Posted by bennardfajardo on September 25, 2013 · 6 Comments
Okay, I think I have neglected my blog a little bit (maybe a whole darn lot) and it’s gnawing up on me now. I really would want to churn out regular posts about my reading life but life just gets in the way. Of course, I will say that this post will change everything and … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Heart So White, A Schoolboy's Diary, Alfred Yuson, America Is In The Heart, Book Love, Books, Carlos Bulosan, Cave and Shadows, Civilwarland in Bad Decline, Clandestine in Chile, Day of the Oprichnik, F. Sionil Jose, Fatelessness, Francis Wyndham, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Saunders, If a Filipino Writer Reads Don Quijote, Imre Kertesz, Javier Marias, John Cheever, Khavn, Mavis Gallant, Nick Joaquin, Paris Stories, Robert Walser, The Complete Fiction, The Road, The Wapshot Chronicle, Ultraviolins, Vasily Grossman, Vicente G. Goryon, Vladimir Sorokin
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
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