NOT AT THE TABLE, PLEASE!
By Quirico S. Samonte, Jr.
Illustrations by Judith E. Samonte
Ferne Press: an imprint of Nelson Publishing & Marketing
www.nelsonpublishingandmarketing.com
Copyright 2007

This is a charming sequel to the author's first book, "At The Table With The Family", recollections and vignettes of his boyhood in the Philippines and includes his transition as an expatriate in the U.S. as teacher, professor and Exchange Fellow in various assignments abroad. The book is dedicated to his "spirited contemporaries of younger days" which seems to bode well for youthful mis-adventures all readers can share. The publisher notes that "there are insightful stories expecially for those dealing with some of the issues and consequences of intersecting cultures."

The illustrations like those in the first "Table..." book are charming and well executed. Family photos always provide the necessary guide to who's who in the text.

OOV Bookshelf 2007

SEPTEMBER 2007 FEATURE COMMON DESTINY Filipino American Generations by Juanita Tamayo Lott Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street ni Benjamin Pimentel LAKBAY SINING readings on cultural development in the Philippines by Various Authors The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes by Eileen R. Tabios Into the Country of Standing Men by Rey Ventura A Woman Pope, Neanderthals & Other Stories by Denis Murphy Salvaged Poems By Emman Lacaba U.G. An Underground Tale The Journey of Edgar Jopson and the First Quarter Storm Generation by Benjamin Pimentel MAY 2007 FEATURE The Bride Anthology by Patria Rivera 25 Chickens and a Pig for the Bride by Evangeline Canonizado Buell Not at the Table, Please! By Quirico S. Samonte, Jr. SCRATCH THE NEWS Filipino Americans In Our Midst by Cristina D.C. Pastor On the Presence of Filipinos in the United States by E. San Juan, Jr.