About Me

Hi, I’m Riza!

I’m a thirty-something auditor from the Philippines who spends her spare time reading books and talking about books. In 2022, I moved to the UK for work and is now based in the beautiful city of Belfast. I’ve been a blogger since I was in high school and occasionally jumped from platform to platform. In 2019, I decided to archive my previous blog and start over again. After thinking it through, in April of 2019, I obtained the domain for Pages and Coffee Cups and here we are!

Pages and Coffee Cups is a collection of my thoughts and all the things that light up my days and then some.

While this is not strictly a book blog, I figured I’ll be posting mostly books stuff since I am an avid reader and lover of books. I’m not sure what my favourite is but I do tend to read a lot of books under the following genres lately:

• Fantasy (all subgenres!)
• Literary fiction
• Contemporary fiction written by women
• A LOT of Asian lit

Besides books, I’m also interested in a myriad of things that might pop up occasionally in this blog:

• Stationery products and journaling
• Travelling and going to bookish landmarks (a hobby I picked up recently because of my move)
• Calligraphy and hand lettering
• Urban sketching (and learning how to do a loose watercolour technique)
• Drinking coffee and finding nice cafes around the area (thus, the blog name)
• Watching random TV shows
• Anime and manga
• Figure Skating
• Just about anything under the sun that makes my heart skip a beat.

By documenting my memories and experiences, I hope this can be an aide-mémoire of sorts when I feel the need to look back. This blog isn’t much but I am proud of it. So thank you for taking your time to visit and read! This is my wonderland and I hope we can be friends! 🙂

FEATURES!

• The Quiet Pond – The Pond News Issue #12  – Book Community Spotlight: Book Blogger
• Shut up, Shealea – 31 Filipino Bookish Creators You Should Follow – Book Blogger / Bookstagrammer
• Angele Reads Books – Filipino Bookstagrammers I Adore: Part 1 – Bookstagram
• Feedspot – Top 20 Philippine Book Blogs and Websites