The Filipino Group discussion

Hey y'all! #high5! I'm Angus and I'm obviously the host for April's second Biweekly Meme.

We have just wrapped the Top Fives at TFG5 + High Fidelity book discussion last weekend but the anniversary month is far from over. So let's continue riding on the waves of nostalgia by choosing our Top 5 40 F2F books (not the F2F book discussions but the books themselves). Please check out the instructions below:

Part 1: The Top 5 - We're done with this but you can still do it, if you want.
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1. Select your Top 5 F2F Books and post them on this thread. No more, no less, please.
2. Post the list in ranked order. 1 is the highest, 5 is the lowest.
3. Optional: post a picture of the books to make it more fun!
4. Optional: add comments, such as why this book, your feelings on this book, etc.

You have one week (until April 22) to participate in Part 1. That's because this meme comes in two parts. But let's check out our Top 5 F2F books first before we go into Part 2. I'll update this message for further instructions next week.

What if I was not able to attend the book discussion of the book that I want to select? - That's okay. We are selecting books, not book discussions.

What if I'm new to the group? - Hopefully you've read at least 5 of the 40 F2F books. That should be enough. Don't know the complete list? Read on!

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Can't remember all the 40 F2F books? Click the spoiler tag below to view TFG's 40 F2F books, ordered by discussion year and month.

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2012
1984 by George Orwell (KD)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Jzhun)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Ranee)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Tina)
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (Aaron)
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (Maria)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Angus)
Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal (Ayban)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Ella)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (DC)
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Monique)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Kwesi)

2013
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Rollie)
Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benitez (Tina)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Beejay)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Louize)
Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan (Charles)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (Tricia)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (Bennard & Rhena)
Tall Story by Candy Gourlay (Biena)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Angus & Mae)
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (Aaron & JL)
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (Aldrin)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Blue & Cary)

2014
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (Tina)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (Monique)
The Alienist by Caleb Carr (Maria)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (Ranee)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Angus)
The City and the City by China Miéville (Gwaxa & Meliza)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (DC & Ycel)
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (Marie)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (Tina & Gege)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (Kristel)
Dwellers by Eliza Victoria (Tina)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (view spoiler)[(any theatrical work by Shakespeare chosen by a participant will count toward this) (hide spoiler)] (Aaron)

2015
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool (Louize)
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (Alona & Ingrid)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Monique)
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Aaron)
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Part 2: The Top 40

Who would have thought that we have just reached 40 months, 40 books, 40 online + offline discussions, 40 unforgettable moments?

In the music world, 40 is a sort of magic number. There are many hit lists that feature 40 singles. Some of these are Billboard's Mainstream Top 40, BBC and MTV's Official UK Top 40 Singles Chart, etc. The singles are ranked based on radio and video airplay, sales, etc., and the results are audited by big accounting firms.

Why 40? I have no idea. But I digress. For the second part of this meme, we will not rank 40 singles. We will,instead, rank our 40 F2F books. Please check out the instructions below:

1. Go to this Listopia list.
2. Click the Vote For This Book button for each book that you've read and liked. Vote for as many books as you can. If you've read only one, vote for that. But if you've read and liked all our F2F books, vote for them all.
3. Check out your votes at the right side of the screen (for the desktop version). Ensure that your votes are ranked accordingly. 1 is the highest, 40 (or whatever biggest number is displayed) is the lowest.
4. Watch and wait.

Notes

-If you are voting for the Shakespearean play assigned to you last F2F36 or any Shakespearean play that you've read, please vote for The Complete Works by William Shakespeare instead of adding the title of the play.
-Please don't bother adding books because I will delete them (view spoiler)[unless this list is used in the future to accommodate future F2F books (hide spoiler)].

So what was Part 1 all about? - The participant whose Top 5 books earn the highest sum of points in the Listopia list will be hailed as the uhm, TFG List Master! (view spoiler)[If you have better suggestions for this title, please let us know! (hide spoiler)] And no, you can't edit your Top 5 anymore. These are now recorded.

For participants who posted a picture, they will earn an additional 50 points. For participants who included descriptions of their Top 5, they will earn an additional 50 points. So if you did both of the optional steps, you will earn an additional 100 points. And no, you can't edit your post anymore. These are now recorded.

