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STAY AWAKE, AGATHA BOOK REVIEW

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A BOOK REVIEW OF THE STORY STAY AWAKE, AGATHE (2018) BY SERIALSLEEPER *The story’s genre is fiction and romance novel. It was about two special teenagers, Agatha and Cooper, fighting for their ill-fated love. A little background, Agatha suffers from an illness called “Kleine-Levin Syndrome”, a disorder characterized by persistent episodic hypersomnia which means a person who has this illness needs an excessive amount of sleep and food intake. While Cooper has Multiple Myeloma Blood Cancer, a cancer of plasma cells, a growing of too many plasma cells. Either of them wanted to live a normal life despite their illnesses. In a hospital where Agatha met Cooper, a boy who’s naughty and idiotic. Cooper drew on Agatha’s face while she was asleep, and Agatha suddenly woke up, and when she did, she asked for Cooper’s name and went home. This was the first meeting of the two teenagers, it was unexpected yet special. For me it was not a coincidence that Agatha suddenly woke up when Cooper had fi...

SHE IS THE POEM

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"SHE IS THE POEM" The first moment that I saw this girl From the same church as I Her subtle cuteness caught my eyes and her smile made me believe in the beauty of the world I told myself “I want to see that smile again” But this time I want it to be different I want to be its reason She is the color, I am the art She is the water, I am the plant She is the film, I am the camera Lastly, She is the morning, afternoon, and night, I am the day (she completes me)  

A Dream I Almost Had

     "In Ava's Head"           There is a girl named Ava, she has an illness called schizophrenia which is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Ava lives in one of the oldest villages in Palawan far from the city, the Motonui village. Ava belongs to tribe Batak (The Batak tribe is a group of indigenous people who live in the rugged interiors of the northeast portion of the province of Palawan). She has the desire to live in the city and travel the beauty of the whole Palawan. It was June 25th, 1989. The drive of Ava became more intense, she went on Mt Mantalingajan to pray for the nature spirit, babaylan, which they believed their blessings came from. As she was praying, her illness started to strike. Ava hallucinates that she is living in the city of Puerto Princesa with her tribe, during her hallucination she fulfilled her long-time desire. She went on the places that are marked as historical in the Puerto...