Revival
There’s an ominous ring to it, really, much like someone rising from the dead or reclaiming her piece of the earth. But anyway it’s hard to be prosaic-sounding about it, so I’m just saying that I’m reviving this book blog. It’s been a good year or so, and I figure that I would again need a repository for my book thoughts. It surprises me a great deal that I can still feel strongly about a book or a story even after my long reading hiatus (and that long list of distractions that don’t even deserve to be mentioned), which gives me the impression that you’ll never lose it. It’s right there for you to reacquaint yourself with.
So this is me dusting myself off the non-reading ground, and maybe sending books overseas again! Visit Bookmooch to know how much fun it is.
I get high on a really good read. T.C. Boyle, Jonathan Franzen, and Nadine Gordimer top my long list of authors. Tagalog movie lines and short story quotes are like snot coming out of my nose. I train myself not to merely skim through or hoard books. I like reading about the darknesses of the American Dream and writers and sloppy dreamers. 
