Posted by bennardfajardo on March 11, 2016 · 2 Comments
Where I’m from, winter is finally on its last legs. Despite the romanticism that is often associated with winter, I have never been a fan of the season. Yes, the whiteness of snowfall can often captivate a man who thrives on cynicism but hours and hours of shoveling just to clear up a few square … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Alice Munro, Because She Never Asked, Books, Enrique Villa-Matas, Essential Reading, Everything and Nothing, Jorge Luis Borges, Runaway, Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl
Posted by bennardfajardo on March 7, 2014 · 2 Comments
I absolutely have not one iota of restraint in my body. Again and again, I have said that I shall whittle down my book purchases for propriety’s sake (and because my TBR is already at a point where it’s threatening to bury me). However, good books abound and they are waiting for me to find … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Book Love, Books, Cooking and Stealing: The Tin House Non-Fiction Reader, George Packer, Ignorance, Invitation to a Beheading, Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, The Assassin's Gate, The Book of Imaginary Beings, Tin House, Vladimir Nabokov
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 December 23, 2013 · 4 Comments
Finishing my last short story collection this year, Alice Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are?, I can conclude that this is a good year for short fiction. Of the 68 books that I’ve read so far for 2013, 23 were short story collections or anthologies and that is not mentioning the various short stories … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Thoughts on Short Fiction · Tagged with Alice Munro, Books, Dave Eggers, Denis Johnson, Elmore Leonard, George Saunders, James Joyce, James Salter, JG Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, Lorrie Moore, Lourd de Veyra, Lydia Davis, Lysley Tenorio, Miranda July, Raymond Carver, Steven Millhauser, TC Boyle, Thoughts on Short Fiction, Vladimir Nabokov, William Faulkner
Posted by bennardfajardo on December 11, 2013 · 6 Comments
Well, here we go again. My self-serving update for all the notable books that I’ve acquired this month and, technically, this will be only for the books that I’ve acquired on the 2nd half of November because the first half was already covered in last months BOOKLOVE. Anyway, here is my hoard for the 2nd … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Berlin Stories, Book Love, Books, Call If You Need Me, Collected Fictions, Field Work, Jorge Luis Borges, Moon Palace, Paul Auster, Raymond Carver, Robert Walser, Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy
The Book Hooligan 