Doru's Updates en-US Sun, 30 Mar 2025 10:17:24 -0700 60 Doru's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg ReadStatus9250082511 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 10:17:24 -0700 <![CDATA[Doru wants to read 'The Book of Lost Things']]> /review/show/7447725002 The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly Doru wants to read The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
]]> Review7296341733 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:59:04 -0800 <![CDATA[Doru added 'A Place Called Here by ahern cecilia|author-English-Harper Collins-']]> /review/show/7296341733 A Place Called Here by ahern cecilia|author-English-Harper Co... by Cecelia Ahern Doru has read A Place Called Here by ahern cecilia|author-English-Harper Collins- (Hardcover) by Cecelia Ahern
During a casual conversation with a friend, we found ourselves discussing our niches, and she mentioned her fascination with the mystery of missing Flight MH370, as well as other plane disappearances. For reasons I can’t quite explain, her words dislodged a memory from my own past—a memory from when I was a young teen.

I first encountered this book back in grade school, and I can still remember how it left a lasting impression on me, especially on the idea of finding things that are lost. It spoke to a part of me that I didn’t quite understand at the time, but that I now recognize as a kind of quiet obsession with the unknown. Like Sandy, the book’s protagonist, I found myself endlessly fascinated with the things that vanish � the unsolved mysteries and how it's up to her to find, solve or at the very least to remember these things that have been forgotten. In many ways, reading it felt like the first step toward a fixation that has stayed with me ever since—the need to understand and commemorate what has long been gone.

I realize this isn’t so much a formal review of the book, but rather a meandering reflection on how certain stories can shape us in ways we may not fully grasp until years later. While I'm dubious if this point of view still stands now that I'm older, I still wholeheartedly recommend this book to any young teens. It may not provide all the answers, but it offers something equally important: the courage to seek them. ]]> ReadStatus8937142401 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:33:02 -0800 <![CDATA[Doru wants to read 'KASAYSAYAN The Story of the Filipino People']]> /review/show/7227730442 KASAYSAYAN The Story of the Filipino People by Reader's Digest Association Doru wants to read KASAYSAYAN The Story of the Filipino People by Reader's Digest Association
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30????? damn ]]> UserFollowing309120611 Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:45:34 -0700 <![CDATA[Doru is now following pritha Roy]]> /user/show/26728370-pritha-roy Doru is now following pritha Roy ]]> Comment279139319 Thu, 08 Aug 2024 02:53:53 -0700 <![CDATA[Doru made a comment on Katerina’s status]]> /read_statuses/7991380616 Doru made a comment on Katerina’s status

Katherine wrote: "Doru wrote: "One of my favorite movies."

as far as i remember it's loyal to the book! book 1 is great. i dropped book 2 haha"

ohhh incheresting, will give it a try. have you seen the movie? i think you'd like it :D unfortunate it's by p*lans* tho ;^^ ]]> Rating737656846 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:35:17 -0700 <![CDATA[Doru liked a review]]> /
Doru liked LA.'s review of The Nabob's Daughter:
The Nabob's Daughter by Jess Heileman
"ladies !!! it is not enough to be extremely beautiful well-mannered well-read god-fearing virgin to make a handsome titled man fall in love with you: you now must also know how to successfully demonstrate peacock calls in front of an audience"
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Katerina Katerina finished reading Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
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by Albert Camus

I do. I love this and the myth of sisyphus so much. Idk why I treat them like my self-help books haha. ]]> Review6566520550 Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:27:15 -0700 <![CDATA[Doru added 'The Hispanization of the Philippines: Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses, 1565-1700']]> /review/show/6566520550 The Hispanization of the Philippines by John Leddy Phelan Doru has read The Hispanization of the Philippines: Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses, 1565-1700 (Hardcover) by John Leddy Phelan
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One of the most entertaining books I've read the past trimester. Obviously written from an occidental perspective it nevertheless provides interesting (incomplete) accounts of what occurred during Spanish colonization.

Phelan, the author who wrote this is a Latin-American specialist so much of the point of comparison is between the Philippines and New Spain (Mexico). He documents the differences of "sanguinary" conquest and "peaceful" conquest of Spanish colonial power and how this difference allowed the archipelago to "survive" the shock of colonization.

One thing's certain after finishing this book, it'll give you profound respect to the native's resiliency amidst the bastardization of their culture and traditions. And how unfortunate it is that like every good postcolonial authoritarian developmental state, we take the laws left behind by our colonial masters and continue to perfect them. (ex. Killing the voice of the "Kalinangang Bayan") ]]>