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 May 3, 2014 · 4 Comments
I felt that I neglected my reading for the month of April. First, I was unable to finish If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler, our book club’s pick for April, on time. Second, I was also unable to read Margaret Atwood’s Dancing Girls and Lorrie Moore’s Still Life so my April was male-heavy and that’s something … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Books, Essential Reading, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jose Carlos Somoza, La India or The Island of the Disappeared, Renata Adler, Rosario Cruz-Lucero, Speedboat, The Athenian Murders, The Interpreter of Maladies, To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Posted by bennardfajardo on August 23, 2012 · 6 Comments
I am adding another new feature in my attempt to blog about my reading habits and I dub this new monthly segment as, as you may already know, Book Lust. Yes, that is a sorry attempt at toilet humor directed towards my love for books and my (supposedly) raging hormones. Anyhoo, dear readers, this new segment is … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Atonement, Book Love, Book Lust, Books, Cloud Atlas, Dancing Girls, David Mitchell, Ian McEwan, Interpreter of Maladies, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kazuo Ishiguro, Life of Pi, Margaret Atwood, Middlesex, When We Were Orphans, Yann Martel
The Book Hooligan 