I’m not the biggest TV watcher, this started when I fell madly in love with reading (which only started more than a decade ago, I’m late bloomer, you see). The only times I watch TV is when there’s a new… Read More »From paper to screen: what do I say to live action adaptation!!
Let me start this post with truest statement about human beings: we are not perfect. We’re susceptible to a lot of things and sometimes it ends up as a bad habit. And as another saying even describes bad habits as… Read More »It isn’t all rainbows and unicorns: here are my bad reading habits.
Being a shoujo fanatic (more like a romance genre enthusiast, and again, it bears repeating), I’ve seen romance stories developed in various ways. One was too quick for comfort. Others had so little development. Some were slow-burn romances (and I… Read More »How about making the love interest not too obvious?
The thing about reading (or anything that revolves about consumption of our fave fiction stories) is you’re bound to meet one that will resonate you. And sometimes you’re get to see yourself in the very thing that you read. Like… Read More »And it reminded me of me. When fiction imitates life?
When it comes to books, I try to finish it as much as I can. I just don’t like not getting closure. I’ve invested time on it already so might as well. But I realized in manga this is a… Read More »Does DNF means forever? The second chances for the unfinished ones.
I don’t try to hide this ever, actually, I’m very vocal about enjoying your stuff your way, that’s always been my forever motto when it comes to my entertainment, especially reading. The genre, demographics, or even the popularity don’t bother… Read More »Mainstream? Indie? The popularity of the series doesn’t bother me one bit!
Long before when I was still blogging for books, I dreaded getting that reading slump. Especially when I reviewed advance copies before. When my anime + manga got resurrected that bookish slump started to get longer: from days to weeks… Read More »Have I ever not read? Let me talk about that dreaded reading slump.
I don’t think I’m the only one who spare time in an activity where I look for new reads (even though I have like 124395047321 series on my TBR but I just need to have more, right? It’s human instinct… Read More »I found it and I read it on the spot: not placing a series on my TBR list!!
When new year comes, I’m always excited with all the new series I’m gonna discover and read. I know it’s kind so faraway but I think of the series that will eventually be part of my year-ender special, Best of… Read More »That Amazing Feeling that You’ve Read So Many!!
Ain’t quitting ‘til it’s over! At least, that’s my mantra when it comes to starting a new series (or before books). I’m very forgiving, and if possible, I always want to finish what I started. And even though reading can… Read More »Skipping Ahead: the pros and cons of not reading everything from the start!
I’ve heard, more like read, it somewhere, if I remember correctly, from an author that once they publish the story, it’s not in their hands anymore. It’s now in their readers. And those same readers have all the rights to… Read More »One Story, different interpretations! Our ways of reading.
Last month I talked about my “hate list” (or more like let me justify my unreasonable hatred to this character & yes, I’m human capable of eliciting irrational anger towards a fictional character), but that being said, I’m very tolerable… Read More »I ain’t hatin’ a character ‘cos he’s pretty flawed!