NBS recommends love diaries
Hai[na]ku and other poems
By AA Patawaran
P499
MANILA, Philippines – An exciting collection of poetry inspired by life’s most engrossing themes such as love and pain, solitude and reflection, arrivals and departures, and the tenuous threads that make up everyday life, from AA Patawaran, the bestselling author of Write Here Write Now. With elegant, picturesque, and sublime poetic visuals by Love Marie “Heart” Ongpauco-Escudero.
In case you come back: poems, confessions, apologies, and promises
By Marla Maniano and Reese Lansangan
P250
In Case You Come Back: Poems, Confessions, Apologies, and Promises is a collection of over 100 poems written by Marla Miniano and Reese Lansangan with illustrations by Jamie Catt.
Together, Marla and Reese deftly tread on blissful subjects such as love and intimacy, and tackle more painful ones such as heartbreak and goodbyes with equal beauty and vulnerability. They also lend their word-weaving to the exploration of topics as varied as science and adventure, family and childhood, and longing and grief, all while maintaining candor and grace with every piece. Jamie’s delicate, whimsical artworks accompany their words all throughout, adding life and color to their quiet musings.
The heartbreak diaries
By Pierra Calasanz-Labrador
P495
The bittersweet collection of 40 poems by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador is the literary equivalent of an “ugly cry” — you know, the distorted, tear-streaked face you invariably end up with at the end of a rom-com that hits too close to home.
Alternately nostalgic, sad, and sweet, The Heartbreak Diaries journeys through heartache and hope in search of romance, and is written for anyone who has ever experienced love in any form—whether it’s puppy love or possessive love, unconditional, or simply unrequited. Accompanied by Celina de Guzman’s dreamy illustrations, this refreshingly candid collection contains a universal truth about finding “The One.”
After You
By Jojo Moyes
P755
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started.
Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .
