Hello,
I'm new here. I felt compelled to sign up here and find kindred spirits after I saw and read this article on a couple of blogs: http://philippinegenrestories.blogspot. ... overs.html
I hope this is not so for I'm filipina and I'm an avid book lover ever since I learnt how to read. I own quite a number of books and I would always choose to have a library (the Beauty and the Beast library is the stuff dreams are made of for book lovers) over a swimming pool, if I had to make a choice between these two, to have in my house - dream house.
There were a handful of smart, charming and funny Filipina ladies who not only read books but wrote (and in great measure, guilty pleasures such as Fanfiction) over on Livejournal. Unfortunately, Livejournal is almost quite dead At least the old rowdy members are quite gone, onto tumblr, pinterest, etc. they went.
One fact I will share with you today:
I'm filipina and can speak very good tagalog. But I speak perfect taglish, can read tagalog but can't string a compelling essay in one. Let alone, shamefully, spell certain tagalog words. And, I'm not familiar with deep tagalog. So, please take it easy on me
Nice to meet you all, and I hope to share the love of books with everyone here. And to prove that article wrong.