Pinoy Movie x Book Match is back for the new year! And hey, faux relationship trope fans…this one is for you! ^_^ My first Pinoy Movie x Book Match for 2020 features the Piolo Pascual-Judy Ann Santos film Till There Was You.
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Music x Book Match: Ben&Ben
In mid-December, I started a Twitter thread that matched Ben&Ben songs with #romanceclass titles, and it garnered a bit of attention from my mutuals as well as people I don’t know. Because that thread was made rather haphazardly, I thought of creating a new one with better visuals and stuff, but things got busy right …
Pinoy Movie x Book Match: Got 2 Believe
The hate-to-love / enemies-to-lovers trope takes center stage because the featured Pinoy rom-com this week is the Claudine Barretto-Rico Yan starrer, Got 2 Believe! THE MOVIE Got 2 Believe (2002) opens with a wedding, the perfect milieu for us to get to know wedding planner Toni (Claudine Barretto) and event photographer Lorenz (Rico Yan). Hopeless …
Review | MOMOL Nights on iWant (+ Book Recommendations!)
I’ve been noticing how iWant has been producing new and original streaming content for the past year, but it’s only this year I’ve actually tried watching them because Bagman was really good. I’ve yet to try John en Martian too, but last week, I was able to watch their latest offering, MOMOL Nights, which starred Kim Molina and …
A #romanceclass experiment
First things first: Happy New Year, everybody! <3 Gosh–time flies so fast, doesn’t it? I hope everyone returned from their holiday vacations refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready for the year ahead. So…fun fact: I had slacked off on writing early November. (Except that’s not actually a ~fun fact, because it makes me uncomfortable that I was …
#RomanceClass Reader Take Three | Take Me Away Edition
Happy Romance Awareness Month, everybody! Which romance novels have you been reading lately, and can I interest you in some Filipino-authored romances? For this month’s #romanceclass Take Three Project, I asked readers and authors about the places in #romanceclass books that inspired them to dream of a great getaway someday soon. Check out their responses …
#RomanceClass on a Budget: #BuwanNgMgaAkdangPinoy Edition
Are you tracking the #romanceclass hashtag on Instagram and Twitter? If you’re looking for some FREE #romanceclass reads or books at discounted prices, you better start checking in on the hashtag NOW. This #BuwanNgMgaAkdangPinoy, we are slashing prices on some of titles or giving them away for FREE! I bet your TBR list is shaking. 😛 …
#RomanceClass Author Take Three | Meet-Cute Edition
Welcome once again to the #RomanceClass Take Three Project, where I give #romanceclass readers and authors a monthly prompt/question and ask them to list down and briefly discuss their top three answers. This month’s topic was influenced by our most recent event, How to Meet-Cute, where we were treated to live readings of meet-cutes from …
#RomanceClass Reader Take Three | Meet-Cute Edition
Welcome to the #RomanceClass Take Three Project, where I give #romanceclass readers and authors a monthly prompt/question and ask them to list down and briefly discuss their top three answers. This July, we had a pop-up event at Pegi Waffles, San Juan that focused on meet-cutes — AKA that thing where the MC and LI …
How to Meet-Cute: a #romanceclass Pop-up Event
Meet-cute. You know the drill. Romantic lead meets love interest for the first time. Maybe it’s awkward, maybe they hit it off right away. Maybe it’s a total disaster. Whatever it is, a meet-cute happens when a future romantic couple meets for the first time. It sets tone and expectation for the readers, and is often …