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“those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that.”

//  Charles Bukowski

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Having trouble reading a book over 200 pages? Or just reading? Check out this list by LitHub of awesome contemporary books that are 200 pages or less.

The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages

About a month ago, we published a list of 50 of the best contemporary novels over 500 pages, for those of you who suddenly have a lot of ext

I, personally, am interested in Mrs. Caliban....

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13 Ways to Overcome a Reading Slump - Every Writer

Thirteen relatively easy, tried and true favorite ways to bridge that reading void. 1) Return to an old-favorite. There is a reason why we always feel

I had an article on reading published today and it would mean so much to me if you would read this, reblog this, and/or comment on the site.  Thank you, lovelies!  <3  <3  

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How do you find your role in marriage?

So here's the debacle: All this time, I thought I knew my role. Understand identity as "self"? - easy. It's the foreign roles that get me. I always see images of what they should be, but never really stopped to think about how accurate they are. Who is the perfect wife? Does she rise early and make the bed each day? Is she the quiet woman who saves her complaints for her friends? Does she speak her mind and remain strong at most costs? It seems there are too many things to be here. I always thought I would just be myself. After all, when you can't be yourself, there's just too much to be. But lately I've discovered that I'm not satisfied with this version of a "wife". In a nutshell, I see myself as a wife who views her husband as her best friend, who is supportive, speaks her mind, who says what she wants and doesn't want, and who tries to ensure the safety and health of her husband at all times (e.g. Don't forget your glasses, brush your teeth, take your vitamin, did you eat?). Recently I've realized that I don't like this version, this role, as much as I thought I would. Instead, I feel like a single mom who gets the eye roll when I speak. Instead, I feel overbearing and unable to be taken seriously. Can you be best friends with your spouse while telling them to put down the PlayStation remote or to stop working so much? This uncertainty has caused a serious devastation. I pride myself in standing firm in my role, whatever that may be. Now, I don't have a clue who to be. I have lost my voice and my courage. Do I sink down and fulfill my role based on what's given to me first? In this case, I wouldn't have to do much. What I fear even worse is the reality that other roles are coming. Who am I to be in them!? Parent??? What does that even mean!? How do you find your role? How do you avoid being the wife that your husband has to lie to or avoid? How do you become the wife that is admired and appreciated? The wife that a man really pursues? Is it a matter of doing less or more? Should my needs be met solely by my husband or is that too much for him?

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My staycation so far

It's been weeks now that I'm cocooned inside our little home in the province by choice. This year a lot of things had happened both good and 'still good' which supported  my road life so its finally time i rest my untired feet and unload baggage from my forever aching back. My  ina died few days before the holy month of Ramadhan started,  dear bapsi was diagnosed with emphysema, and lot lot more which doesn't directly concern me but indirectly did, and yada yada yada...STOP. And while lot of things had happened there are also other things that didn't happened at all for a better reason (that I'm zillion percent sure). I'm a self-confessed gala girl who can't stand being caged at a single place in more than a day but my wanderlust has wander off this time coz I've finally made it to my second week just sitting pretty at home. During the first few days it was miserable fighting off the urge to pack up my bags and trot my way somewhere else. My definition of travel after all is very simple. It's to be anywhere but not here so it doesn't mean European tour, Rio, Maldives or a Caribbean cruise.  I'm still a frustrated globe trotter though. Sad face.  Fighting the urge of booking a ticket and flying somewhere else is like fighting a cancer. The battle is tough but i finally survived. I know this is an exaggeration but for me, it is not. Anyhow, so far the staycation is successful and my daily confinement at home is worthwhile and productive. This time I feed my hungry soul and invested efforts in beautifying where it resides. (Ahem! But im still not beautiful though and i didn't see any changes in my physical appearance except that my locks are an inches longer but still wild). Reading good books has been a big help. Amy Tan remains my number one recommendation for something worth reading a million times. Why?  Because of the two words: filial piety. Jessica Zafra on the other hand even if i dislike  her personality; i still enjoy reading her Twisted only because she has good words for things that's all. Sarcasm. And because I don't wanna reach midlife penniless and shoeless and naked and worst of all stranded in a single country, I desperately sought the help of books about managing money wisely like Suze  Orman's The Courage to be Rich and Pera mo Palaguin Mo by Francisco J. Colayco but admittedly, ill just accept the truth that I'm not going to be rich but i still recite the daily tasbeh to increase daily sustenance and somehow it's magical. Daanin na lang sa dasal! There's nothing more powerful than the words of God indeed. Signing up for Cinderella club is also an option wherein the objective is to uhm...marry a prince but decided against it since I'm more of the step sisters than Cinderella herself. In fact, deciding which shoes to leave to complete the C story already gives me a headache. I don't even wanna lose any of my shoes.  But of course I'm seriously kidding, I don't have a Cinderella complex because for a fact my resume has been rebuke by Cupid and forwarded it instead to Hades which made the grieving Persephone even more sorrowful. Yeahs even the queen of death laments for my situation...poor me. Poor queens and princesses. So what they say about marriage being the same as death; you never know when it's gonna happen, I guess it's true. Only that I know death will come first before my marriage. GOL! Going back to reading which you are currently doing, the best book which cured me a lot is the holy qur'an. (Thank you mama for teaching me how to read Arabic at an early age). I didn't only read the Arabic version but the translations as well and even if I've read it many times already, every time I re-read it, it's always an eye opener which never fails to quench my thirsty soul. Mashaallah! Everything is written in the holy book, the past (history), the present and the future. So  never consider yourself a wide reader if you haven't read the qur'an. I'm not going to talk about it further for I humbly accept that my knowledge is still very shallow but I'm suggesting READ the holy book. If you are a non-Muslim, there are qur'ans  which are translated in English. But the qur'an has only one version and no revision. God's words are his words. The holy book answers all questions about life and best of all about life after death which as we all know remains a mystery to every mankind for no one has ever come out of life alive.To sum up my senseless, incoherent and full of grammatical errors composition; reading therefore takes me to many places my feet can't reach so on my staycation I'm on a reading spree and happy to be preparing for a journey towards eternity. As what Thoreau said, "goodness is the only investment that never fails" and id say our amal is the only thing we can carry towards our journey in the unknown so better be ready.  May we all have a wonderful journey in life and death, Allah bless us all! ;) 

