Outside A Dog

Doming Aquinaldo was seventeen when his father was killed by members of the military controlled by Ferdinand Marcos, and after escaping with his own life that night, he made it a matter of honor to avenge his father’s death. Some years later, he is living and working under an assumed name while walking a [...]

While I’m not yet at that point in my life where I’m settling down and getting married and having babies, I really enjoyed reading through Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby’s First Foods by Nina Planck. It’s loaded with information about food and nutrition while maintaining [...]

Bark Up The Right Tree: Lessons From A Rescued Dog is a sweet little story told by Jesse the Labrador Retriever with a little help from her human, Ruth.
Jesse’s story begins shortly after she loses her family when they drop her off at an animal control shelter, but her life turns around when she is [...]

Mercè Casals is an international opera star and the subject of The Wonder Singer by George Rabasa, but she is dead before we have the chance to meet her. Instead the reader follows the efforts of Mark Lockwood, ghostwriter for Señora Casals, as he tries to piece together hundreds of hours of interviews for [...]

The list of what’s next: books that have been so generously provided by authors and / or publishers for review. I haven’t been nearly as quick with reading them as I would like, and if any of those kind souls are paying attention, I really am sorry. But don’t worry, it won’t [...]