Posted by bennardfajardo on April 12, 2016 · 3 Comments
The long cold nights of winter have now passed as we usher in April and spring. There is a revitalizing spirit in the air that makes me want to read more books than I could handle. I find myself every now and then looking at my library and dreaming of reading many of my books … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Andre Aciman, Book Love, Books, Call Me By Your Name, Edna O'Brien, Essential Reading, H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Lovers on All Saint's Day, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, The Little Red Chairs
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 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 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 February 1, 2014 · 6 Comments
The fruitful start to my reading year, January, has now ended and the second month of the year greets us with so much promise. The year, reading-wise, started slowly and I actually feared that I lost interest in reading but, thankfully, the three books that I read (and, in one case, is still reading) at … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Books, Essential Reading, Margaret Atwood, Marivi Soliven, Nikki Alfar, Now Then and Elsewhen, Raymond Carver, Siri Hustvedt, The Blind Assassin, The Mango Bride, The Summer Without Men, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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 