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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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Michael David S. Sy
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Cries and Whispers: The Philippine Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Pandemic: The Philippine Response to COVID-19
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The Lies that Sanitized a Dictatorship
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Albert Einstein transformed the topography of modern physics with his theories of relativity that deviated from the established notions of classical mechanics. These theories expanded the capabilities of physical science. It was such a landmark disco
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I think that I have almost the complete works of Celso Al. Carunungan's prose and fiction, and this was among the rarest to obtain. This anthology is an excellent survey of Philippine literature, culture, and history. The selections were excellent, p ...more |
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| I enjoyed reading about unsung Filipino heroes like Olivia Salamanca (second Filipino female physician), Mount Mirador being the peak of Baguio, and delicacies like pinindot (which became the modern day binignit!). There are terms that were now co-op ...more | |
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| This man was against Marcos's corruption, which is a good thing, but essentially his adventures as an officer and a policeman were acceptably written. He was one of the early heroes of the Philippine constabulary. ...more | |
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| During my reading life, I had a phase where I tried to read the heavy hitters of modernist literature, and even dabbled into early examples of iconic postmodern literature. Part of that was an ego boost: if I could read Joyce’s Ulysses, I could read ...more | |
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| I initially believed that with an orderly prolegomenon, Fletcher would organize core principles in a modern-day perspective of situational ethics. After all, he provided six propositions that established the fundamentals of Christian conscience, and ...more | |
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"I didn't get much out of this book. It seem to meander and wonder. It tried to explain why we should view ethics as always changing to meet the situation. Which to me came out as meaning that there really are no ethics, because how you have any stand"
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| These are quick, easy-to-read suggestions backed by neuroscience on how to improve one's focus. Among other things, the GTD method is helpful - Capture ,Clarify, Organize, Reflect, Enhance. Cognitive distribution is also helpful, which is simply offl ...more | |
“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
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