The Top 5 Books I Read This Year

Mai Mislang
6 min readDec 23, 2019
The “read” pile

Books are my favorite things. They are, ideally in their physical hard-bound form, my most treasured possessions. They are so vital to my journey towards personal improvement that I have stopped loaning my books to friends. First, because I have lost so many books over the years — I cannot seem to keep track of my borrowers. Second, I lose not just the book, which on its own is easy to let go, but my notations — the lessons and…

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Mai Mislang

Former presidential speechwriter, still a musician; owns a bakery, loves her dog. Tries to write more prose than poetry. Filipina from Manila.