Summer Reading
by Rica Bolipata-Santos
Summer is a good time to play catch-up: catch-up on sleeping, catch-up with loved family members, catch-up with old friends and most especially, catch-up with one's reading. This summer, make a real effort to get some reading done!
STRESSED IN THE CITY by April Yap
There are many idiosyncratic things about being "Filipino." For example, April Yap, author of this deliciously funny and witty collection of short essays about living in Quezon City, notices that it is only in the Philippines where you can go shopping while caught in traffic! While traveling from school to Church, you can buy: water, candy, fruits, toys, rugs, phone chargers, strawberries, guapples, peanuts, and even umbrellas! Delight in the observations of this sensitive writer about our practices as Filipinos and at the end of this slim volume be grateful too that you are Filipino!
SAWI: FUNNY ESSAYS, STORIES AND POEMS ON ALL KINDS OF HEARTBREAKS Edited by Ada J. Loredo, BJ Patino and Rica Bolipata-Santos
Ada, BJ and I are all teachers and one day over coffee after a day of endless teaching, we conceptualized this anthology. Over more and more years of teaching, at the end of three long years, this anthology finally saw the light of day and was published in 2007.
It is a collection of both young and established writers' takes on love and its necessary twin, heartbreak. What causes heartbreak? Can a heart truly break? What can one do if one's heart gets broken? Can one ever truly heal from being heartbroken?
Enjoy your summer reading!
(From Star Teacher)
(Rica Bolipata-Santos is the author of Love, Desire, Children, Etc.; Reflections of a Young Wife, which won the presitigious 2007 Madrigal-Gonzalez First Book Award)
Posted on May 26, 2008
Rica Bolipata-Santos Reviews Miflores books
