HP Giveaway winners!

I once joined a Harry Potter contest myself — it was a diorama contest for the launch of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and my entry — a papier mache diorama (that took me two weeks to make!) of the first task in the Triwizard Tournament — Harry and the Hungarian Horntail.

I was not supposed to join the contest, but Dianne talked me into it because she planned to submit an entry too. So in a panicky fit, I started making mine, and just when I was halfway through, Dianne tells me she can’t go through with her entry and I was too far in to quit!

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The Princess Academy

A couple of weeks ago, I had just finished posting my recap of the Filipino Book Bloggers’ Meetup and it was well past midnight when I reached for the book I’d started that morning: my signed copy of The Princess Academy by Shannon Hale.

I had started to read the first chapter, but it was a busy day so it got stashed in my bag until I got home. I meant to read just a few chapters before going to bed, but before I knew it, it was 4 in the morning and I’d finished the book!

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Lumina Pandit

Just when I thought our book club couldn’t get any geekier, we did, spending half a day touring, in rapt fascination, an exhibit about — yup, you guessed it — books!

It was the morning of our End of the Affair book discussion and we had agreed to meet, at an hour that most of us aren’t even awake yet on a regular Saturday morning, at the University of Santo Tomas Library to view the Lumina Pandit exhibit. Curiosity (and okay, geekiness) won over sleep and so I blearily got into a cab to meet the rest of the Flippers.

I don’t know what the others were expecting, but I was picturing a hall, some artifacts encased in glass, and a cursory viewing of the items on display, so I sure wasn’t prepared for this:

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Caricatures

This is our book club, Flips Flipping Pages, as caricatured by my good friend (and surrogate book club big sister) Ajie Taduran (see, I told you my friends are brilliant!) after one of our book discussions last year. Can you find me in the cartoon?

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More Christmas book sales!

I like giving books as gifts, especially when I’m familiar enough with the person to know what kind of books they like, but I’m way behind on this year’s Christmas shopping so I’ll have to shop double time in the next two weeks.

If like me, you have some books to check off the Christmas list, here are some places worth checking out:

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