Posted by bennardfajardo on October 10, 2015 · 3 Comments
September means that, in my side of the globe, it is starting to get really cold which has the effect of making me want to just lie down in my bed and cover myself with blankets while getting nothing done. I haven’t written any reviews last month and I would wager that it would be the … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with A Game of Hide and Seek, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Anton Chekhov, Books, Elizabeth Taylor, Essential Reading, Flannery O'Connor, Georges Simenon, Ian McEwan, Red Lights, The Children Act, Three Years
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 →
Filed under 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 February 20, 2014 · 7 Comments
I think my book hoarding tendencies has come to a point wherein I need to update BOOKLOVE twice every month instead of the usual monthly updates. This is the reason why I’m awake at 3 in the morning, to update a post that is usually reserved for the beginning of every month so that I … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Russian Affair, Anton Chekhov, Book Love, Books, Donna Tartt, First Love, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Ivan Turgenev, Leonard Michaels, Selected Verse, The Collected Stories of Leonard Michaels, The Secret History
Posted by bennardfajardo on February 11, 2014 · 2 Comments
Well, it’s time again for the annual cheesy BOOKLOVE post so, for those allergic, I suggest that you keep the reading to a minimum. Might as well skip a few words here and there. Anyway, to those who’ve been keeping track on how long Rhena and I have been together, it has been six years … Continue reading →
The Book Hooligan 