Posted by bennardfajardo on June 9, 2015 · 6 Comments
For four months now, I have never updated the BOOKLOVE feature of my blog. There’s no reason for excuses because it was mostly laziness that held me off from writing regularly. However, I don’t just want to let this feature die so, in order to catch-up, I’m going to write an extended version of BOOKLOVE … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A High Wind in Jamaica, A Tale of Love and Darkness, Against Interpretation and Other Essays, Alejandro Zambra, All The President's Men, Amos Oz, Bob Silvers, Bob Woodward, Book Love, Books, Carl Bernstein, Criterion Collection, George V. Higgins, Heinrich Böll, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jeffrey Toobin, John Barth, John Donne, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kelly Link, Machado de Assis, Magic for Beginners, Margaret Atwood, Martin Amis, May It Please The Court: The First Amendment, Nausea, On Death, Ory and Crake, Patrick Modiano, Paul Auster, Peter Irons, Phillip Gourevitch, Richard Hughes, Robert Musil, Susan Sontag, Suspended Sentences, The Alienist, The Art of Hunger, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Housekeeper and The Professor, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, The Man Without Qualities: Volume 1, The New York Review Abroad, The Nine, The Remains of the Day, The Sot-Weed Factor, The War Against Cliche, Thomas Pynchon, V., Ways of Going Home, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Yoko Ogawa
Posted by bennardfajardo on January 1, 2013 · 8 Comments
2012 was really an awesome reading year for me. I have managed to finish 61 books (including graphic novels) which means I exceeded the number of books required for my Goodreads’ 2012 Reading Challenge. All in all, it was a very great reading year. But, of course, some books are better than others and this … Continue reading →
Filed under A Year in Reading, Books · Tagged with A Single Man, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Autumn of the Patriarch, Best Reads of 2012, Books, Chess, Christopher Isherwood, Chuck Palahniuk, Clandestine in Chile, Cloud Atlas, Cormac McCarthy, David Mitchell, Death in the Andes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haunted, History of Love, Ilustrado, In Cold Blood, Inherent Vice, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, John Steinbeck, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kenzaburo Oe, Kurt Vonnegut, Leaf Storm and Other Stories, Man in the Dark, Margaret Edson, Mario Vargas Llosa, Michael Chabon, Middlesex, Miguel Syjuco, Nick Joaquin, Nicole Krauss, Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids, No Country for Old Men, Of Mice and Men, Paul Auster, Remains of the Day, Reportage on Lovers, Slaughterhouse Five, Stefan Zweig, The Yiddish Policmen's Union, Thomas Pynchon, Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Truman Capote, Wit
Posted by bennardfajardo on November 23, 2012 · 9 Comments
I present to you, dear reader, my birthday month haul for the year. In The Country of Last Things by Paul Auster – I have been a fan of Paul Auster’s essays, short stories, and his novella, Man in the Dark. Although I have not yet read another full-length work from him since I always feel compelled to … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Blood Meridian, Book Love, Book Lust, Books, Cormac McCarthy, DBC Pierre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, In The Country of Last Things, Jose Saramago, Kazuo Ishiguro, Les Miserables, Michael Chabon, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ned Beauman, Never Let Me Go, No One Writes To The Colonel and Other Stories, Pablo Neruda, Paul Auster, Selected Poems, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Cave, The Teleportation Accident, Vernon God Little, Victor Hugo. The Master and Margarita
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 