Zaturnnah y Garcia

5. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez. Booksale bin, php35. I got this like 3 years ago, but I only reached page 35 and then gave up. I've been reading like hell hoping to find inspiration (and structure!) for my (hopefully not) doomed novel-writing class. Somebody suggested that this might help me with the writing. The surprising thing is that when I picked it up, I couldn't stop reading. Interesting structure: each "chapter" is actually a self-contained story.

6. Ang Kagila-gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni ZsaZsa Zaturnnah, Carlo Vergara. Php200, barter (tickets for comic book, not bad). Deconstructed superhero myth, pop culture, lots of it, very gay, I like. We watched ze musikal and it was fun! I heard the soundtrack is also available (transmorphication execute!) but a bit pricey for php350. But if you're really into it, try to squeeze into any of the remaining performances although I hear they're all sold out.