It's my mama who influenced me to read the romance tagalog pocketbook. She's not very good at hiding her pocketbook, so I always end up reading it. When it's already time for her to go to work in Mommy F's bakery, that's when she'll hide her rented pocketbook. And once she's gone, that's also when I will look everywhere for it so that I can read it.
You know, even if Mama hides it, my curiosity toward that book is so immense that I find ways to look for it so I can read it. Mama stays a bit longer at work together with Papa so that I can read it without fear. And what often drew me into that book was its cover. The cover is too beautiful for me to just ignore it. It's an art drawn also by some amazing artists ＼(^o^)／.
Here's one of the old pocketbooks I have that was published in 1999 under Precious Pages Corporation. My favorite publishing company when it comes to Tagalog Romance Pocketbook. And look at the cover photo of it above. So pretty, right? So who wouldn't feel in love with it. Even without reading the synopsis at the back, I can already tell how good it is. And, even with the chance of being beaten by Mommy F (my aunt) if I got caught, I'll risk it all for the love of my pocketbook. Hihi. That's how crazy I was to it back then. I read it too during class hours, yes, bad of me. I just can't stop reading when i'm already on the best part. I'm sure lot of you here can relate, lol.
So anyways, I want to share one of my favorite romance tagalog pocket books that was published under PHR. It's one, but my favorite is a hundred. There's just a lot of good pocketbooks out there that having just one favorite is not right. But out of all the hundreds, this is one of those I read a lot of times already. But that was from a long time ago. I already stopped renting a pocketbook when I learned about Wattpad.
And the author of this pocketbook is also one of my favorites, Vanessa. I just love her humor in her works, and even with it, she never fails to deliver us a really good story. In this particular story, I had a good laugh with it, but at the same time, the feelings like the kilig whenever there is a sweet scene in there. That's all the reason why I read Romance Pocketbook. The happy feels, the happy ending - to which I always look forward despite the hurdles the main characters had to experience at first.
This story of "Ang Lalaking Nagmahal Sa Akin: Tanya Maginhawa" (The Man Who Loved Me) is just like the typical romance type where the ML is famous and the FL is facing a lot of problems, she's poor too. But she's not the damsel in distress kind, it's just that she had to do something for someone important to her but then still ended up receiving help from the male lead. The FL here is a strong kind of woman who'll do anything for her family, especially for her "son," and that's why I love her.
But what I like the most of this book aside from the sweet and fun parts is how the FL treats her nephew as if he is her own son. And that she is ready to sell her body just so he can save him. And yes, it happened, but despite that, she will still get her happy ending. There are a lot more scenes there that I want to highlight, but that would be a huge spoiler. Anyhow, I'm not sure if you'll try to read it, but it's in Tagalog, so I'll leave it all to you all.
All I can say is I love it because of the warm feelings I often feel when reading it. I'm sure you know what I mean. (◍•ᴗ•◍)
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This is my mom's favorite past time and that is reading a pocket book and in fact she has a collection of precious hearts romance because whenever she goes to the city, she will go to the pocket book store and she will buy lots of it.
She still have them? Cool, we're the same, still keeping the pocketbook. Ang mura pa nyan before, but now too pricey na. Still, they are worth their price. Have you ever tried reading them?
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I remember reading pocketbooks but a different genre for me, I'm a guy, haha. I read a lot of sci-fi, mystery and those where you choose a path to the story. Loved the later because you could read alternate endings.
It looks like a furry friend wants you not to read romance but give them love, haha. Great day ahead 😃
Hahaha some guys likes romance too, you never try? 😆
Haha seriously, I am taking photos and she keep on getting my attentions, lol. Coz of that I just decided to take it with her paws and I actually love the result, ehehe
I was a bookworm before and there came a time when it felt like I've already read all the books at our school library and that's when I as introduced to these romance books 😅 I remember I used to be absent for an entire afternoon because I was at my classmate's boarding house reading a romance novel 😂
Hahahaha grabi ka, nag absent talaga, lolol. Ako dinadala ko sa school binaba ko din sa gitna nang klase HAHAHAHA. Ahhh those fonds memories of ours. Lolol. Do you still read them ba? I don't have much time to do it na eh. And I don't know anyone who rent them.
Nope. Since 2013 di na ko nakapag basa niyan kasi nag switch the ko sa wattpad haha. Naalala ko din dati nasusuyod ko pa ibang section at year level para lang makipag swap kapag tapos ko na basahin, ang bilis ko pa naman magbasa siguro sa isang aras kaya ko umubos ng tatlo hahahahaha. Kahit nasa klase nakaipit lang yan sa science or english book ko kunwarin studious 🤣
Pero ngayon di na ko nagbabasa ng romance novels. Masyado lang niyan ieencourage pagiging delulu at high standard ko, paano pa ko neto makakapag asawa? Hahahahaha
Precious Hearts Romances has always offered the nicest stories!! 🫶🏻 I can remember how much kilig I felt while reading those pocketbooks. Nakakamiss ang pocketbook era before eBooks and Wattpad became popular, yung makikipagpalit ka ng pocketbook sa iba pag nabasa mo na lahat. 😂😂
Wahhh, legit! Hiraman malala, lol. Maganda pa rin sana ang mga pocketbook kaso, nauso na talaga Wattpad and ebook eh. Some just rather read for free than buy the book. Nagbabasa ka pa?
Hindi na po. 😂 I stopped reading Wattpad and all nung nagstart na ako sa college.
I remember those days that gadgets haven't ruled. Reading pocket book was one of my favourite hobby.😁
Haha, do you have a collection? Ako'y di kayang bumili kaya puro renta lang. Muran pa noon eh, imagine 20php makakabasa kana nang 4 pocketbook hihi
Marami Dati. Pero Hindi KO na alam Kung nasaan na Yun😁
Those little paws🥰💜
Haha you noticed it ☺️
Naalala ko lang. Yung ate ko mahilig sa ganito kay may pagkakataon din na binabasa ko yung ibang pocketbooks niya. Hahaha
Thanks for sharing this. Makes me miss the old days.
Hwhww, i'm really glad to see na di lang ako may good memories with pocketbook 😊✨
Pocketbooks are part of our growing up stage.
I never had the chance to read romance pocketbooks because my brother would definitely give me a weird look. But thankfully they adapted some books into tv series. haha
Hehe, an adapted books is amazing. It must be soooooo good that they adapted it into a tv series.
Hehe, mahilig ka pala sa romance stories hehe. At least may favorite author and publisher ka so most likely nawiwili ka sa mga kwentong nababasa mo :)
Yes, especially before during my teens. Tagal nalang since nakapag basa ako nang ganito ay.
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