Posted by bennardfajardo on January 5, 2015 · 3 Comments
2014, like all years past ever since I started blogging, has been an extraordinary year for reading. I’ve read 62 books total and most of them were amazing reads. Yes, yes, there were a few duds and even some of the worst pieces of literature that I have encountered in my life but the good and the … Continue reading →
Filed under A Year in Reading, Books · Tagged with 2014, A Month in the Country, A Year In Reading, Atonement, Books, Civilwarland in Bad Decline, Claire Messud, Clarice Lispector, David Mitchell, George Saunders, Ian McEwan, In Persuasion Nation, Jhumpa Lahiri, JL Carr, Joan Didion, Joyce Carol Oates, Julian Barnes, Leonard Michaels, Margaret Atwood, Muriel Spark, Paul Auster, Play It As It Lays, Raymond Carver, Sylvia, Tenth of December, The Blind Assassin, The Hour of the Star, The Interpreter of Maladies, The Sense of an Ending, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Posted by bennardfajardo on September 4, 2014 · 5 Comments
The final third of the year is already upon us with the so-called “-ber” months entering the fray. So far, I have finished 43 books out of the 60 that I had promised myself. So that means there’s still four months left for me to read 17 more, a doable feat in my opinion especially if … Continue reading →
Filed under Reading List · Tagged with Billy Collins, Books, Claire Messud, Essential Reading, Felisberto Hernandez, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gabrielle Zevin, Moon Palace, Paul Auster, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, The Trouble with Poetry, The Woman Upstairs, Two Crocodiles, Winter Journal
Posted by bennardfajardo on September 2, 2014 · 6 Comments
My mother came into the house one day, a smile on her face and a newspaper in her hand, walked right up to me, opened the paper right in front of me, and shoved the paper into my face. “The 2014 Library of Congress Book Festival” it said and nothing else except the date and … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love · Tagged with A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction, Billy Collins, Book Love, Books, Claire Messud, EL Doctorow, Library of Congress National Book Festival, Paul Auster, Ragtime, Roberto Bolaño, Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World, The Trouble with Poetry, The Woman Upstairs, Valerie Miles, Winter Journal
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