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
Posted by bennardfajardo on November 26, 2012 · 13 Comments
Three nights ago, while I was browsing Bookriot (one of the websites that I frequent), I came across a feature of theirs titled Genre Kryptonite. Bookriot explains the feature in these words: GENRE KRYPTONITE is a regular feature about genres we have an inexplicable weak spot for. I clicked on one of the articles under Genre Kryptonite labeled as Dysfunctional Families (Under-the-Radar Edition) and … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Hooliganism · Tagged with A Single Man, Books, Christopher Isherwood, Cormac McCarthy, Everyman, Genre Kryptonite, Hooliganism, John Steinbeck, Kenzaburo Oe, Man in the Dark, Michael Chabon, Nicole Krauss, Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids, No Country for Old Men, Of Mice and Men, Paul Auster, Philip Roth, The Autograph Man, The History of Love, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Zadie Smith
Posted by bennardfajardo on September 13, 2012 · 10 Comments
It’s my first time to attend the Manila International Book Fair since I finally overcame the deal breakers (distance, budget, and sheer laziness) that prevented me from attending the MIBF in the past plus I really saved and prepared for this event because, you know, books! There were a lot of books that I wanted … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Death in the Afternoon, A Single Man, Any Human Heart, Book Love, Book Lust, Books, Christopher Isherwood, Don DeLillo, Emma, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, Jostein Gaarder, Manila International Book Fair, MIBF, Sophie's World, The Crying of Lot 49, The Subterraneans and Pic, Thomas Pynchon, White Noise, William Boyd
The Book Hooligan 