Born in Winchester, MA.
Raised in Yokosuka, Ewa Beach, Okinawa, Naples, Monterey, Rota, and Mānoa.
Living in Portland, OR.

Filipino-American.
Son of O’ahu.
Skeptic.

Read List 2024

1. Dune *

2. Dune Messiah

3. Children of Dune

4. World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence

5. Kitchen

6. Red Rising

7. Golden Son

8. Morning Star

9. Lolita

10. The Myth of Sisyphus

11. Life for Sale

12. God Emperor of Dune

13. Heretics of Dune

14. Chapterhouse: Dune

15. The Stranger *

16. A Moveable Feast

17. The Master and Margarita

18. How To Do Things with Words

19. Madness

20. A Clockwork Orange *

21. Neuromancer

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Stephen Pepper

Banana Yoshimoto

Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown

Vladimir Nabokov

Albert Camus

Yukio Mishima

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Albert Camus

Ernest Hemingway

Mikhail Bulgakov

J.L. Austin

Roald Dahl

Anthony Burgess

William Gibson

* = re-read

Read List 2023

1. The Sound and the Fury *

2. The History of Iceland

3. The Last Wish (The Witcher #0.5)

4. Interviews with Francis Bacon

5. As I Lay Dying

6. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

7. Exquisite Corpse

8. The Virgin Suicides

9. Catch-22

10. Jurassic Park

11. Either/Or

12. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

13. Mordew

14. Naked Lunch

15. Sword of Destiny (The Witcher #0.7)

16. Intruder in the Dust

17. Dracula

18. Chernobyl Prayer

19. American Psycho

20. Blood of Elves (The Witcher #1)

21. God Is Not Great

22. Animal Farm *

23. Chess Story

24. Our Man in Havana

25. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

26. Roadside Picnic

William Faulkner

Gunnar Karlsson

Andrzej Sapkowski

David Sylvester

William Faulkner

Stephen King

Poppy Z. Brite

Jeffrey Eugenides

Joseph Heller

Michael Crichton

Søren Kierkegaard

Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin

Alex Pheby

William S. Burroughs

Andrzej Sapkowski

William Faulkner

Bram Stoker

Svetlana Alexievich

Bret Easton Ellis

Andrzej Sapkowski

Christopher Hitchens

George Orwell

Stefan Zweig

Graham Greene

Haruki Murakami

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

* = re-read

Read List 2022

1. The Power and the Glory *

2. 1984 *

3. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

4. The Goldfinch

5. Nausea

6. The Quiet American

7. The Somme: The Darkest Hour On The Western Front

8. Hard Rain Falling

9. let my people go surfing

10. Breakfast of Champions

11. The Rape of the Mind

Graham Greene

George Orwell

Thomas E. Ricks

Donna Tartt

Jean-Paul Sartre

Graham Greene

Peter Hart

Don Carpenter

Yvon Chouinard

Kurt Vonnegut

Joost Meerlo, M.D.

* = re-read

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