What if I didn't join Part 1? - You can still vote, but you will be out of the competition. In other words, you have no chance of winning the title.

I was [insert reason here] last week. Can I still post my Top 5? - Yes! However, you will still be out of the competition.

Can I change or rearrange my Top 5 in the Listopia list? - Ideally, you must stick to your original Top 5. Whatever you vote for and however you vote for them, the Top 5 in the first part of this meme will still be the basis of your points.

You have one week (until April 29) to participate in Part 2. The TFG List Master will be announced on April 30. He or she will earn a special TFG Passport sticker and a bookish prize.

Please let's not rig this (i.e. no vote buying or influencing). Have fun voting!

Let's begin!

Here are my Top 5 F2F books:



1. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (view spoiler)[ - What is the meaning of life? (hide spoiler)]
2. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (view spoiler)[ - I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. (hide spoiler)]
3. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (view spoiler)[ - On greatness and dignity. (hide spoiler)]
4. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (view spoiler)[ - Dirty realism and zero endings. (hide spoiler)]
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (view spoiler)[ - Michael Fassbender! I kid. (hide spoiler)]

Top 5 F2F books

1. Marilynne Robinson's Gilead - (view spoiler)[because of the twitter rants and updates and gushes and creys -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (hide spoiler)]

2. Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day - (view spoiler)[because even I was suprised when I wrote this -

...it reflects some of the paradoxes in life and of the crossroads that we face, however young we are, both in our mind and in our spirit...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (hide spoiler)]

3. Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About love - (view spoiler)[because of this -

and again, I was surprised. hehehe. Also, I love the prose - it hits you home, really.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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4. Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita - (view spoiler)[because you can twist such wrongdoings into a good prose. An example of mindfuck hahahah
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (hide spoiler)]

AND I AM ACTUALLY TORN, REALLY - but here -

5. Charles Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities - (view spoiler)[maybe because of its historical significance, or the technicalities the author put in his book, or maybe because yours truly likes to troll the kids who liked Darnay more than Carton. hahahaha (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[Top 5.1, maybe, is Erica Jong's Fear of Flying~ hahahahahah

I don't have the photos, though. maybe in future posts. :) (hide spoiler)]

Madame Ella, optional lang ang picture!

So let me clarify lang... top 5 F2F BOOKS, not BOOK DISCUSSIONS ha? :-)

(To follow na lang ang pics, kasi nasa bahay lahat)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(view spoiler)[One of my fave books of all time. (hide spoiler)]
2. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
(view spoiler)[Frustration & sadness wrapped in lyrical language (hide spoiler)]
3. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
(view spoiler)[Polarizing. The moral of the story is applicable not just for women, but for everybody. (hide spoiler)]
4. If On a Winter's Night A Traveler - Italo Calvino
(view spoiler)[One of the reasons why I'm glad to had joined TFG is that this is where I discovered that I like postmodern stuff like this... (hide spoiler)]
5. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
(view spoiler)[... and this one t0o. Just goes to show books are not always what they seem. :-) (hide spoiler)]

Marie: Tama! And it follows na rin na hindi naman required na naka attend sa discussion ng book.

I've read less then 5 from the F2F list. Hahaha! Can I still join part 1? If I can't join part 1, does it also mean I can't join part 2? :) (view spoiler)[hopefully this is not too much of a "stressful" inquiry haha (hide spoiler)]

My Top 5 F2F Books:



(1) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (view spoiler)["And it's not just the beautiful prose. [It] spoke about significant themes that every one of us can completely relate to: loss, regret, missed opportunities, loyalty, and of course, greatness and dignity." Also: I love Ishi. (hide spoiler)]
(2) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (view spoiler)[Rich with themes on life, love, culture and tradition, socio-politics, and family. Better with the reread. Favorite moderated F2F. (hide spoiler)]
(3) To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (view spoiler)[Who'd have thought I'd love stream-of-consciousness? "And as she looked at him she began to smile, for though she had not said a word, he knew, of course he knew, that she loved him." Also, what is the meaning of life? (hide spoiler)]
(4) Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (view spoiler)[The blessing scene. "And he took his hat off and set it on his knee and closed his eyes and lowered his head, almost rested it against my hand, and I did bless him to the limit of my powers, whatever they are, repeating the benediction from Numbers…. Nothing could be more beautiful than that, or more expressive of my feelings, certainly or more sufficient, for that matter…" (hide spoiler)]
(5) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (view spoiler)[Most powerful ending I've read so far. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." (hide spoiler)]

