CURRENTLY READING

This accompanied me to my recent trip to Cagayan de Oro. Somehow, reading it for the second time, I don't recall having read it at all.

CURRENTLY READING

I have just most recently discovered Günter Grass. The Tin Drum is his first book, printed in 1959. Only last week, I found a flaky copy in a book fair in UP Diliman - for only P100! A 1963 edition. Be still, my beating heart.

HEAVEN ON EARTH!

The 29th Manila International Book Fair celebrates the power of literature to cross boundaries of time, place and culture, Through books, through language, we can live in a world without borders. In five extraordinary days, we present you with a series of events that expand your horizons, and enrich your ideas, each one carefully crafted and programmed.

Our celebration of books and all that it contains is one of the longest-running in Asia. It is also one of the most accessible and affordable, Through the years, we have welcomed millions of Filipinos to the Manila International Book Fair, which is for everyone of all ages, of all tastes and means and dreams. This year, we are happy to announce that the Book Fair becomes ever more international opening up to other cultures while continuing to champion the best of what Philippine publishing has to offer.

The world comes to Manila this September for the sharing of stories and the meeting of minds.

Details:
SMX Convention Center, Seashell Drive, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City
September 12 - 16, 2008 10:00 A.M - 8:00 P.M., Daily

Is it any help that I am reading this book currently? I mean, for the 4th time? Anyway, I am reading the one translated by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin with a foreword by Leo Tolstoy's own daughter, the Countess Tolstaya. I'm doing it three chapters per day and it seems like I'm reading it for the first time. It may sound absurd, but I hardly recall having read certain parts of it (I must have read a different translation the last time). Or could it be that I may have ... fastforwarded? Egad!

SHOOT!

I'm loving it!

Here’s my reading list these days:

The Labor Code of the Philippines and the Philippine Social Security Act.

I am now a fan of DOLE’s website, particularly that of the Bureau of Working Conditions and that of SSS Benefits Section. That of Philhealth’s is totally moronic.

I have downloaded recently, not movies, but the Handbook on Worker's Statutory Monetary Benefits and the Safety and Occupational Safety and Health Standards.

This is going to be fun.