Books jan 2019 articles

  • Daniel Padilla is booked and busy

    Never mind the online noise. Fresh from his trending birthday party last weekend, we got a hold of Daniel Padilla at the same venue where he had his big birthday bash in Tanauan, Batangas.
  • Five of the best books about eating

    From a pioneering 1940s ‘gastrography’ to a recent novel about a real-life 18th-century French peasant cursed with an appetite to eat just about everythingFood in books has a way of lodging in the memory. For some it might be the kidneys on Leopold Bloom’s mind in Joyce’s Ulysses. For others, it’s the hard-won German sausage that Ratty finds at the end of Wind in the Willows. The book may be rich or grotesque, stark or sickly sweet, but we, the reader, are always invited to ask ourselves why,...
  • Ranked: Book tracking apps

    Keeping up with yearly reading goals can be tough, especially when you start the year with the naive assumption you’ll be productive. Be honest, we’ve come around to that time in the year where we’re all lacking — as for me, I’m currently five books behind. This is the point wherein we take accountability. With This story Ranked: Book tracking apps appeared first on Washington Square News.