Aicha Amano

Hello everyone! I think I am beginning to think that February is a wonderful time of the year, one that's full of surprises! In fact, just the other week I managed to finish a book that's on my list of books under my  Ad Perficiendum  file (which, in Latin, means To Complete . I needed that in Latin to scare me. I need to get serious in reading more books this year.) Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is a strong contender in the category of utterly engrossing fantasy; and is one of the few books that I got so lost and absorbed in that finishing several chapter feels like I've scoured a few miles of a dark, dank tunnel. It's urban fantasy at its height of warped cleverness. The Story:  Neverwhere is a story of the Worlds of 'London Above' and 'London Below', of normal people living regular lives paralleled by a story of people who have 'fallen through the cracks'. It is a story of the adventure of a certain Richard Mayhew, a regular non-descr...

Happy New Year ! The last few months before December and the holiday months have all been a blur of work, preparation and eating, enjoying time with family, delving a bit into videography with friends, business travel, personal travel, and being swamped with more work (yes, even if it was the holidays) and all those combined have made me a bad blogger and a serial non-reader. After I had a wonderful time reading a small pile of books , I felt powerful LOL, like I could actually clear out my To-Be-Read pile so I implemented a No-Buy last September (my birthday month, the month which I always feel entitled to buy the books I want.) and it was all going very well, but until I stumbled on a cheap copy of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman  when I was traveling in Cagayan de Oro. My PHP50 Airplane book. And now that I'm back home, I haven't made progress yet. Other than that, I did read a bit at very rare times when I had time to spare. My December 2011 wishlist consisted of ...

AVALON.ph has been one of the very few online stores to cater to Pinoy bookworms and readers. It's been 10 years now and they want to party like it's 2009! For their 10th birthday bash, they're giving away a signed copy of Interworld by Neil Gaiman yours for the taking as long as you enter your favorite Neil Gaiman quotes from any of his published fiction, non-fiction, or comic books in their AVALON.ph blog comments section. This is divine. I've owned and loved Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Coraline, Stardust, Sandman: Book of Dreams and the elusive (and expensive!) Sandman: The Dream Hunters. So of course I'll enter this contest! My most memorable quote will be from Sandman: The Dream Hunters where the Buddhist Monk journeys into the realm of dreams, gets lost, and finally encounters a man fishing on a pond. “ I seek the King of All Night’s Dreaming ,” called the Monk. “ Am I going the right way ?” “ How can you not go to him? ” asked the first of the men, “ ...