Love, Kill, Live

On Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1986) by Patrick Süskind


In Grenouille, Süskind has created a beloved serial killer with a powerful sense  of smell. His beginning, a Dickens novel; his journey, a bildungsroman; his end, a Sartrian exit. More than an inspirational manual for murderers, Perfume is a treatise on the implosive relation between love and existence.

Bunch of Book Flips

On Flips Flipping Pages in Shelfari.com

Unabashedly socially irrelevant, Flips Flipping Pages was initially an online group of Filipino book lovers--before the petit-bourgeois brats met up and agreed to meet monthly to gush about books. Since then, these bookworms have spread book geekiness, with astonishing results. As a member, I would never be the same again.

Spiffier than Slumdog

On Millions (2004) by Danny Boyle, Director and Frank Boyce, Screenplay

Days before the UK embraces the Euro, a bag of quid falls upon a saintly boy’s playhouse, propelling him on a crusade to give the money away to the poor, against time, a robber, and his family thrown into the ethical dilemma. A poignant and colorful tale of money and humanity.