We're back to posting book porn!
I am currently juggling these two books. I know Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is heavy, so reading something light and whimsy in between chapters, like Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir, seem like a great idea.
However, I have to admit that Vuong's prose is so good that I sometimes end up reading multiple chapters of it in one go without having to take a break. That explains why I am now further into his book than Reichl's.
Michelle Zauner's 2018 New Yorker essay made me cry, so I am preparing rolls and rolls of tissue paper now that her book is finally here.
#CryingInHMart
Finally!
#Insurrecto #GinaApostol #Novel
"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."
-from Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated
"There is no way in which to understand the world without fish detecting it through the radar-net of our senses." -from Diane Ackerman's A Natural History of the Senses 
"At the hotel, he discovered that loneliness and regret, things that otherwise noisily grated, assumed a certain silence when muffed by material comfort. Loneliness didn't snore or shift if one slept on three hundred thread-count Egyptian cotton. Regret chewed quietly during thousand-peso meals. They were there, nonetheless: saying something desultory about the late night news, wishing him good night before he turned off the bedside lamp ('Good night!' Alvin would sing-song back). Soon he realized that he could further soften the edges of his new companions by doing nice things, like giving big tips and doling out bigger alms, taking long, aimless walks, and this, getting massages. He indulged in this new life until loneliness and regret were so hushed that it was almost possible to ignore them. Being able to snatch such shreds of delight, he realized things weren't so bad after all." -from Glenn Diaz's The Quiet Ones
#TheQuietOnes #GlennDiaz #PhilippineLiterature #Fiction #FilipinoAuthors