Posted by bennardfajardo on March 3, 2013 · 4 Comments
January has come and go. With that, I present to you my book acquisitions for the month of January: Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (Tent Bookstore, UP Diliman) – After Rhena got me Forty Stories, which is also by Donald Barthelme, I went back to the Tent Bookstore three days after I received the gift. To my surprise, Sixty … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Book Lust, Books, Donald Barthelme, Jeffrey Eugenides, Lolita, Milan Kundera, Sixty Stories, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Book of Other People, The Virgin Suicides, Vladimir Nabokov, Zadie Smith
Posted by bennardfajardo on January 15, 2013 · 7 Comments
“New year, new books” is now my favorite saying every New Year even if I just made it out of thin air to suit my book hoarding purposes. Anyway, I was doing fine with my new year’s resolution of limiting myself from hoarding books until I visited NBS, Fullybooked, and Booksale. To be fair, some … Continue reading →
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Posted by bennardfajardo on December 19, 2012 · 8 Comments
Christmas is just around the corner and, before I begin, I want to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas. We just held our book club’s Christmas Party last Saturday and I was so happy to receive gifts in the form of books this year. This is actually the first time in my life … Continue reading →
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Posted by bennardfajardo on November 23, 2012 · 9 Comments
I present to you, dear reader, my birthday month haul for the year. In The Country of Last Things by Paul Auster – I have been a fan of Paul Auster’s essays, short stories, and his novella, Man in the Dark. Although I have not yet read another full-length work from him since I always feel compelled to … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Blood Meridian, Book Love, Book Lust, Books, Cormac McCarthy, DBC Pierre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, In The Country of Last Things, Jose Saramago, Kazuo Ishiguro, Les Miserables, Michael Chabon, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ned Beauman, Never Let Me Go, No One Writes To The Colonel and Other Stories, Pablo Neruda, Paul Auster, Selected Poems, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Cave, The Teleportation Accident, Vernon God Little, Victor Hugo. The Master and Margarita
Posted by bennardfajardo on September 20, 2012 · 20 Comments
Last Wednesday, I attended the Manila International Book Fair and I acquired quite a bit of new books. However, I wasn’t able to return to the MIBF on the other dates especially on the last day when, rumor has it, a lot of the exhibitors give further discounts for their books on sale. The reason … Continue reading →
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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
Posted by bennardfajardo on August 23, 2012 · 6 Comments
I am adding another new feature in my attempt to blog about my reading habits and I dub this new monthly segment as, as you may already know, Book Lust. Yes, that is a sorry attempt at toilet humor directed towards my love for books and my (supposedly) raging hormones. Anyhoo, dear readers, this new segment is … Continue reading →
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