Posted by bennardfajardo on July 31, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Here’s the thing about Maryland and my situation here right now. We live pretty close to a store that sell second-hand books and I usually come over once a week. Here’s the problem, they sell books on the cheap and, on certain days, they put the books on sale or they have this absurd promo … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Book Love, Books, John Green, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary McCarthy, Philip Lopate, Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates, Shannon Ravenel, The Best American Short Stories of the Century, The Best American Short Stories of The Eighties, The Fault in Our Stars, The Groves of Academe, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, Tobias Woolf, Writing New York: A Literary Anthology
Posted by bennardfajardo on October 4, 2013 · 2 Comments
September flew by so fast and here we are again. October is here and it means new lists to create and new books to read. Last month was a novella-reading month + Lolita and it was a great month in which I read of the works of authors that I have read before and those that I … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Books, Essential Reading, Guy Gavriel Kay, Irène Némirovsky, Mary McCarthy, Shirley Jackson, The Courilof Affair, The Oasis, Tigana, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Yiyun Li