Book Review: I Love You Since 1892 by Binibining Mia

ABS-CBN Books named best-selling novel "I Love You Since 1892" Book of the Year - Fiction during a virtual authors' event attended by Project Foreword mentors Ricky Lee, Ardy Roberto, and Makiwander. Binibining Mia, the book's author, received the honor for topping the NBS bestseller lists and revitalizing the genre of historical fiction in the Philippine setting.

Since its publication, the five-volume printed series—which now includes three offshoot novels and a collector's box set—has sold more than 210,000 copies. In addition to receiving a special award for Book of the Year created by Lilianna Manahan, LCS Group of Companies also co-presented Binibining Mia with a trophy for "Game Changer of the Year."

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Synopsis from Wattpad...

The book tells the story of Carmela, a girl from 2016 who gets sent back to the year 1892 and falls in love with Juanito, a doctor-to-be and son of a powerful gobernadorcillo. The laws of nature will bend. After more than 104 years, Carmela, the fourth generation of the Montecarlos clan will be born on a leap year. A short trip to San Alfonso for her 20th birthday will give her rebellious life a whimsical twist. Through a diary, she'll go back in time. And the Carmela of 2016 will meet Juanito of 1892.

My reaction to this novel...

You would not believe me if I told you that I read all five novels in this collection—which I bought in its entirety—in only four days. I generally get bogged down in the second novel while reading sequels, but not with this one.

I read this book because I saw far too many copies of it at bookstores, not only in the city, and I was intrigued about the story and why so many people were waiting in line to buy it. It was my first novel written by a Filipino author, which I read and bought. And since it's my first, I have great expectations.

The main character in the book series, Carmela, is a woman from the 21st century who unintentionally travels back in time to become Carmelita Montecarlos. As she looks for a way to get back to her own time, she is drawn to future doctor Juanito Alfonso (Marlo), and the two fall in love. The two strong-willed people also had to face with harsh repercussions despite their earnest efforts to protect what they had. The novel will have you pondering if Carmela will be able to go home or if Juanito would keep her imprisoned in the past forever over the course of it all.

This novel series has entirely transformed my perception from what I initially thought it would be. Carmela, the main character, is incredibly annoying in the first three chapters, but I gave her a chance and kept reading the book. The story raced ahead so rapidly that I was surprised since I didn't realize I had begun the second book while I was reading. I had never read a book written in the Filipino language before, much less one that detailed the history of my country. Although I detest history and never studied it in elementary or high school, this book motivated me to find out more about my ancestors. This book really made me realize how beautiful our country is since I felt like I understood so little about its past.

It was a wonderful love tale, and I couldn't help but smile. Since I don't like romance novels, I was startled by how thrilled I felt everytime Juanito and Carmelita were mentioned in a scene. The only thing that upset me was how the plot concluded. The happy ending I was hoping for didn't happen. Five novels won't feel like enough to completely explore this work, and I found myself wishing there were more. Teenagers in particular should read this book since it will motivate them to learn more about the history of the Philippines.

Everyone should read it, especially teens, and I implore you to do so totally, absolutely, and outrageously.

My Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ (4.5/5)

*Quotes are in Filipino and have not been marked, which is why they were not included in my review.

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Marlo Mortel Goes Back in Time in ‘I Love You Since 1892’

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Marlo Mortel stars as a gentleman during the Spanish era in the romantic fiction book “I Love You Since 1892,” written by Binibining Mia under ABS-CBN Publishing.

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The story revolves around optimistic Carmela, a 21st-century woman, who suddenly finds herself in the 19th century as Carmelita Montecarlos, and her journey with the doctor-to-be gentleman, the kind Juanito Alfonso (Marlo).

The successful fiction leads to book 2, “Ang Pag-aaklas” Ikalawang Bahagi which will bring readers to find out what happens to Carmela and Juanito. Will love prevail over fear?

