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 →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Alberto Manguel, Any Human Heart, Beneath the Wheel, Blood Meridian, Budjette Tan, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Cloud Atlas, Cormac McCarthy, David Mitchell, Death in the Andes, Elizabeth Kostova, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Griffin and Sabine, Herman Hesse, Kajo Baldisimo, Kenzaburo Oe, Leaf Storm and Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa, Midnight Tribunal, Nick Bantock, Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids, Roald Dahl, The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories, The Historian, Trese, William Boyd
Posted by bennardfajardo on October 1, 2012 · 10 Comments
For this month of October, my beloved book club will take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and I instantly thought that this would be the perfect moment to read works created by female authors. I do not know why but my list of read books is lacking in works created by women. I do not want … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with A Visit from the Goon Squad, Bonjour Tristesse, Books, Elizabeth Kostova, Essential Reading, Everyman, Françoise Sagan, Inherent Vice, Irène Némirovsky, Jane Austen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Le Bal and Snow in Autumn, Michael Chabon, Middlesex, Mrs. Dalloway, Philip Roth, Pride and Prejudice, The Autograph Man, The Historian, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith