This balikbayan's first attempt at reading Noli Me Tangere by #JoseRizal. It's a 1887 novel originally in #Spanish and immensely influential in Asia's first national independence movement in the #Philippines
I studied in Canada so the #Tagalog version wasn't forced on me, so I'm reading it in English because I'd think that the translation is closer to the original Spanish! Rizal was a Dumas fanboy so I'm expecting Count of Monte Cristo but make it colonial period Philippines #books #bookstodon