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Go back in time and revel in romance with Marlo Mortel in “I Love You Since 1892: Ang Pag-aaklas” Ikalawang Bahagi by Binibining Mia, available in National Book Store outlets nationwide for only P225. For more details like ABS-CBN Books on Facebook and Instagram @abscbnbooks.

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"i love you since 1892" awarded as abs-cbn books' 2019 book of the year.

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"I Love You Since 1892" awarded as ABS-CBN Books' 2019 Book of the Year

Binibining Mia recently announced her latest novel, “Thy Love: Ang Unang Pagtatagpo,” also published by ABS-CBN Books.

Author launches new book “Thy Love”

Best-selling novel “I Love You Since 1892” was awarded Book of the Year – Fiction by ABS-CBN Books in a virtual writers’ event attended by Project Foreword mentors Ricky Lee, Ardy Roberto, and Makiwander. The award was presented to the book’s author, Binibining Mia, who was recognized for “dominating the NBS bestseller lists and breathing a new life to the genre of historical fiction in the Philippine setting.”  

The book tells the story of Carmela, a girl from 2016 who gets sent back to the year 1892 and falls in love with Juanito, a doctor-to-be and son of a powerful  gobernadorcillo.  The printed series which spans five volumes has since sold more than 210,000 copies, including three spinoff books and a collector’s box set. 

Binibining Mia was presented with a special Lilianna Manahan-designed trophy for Book of the Year, as well as another trophy for “Game Changer of the Year” co-presented by the LCS Group of Companies.

“’I Love You Since 1892’ opened many opportunities in my life. I had no idea if I could finish it then, but others said that as long as you love what you do, don’t stop because in the end, all your hard work will be worth it,” Binibining Mia said as she accepted the award.

She added, “I sometimes ask myself what my purpose in life is, but when I read the messages of the readers saying that they now appreciate history more or that in some ways the story touched them, it makes me feel good to know that as writers we get to inspire readers to change the course of their lives.”

Binibining Mia recently announced her latest novel, “Thy Love: Ang Unang Pagtatagpo,” also published by ABS-CBN Books, which is available on Lazada and Shopee. 

“I Love You Since 1892” is available in National Bookstore’s Lazada and Shopee stores, as well as its branches nationwide.

For more details, like ABS-CBN Books on Facebook at  www.facebook.com/abscbnbooks  and follow it on Instagram @abscbnbooks. For updates, follow @abscbnpr on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram or visit  www.abs-cbn.com/newsroom .

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Best-selling novel “ I Love You Since 1892 ” was awarded Book of the Year – Fiction by ABS-CBN Books in a virtual writers’ event attended by Project Foreword mentors Ricky Lee , Ardy Roberto , and Makiwander. The award was presented to the book’s author, Binibining Mia , who was recognized for “dominating the NBS bestseller lists and breathing a new life to the genre of historical fiction in the Philippine setting.”

The book tells the story of Carmela, a girl from 2016 who gets sent back to the year 1892 and falls in love with Juanito, a doctor-to-be and son of a powerful gobernadorcillo. The printed series which spans five volumes has since sold more than 210,000 copies, including three spinoff books and a collector’s box set.

Binibining Mia was presented with a special Lilianna Manahan -designed trophy for Book of the Year, as well as another trophy for “Game Changer of the Year” co-presented by the LCS Group of Companies.

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“ ’I Love You Since 1892’ opened many opportunities in my life. I had no idea if I could finish it then, but others said that as long as you love what you do, don’t stop because in the end, all your hard work will be worth it, ” Binibining Mia said as she accepted the award.

She added, “ I sometimes ask myself what my purpose in life is, but when I read the messages of the readers saying that they now appreciate history more or that in some ways the story touched them, it makes me feel good to know that as writers we get to inspire readers to change the course of their lives. ”

Binibining Mia recently announced her latest novel, “ Thy Love: Ang Unang Pagtatagpo ,” also published by ABS-CBN Books, which is available on Lazada and Shopee.

“I Love You Since 1892” is available in National Bookstore’s Lazada and Shopee stores, as well as its branches nationwide.

