Coffeespoons

At Tweedle Book Cafe , one of the new and hip book cafes to open in Quezon City, Metro Manila. I've been here twice: the first was to check it out; the second was to read. And boy, did I read. So, I concur: it's a good place for book lovers to hang out.  I will never make it as a food blogger. My inclination when my food arrives is to put it in my mouth. It only occurs to me to snap pictures after I've eaten maybe half of the dish. So, this isn't Coffeespoons turning into a food blog. Rather, this is Coffeespoons finding its voice again and finding time to write again. And since book cafes are becoming a thing here in Metro Manila, I thought it would be a fitting confluence to talk about reading and book cafes in a blog called Coffeespoons. I am a red-blooded reader. That means you tell me that there's a cafe that has a lot of books and purports to have an atmosphere that readers will love, I am there. But I've always been intrigued by the concept of a...

So, here's the presentation I showed during my section in National Book Development Board's Limbag Kapihan for writers. In it are the results for the Filipino Reading Habits Survey I conducted last Feb. One caveat I will emphasize: this is an informal survey, and I am no statistician. I am, however, a very curious individual, and I like facts and statistics. Hence, the survey. The rest of the caveats you'll find in the presentation. The first few slides are mostly pictures of the different activities Filipino readers are up to, at least those within my zone of awareness. And I think while I was showing these, my main message was: Can we please stop saying that Filipinos aren't readers? Please. Look at the pics. Look at the sites. Look at the stats. I mean, sure, our readership isn't like the readership in other countries, but I would say it's a stretch to say Filipinos don't read or don't read a lot. Anyway, I'll let the presentation sp...

Filipino Friday is an online meme which started in the Filipino Book Bloggers  website, but is now used as an online activity in preparation for the Filipino ReaderCon . This is the prompt for this week's Filipino Friday: Hello, Reader! Let’s get to know you, and more importantly, what kind of reader are you? Laura E. Kelly released an infographic about Reader species — under what Domain/Class/Family/Genus/Species do you fall under? Give examples, and feel free to talk about why you belong to that species. Who knows, you may find readers in your own genus. ;) From Laura E. Kelly I've never liked being labeled, even though I may be the easiest person to label. I recall seeing this infographic before. I went through it and found too many cross-overs that seem to be addressed by the over-all term "cross bred reader mutt." I frankly think most readers are mutts. But in the interests of finding something within the species, I'm going to go with th...