Reno Ursal
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Young Adult, Paranormal, Fiction
Influences
Carlos Bulosan, Dawn Mabalon, Melissa de la Cruz, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jule Carlos Bulosan, Dawn Mabalon, Melissa de la Cruz, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, Jodie Picoult …more
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March 2009
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Enlightenment (Bathala Series, Book #1)
3.32 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions |
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Booktalk in Los Angeles CAo
ᜊ ᜆ ᜎ Booktalk at Philippines Expressions Bookshop in San Pedro on Saturday 8/31/19 had me in a great mood when a reader came up with a copy of Enlightenment from her library for me to sign. Memorable times with Tita Linda Nietes, Robert, MariLu Morris! Great to hang out with my homie Rex Sampaga and spent time exchanging stories with Eliseo Art Arimbulo Silva, Abe Pagtama and entrepreneur and wri
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“The history of the islands is fleeting, but when one remembers, it’s the land of a thousand unknown tribes written out of history.”
― Reno Ursal,
“My family taught me an alternate perspective. Greek mythology was completely borrowed from Polynesian and Pacific Island folklore.”
― Reno Ursal,
“You’re eighteen years old and you graduated high school. You’re Filipino and American. But what if everything you know is predicated on assumptions about the world that are misleading and false?”
― Reno Ursal,
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“The history of the islands is fleeting, but when one remembers, it’s the land of a thousand unknown tribes written out of history.”
― Reno Ursal,
“My family taught me an alternate perspective. Greek mythology was completely borrowed from Polynesian and Pacific Island folklore.”
― Reno Ursal,
“You’re eighteen years old and you graduated high school. You’re Filipino and American. But what if everything you know is predicated on assumptions about the world that are misleading and false?”
― Reno Ursal,
“You must think I don’t know what’s keeping you up at night. You must think we’re so different. But I know. Everyone knows despair. Isn’t that why people jump off bridges or drown themselves? Anything, really, to escape being human.”
― V.J. Campilan,
“…I have often wondered why we do it. Uproot ourselves, I mean. Why we feel the need to travel and wander into strange soil. Why we can’t leave things alone. It must be the world calling to us. After all, they say it had been one giant continent once. Maybe this is why we feel drawn to each other, to the lands we cannot see. We think of new places as opportunities to build new lives, but all are we’re really doing is trying to find our way back.”
― V.J. Campilan,
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