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Dr. Grinspan is the author of the forthcoming “Wide Awake: the Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War.”

You could be forgiven — when browsing the Smithsonian’s political history collections, where I work as a curator — for assuming that the chief battle in American political history was fought in 1892, between two great leaders named Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland playing cards and Harrison top hats fill glass cases and steel cabinets. By 1892, a giddily consumerist, venomously partisan Gilded Age society had gotten good at churning out campaign tchotchkes.

Americans were less good at picking leaders. The 1892 election was Cleveland and Harrison’s second contest against each other. It was an unwanted rematch between unloved combatants. People liked to joke, of the cold Harrison and the cussed Cleveland, “One had no friends; the other, only enemies.”

But as we are seeing again, it is possible for an election to make the public simultaneously fighting mad and bored to tears. The repeated, deadening matchups of Cleveland and Harrison in 1888 and 1892 did just that. They may be the best parallel for what is coming with a second Biden-Trump race. There are other rematches in American presidential history, but 1892 was the only time a sitting president who had lost re-election ran four years later against his vanquisher and won. That weird race has a message for all those planning to hit snooze on the coming campaign: Great political change can unfold when the system seems woefully stalled.

Historians gravitate toward big moments of decisive transformation. Few care about 1892. But that neglected race accomplished something of a vibe shift. Without the competitive fun that usually kept Americans transfixed on their political system, the election offered a race so dismal that it could actually generate change. A dynamic third party emerged, and reformers finally had the breathing space they needed to rethink democracy. For those who were frustrated with the candidates and the parties, with corruption and income inequality, 1892 provided a quiet workshop to assemble what the progressive editor William Allen White would call “the new weapons of democracy.”

Presidential personalities don’t drive the comparison between 1892 and 2024. Certainly the gabby Joe Biden is little like the sour Benjamin Harrison. And though some supporters of Donald Trump invoke Grover Cleveland as a model of a president who served two nonconsecutive terms, the parallel is flimsy. Cleveland won the popular votes in 1884, 1888 and 1892, only losing the Electoral College (and thus the presidency) in 1888. That makes him one of the winningest popular-vote presidents in American history — surpassed only by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and tied with Andrew Jackson. Donald Trump joins John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren as the only presidents who lost the popular vote twice.

The parallels are not personal but structural. The Gilded Age political system and its grumpy electorate look oddly familiar. Two evenly matched parties grappled for power across the years, fighting out the closest, highest turnout elections in our history. But neither could ever land a decisive blow. From 1876 to 1892, no president won a majority of the popular vote; two lost the popular vote altogether. This did not stop huge party machines from framing every race as a do-or-die test of democracy. By the 1890s, an editor at The Atlantic Monthly joked, “One year one party is ‘obliterated’; two years later the other party is ‘obliterated.’”

Gilded Age Americans loved to boast about progress — and fret about collapse — but really, the political system was doing neither. Americans were stuck in a loop, driven by little more than what one snarky reporter called “the happy thought of voting against each other.”

By 1892, neither party had much momentum left. Both Harrison and Cleveland had already been president; neither had done a great job. Republicans and Democrats were still eager to obliterate each other, but the famous orator Robert Ingersoll joked that both parties would have been happy “to defeat the other if it could do so without electing its own candidate.” So they spent more than ever before, together paying an at the time staggering $4 million, in part for the novelties that fill the Smithsonian’s shelves today

Yet despite that spending spree, a journalist complained that the public “refuses to get noisy.”

The noise was coming from the sidelines. As the two main political parties argued over tariff rates, the new Populist Party asked voters to tackle income inequality and corporate power head-on. The movement had been brewing for years, and the generative dullness of 1892 was a perfect launchpad. And while the Populists called for greater controls on railroads, banks and money, much of their campaigning targeted the “sham battle” between the two parties. Their famous 1892 Omaha Platform called for presidents to be limited to a single term. No more rematches.

They did not win, but the Populists did better than any third party had in a generation, taking 8.5 percent of the electorate and 22 electoral votes. Third parties don’t usually break up the two-party system; at best, they force ideas into the discourse for Republicans and Democrats to later adapt. The Populists got Americans thinking about income taxes and direct democracy and economic reforms in ways that were unutterable in polite society before. And they proved it was possible to win over one million votes with an issue-focused campaign, even as the two parties were hawking Harrison and Cleveland belt buckles.

Some went further, arguing that all political parties stood between the people and good government. The poet and humorist James Russell Lowell argued that processes were the key, telling a huge crowd in Manhattan, “If the parties won’t look after their own drainage and ventilation, there must be somebody who will do it for them.” In Oregon a former blacksmith named William U’Ren wondered, “Why had we no tool makers for democracy?” He began to experiment with what would one day become procedures like referendums, initiatives, primaries and recalls. The first generation of independent journalists — the men and women who would later be called muckrakers — took the same approach. Starting around 1892, innovators like Ida B. Wells and Henry Demarest Lloyd delved into specific events like lynchings and strikes, using those cases to tackle larger crises.

It would take years for these approaches to conquer the mainstream, but the tools that revolutionized American life after 1900 were wrought during the fertile boredom of 1892.

New tools also helped bad actors. The Southern arm of the Democratic Party had grown tired of stealing elections through fraud and violence and afraid of renewed federal intervention. State legislators also began to think like mechanics during the doldrums of the early 1890s. Starting with Mississippi’s 1890 Constitution , Southern states created impediments to Black voting that were more complete than their old shotgun tactics. The percentage of African Americans registered to vote in Mississippi fell from roughly 90 percent during Reconstruction to 6 percent in 1892. Black voting would be nearly extinguished there for generations.

Cleveland’s win in 1892 let Democrats loose to spread Jim Crow voting laws across the South. It turned out that 1892 was no “sham battle” after all. So much was at stake, but the parties’ hoopla and the public’s bad temper drowned out what really mattered. The shape of the 20th century is first visible, for good and for ill, in the depths of 1892.

So was 1892 a dull do-over? Or a trinket-filled bonanza? Or a wonky restructuring that pointed the nation toward tackling socioeconomic issues, even as it abandoned racial ones? It was all three. Americans tend to expect elections to be all or nothing, landslides or sleepers, normal politics or unprecedented catastrophe. There are elections like 1860, noisy, high-drama affairs that break the bounds between politics and civil war . And then there are contests like 1892, unfulfilling but formative, revolutions we notice only in retrospect.

One other attribute makes poor old 1892 matter today: It was the fifth presidential election in a row won by a candidate who failed to win a popular-vote majority, the longest streak in American history. This November — owing to a rising tide of third-party challenges, in particular the campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — it seems very likely that this race will end without a majority’s mandate as well. Such streaks (in the Gilded Age and the antebellum era) indicated an electorate that could not muster even the barest measure of popular agreement and tended to culminate in a game-changing realignment. The question is: How many sleepers will it take for our own game to change?

It’s a question we should be considering today, three presidential election cycles into the political universe that began in 2016. By now, we should be getting good at being bored, scared and creative at the same time. Even the potential death of democracy can start to feel like a rerun after a while.

It may take several more elections for voters to tire of trying to obliterate one another and start tinkering with other options. This is not a case for staying home in 2024 — far from it; it’s an argument for devoting the best of our energies outside the political cycle. We can deny the parties the full depth of our imagination, even as we prefer one side over the other.

You get, at most, one vote, no matter how many campaign novelties you buy or how many hours of cable news you watch.

If our civilization shares one central attribute with the Gilded Age, it’s not just the income inequality or the partisanship but also the slow, stuttering realization that the progress we’ve been boasting about isn’t coming. Most of us know this by now, but every four years, we pretend a big climactic election will answer it all, resolve our culture wars, vanquish our enemies and decide what America really means, once and for all. In 1892, watching the same two mediocre guys run yet again undermined Gilded Age Americans’ belief in landslides that never came. Finally, they were bored enough to think small and began to see that consequences come not just through elections but around them as well.

