The Filipino Group discussion

Here's a thread for...

1. books you plan to read in the immediate future.
2. books you plan to read in the unforeseeable future.
3. books that have forever been stuck in your shelves.
4. books that have forever been planned to be read.

...and so on...

(Thanks to KD and LS for this idea.)

LOL! Baka maubos ko na ang 12 thousand characters na limit ng post ko bago ko pa masagot ang lahat ng yan. So far, wala pa naman akong priorities, except na lang yata ang mga 3 to 4 year old books ko. Haha.

Kwesi: I export mo na lang unread library mo at email mo sa amin, haha.

Repost from the Currently Reading thread (na sinita dahil OT siya, hahaha).

February Books:

Haha. Adik ka na! Sige, try kong gumawa ng monthly something. Katulad ng ginawa mo. Nagulat ako dun sa mga questions sa taas. Haha.

Hindi naman kailangang monthly. Wala lang, para maiseparate lang yung currently reading sa TBR. Hehe.

Magugulatin ka pala ha. Bulaga!

LS: I like the cover of Moonwalking with Einstein. :D

Parang pareho kami ni Kwesi.

Tsaka walang plano ang tbr ko for the week. Kung ano lang madampot ko. Minsan depende sa kababasa ko lang na libro.

Dami kong list before di natutupad. Kaya wag na lang akong magpost. Pero pag nasa currently-reading na ayon tuloy na yon. Wala nang atrasan. May exceptions na dalawa (Ulysses at The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire). Yon lang ang 2 from currently-reading bumalik sa TBR ko so far.

ay may ganito palang thread..sige i'll transport my feb TBR..

My Feb TBR List:





(re-read)

I like your books, Cary. Good luck!

kelangan ko na mabasa ang perks dahil papanoorin ko si logan lerman at emma watson haha

Finnikin of the Rock
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Little Prince
Z for Zachariah

yan pa lang ang sure Feb reads ko dahil tatapusin ko ang currently-reading books ko:

Cary: Linya yan ni Jzhun last Saturday for "Gatsby" Babasahin na raw nya kasi ipapalabas na. Naisip ko lang bakit? Why the rush?

Iba naman lagi ang libro kaysa sa sine. Di lahat ng nasa libro kayang ilagay sa sine. May limitations ang sine: haba, budget, characters. Lalo na pag ang story ay maraming descriptions or narrations, di kayang ilagay sa sine lahat. Doon nagkakatalo.

O dahil parang magandang sabihin while watching na: "ay nabasa ko na yan!" Tapos may topic ka for conversation with a friend: "You know, the book is better." Yong friend mo namang non-reader, parang feeling mo, bilib na bilib sa yo ha ha.

No Kuya, I'm not on the rush. Actually, I'm really planning to read it as part of my Valentine reading this coming Feb. Di ko lang mayroon nga ba talagang love story sa plot ng Gatsby. :)

Uhm Maria: ASAN NA ANG PINAGMAMALAKI MONG PROGRESS????? Haha.

Wow Arnel! I have a signed copy of Drown. Napabili ako nung bumisita siya sa Power Books. :D

K.D. wrote: "Cary: Linya yan ni Jzhun last Saturday for "Gatsby" Babasahin na raw nya kasi ipapalabas na. Naisip ko lang bakit? Why the rush?

Iba naman lagi ang libro kaysa sa sine. Di lahat ng nasa libro kaya..."

ayuko lang maspoil ng movie ung pagbabasa ko. maiba naman kasi lagi na lang akong movie before book at kelangan ko na din talagang basahin pala kasi kelangan ko na ibalik haha

Of all books na pinagbibili ko, di lahat feel kong basahin pero there are books I want to read THIS YEAR kahit makapal and takes time to read.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Historian
Middlesex
The History of Love
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Shadow of the Hegemon

Yay! Pareho tayo Trisha (Kavalier and Clay). :D

Maganda raw yan. Baka basahin ko rin yan har har

4.16 average rating.

babasahin:

Studs Terkel's The Good War
Elmore Leonard's Killshot
John Updike's Licks of Love
Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun
Clive Barker's Cabal

Angus wrote: "Yay! Pareho tayo Trisha (Kavalier and Clay). :D"

maganda siya, sinimulan ko siya early last year kaso naasar ako sa flowery sentences ni Chabon that time. I'll try again haha

Onga. Flowery=Boring. Har har.

Huwag mo nang ituloy yan. Pahinugin mo muna.

Sana mag-encourage???

I like flowery sentences! Haha. Na-eenjoy ako.

Whoops! Dalawa na ang sumusuway! >:)

Haha. Tago na lang muna ako sa likod mo Angus. Haha.

Hahaha... I haven't really finished reading 2666 kasi ang hirap dalhin. Hehehe... So gagawin ko na itong bedtime read for Feb that I hope to finish before V-day.

Other books I'll be reading, this February, while on the road and during work downtimes would be:
1. Revolutionary Road
2. Dance Dance Dance
3. Blind Assassin

Just in case I finish all 4 books before the month is over (and I don't get distracted by some other books I happen to see lying around) I'll probably start reading any of the following:
1. Nature of Monsters
2. Man in the Dark
3. The Book of Ruth
4. Gilead
5. House
6. Sea of Poppies
7. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
8. Holy Blood Holy Grail

Pero honestly, when it comes to reading, madalas di ko nasusunod yung intended reads ko. This might sound crazy, but I am in a relationship with the book I'm reading. Kailangan tama ang timing at kailangan may chemistry. Hehehe...

Angus wrote: "
February Books:
[bookcover:The Death of Artemio..."

