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About RoD
Read or Die is a book club based in the Philippines which was founded in 2005. We had our first meeting in the Araneta branch of “A Different Bookstore” on November 20, 2005.
The club holds monthly meetings in different locations all over Manila, usually in bookstores. Meeting venues are announced to members in advance.
“Read or Die” is the title of a pretty famous anime/manga series in Japan. It’s the story of a substitute teacher who loves books and in her spare time is a secret agent of the British Library Task Force. (It was late and we were hungry).
Advocacy
Aside from gathering book lovers together, Read or Die believes in making an independent, strategic and practical contribution to the creation of a literate society. Through our activities and projects, we seek to maintain a high profile for reading for purpose and for pleasure, and to encourage public appreciate in and appreciate for all kinds of literature, especially writing produced by Filipino authors.
Read or Die is organized exclusively for charitable, literary and educational purposes as a non-profit and non-taxable organization.
About This Blog
This is a collective blog for RoD members. Unless posts are marked officialese (i.e., entries having to do with RoD activities and projects), opinions set forth by RoD members are their own and are not representative of the club as a whole.
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Recently Written
- Column: Nabokov’s Last Novel Almost Burned and Thoughts on Lost Books
- Column: Who’s Preying on Whom?: Two Experiences
- Column: The need for more libraries, or for better bookstores
- LIRA poetry workshop now accepting applicants
- Two Poems: Kenneth Koch and Louise Gluck
- Updates
- Panibagong Paraan 2008 Showcases Innovative Ideas
- Announcements
- Coming soon (or sooner)
- Column: Reading Dangerously
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Recent Comments
- jon
It’s really hard to set aside time to read these days. Sometimes people are too busy that they only scan...
- bhex
@ jon - hahah you and your friends rocked! my dad always used to brag that he used up more UP diliman library...
- Mia
I used to go to my elementary/high school library a lot. :D Didn’t go to the library that often in college,...
- jon
I love the UST Elementary/High School Library. I was always there when i was studying there. There were so many...
- gus reininger
Good to mention Corso, pure poet. Would you consider linking to the film about him. www.corsothefilm.com
- jon
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Now Reading
Current Reading
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Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
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The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
To Read
Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Italo Calvino
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) (Penguin Classics) by Jose Rizal
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