Posted by bennardfajardo on February 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War … Continue reading →
Posted by bennardfajardo on February 6, 2013 · 10 Comments
Over the course of my relationship with Rhena, she has given me three books and it all began during our 3rd year when she started giving me books. The first was Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ autobiography Living to Tell the Tale; then Ernest Hemingway’s biography, Hemingway’s Boat, written by Paul Hendrickson; and then, lastly, Albert Camus’ Exile and the Kingdom. As a … Continue reading →
Posted by bennardfajardo on February 3, 2013 · 8 Comments
This month’s theme, which is books about love, may be very predictable (owing to the fact that it’s Valentine’s month) but I still wanted to do it. Love is a universal subject and it is something that I like reading about (to be fair, I like reading about anything as long as it is well-written). … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Alien Hearts, Books, Dalisay and Lacuesta, Essential Reading, Fourteen Love Stories, Graham Greene, Guy de Maupassant, Jeffrey Eugenides, Journey into the Past, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro, Pablo Neruda, Stefan Zweig, The End of the Affair, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair