Andre Taban

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Andre is Currently Reading

Andre Taban is currently reading

The Godfather (The Godfather #1)

by Mario Puzo

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— Sep 21, 2025 10:29AM

Aug 24, 2025 04:04AM

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Exhalation

by Ted Chiang

bookshelves: fantasy-magical-realism, fiction, philosophical-fiction, science-fiction, social-commentary-fiction, currently-reading, short-stories

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"I really have to finish this book. Only one chapter remaining!" — Nov 04, 2024 09:10AM

May 07, 2022 11:17PM

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Some Are Smarter Than Others: The History of Marcos' Crony Capitalism

by Ricardo Manapat

bookshelves: currently-reading, business-and-economics, history, non-fiction, politics-non-fiction, social-commentary-non-fiction

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"While Chapter 1 is a bit redundant in proving that Imelda embezzled public funds--making such chapter boring, IMO--Chapter 2 tackles a history of extravagance dating back from the Spanish colonial era. The analogy is, in a way, off-tangent and perhaps non-sequitor, IMO. But, unlike Chapter 1, this chapter is interesting as this aspect of Philippine history was not discussed in my history classes." — Nov 04, 2024 09:10AM

Sep 28, 2024 09:58PM

Andre’s Quotes

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

tags: sherlock-holmes, silence

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“Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes

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“Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.”
― F. Sionil Jose

tags: destiny, love

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“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes