Posted by bennardfajardo on June 9, 2015 · 6 Comments
For four months now, I have never updated the BOOKLOVE feature of my blog. There’s no reason for excuses because it was mostly laziness that held me off from writing regularly. However, I don’t just want to let this feature die so, in order to catch-up, I’m going to write an extended version of BOOKLOVE … Continue reading →
Category Book Love, Books · Tagged with A High Wind in Jamaica, A Tale of Love and Darkness, Against Interpretation and Other Essays, Alejandro Zambra, All The President's Men, Amos Oz, Bob Silvers, Bob Woodward, Book Love, Books, Carl Bernstein, Criterion Collection, George V. Higgins, Heinrich Böll, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jeffrey Toobin, John Barth, John Donne, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kelly Link, Machado de Assis, Magic for Beginners, Margaret Atwood, Martin Amis, May It Please The Court: The First Amendment, Nausea, On Death, Ory and Crake, Patrick Modiano, Paul Auster, Peter Irons, Phillip Gourevitch, Richard Hughes, Robert Musil, Susan Sontag, Suspended Sentences, The Alienist, The Art of Hunger, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Housekeeper and The Professor, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, The Man Without Qualities: Volume 1, The New York Review Abroad, The Nine, The Remains of the Day, The Sot-Weed Factor, The War Against Cliche, Thomas Pynchon, V., Ways of Going Home, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Yoko Ogawa
Posted by bennardfajardo on January 16, 2015 · 5 Comments
2015 has just passed its one-day mark and I already have a backlog. Three of them in fact because, for the last three months of 2014, I have failed to update my BOOKLOVE feature. Sure, there have been attempts to avoid the undesirable result of having a backlog but, alas, I have no excuse why … Continue reading →
Category Book Love, Books · Tagged with After Henry, Aharon Applefeld, Alice Munro, Augustus, Badenheim 1939, Barry Hannah, Book Love, Books, Complete Short Stories, Emily St. John Mandel, Family Furnishings: Selected Stories 1995-2014, Grace Paley, Graham Greene, Hawthorn & Child, Here, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, John King, John Reed, John Williams, Keith Ridgway, Long Last Happy: New and Selected Stories, Memed My Hawk, Muriel Spark, On Modern Latin American Fiction, Richard McGuire, Snowball's Chance, Station Eleven, The Collected Stories, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, True Confessions, Yashar Kemal
Posted by bennardfajardo on October 14, 2014 · 6 Comments
I’m feeling a little bit book giddy today, generally happy about the state of literature and about the large number of books that I have yet to read so I’ve decided to write, sooner that I would have, about the books that I got last month. September was a bit crazy overall because there was a … Continue reading →
Category Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Very Easy Death, Adrian Tomine, Anton Chekhov, Art and Litearture, Art Spiegelman, Bellefleur, Betrayal, Book Love, Books, Brian K. Vaughn, Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas, Christopher Hitchens, Dancing Bear, David Mitchell, Donald Antrim, Ezra Pound, Fiona Staples, Graham Greene, Harold Bloom, Harold Pinter, High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006, Ian McEwan, Italo Calvino, James Crumley, Jeanette Winterson, Joseph Brodsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Less Than One: Selected Essays, Living Thinking Looking, Marcel Proust, Marjane Satrapi, Maus, Mr. Palomar, No One Left to Lie To, Persepolis, Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati, Saga: Volume 1, Saturday, Seven Short Novels, Simone de Beauvoir, Siri Hustvedt, Summer Blonde, The Bone Clocks, The Emerald Light in the Air, The Hundred Brothers, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, The Tenth Man, The Verificationist, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, William H. Gass, Written on the Body
Posted by bennardfajardo on September 29, 2014 · 5 Comments
August has been a huge month for me particularly because the end of the month marked the day for the 2014 Library of Congress Book Festival where I got to meet one of my favorite authors, Paul Auster, and three other writers (well, two writers, Claire Messud and Siri Hustvedt, and one translator, Natasha Wimmer). … Continue reading →
Category Book Love, Books · Tagged with Book Love, Books, Colum McCann, Enduring Love, I Remember Nothing, Iain Banks, Ian McEwan, Nick Hornby, Nora Ephron, Songbook, The Wasp Factory, TransAtlantic, View With A Grain of Sand, Wislawa Szymborska
Posted by bennardfajardo on September 2, 2014 · 6 Comments
My mother came into the house one day, a smile on her face and a newspaper in her hand, walked right up to me, opened the paper right in front of me, and shoved the paper into my face. “The 2014 Library of Congress Book Festival” it said and nothing else except the date and … Continue reading →
Category Book Love · Tagged with A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction, Billy Collins, Book Love, Books, Claire Messud, EL Doctorow, Library of Congress National Book Festival, Paul Auster, Ragtime, Roberto Bolaño, Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World, The Trouble with Poetry, The Woman Upstairs, Valerie Miles, Winter Journal
Posted by bennardfajardo on August 26, 2014 · 4 Comments
How does one start a post like BOOKLOVE when you’ve done it a dozen times? It’s quite hard to begin writing these posts but one must just trudge through it, I suppose. I’ve been hoarding books from New Directions Publishing lately because (1) they publish interesting books and (2) it is quite hard to get … Continue reading →
Category Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Streetcar Named Desire, Book Love, Books, Curzio Malaparte, Djuna Barnes, Exercises in Style, Felisberto Hernandez, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nightwood, Raymond Queneau, Sjon, Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, The Skin, The Whispering Muse, Two Crocodiles
Posted by bennardfajardo on July 31, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Here’s the thing about Maryland and my situation here right now. We live pretty close to a store that sell second-hand books and I usually come over once a week. Here’s the problem, they sell books on the cheap and, on certain days, they put the books on sale or they have this absurd promo … Continue reading →
Category Book Love, Books · Tagged with Book Love, Books, John Green, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary McCarthy, Philip Lopate, Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates, Shannon Ravenel, The Best American Short Stories of the Century, The Best American Short Stories of The Eighties, The Fault in Our Stars, The Groves of Academe, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, Tobias Woolf, Writing New York: A Literary Anthology
Posted by bennardfajardo on July 1, 2014 · 6 Comments
This BOOKLOVE post is long overdue but I have been lazy lately (I only finished one book this month which is why I’m having a reading marathon before June ends in our time zone). Anyway, I cannot let June disappear without updating the world of my escalating and increasingly worrying state of book hoarding. Here’s … Continue reading →
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Posted by bennardfajardo on May 5, 2014 · 1 Comment
I have been on a book buying frenzy these past few months and I don’t feel sorry. I’m pretty sure that it’s supposed to be a bad sign but nothing negative has come out of my spree yet so I’ll deal with the possible consequences when they come. Anyway, last month, I visited several branches of … Continue reading →
Category Book Love, Books · Tagged with Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Book Love, Books, Christopher Morley, Definitely Maybe, Eileen Chang, Etgar Keret, Love In A Fallen City, Marek Hlasko, Melville House, Parnassus on Wheels, Regarding The Pain of Others, Robert Vare, Suddenly A Knock on the Door, Susan Sontag, Sven Birkerts, The American Idea: The Best of Atlantic Monthly, The Graveyard, The Haunted Bookshop, The Other Walk
Posted by bennardfajardo on April 12, 2014 · 4 Comments
Let’s not pretend that I am good at restraining myself when it comes to books, okay? I’m probably the worst book hoarder that I know and, despite being proud about it, being the worst book hoarder that you know is not actually a good thing. For example, being buried alive under a pile of books … Continue reading →
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The Book Hooligan 