Posted by bennardfajardo on January 29, 2013 · 7 Comments
I just finished reading The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and in Locked Room, the last book of the trilogy, there is a character named “Fanshawe” and he is a writer whose works were published posthumously to critical acclaim. And it made me wonder about the fictional writers that I have encountered whose groundbreaking works we shall never read … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Top Five Tuesdays · Tagged with Any Human Heart, Books, Crispin Salvador, Fanshawe, Ilustrado, Isaac Moritz, Karen Eiffel, Logan Mountstuart, Stranger than Fiction, The History of Love, The New York Trilogy, Top Five Tuesdays
Posted by bennardfajardo on January 15, 2013 · 7 Comments
“New year, new books” is now my favorite saying every New Year even if I just made it out of thin air to suit my book hoarding purposes. Anyway, I was doing fine with my new year’s resolution of limiting myself from hoarding books until I visited NBS, Fullybooked, and Booksale. To be fair, some … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Question of Heroes, Alain de Botton, Auggie Wren's Christmas Story, Book Love, Book Lust, Books, David Mitchell, Fairy Tale Fail, Ghostwritten, Hunger, Knut Hamsun, Man Walks Into A Room, Milan Kundera, Mina V. Esguerra, Nick Joaquin, Nicole Krauss, On Love, Paul Auster, Sandra Cisneros, Siri Hustvedt, The Believers, The House on Mango Street, The Summer Without Men, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Zoe Heller
Posted by bennardfajardo on January 12, 2013 · 1 Comment
“That’s all your life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula. Tot it up – look at the respective piles. There’s nothing you can do about it: nobody shares it out, allocates it to this one or … Continue reading →
Posted by bennardfajardo on January 4, 2013 · 10 Comments
Well, it’s that time of the month again for my Essential Reading post. Before I begin the list for January, I will just point out that I made some changes to the way that I shall choose books. I will no longer be thematic in my choices and I shall only employ themes every now … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Albert Camus, Alberto Manguel, Any Human Heart, Books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chess, Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, Exile and the Kingdom, Fahrenheit 451, Gilead, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Marilynne Robinson, Paul Auster, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Stefan Zweig, The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories, The Lemoine Affair, The New York Trilogy, Two Gallants, William Boyd
Posted by bennardfajardo on January 1, 2013 · 8 Comments
2012 was really an awesome reading year for me. I have managed to finish 61 books (including graphic novels) which means I exceeded the number of books required for my Goodreads’ 2012 Reading Challenge. All in all, it was a very great reading year. But, of course, some books are better than others and this … Continue reading →
Filed under A Year in Reading, Books · Tagged with A Single Man, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Autumn of the Patriarch, Best Reads of 2012, Books, Chess, Christopher Isherwood, Chuck Palahniuk, Clandestine in Chile, Cloud Atlas, Cormac McCarthy, David Mitchell, Death in the Andes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haunted, History of Love, Ilustrado, In Cold Blood, Inherent Vice, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, John Steinbeck, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kenzaburo Oe, Kurt Vonnegut, Leaf Storm and Other Stories, Man in the Dark, Margaret Edson, Mario Vargas Llosa, Michael Chabon, Middlesex, Miguel Syjuco, Nick Joaquin, Nicole Krauss, Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids, No Country for Old Men, Of Mice and Men, Paul Auster, Remains of the Day, Reportage on Lovers, Slaughterhouse Five, Stefan Zweig, The Yiddish Policmen's Union, Thomas Pynchon, Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Truman Capote, Wit
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