Posted by bennardfajardo on December 30, 2013 · 7 Comments
This is probably my last post for this year (unless the blogging gods send their blessings) and my 80th overall. A nice round number would be a nice way to end this year in blogging (although a nice round number + 1 would be arguably better). Anyway, 2013 is almost at an end and sometimes … Continue reading →
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Posted by bennardfajardo on October 20, 2013 · 2 Comments
This is the first ever BOOKLOVE post in a long while that was not preceded and not succeeded by an Essential Reading post, which means that I have blogged about something other than what I’ve acquired, what I’ve read, and what I will read. So you can say that this post is sort of special. … Continue reading →
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Posted by bennardfajardo on July 2, 2013 · 7 Comments
The reading slump continues this June with me reading only three books for the month (one I finished in July but we’ll let it slide won’t we?) which is as follows: Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro (5/5) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (5/5) Self-Help by Lorrie Moore (4/5) Even though … Continue reading →
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Posted by bennardfajardo on March 4, 2013 · 8 Comments
So the love themed reading month of February is done with. In the realm of fiction, hearts were broken; dreams were shattered; love was lost then found; and everything in between. In the real world, we move on to other books. But first, a rundown of my reading month that was February: Journey into the … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Alexander Pushkin, Alien Hearts, Angelo R. Lacuesta, David Foster Wallace, Dead Souls, Fourteen Love Stories, Graham Greene, Guy de Maupassant, Jose Dalisay Jr., Journey into the Past, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Gogol, Pablo Neruda, Stefan Zweig, Tales of Belkin, The End of the Affair, The Master and Margarita, The Queue, This is Water, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair, Vladimir Sorokin, We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
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