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From manang to a hot mamang, say hi to the modern wifee.

When i was a kid, I was made to believe that marrying young would disrupt me from having a bright future. That i wont be able to finish school or land a decent job and stuffs like that. In short, marriage is a threat to my ambitions which definitely excludes 'being a wifee'. But today looking at how happy and successful my married friends are,  i realized that there are major changes in the stereotype of a misis and while everyone was discouraging me to rush into marriage before, today they are the same people pressuring me to do so. Gone indeed are the days when misis is wearing a daster with her hair pinned forming a bun above her head in a mess cleaning the kitchen sink. Or always in the banyo washing the clothes or always busy and in misery maintaining cleanliness and order inside the house like a madwoman.  Or she is one of the osyosera and chismosa in the local sari-sari store where she expresses her rants and miseries of being a housewife to her kapwa misis. But nowadays, the misis is no longer portrayed as  busyrable wife for the modern misis  is no longer clad in a loose and shabby daster or apron, she is now dressed in the most trendy and fashionable wardrobes and most of the time better looking than her single amigas. And the traditional Maria's basket has been replaced  by  ElV, Gucci, Chanel, MK, or (Hermes???!!) containing credit cards, car keys,  mini gadgets, lippy and compact. Take  She for example, one of my amiga who has been married for almost four years now but still maintains her glamour and always caught wearing chic and fabulous wardrobe and her lifestyle includes traveling, shopping and providing the best home for her responsible hubbee. A chic housewife that's She and there are lots of other wives as fabulous and responsible as she. The traditional misis is most probably our mums but not in my generation. What I noticed is most of my married friends if not all are hot mommas or chic wife and the desperate housewife no longer exists. Thanks to social networking sites which proves my theory that the desperate housewife now has a more colorful and fun life than Ally Mcbeal and Carrie Bradshaw. Sorry, girls. And while Carrie Bradshaw sits on her bed in front of her mini laptop writing bout  her sexcapaces, fashion finds, parties, and her fabulous girlfriends, the modern wife is now 24/7 online conquering the realm of world wide web while sitting on her throne at home  utilizing social networking sites as an escape to her real world instead of hanging out in the sari-sari store with other housewives. I even doubt that modern misis knows Aling Nena's store for she usually do a weekly grocery shopping in the mall during weekend after spending hours beautifying herself in a salon or a few hours in a coffee shop sipping cappuccino with Hubbee  or girlfriends with an iPhone on the other hand busy photograming or tweeting about her 'errands'.   Way back, women are often victims of domestic violence and she would keep silent about it but with Twitters, FB, Path and the like, are there still silence among women? Are they still deprive of speaking for themselves? Na-ah! They even have nothing to rant about but they always have something to showcase to the world. Like how thoughtful Hubbee is for surprising her to dinner with expensive  presents or how good looking her kids are, what her latest fashion finds are, her new shades of lippy, new restos she dined in with her family or a new house, or a vacation. Whew! I really admit that I am very happy with how the misis have transformed herself from  a manang to a hot mamang without neglecting  her role of being a mother and a wife. I salute you girls for knowing your worth. Carrying an expensive purse or hanging out at a coffeshop with your amigas is not the same as laundering money in mahjong. You can have the best of both worlds if you wish to. It's just a matter of balancing things, multitask is the trend. You can be a wife and a mother and at the same time a student or an employee and still have a social life. Believe me, everything is possible as lived and proven by most misis I know. Ladies, misis, please raise your ring  finger for the world to see the modern and empowered you. You are an inspiration to single ladies like me. Click. It's now on Instagram. ;)