To All the Ones I’ve Swiped Right Before: The Intro

Hello reader, welcome to another blog. Though this blog might not be the usual blog I’ll be writing, but this sure is one for the books. If Taylor Swift writes songs about her exes, bad bloods and what-nots to shake off, then I write about anything in poetry, and of course in this freedom wall of mine, that includes ex-friends and ex-chatmates. Which makes Tay-tay and I have a little thing in common, I guess.  

Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

"Im so unwhole. I don't know where all the pieces of me are, how to fit them together, how to make them stick. Or if I even can."

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.”

Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork

"I wonder how I would define large talk. I don’t understand why I never made a distinction between small and large talk in Paterson.”

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

“Snow lands on top.”

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

“Thoughts are only thoughts. They are not you. You do belong to yourself, even when your thoughts don’t.”

Pulse

First things first, if you’re not one to be open-minded, then don’t even dare read this one. If you are, I suggest you read from beginning to end.

Watching BL Series for the First Time

BL stories have been trending in the Philippines these days, but as we all know it’s always been there,

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

 

“People so often knew each other by the ways they were not the same.”

Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos

“Don’t you wish you would wake up one day and celebrate yourself?”

How to Start Reading

How do you get yourself to finish this book?

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

“Mature. Man. What exactly did those words mean anyway?”

The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”

Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin by Bob Ong

“Kung ano ang nakikita at naririnig natin sa araw-araw, nagiging ‘yon tayo.”

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

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“For you a thousand times over!”

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

“Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.”

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

“Second to the right,” said Peter, “and straight on till morning.”

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

“Let me ask you something. Do you think there’s such a thing as a perfect day?”