Posted by bennardfajardo on July 12, 2013 · 5 Comments
This month’s edition of BookLove is a little bit late since it’s already the middle of July. Still, I want to chronicle my book hoarding in this little corner of cyberspace that I occupy. June is the month when, quite by incident, I bought a stack of books written by Nobel winners and National Book … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Book Love, Books, Death With Interruptions, Disgrace, Eudora Welty, Herta Müller, In Praise of Stepmother, JM Coetzee, Jose Saramago, Kenzaburo Oe, Mario Vargas Llosa, The Appointment, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, The Silent Cry
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 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 November 26, 2012 · 13 Comments
Three nights ago, while I was browsing Bookriot (one of the websites that I frequent), I came across a feature of theirs titled Genre Kryptonite. Bookriot explains the feature in these words: GENRE KRYPTONITE is a regular feature about genres we have an inexplicable weak spot for. I clicked on one of the articles under Genre Kryptonite labeled as Dysfunctional Families (Under-the-Radar Edition) and … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Hooliganism · Tagged with A Single Man, Books, Christopher Isherwood, Cormac McCarthy, Everyman, Genre Kryptonite, Hooliganism, John Steinbeck, Kenzaburo Oe, Man in the Dark, Michael Chabon, Nicole Krauss, Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids, No Country for Old Men, Of Mice and Men, Paul Auster, Philip Roth, The Autograph Man, The History of Love, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Zadie Smith
Posted by bennardfajardo on November 8, 2012 · 6 Comments
I know that it’s already very late to be posting this but I will anyway in order to have a semblance of order in this blog and also to maintain the monthly posting of my monthly essential reading list. As it is with my essential reading list for the month, I have a theme and … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Beneath the Wheel, Books, Death in the Andes, Elfriede Jelinek, Essential Reading, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hermann Hesse, Kenzaburo Oe, Leaf Storm and Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Women as Lovers
The Book Hooligan 