Posted by bennardfajardo on December 3, 2012 · 9 Comments
It’s December, folks, and I have been absent from the blogosphere lately due so I think its time for another post from your favorite book hooligan [citation needed]. What better way to start the month by listing my December reading list and this month’s theme is there is no theme. But before that, let us … Continue reading →
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Posted by bennardfajardo on November 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“For he was aware that in the academy he would have to be even more ambitious if he wanted to outstrip his new fellow students. Why did he want to surpass them actually? He didn’t really know himself.” – Narrator I was raised believing that education and blind respect for authority are two of the … Continue reading →
Posted by bennardfajardo on November 8, 2012 · 6 Comments
I know that it’s already very late to be posting this but I will anyway in order to have a semblance of order in this blog and also to maintain the monthly posting of my monthly essential reading list. As it is with my essential reading list for the month, I have a theme and … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Beneath the Wheel, Books, Death in the Andes, Elfriede Jelinek, Essential Reading, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hermann Hesse, Kenzaburo Oe, Leaf Storm and Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Women as Lovers