Posted by bennardfajardo on October 14, 2014 · 6 Comments
I’m feeling a little bit book giddy today, generally happy about the state of literature and about the large number of books that I have yet to read so I’ve decided to write, sooner that I would have, about the books that I got last month. September was a bit crazy overall because there was a … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Very Easy Death, Adrian Tomine, Anton Chekhov, Art and Litearture, Art Spiegelman, Bellefleur, Betrayal, Book Love, Books, Brian K. Vaughn, Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas, Christopher Hitchens, Dancing Bear, David Mitchell, Donald Antrim, Ezra Pound, Fiona Staples, Graham Greene, Harold Bloom, Harold Pinter, High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006, Ian McEwan, Italo Calvino, James Crumley, Jeanette Winterson, Joseph Brodsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Less Than One: Selected Essays, Living Thinking Looking, Marcel Proust, Marjane Satrapi, Maus, Mr. Palomar, No One Left to Lie To, Persepolis, Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati, Saga: Volume 1, Saturday, Seven Short Novels, Simone de Beauvoir, Siri Hustvedt, Summer Blonde, The Bone Clocks, The Emerald Light in the Air, The Hundred Brothers, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, The Tenth Man, The Verificationist, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, William H. Gass, Written on the Body
Posted by bennardfajardo on April 3, 2014 · 6 Comments
April is now here which means that the days of summer of reading is finally upon us. I don’t know what it is about the summer but it sure does make reading greater than it already is or maybe it’s just me? Anyway, before I go into the beginnings of my summer reading list, let … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Books, Civilwarland in Bad Decline, Dancing Girls, Day of the Oprichnik, Denis Johnson, Essential Reading, George Saunders, If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino, Like Life, Lorrie Moore, Margaret Atwood, Nobody Move, Vladimir Sorokin
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 →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Book Love, Books, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace, HHhH, If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino, Karen Russell, Laurent Binet, Nicholson Baker, Philip Pullman, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ, The Mezzanine