Was at Manila for a short vacay to visit my bsf and came back home with these (among other stuff sksks). I originally just wanted Earthlings and the 29th volume of JJK (which was out of stock SOBS)...but oh well ¯_(ツ)_/¯

May mga desisyong mabigat...

Was able to cop Rey Ventura ultramerch. Ang ganda ng shirt, makes me want to revisit the Dreamland Trilogy!

got this for less than 700 hehe!! honestly have no idea what this book was about, i just saw na mataas ang ratings niya on goodreads and booktok anddd i caught a glimpse of it sa fullybooked. i initially liked the cover so i tried to find it sa shopee and surprisingly i found a shop that sells it for half the price!! what are your thoughts about this book? is it worth the read? or should i have gotten the red rising instead?

Everyone seems to be talking about Stoner, but Augustus by John Williams is also as brilliant and as moving as his most popular novel.

In fact, I may even have liked it better. Augustus is an epistolary novel about the life of Augustus, Julius Caesar’s heir and Rome’s first emperor. Through imagined letters written by people around him we get to see and understand his life and reign, and we get to know both the Emperor and the Man. By the end of the novel, however, an aging Augustus himself pens a letter to an old friend and we finally hear from the man himself what it means to rule an empire and what it has cost him.

Here are some memorable lines from the book:

“Rome is not eternal; it does not matter. Rome will fall; it does not matter. The barbarian will conquer; it does not matter. There was a moment of Rome, and it will not wholly die; the barbarian will become the Rome he conquers; the language will smooth his rough tongue; the vision of what he destroys will flow in his blood. And in time that is ceaseless as this salt sea upon which I am so frailly suspended, the cost is nothing, is less than nothing.”

“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock; in the cruelest of men, flashes of tenderness and compassion; and in the vainest of men, moments of simplicity and grace.”

“The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown islands, where he will test and prove his powers, and thereby discover his immortality. The man of middle years, who has lived the future that he onced dreamed, sees life as a tragedy; for he has learned that his power, however great, will not prevail against those forces of accident and nature to which he gives the names of gods, and has learned that he is mortal. But the man of age, if he plays his assigned role properly, must see life as a comedy. For his triumphs and his failures merge, and one is no more the occasion for pride or shame than the other; and he is neither the hero who proves himself against those forces, nor the protagonist who is destroyed by them. Like any poor, pitiable shell of an actor, he comes to see that he has played so many parts that there no longer is himself.”

I am still looking for a used one that I can buy. I saw one of zendaya's interview and she recommended this book.

take all for ₱1,500

yesteryear - sealed brand new from
fullybooked

he who drowned the world - new hardbound from nbs

strange pictures - like new with 2 underline annotations + ownership mark from fullybooked

rfs: done reading strange pics + will read the 2 books on kindle

antipolo!

Bought these sa FB Shopee, nasa 20% off din with vouchers. We don't have Fully Booked kaya nag aabang lang ako online.

I already read Between Two Fires years ago and loved it. There are changes daw to this new edition so I have to buy it.

I want to read another medieval horror and someone recommended me Once was Willem- this is gonna be my next read.

Bought The Monk because the cover & description intrigued me.

Do you have any reco for horror books?

My first book by John Steinbeck! Any recommendations on what Steinbeck book should I read next? I have East of Eden in my list, but want to explore his other works first

sobrang dystopian. para tayong nasa pinagsamang 1984 at fahrenheit 451. ili-link ko dito itong isang article ng yahoo news pero feel free to dig deeper about the topic. interested akong malaman thoughts n'yo.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/ai-companies-still-buying-old-154834203.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMQS44zrb5_n5GqRAhKXCJb9ZhrWveoWYEf2l6CzSpC3RjW6T5vt5a0r2R3jqam_S1XjbbM11fIXQW8V1CWsTj6TfGWqnejd4eoZNWq4KLAR99LW4kXZi6aHz1drAARUWurb5btpKLGFwmhe9DCyYjIKUvwKr80gw9v1vwx6Q28I

Hello.

Looking for book recos. Ayaw ko po sana thriller (scared 😂). Would prefer if hindi rin series.

Tell me your favorite books of all time. Ones that pick your brain and your heart. ♥️

Thank you!

Less than 50 days na lang MIBF na ulit!

What books are on your lists? Ako, lock-on na sa Avenida, Anvil at University presses. Nag-aabang na lang ng announcements of their new releases. Takits sa September 9 to 13. ✨✨✨

Hello po. Mas ask lang po ako about sa Discount Card ng Fully Booked. I'm currently doing the 15k worth of purchases in a year to get the Discount Card. Ang question ko lang po is: I used a friend's Discount Card to purchase a book. Will it count po ba sa 15k kahit nakalagay sa receipt yung name ng friend ko when I used their card to purchase? Thank you po in advance. Stay safe po.

Hello! as a first time mum that likes to read, ano yung mga books na nakatulong sainyo whilst preggy about pregnancy and/or parenting? would appreciate your recos! salamat!

I am currently reading Natsuo Kirino's Out and I really really really love it. I'm not even halfway done but alam ko na agad na I would feel empty again after reading this. Nawala 2-year book slump ko bcs of this book. I feel excited na magbasa ulit.

Can you please recommend a book sa similar genre and theme sa book na ito?

Thank you in advance.

Medj nakakahiya pero gusto kong magstart magbasa ng books. In the world full of AI, gusto ko na ako yung nagko-compose ng emails at posts ko sa work. I want to be eloquent.

Gusto ko sana mag-MOA this weekend to buy some books but not sure kasi kung open pa sila. Dami kasing balita na nagsasara na mga Book sale branches isa isa.

Do you also have reco na 2nd hand bookstore sa South?

And any book reco na kahit anong genre basta literal na page-turner? Yung OMG agad sa umpisa at mapapaisang upuan, mga ganung level.

Thanks and please be gentle po sa newbie. 🥹

Hi! Looking for bookshelf recommendations. Is Ikea bookshelves good? Anong model kaya ang maganda? Okay po ba na may pinto ang bookshelf? Para sana wala gaanong alikabok. May cons po ba? Sorry, dami tanong, 1st time bibili ng bookshelf po. Patong-patong lang kasi yung mga books ko sa bahay. Hehe thank you.

a freaking ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read.

bruh, where do i even begin? it's one of the classic books that ive read where it wasn't for school or academics. so technically this is the first ever book that i finished in the 'classics' genre.

i honestly thought that it would be those scifi/dystopian books where a main character gets their 'happy ending' or at least would have done something so impactful and convincing but NOPE, it just kept getting worse. 😭

its definitely kind of a gut-punch because i was definitely rooting for Winston the whole time pero sis, i was wrong. But it goes to also goes to show that sometimes, no triumphant resistance, no last-minute rescue, or no inner spark survives. it's definitely bleak book. and that's why i kind of understood it as most books give you that "happy ending"; this doesnt.

overall, i really enjoyed reading this. naloka lang ako very light sa mini political theories kemerut on the later part of the book. but wow.. i just realized this is also someone's reality 🥲

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Condition: VG

Price: ₱150

Mode of Delivery: Gogo Xpress / Lalamove

It took me 3 weeks to finish this book and i even skipped reading 9 days out of those 3 weeks.

Not because it’s boring, but because the story is just so heart wrenching that I had to pause for days just to recover from what I read from some of the chapters. 🥲

I truly recommend this book to those who are into historical fiction, woman empowerment, and sisterhood stories.

5/5 ⭐️

I want to switch to an e-reader kasi wala na akong storage for additional books. Gusto ko rin yung mabibitbit ko siya anywhere. Does anyone here have an experience with both?

“I wonder if... I'Il ever be able to have what I like or if my tastes are too various to be sustained by one of anything.”

The fact that remains about this book is that almost every person who has read it has, at one point or another, played an important role in my life - platonic or not. These people (many of whom, in my life, are now gone) are those in whom I’d become so emotionally invested in and had such intimate conversations with that my walls were truly down in that moment when I found myself with them. When I found a copy for sale, I knew I had to grab it and figure out what the book was like, as it might give me some insight into why I’ve gravitated towards these individuals who had read it before. This justification seems trivial and silly, but I tried to make sense of it in the best way that I possibly could, and I guess that comes in the form of reading a bunch of essays.

I understand the parallels that people seem to make about Babitz and Didion, and after reading six of Joan’s books, I think I can tell how Eve stands out. She’s much more of an active participant in these memoirs, as opposed to the passive presence that Didion often has in her works. I find it so endearing to see how wild and visceral her recollection of certain events is. I particularly enjoyed Bakersfield, Heroine, and Rain.

After having stayed in California for a little bit more than half a month a few years ago, I can say that the California that Babitz had written of is now gone. Or maybe I had gone to the wrong places. Either way, I’m glad that there is some sort of visceral and intimate written understanding of what Babitz’s California was once like.

3.75/5

Hi hello!!!

Sorry, I have no one to vent to. I’m currently at page 275/340 of Hakuda Photo Studio, and Seokgyeong’s sudden romantic interest in Yanghee has completely thrown me off

There were hints that he was kind and wanted to marry a local, yes, but I genuinely never felt that the story was building romantic feelings between them. Yanghee spent much of the book distrusting or snapping at him, and most of Seokgyeong’s emotionally significant moments seemed connected to Jebi instead

I’m not upset simply because I wanted Jebi and Seokgyeong together. I’m bothered because this feels like a complete 180 that the story did not earn or properly develop

This is honestly the first time I’ve ever wanted to pause, or possibly abandon a book this close to the ending hahaha!

Did anyone else feel the same, or did I miss something?