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 →
Category 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 November 14, 2012 · 7 Comments
Let me just squeak this in this post at the end of Tuesday. I noticed that I have a glaring lack of blog posts these past few weeks and I admit that it is because I am out of my groove lately but let me change that now. On today’s edition of Top Five Tuesdays, … Continue reading →
Category Books, Top Five Tuesdays · Tagged with Books, David Mitchell, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife, Judith Castle, Light Is Like Water, Manuel E. Arguilla, On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning, Shirley Jackson, Short Stories, The Lottery, Top Five Tuesdays
Posted by bennardfajardo on October 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Top Five Tuesdays is a new semi-regular feature in The Book Hooligan that presents a list (either ordered by rank or haphazardly) about anything book-related that interests me. For those people who have intersecting interests in film and in books, there are some moments when you see similarities with a movie that you’ve seen and … Continue reading →
Category Books, Top Five Tuesdays · Tagged with A Moveable Feast, A Serious Man, Books, Der Untergang, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Inherent Vice, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Chabon, Midnight in Paris, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Robert Schwentke, Slaughterhouse Five, The Autumn of the Patriarch, The Big Lebowski, The Coen Brothers, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Thomas Pynchon, Top Five Tuesdays, Woody Allen