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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

[Ramini]

after the reich: a brutal history of the allied occupation by Giles Macdonogh

[Hellblazer 2.1]

brutal occupation eh, Herr L.? hehehe. kumusta?

[Ramini]

okay ra..mao jd grabe diay ning mga allies oi..although i just started the book

[iris_primsting]

dreamland - sarah dessen

[ieuseerm]

nahuman ko basa ug De Niro's Game (PS) by Rawi Hage. sa novel giapil niya ug mention ang OFW. ania ang excerpt sa pages 184-5:
"I looked at the sky. It was covered with light signals from faraway planets bursting with gas and the happy bonfires of dead humans singing warriors' songs in a landscape of burning rocks, and sending Morse code signals to ships steered by alcoholic captains into islands inhabited by sirens who sing in cabarets and offer up their salty *** organs that taste like the marinated fish of Sunday's family gatherings after the families have endured the moralistic discourse of fat priests who douse congregations with incense spilled from the pendulum motion of their jerking hands, a motion that rocks like the swings in parks that are swamped with baby strollers pushed by Filipino nannies on temporary visas and with small paycheques that are transferred at Christmas to faraway families who live in huts by the sea and receive Morse code signals from those old creatures from astral space. The creatures read oracles and long letters home from nannies who watch the kids of executives pouring sand in plastic buckets and climbing geometrical cubes in red-striped sailor's shorts, and the creatures can also explain letters home from orderlies dressed in white aprons who cruise the elevators in old folks' homes, changing the sheets of senile, retired sea captains and society ladies, who are in complete ignorance of the presence of their three-piece-suited sons and oblivious to the repetitive, high-pitch complaints of their daughters-in-law, complaints like those of seagulls that feed on the sea trails of sailors' food, and rest on the deck, ogling me with xenophobic eyes, sharpening their beaks, and taking off to other planets on mythological wings."

[chinamorena]

20,000 leagues under the sea-jules verne alternating with the joy luck club-amy tan

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Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik.

[klavel]

currently reading: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
It's funny how effortless humor can still be present amid an ongoing war.

[chefengineer]

The King, The Warrior, The Magician and The Lover