My Top 5 F2F Books

1. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (view spoiler)[Too bad I wasn't a member of TFG yet during this discussion. (hide spoiler)]
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (view spoiler)[the boy with hair the color of lemons *cries* (hide spoiler)]
3. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (view spoiler)[my first modernist novel (hide spoiler)]
4. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (view spoiler)[ “It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. ” (hide spoiler)]
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (view spoiler)[the last chapter <3 (hide spoiler)]

Honeypie, the instruction says no more, no less. I suggest you catch up on your reading!

Monique wrote: "My Top 5 F2F Books:



(1) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro [spoilers removed]
(2) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [spoilers removed]
(3) To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf [spoil..."

We almost have the same books. Hehe! I haven't read Gilead yet.

1. Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
(view spoiler)[From my review: ...reading this book was like breaking my heart and then putting it back together again. (hide spoiler)]

2. Love Walked In by Marisa delos Santos
(view spoiler)[Loved the writing, and Teo Sandoval. ♥ (hide spoiler)]

3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
(view spoiler)[ I hope that when Death comes for me, he'll find my soul sitting up. (hide spoiler)]

4. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
(view spoiler)[From my review: Because really, what do people talk about when they talk about love? My friends and I do this a lot, and while we all have these ideas and dreams and everything, I don't think we will ever grasp what love really is about. The best we can do, I think, is try. (hide spoiler)]

5. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
(view spoiler)[Warm and fuzzy book about books and bookstores and publishing. :D It's Hallmark-y, but I really liked it. (hide spoiler)]

[Picture to follow later :D]

Yun lang. Haha! Thanks, Angus!

1. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
2. The City and the City by China Miéville
3. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Descriptions to follow. :)

Meliza wrote: "We almost have the same books. Hehe! I haven't read Gilead yet."

It's high time, then!

My Top 5 F2F Books:



1. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
4. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
5. The City and the City by China Mieville

Top 5 F2F Books
1. The Little Prince (view spoiler)[What is essential is invisible to the eye. (hide spoiler)]
2. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love(view spoiler)[ A collection of stories about love? Sold. (hide spoiler)]
3. Navigating Early(view spoiler)[ This book found me at the right time, I guess (hide spoiler)]
4. Love Walked In (view spoiler)[ Teo Sandoval! (hide spoiler)]
5. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry (view spoiler)[ A book about books, and love. (hide spoiler)]

I noticed most, if not all, of the books I chose talked about love in one way or another. Also, I feel guilty about not choosing other books which may or may not have reached my top 5 because I have yet to read them.

Pictures to follow still :)

Top Five F2F Books

1. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (view spoiler)[ Because HP! (hide spoiler)]
2. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (view spoiler)[Amazing cast of characters, great theme, awesome world building, lyrical writing. Although there were confusing, complicated parts, still it's a great epic fantasy read. (hide spoiler)]
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon(view spoiler)[Masakit sa ulo ang writing. Haha. But I can't believe how rich comic book history is and how farther back it goes. (hide spoiler)]
4. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak(view spoiler)[Haunting, lyrical, heartbreaking. (hide spoiler)]
5. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby(view spoiler)[Nasa Top Five agad o. Haha. It's funny, insightful, and a bit sad..for the most part. But it's still good fun (hide spoiler)]

Top Five F2F Books

1. To the Lighthouse(view spoiler)[Blown away by the middle part. (hide spoiler)]
2. ATO2C (view spoiler)[When I first encountered the closing line, I thought it was so grandiose that I just had to know where it’s from:
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." (hide spoiler)]
3. Jane Eyre(view spoiler)["I would always rather be happy than dignified.” (hide spoiler)]
4. The Remains of the Day(view spoiler)[“Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.” (hide spoiler)]
5. The New York Trilogy(view spoiler)[It's so meta, so self-referential that Paul Auster had to put himself in it. Or it's probably another Paul Auster and totally unrelated to the author. Who knows? Nothing is real. (hide spoiler)]

