SunStar April 19, 2021 ONE of the sad realities that we face nowadays is that we have lesser time reading books. Gadgets, computers, and other mobile devices seemed to have invaded our culture and way of living that our fondness for literature has also been dwindling as years pass by.
While recognizing this as a challenge, each person is highly encouraged to develop a daily reading habit whether it is the newspaper or a book that can spark the intellect and imagination of its reader. Proclamation No. 968, s. 2015 declaring the month of April of every year As “National Literature Month” signed on February 10, 2015 states that “national literature plays an important role in preserving and inspiring the literature of today and in introducing to future generations the Filipino values that we have inherited from our ancestors.”
In her bestselling memoir, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains, Ariana Neumann offers a moving story of personal discovery and
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Worrying about the Weather : Jenny Offill on her doomsday dread novel What if nothing I do matters? In her bestseller Weather, Jenny Offill tells the story of a librarian named Lizzie and her wry take on life in times of climate change. Weather, the most recent novel by bestselling author Jenny Offill
One day Lizzie, the first-person narrator of the novel, receives an old book as a gift, with a dedication wishing the reader to be among the survivors. Like the preppers who build bunkers and stockpile supplies in remote areas to be ready for the end of the world, Lizzie is convinced that the end of the world is definitely near in times of a threatening climate disaster.
Lydia Millet’s newest novel,
A Children’s Bible, was nominated for the National Book Award, and called a masterly allegory for the climate crisis. The book follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.