials were activated. So you are.
May 25th, 2013 at 18:59
Excellent! Now to recruit a Muppet Angel for my slayer retinue!
May 26th, 2013 at 00:44
Just browse carefully the book’s acknowledgement–guess what, Danny doesn’t cite who are his Philippines-sources. HHHMMMM….
May 26th, 2013 at 00:48
Your grace, in the end of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Season 8 (in comics, Dark Horse publication, the sequel of the last television series Season 7), Buffy herself destroyed the thing that activated “the potentials.” Buffy Season 9 is now an on-going Dark Horse comics series, Your Grace.
May 26th, 2013 at 22:24
Ejia: Aha, an Angel fan. We preferred Spike, Wesley Wyndam-Price, or Giles (Haha, old).
May 26th, 2013 at 22:28
wangbumaximus21: Haha you read it! The bookstores have MMDA chair to thank for the weekend sales.
Did we say the potentials would live?