The Four-eyed Journal

I’m an activist, Left-leaning and both a history and science geek so the books I’d be mentioning would be quite heavy or boring for some, especially the light and fiction readers. So in no particular oder… George Orwell’s “The Animal Farm” I was hands down to George’s imagination and story telling talent. It made me understand why my rich schoolmates treated me as such; human when you’re in front of them, but inferior when they are grouped by themselves. Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”. It was given to me by my grandfather when I was in grade 6. I barely understood the first chapters that’s why I spent the next pre-highschool summer break to read it over again with a thesaurus and dictionary at hand. I entered highschool a changed teenager; idealistic.

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One book that made you laugh: Pugad Baboy 17 - Brosia rules!!! One book you have read more than once: Das Kapital by Karl Marx (direct German to English translation) - my mind went numb for days upon my first chapters. I actually read it over 5 times, I knew I should’ve read Marx for beginners beforehand, oh well. One book you would want on a desert island: U.S. Army Survival Manual - Eric and I are on the ’same page.’ One book that made you cry: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden - a beautiful book. One book you wish had been written: Bonifacio: Siya ba ay kilala ko? by Ed Aurelio Reyes - an excellent companion to Ambeth Ocampo’s “Rizal without the overcoat.”

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