THE HALO-HALO REVIEWS' Mangozine: Issue 7

In addition to aggregating reviews from the internet, THE HALO-HALO REVIEW presents The Mangozine which features new reviews and serves as the online publisher for reviews and other engagements (e.g. book introductions) published in print but not yet available within the internet.  Other features, including author interviews and reader testimonials, also will be presented. The following presents a Table of Contents for Issue 7 -- CLICK on links to go to the reviews.

ISSUE 7

(December 2018)

Editor's Note:  Welcome to the seventh issue of THE HALO-HALO REVIEW where we provide engagements with Filipino-Pilipinx literature and authors through reviews and engagements, interviews and other prose. We hope readers, writers and publishers will continue to participate and share information about numerous Filipino authors and the wide variety of their writings. 

The Mangozine's Review Copy information is HERE; you are encouraged to fatten up the list as well as pick some to review! Submission deadline for the sixth issue has been set at Oct. 15, 2019 (though I will take reviews sooner than the deadline if that is more convenient for the reviewers).

Go HERE to continue the Editor's Note.

I.  NEW REVIEWS AND ENGAGEMENTS

The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader edited by Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano
 and Anthony Abulencia Santa Ana (Philippine American Writers & Artists, Inc., San Francisco, 2018)

Reviewed by Veronica Montes

The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal: Stories by Brian Ascalon Roley (Northwestern University Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Maileen Hamto

TFS by Mary Dacorro (in manuscript form)
Reviewed by Chris Stroffolino

We Are Like Air by Xyza Cruz Bacani (WE Press, 2018)
Engaged by Barbara Jane Reyes

Tattered Boat by Luis H. Francia (University of the Philippines Press, Quezon City, 2014)
Engaged by Maileen Hamto

Lawanen 2 edited by Almayrah Tiburon with co-editors Faye Cura and Rae Rival
(Gantala Press, 2018)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

To Be An Empire is to Burn! by Eileen R. Tabios (Moria Books' Locofo Chaps, Chicago, 2017)
Reviewed by Maileen Hamto

SPLEEN by Mabi David (High Chair, 2014)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

Of Love and Virtue by Carmen F Davino (A Company of Angels Publishers, 1998)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION by Eileen R. Tabios (Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH, 2018)
Engaged by Leny Mendoza Strobel

Flash Reviews on Books by Alice Sun-Cua, Mookie Katigbak Lacuesta, Abel Clerk, Jenny Romero Llaguno, Mark Anthony Cayanan, Conchitina Cruz, Amber Buenaventura Garma, Neni Sta. Romana-Cruz and Nick Joaquin
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

II. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Aileen I. Cassinetto

Jonel Abellanosa

Melinda Luisa de Jesús




III. READERS SHOW SOME LOVE TO FILIPINO AUTHORS
Go HERE to read:

Bianca Elorde Nagac on Nick Joaquin

Aileen Ibardaloza-Cassinetto on Ed Maranan

Jinque Romanban-Dolojan on Filipino authors including Nick Joaquin, Felisa Batacan, Eileen Tabios, Conchitina Cruz, and Merlinda Bobis

Aloysiusi Polintan on Sarge Lacuesta



IV. FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE

Reviews & Engagements
Gemino H. Abad engages Poems by Luis Cabalquinto and Francisco Guevara from THE ACHIEVE OF, THE MASTERY: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, mid-90s to 2016 edited by Gemino H. Abad and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta (The University of the Philippines Press, 2018)

"Avocado," a painting by Pacita Abad
Engaged by Eileen Tabios


From Books: Introductions, Prefaces, Forewords, Afterwords and Author's Notes

Ira Sukrungruang presents the Foreword to The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis by Luisa A. Igloria (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2018)

Eileen Tabios presents the Foreword to YEARNINGS by Ayo Gutierrez (sp, Philippines, 2018)

Vince Gotera presents the Foreword to THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2016)