Top 5 F2F Books

1. The City and The City (view spoiler)[I got attracted t was blown away by China Mieville's brand of New Weird. (hide spoiler)]

2. Jellicoe Road. (view spoiler)[Friends who grow to become like family. Framily? (hide spoiler)]

3. Gilead. (view spoiler)[Touched my heart deeply, this one. (hide spoiler)]

4. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. (view spoiler)[Because of all the short story love. (hide spoiler)]

5. The Historian. (view spoiler)[Europe! Dracula! History! Awwoooo! (hide spoiler)]

Post updated here
:)

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
(view spoiler)[This is quite possibly my favorite novel of all time. I love the messiness and overwrought emotions, the ornate looping sentences that sometimes run so long they leave you breathless. The characters feel a lot of sadness interspersed with idealistic hope. I can't ever be rational about this book. (hide spoiler)]

2. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
(view spoiler)[I had assumed it would be a run of the mill novel about the British upper class, but this story took me completely by surprise with its subtlety, with the way the story never lets people (and society) off the hook. I have a lot of knee-jerk wariness against first person narration, so I end up feeling great admiration for novels that pull it off so well. (hide spoiler)]

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(view spoiler)[This is not my favorite Austen (that would be Persuasion) but I have had the most involved history with P&P. I read it when I was too young and didn't grasp nearly any of it, but now I think of it as one of the sharpest criticism of arbitrary social classes and how we must battle against perceptions to learn of our true selves. (hide spoiler)]

4. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
(view spoiler)[In my mind, this novel looks like a moving J.M.W. Turner painting. There's a section in the middle that was the most compelling evocation of time passing. This is not an easy book to love, but it stays with you. (hide spoiler)]

5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(view spoiler)[I'm a jerk, so I hold the totally snotty opinion that many people's interpretation of Lolita is so egregiously wrong (including almost all of its movie adaptations) that it distorts the art of this book. This is another genius of the unreliable narrator where the novel seduces you before piling on the horror, making you feel complicit. Tremendous. (hide spoiler)]

I was hoping for someone to put Lolita in their Top Five because I feel like I betrayed Nabokov for not putting it on my list. But the other thing is that putting it instead of Jane Eyre (the book it was in contention with for my last slot) would make it seem like I'm only selecting the books that I moderated. So yay!

Top 5 F2F Books

1. Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
(view spoiler)[One of my all-time favorite books so it definitely deserves the top spot. There was friendship and love and forgiveness and territory wars. (hide spoiler)]

2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
(view spoiler)[Echoing Tintin - duh. Hahaha. (hide spoiler)]

3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
(view spoiler)[It became kind of emotionally tiring in the middle but what story about war did not? The feels! (hide spoiler)]

4. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
(view spoiler)[I won't pretend to know what post modernism is but this was haunting and beautiful and really amazing. Feeling sadness just by reading about the deterioration of a house, wo-ow.
(hide spoiler)]

5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
(view spoiler)[I thought the classics would be dull and boring but this made me realize that they can be enjoyable, too. Also, one of the most powerful ending I've ever read, ever.
(hide spoiler)]

Kristel wrote: "This (P&P) is not my favorite Austen (that would be Persuasion)..."
Huzza! Me, too! I heart Capt. Frederick Wentworth :)

Ycel, Kristel: Persuasion! ❤️ You pierce my soul. I am half-agony, half-hope. Sigh. :)

Angus; Lolita is at #6 for me, if I'm allowed to have that. It was the F2F book that surprised me the most because I didn't expect to like it at the end. :)

Top Five F2F Books:

1. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster - (view spoiler)[I still believe that this is one of the greatest things ever written. It's complex layers and capability for multiple interpretations make this book a joy to read and re-read. Also, among my Goodreads friends, the lowest rating that this book got was 4 stars. That's saying something (hide spoiler)]

2. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - (view spoiler)[One of if not the greatest love story ever written by one of the greatest writers to have ever lived. (hide spoiler)]

3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - (view spoiler)[Severely complex and draped in gray, this is probably the greatest novel with an unreliable narrator. (hide spoiler)]

