Jill Damatac Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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DIRTY KITCHEN: a memoir of 22 years undocumented in the US (2024 @astrahousebooks) • PhDing @cambridge_uni • Rep: @ce_seymour • My Substack is free👇🏼
The Lottery
Shirley JacksonJill Damatac@atwittya I binge-read Shirley Jackson when I was 14, just after we read The Lottery in English class…best decision of my life
Hardcover, 2008
$34.25Member price:$32.54 + Free shipping5% off
Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/O Diaspora
Gina K. VelascoJill DamatacThis intro! @DrGinaVelasco doing the lord’s work with her book, “Queering the Global Filipina Body” #QueerTheory #queerfeminisms https://t.co/TcZtFyJPhy
Paperback, 2020
$26.00Member price:$26.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
How to Live When a Loved One Dies: Healing Meditations for Grief and Loss
Thich Nhat HanhJill DamatacFinally able to read Thich Nhat Hanh’s “How To Live When A Loved One Dies”, 3 months after Dad’s death. 1-2 pages at a time, breathing, meditating, giving my grief and myself space to feel and cry, connecting to the ancestral plane where he now lives. https://t.co/SVBkcVmUxn
Paperback, 2021
$12.95Member price:$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Seb FalkJill DamatacNo house’s library is complete without copies of the books that were written in it by its previous owners. Happy to finally have books by @Cambridge_Uni scholars @Seb_Falk (“The Light Ages”) and Susannah Gibson (“The Spirit of Inquiry”) in our little Romsey rowhouse 🏡✍🏼 https://t.co/FfrSPQG3Sh
Paperback, 2021
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Live: Boxed Set of the Mindfulness Essentials Series
Thich Nhat HanhJill DamatacFinally able to read Thich Nhat Hanh’s “How To Live When A Loved One Dies”, 3 months after Dad’s death. 1-2 pages at a time, breathing, meditating, giving my grief and myself space to feel and cry, connecting to the ancestral plane where he now lives. https://t.co/SVBkcVmUxn
Mixed Media Product, 2016
$49.75Member price:$24.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Familia Grande: A Memoir
Camille KouchnerJill Damatac@DrPragyaAgarwal @YinFLim Currently reading “The Familia Grande”, by Camille Kouchner, a memoir translated from French and explosive in France when it was published. It’s about a circle of Left Bank Paris political and intellectual elites and a dark secret at its center. Beautifully translated!
Hardcover, 2022
$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dogeaters: A Play about the Philippines
Jessica HagedornJill DamatacBuy these books now, before the new Marcos regime bans them. Adding to the list below: Ninotchka Rosca, ‘State of War’; Jessica Hagedorn, ‘Dogeaters’; Elaine Castillo, ‘America Is Not The Heart’ #nevermarcosagain https://t.co/uxXX99BfkD
Paperback, 2002
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science
Susannah GibsonJill DamatacNo house’s library is complete without copies of the books that were written in it by its previous owners. Happy to finally have books by @Cambridge_Uni scholars @Seb_Falk (“The Light Ages”) and Susannah Gibson (“The Spirit of Inquiry”) in our little Romsey rowhouse 🏡✍🏼 https://t.co/FfrSPQG3Sh
Hardcover, 2019
$37.99Member price:$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
America Is Not the Heart
Elaine CastilloJill Damatac@minhyoungsong America Is Not the Heart, 2018, by Elaine Castillo, w/ a queer heroine recovering in California from torture under Marcos. Particularly timely right now, with Marcos’s son engineering the family’s return to power in the Phillipines this week, 36 years after the end of the regime.
Paperback, 2019
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
State of War: A Novel of Life in the Philippines
Ninotchka RoscaJill DamatacBuy these books now, before the new Marcos regime bans them. Adding to the list below: Ninotchka Rosca, ‘State of War’; Jessica Hagedorn, ‘Dogeaters’; Elaine Castillo, ‘America Is Not The Heart’ #nevermarcosagain https://t.co/uxXX99BfkD
Paperback, 2013
$15.00Member price:$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book