Angus, gusto mo mag buddy read ng Kavalier and Clay? Nasa "TBR Someday" ko yan eh :P

My 2012 Reading list...so far :P (ever-growing...haaay)

A Dance with Dragons (George R.R. Martin)
The Imperfectionists (Tom Rachman)
The Book of Lost Things (John Connolly)
The Black Book (Orhan Pamuk)
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller (Italo Calvino)
The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag (Alan Bradley)
A Red Herring Without Mustard (Alan Bradley)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Meaning of Night (Michael Cox)
The Monsters of Templeton (Lauren Groff)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (David Mitchell)
The Book of Murder (Guillermo Martinez)
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)
Solar (Ian McEwan)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Istanbul (Orhan Pamuk)
Raise the Red Lantern (Su Tong)
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (Douglas Adams)
Saturday (Ian McEwan)
Amsterdam (Ian McEwan)
Jamrach’s Menagerie (Carol Birch)
In the Woods (Tana French)
The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
Mysteries (Knut Hamsun)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (John le Carre)
The Perfect Spy (John le Carre)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John le Carre)
The Finkler Question (Howard Jacobson)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens)
North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Lost Horizon (James Hilton)

And..hindi pa pala kasama sa list na yan ang mga graphic novels na gustong basahin.... :(

Rollie wrote: "Uhm Maria: ASAN NA ANG PINAGMAMALAKI MONG PROGRESS????? Haha."

Sir Rollie, 45% done with Ender's Game. Atribida!

LS wrote: "H: Wow, dami! Hahaha kaya yan! :D"

Wish ko lang. Kung makakalahati ako, masaya na ako :)

H: Ganda ng mga books mo. Parang marami tayong common sa tbr.

Mina: Kaw din. Impressive list. Tama si LS, unahin ang maiiikli para medyo umikli ang listahan.

LS wrote: "H: Unahin mo nalang yung mga maiikli. Hehe"

Actually inuuna ko yung mahahaba.

Thanks, KD, sana nga matapos ko lahat this year :(

LS: Pag kasi matapos ko yung mahahaba or mahirap basahin, feeling ko, I can just breeze by the shorter ones so bibilis din yung progress.

Oh yes, LS. Beware though. May maiikli na mahirap basahin (example: The Prince ni Machiavelli). May mahahaba na, breeze through lang (Gone with the Wind).

May makakapal na akala mo mahaba, yon pala letra lang (Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol). May maninipis na hitik na hitik sa maliliit na letra (yong kopya ko ng Cat and Mouse ni Gunter Grass).

O ha. Yang mga examples na yan, opinyon ko lang. Baka debate na naman ito. :)

Salamat KD. Na-inspire din kasi ako magbasa dahil ang gaganda ng mga reviews ng mga books. Nai-intriga tuloy ako.

As for kung ano dapat unahin. Maikli o mahaba? May points lahat ng sumagot. Kaya ako, simula ngayon, magsasabay ako ng maikli at mahaba. Pero depende na din siguro sa lalim nung salita. Mahirap magbasa ng malalim kapag on the road ka papuntang trabaho. Parang nakaka-stress ata yun. Hahaha...

Ikaw na ang may e-reader, LS. Ibang level ka na. :)

H: Medyo makapal ang Kavalier and Clay. Let me know kung anong week ka pwede. I think you're reading A SoIaF book?

Re: Long and Short

I try my best to balance, para hindi nakakaumay. Baka kasi magkareading fatigue kapag sunud-sunod. At saka masakit sa wrists, hahaha.

Angus wrote: "H: Medyo makapal ang Kavalier and Clay. Let me know kung anong week ka pwede. I think you're reading A SoIaF book?"

Oo nga, kagabi ko lang na realize na February na nga pala hehe. Ang goal ko is to finish ADWD by Feb. 13.

kung may sched ka na para basahin yang Kavalier, ok lang...kala ko kasi January pa eh hahaha.

Wala namang sked, basta tapusin lang this month ang mga iyon. Medyo toxic lang ang 2nd half ng Feb kasi parang ang daming kaganapan. :D

Ah ok..sige..next time na lang kung 'di jive and reading sched natin.

Sobrang dami ko ng to-read pile so someone told me to use Random.org to choose a book para makita halungkat ko yung mga books na nakalimutan ko na sa to read pile ko.
Eto yung mga results for Feb:

1. Dark Heart Forever
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3. The Maze Runner

Tatlo muna. Will add up later na lang. :D

Its very useful! :D
Try it out.

Planning to read The Hunger Games trilogy. But have to finish The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus first :)

Flipreads wrote: "Planning to read The Hunger Games trilogy. But have to finish The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus first :)"

I loved Hunger Games.
Haven't gotten to the rest of the books yet though.

Sandeelovesbooks wrote: "Sobrang dami ko ng to-read pile so someone told me to use Random.org to choose a book para makita halungkat ko yung mga books na nakalimutan ko na sa to read pile ko.
Eto yung mga results for Feb:
..."

Uy, ayos yan ah. Minsan sa dami ng librong nahoard mo, you don't know where to start. Ma-try nga to hahaha

Sa akin simple lang ang policy: kapag lalabas na ang libro o kailangan i-interview yung manunulat, kailangan nang basahin...

Tricia wrote: "Sandeelovesbooks wrote: "Sobrang dami ko ng to-read pile so someone told me to use Random.org to choose a book para makita halungkat ko yung mga books na nakalimutan ko na sa to read pile ko.
Eto y..."

YEP. Kasi sakin mas madalas kung ano yung bago kong book yun na babasahin ko. Makakalimutan ko na agad yung maga ibang books ko. :p