4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - (view spoiler)[I love how this book just subverts your assumptions. It is often branded as a book about comics but that's highly reductive because this novel is so much more. It's a novel about the holocaust, about the immigrant experience, about homosexuality, about discontent, about freedom of speech, about family, about love and so much more. (hide spoiler)]

5. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver - (view spoiler)[ Show me a collection that better expresses suburban ennui than WWTAWWTAL and I'll eat my hat. (hide spoiler)]

Reminder: we have 30 hours left to participate in Part 1. We'll then move on to Part 2. ;)

After tabulating the participants' Top 5 F2F books for Part 1, we arrived at the overall Top 5 below:
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1. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
3. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
(hide spoiler)]

But will these change with Part 2? Instructions for Part 2 are here at the top.

Sana may vote down. Haha jk

^Pwede namang huwag i-vote yung mga hindi mo gusto. I'm going to remove my 2 and 1 star books kapag may bumoto na sa kanila.

Is the score generated by listopia based on your personal ranking?

Formula: score = 101 - rank

If you put a book on the top spot, it will earn 100 points. If someone puts it on the second spot, it will earn 99 points (a total of 199 points). And so on.

Reminder: No deliberate vote/score manipulation! Hehe.

Haha I'm going to have low chances on this based on my Top 5. But what the hey. Really cool (and interactive!) meme/activity, Angus! :D

Thanks, Tina. :)

Everyone, no owl messaging here ha! Hahaha!

Wait. I voted for 22 books last night. When I checked today, 10 na lang. What happened? T_T

Aaron: It might be a system bug since the scores are recalculated every after five minutes? I also lost a few votes but I just added them again (then rechecked the list and look! they're now there).

All: Deadline is tomorrow, 11:59 PM. You might want to recheck your votes. I will compute the final scores based on the 12:00 AM scores. Good luck!

Hi, all! This is it. Crunch time!

The final scores that I used are the ones I captured at 12:15 AM (view spoiler)[because I was busy doing an Ari and Dante activity (hide spoiler)]. Let's now reveal the five participants who received the highest number of points.

5. (view spoiler)[Ingrid, with a total of 5865 points. (hide spoiler)]
4. (view spoiler)[Monique, with a total of 6021 points. (hide spoiler)]
3. (view spoiler)[Aaron, with a total of 6143 points. (hide spoiler)]
2. (view spoiler)[Meliza, with a total of 6158 points. (hide spoiler)]

And the winner is...

1. (view spoiler)[Tin, with a total of 6202 points. (hide spoiler)]

Congratulations! I'll keep in touch with you regarding the special stamp and the bookish giveaway (view spoiler)[still thinking of something (hide spoiler)].

Thanks to everyone for participating! See you at the next meme!

Since the meme is over, I'd like to put in some of my reactions:
-I was not shocked that Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone topped the Listopia list, but what is shocking is that it took until the last day before it snatched the top spot from The Remains of the Day.
-In the original Top Five, only two made it to the Top Ten (The Remains of the Day and The Book Thief).
-It is slightly disappointing that one of the most mentioned books in Part 1, A Tale of Two Cities, didn't even make it to the upper half.
-Aaron pointed out that most of our local book selections are at the Bottom Ten of the list.

Just like real elections, the results were askewed by voter turnout. 13-18 and 20-22 should be a lot higher than 11 basing from the top 5s from part 1 and member's general rating.

This inspires me to do a statistics based on the number of members who read our book selections and average rating... when I have the time. Haha

And Congatulations, Tin!! Pangalawa mo na. Haha

Ang galing ni Tin, congrats! :D

Congrats, Rabbit! Harry Potter is not in my Top 5, wrong decision. Hehe!

Wha???? I. Can't. Believe. It. Hahahahahahaha! XD

Also, I have never been a master of anything! Haha!

Thanks Angus, Aaron, Ella and Meliza!

Congrats, TinTin! :D

TIIIINNN! Nakakadami ka na!

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Congratulations! :) hehehe
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TIN: (view spoiler)[That book selfie you did certainly brought you lots of luck. Post more selfies next time! :D (hide spoiler)]

Gwaxa, Thanks!

Mommy Louize: And I want MOAR! LOL! Thanks!

Lynai: Hahahaha! Kung kasing kyot ko si Ikay, I will! :)