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This site presents readers on books they've enjoyed. Write-ups can be informal, formal, long, short, in any writing style--as long as the write-ups are hopefully helpful for bringing attention to recommended books. Click on links below to go to reading notes. Please check back since this site will be updated over time with the addition of read books. Enjoy!

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Read by Eileen Tabios

2024

Measures' Measures: Poetry & Knowledge by Michael Boughn

America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan

The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

METPO by Scott MacLeod

Wildflowers by Beverly Parayno

ABYSS AND SONG: Selected Poems by George Sarantaris (Trans. from the Greek by Pria Luka)


2023

CLOSER TO LIBERATION: Pin[a/x/]y Activism in Theory and Practice. Editors Amanda Solomon Amorao, DJ Kuttin Kandi, and Jen Soriano

BIBLIOLEPSY by Gina Apostol

Kneel Said the Night by Margo Berdeshevsky

All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang

THE YEARS by Annie Ernaux

When the Hibiscus Falls by M. Evelina Galang

As A Friend by Forrest Gander

MARSHLANDS by Andre Gide

AUTUMN by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Letters in Language by Harold Legaspi

El Dia Mas Delicioso De Mi Vida by Emeterio "El Chango" Landeros as told to Arturo Mantecon

Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath

THE LAST THING: NEW & SELECTED POEMS by Patrick Rosal

The Collector by Daniel Silva

A Rupture in the Interiors by Valerie Witte

Ley Lines II by Mark Young


Read by Eric Abalajon

The Lust of Unsentimental Waters by Rosa Alcala

The Border is Burning by Ito Romo


Read by Rev. Dr. T.C. Marshall

The Low-Coup Poems of AMIRI BARAKA in Funk Lore by Amiri Baraka, Ed. Paul Vangelisti; Un Poco Low Coup by Amiri Baraka; The LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka Reader. Ed. William J. Harris; Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones; and SOS: Poems 1961-2013, Selected by Paul Vangelisti 


Books on BERTOLT BRECHT: Benjamin, Walter. Reflections. Ed. Peter Demetz. Trans. Edmund Jephcott; Brecht, Bertolt. Bertolt Brecht’s Refugee Conversations / Flüchtlingsgespräche. Ed. Tom Kuhn. Trans. Romy Furslund; Brecht on Theatre. Ed. & Trans. John Willett; The Good Woman of Setzuan in Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht. Trans. Eric Bentley

Blood on the Fog by Tongo Eisen-Martin


Read by Aloysiusi Polintan

The Meaning of Mariah Carey (with Michaela Angela Davis)

The Body He Left Behind by Reese Conner

Hallucinating Foucalt by Patricia Duncker

Strands of Eternity by Vasant Lad

Virginals by Larissa Szporluk











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