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Thanks to Toni and my daughter Asi, who are both early and avid Twilight fans, I too have become a fan and waiting like a teenager for the movie and the next book.

If you’ve never heard of the Twilight series of books, you’ve got to start reading. The movie will be here before you know it!

I saw Toni’s post on If Twilight Were Asian, and was just throughly amused by the idea. Jade, who hasn’t read the books yet but love Korean dramas would love this. See what you think…

As bloggers, it would be our wildest dreams to be published. Published in real print. In books. After all didn’t someone say somewhere that we all have a great novel in us just waiting to come out? Several bloggers have achieved this feat of going from blogging to books and I am lucky to have as friend one such blogger.

Batjay, as he is known on the blogosphere, is an engineer who first started blogging to ease the loneliness and boredom of working abroad and being away from friends and family. He is the kind of person you’d want to hang out with and just listen to the with and intelligence that just naturally sprouts in his conversations and from his writing. Eventually, that is how his blog, aptly titled Kwentong Tambay (stories from the hangout), became just a big hang out joint where we share his stories, his insights and his humor.

He has already published one book based on his blog with the same name, Kwentong Tambay, which chronicles his experiences being an Overseas Filipino Worker. Now, he unveils his second book, Mga Kwento ng Batang Kaning Lamig. Roughly translated, it means Stories by the Cold Rice Kid. I’m not a linguist so my rough translation is far from the true inflection of the title.

This second book highlights another of Batjay’s talent as an artist and his love for graphic novels. If you happen to be in Manila on April 14, make sure to stop by the book launch at Fully Booked the author himself will be there signing copies. In the meantime, we who are abroad will have to wait until it becomes available online

I’ve been catching up on my reading lately. Mostly, I have been reading teen fiction, courtesy of my daughters. I am now reading the Uglies series by Scott Westerfield. Actually I’ve finished reading Uglies already and am now on the second book, Pretties. I’ll post a review of Uglies soon.

In the meantime, here are two books that I just finished:
Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristine Cast.

Betrayed by P.C. Cast & Kristine Cast.

The next book, Chosen, is due to come out the first week in March, so I’ll be sure to get the book , but I will probably have to wait in line behind the girls to read it. Bummer.

My daughters and I are huge Harry Potter fans. They read all the books, seen all the movies and have even had their share of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans. Yep, even the booger, vomit and earwax flavored ones all for the love of Harry Potter. You know it, they will be in line, in a few weeks, for the movie and for the final book.

For the past weeks since they got out of school, they have been re-reading all the past volumes. My youngest, The Clone, is now on the fourth book and fully intends to finish all the volumes before the next one comes out in three weeks. I’m really proud of her because she has seen all the movies so she knows the plot of each one, but she just decided to take this one for herself.

Then I received a forwarded email that claims a hack has inside information on the plot of the final Harry Potter book. The article is here.

It is sad how some people just have nothing better to do than spoil other people’s fun. This Gabriel person says he released the spoilers “So we make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring.”

Maybe the guy should read more to expand his narrow mind. I thought about posting the spoilers here, but my girls read this blog. So I won’t spoil their fun. But you know what, I bet even if they did know the plot ahead of time they will still read the final book. Because they have learned early on that it is not the ending of the book that is important, it is the journey they take to get there that is their reward. Obviously this Gabriel person has not learned that.