Jon Grinspan is a curator of political history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the author of the forthcoming “ Wide Awake : The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War” and “ The Age of Acrimony : How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915.”

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  1. An Honest Book Review and Literary Analysis: I Love You Since 1892 by

    I Love You Since 1892 is written by Filipino writer named Mia Alfonso, she is well-known of her pen name Undeniably Gorgeous or Binibining Mia. The story was written in pure Filipino language.

  2. Book Review: I Love You Since 1892 by Binibining Mia

    The book tells the story of Carmela, a girl from 2016 who gets sent back to the year 1892 and falls in love with Juanito, a doctor-to-be and son of a powerful gobernadorcillo. The laws of nature will bend. After more than 104 years, Carmela, the fourth generation of the Montecarlos clan will be born on a leap year.

  3. Yours truly: BOOK REVIEW: ILYS1892

    When i started reading I Love You Since 1892, i was so hopeless. My heart is broken, i can't seems to accept my recent heart break, that's why i looked for something i could do for awhile to get my mind off of my recent pain. That's when i saw ILYS1892. ILYS1892 is written by undeniably gorgeous a filipina wattpad writer.

  4. I Love You Since 1892 Review

    Here is my review for Binibining Mia's "I Love You Since 1892.". If you are looking for a Noli Me Tangere or El Filibusterismo in this book, then this book is not for you. If you are looking for realistic geographical accuracy, then this book is not for you. If you intend to learn about our history, then this book is not for you.

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    source: wattpad. I Love You Since 1892 or imply known as ILYS1892 is a Filipino Wattpad story written by Undeniably Gorgeous. ILYS1892 is a historical fiction that tells the adventurous tragic love story of Juanito Alfonso and Carmela Montecarlos. I Love You Since 1892 was all about a spoiled brat girl from the future named Carmela Isabella ...

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    246. Marlo Mortel stars as a gentleman during the Spanish era in the romantic fiction book "I Love You Since 1892," written by Binibining Mia under ABS-CBN Publishing. The story revolves around optimistic Carmela, a 21st-century woman, who suddenly finds herself in the 19th century as Carmelita Montecarlos, and her journey with the doctor ...

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    Finally finished! I had high expectations for this book, especially since it comes highly recommended in my feed. However, it proved to be quite a challenge to get through, not only due to its substantial length of over 1000+ pages but also because I struggled to maintain interest as I progressed.

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    But, to end this review, this book gave me the feeling that a 14-year-old girl will cherish for a lifetime. It has lessons, romance in the old times that many of us want to have it badly. By the way, it has an English version! Like ∙ flag. Sign into Goodreads to see if any of your friends have read I Love You Since 1892 .

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    Carmelita Montecarlos was the youngest daughter of San Alfonso's wealthiest family, while Juanito Alfonso was the son of the most powerful and influential gobernadorcillo. An agreement solidified their love future. They were bound to fall in love, which an agreement guaranteed. They were to marry on the day of Carmelita's 20th birthday. However, on the day of their grand wedding, Juanito ...

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    5/5: This is the best and my most favorite wattpad read! So beautifully heartbreaking. The characters are lovable and complex. AND the plot twist is shocking, I always find my jaw on the floor. This book really had put me in a loooongg reading slump. PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT worth it ang sakit. I'd sell my brothers to read this again for the first time. ILYS 1892 became my comfort read too :>>>

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  15. I Love You since 1892 (Published by ABS-CBN Books)

    A short trip to San Alfonso for her 20th birthday will give her rebellious life a whimsical twist. Through a diary, she'll go back in time. And the Carmela of 2016 will meet Juanito of 1892. Next story to read after ILYS1892: 1. Our Asymptotic Love Story. 2. Bride of Alfonso. Book Cover by: ABS-CBN Publishing.

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    Finished the book in a day. "Hustisya" was a real rollercoaster ride. The author was really playing with my heart with this. I was overjoyed to finally get a romantic development between Carmela at Juanito at the earlier part of the book after an action-filled book 2.

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