I don’t normally post stuff like this but this video is just too awesome not to be shared here too. Enjoy!
So many good parts I can’t pick a favorite!
ReaderCon Filipino Friday #4 – On Filipino Literature
Do you read Filipino literature? If you do, tell us your favorite books by Filipino authors and name a few that you’d like to recommend to fellow readers? If you don’t read much Filipino lit, then tell us why.
~ Filipino ReaderCon Week #4
I haven’t read much of Filipino literature – an embarrassment for this book blogger who even has the nerve to use the word “Pinoy” in his website’s name.
My Filipino reading has only extended to these few books by Bob Ong, Jessica Zafra and the Tapallas. Pitiful, I know.
A review for “Kapitan Sino” was posted here some months back. I bought and reviewed the “Public Speaking and Personality Development” book to prepare for something traumatic. I never got around to reviewing “Twisted 8 1/2” which is unfortunate because I enjoyed it, although it’s really just a compilation of her columns.
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The Filipino Book Bloggers Community
The Bookish Pinoy is finally now a member of the Filipino Book Bloggers community. About time, huh?
The community’s current blog count is 89 and with more Pinoy readers getting into the blogosphere every month, things are surely starting to look good for this nation of readers.
The community has a members-only Facebook group so if you’re also a Filipino blogging about books, join up!
Visit the website for details:
http://filipinobookbloggers.wordpress.com/
P.S.
It’s through this community that I premiered the new vectorized logo for The Bookish Pinoy. ^_^
The Sign of the Cross by Bert Ghezzi – Book Review
Paperback copy bought at Fullybooked for 200 pesos.
I am a Catholic so I make the sign of the cross, though probably not as often as I should be doing. I remember having lunch with one non-Catholic friend and then she asked me if I do the sign of the cross before meals to which I responded with a confident yes. Obviously, I often forget because I haven’t truly made a habit of doing the sign.
The most likely places I’ve seen people sign themselves is in and around a church. Drivers passing by a church would often sign themselves. At the MRT, some commuters do it while the train passes the Edsa shrine in Ortigas. I have since adopted this practice though I never truly understood why people do this outside churches. I had always thought the sign was only a formal way to begin and end prayers. I assumed this act of crossing yourself when in the vicinity of a church is merely to acknowledge the place of worship. I never would have thought that the sign of the cross could actually be a prayer in itself.
Bert Ghezzi’s book “The Sign of the Cross” details the little-known power behind the simple prayers wrought through the sign of the cross.
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Mindset by Carol S. Dweck – Book Review
“I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures… I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.”
~ Benjamin Barber, sociologist
I bought Carol S. Dweck’s “Mindset” January of this year upon recommendation of one blog commenter. First read some chapters on the Kindle then decided to get it at Fullybooked after getting impressed by the content. I have learned a lot ever since.
Bought trade paperback copy from Fullybooked after reading it a bit on the Kindle. Index cards for handwritten notes, as always.
I’ve always been fascinated by the subject of psychology. Becoming a psychologist was one of my minor career aspirations while I was a student. I remember getting the highest marks for my Psychology class in college. I believe I’ve always had this innate curiosity about the workings of the human mind.
But “Mindset” is not a mere psychology textbook. At the surface, it may seem like one of those run-of-the-mill self-help books but it’s not. The great insights one can gain from this 246-page short book are actually practicable and immediately easy to apply.
The book, in essence, puts forward the idea that there are two mindsets: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset.
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