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 October 1, 2012 · 10 Comments
For this month of October, my beloved book club will take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and I instantly thought that this would be the perfect moment to read works created by female authors. I do not know why but my list of read books is lacking in works created by women. I do not want … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with A Visit from the Goon Squad, Bonjour Tristesse, Books, Elizabeth Kostova, Essential Reading, Everyman, Françoise Sagan, Inherent Vice, Irène Némirovsky, Jane Austen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Le Bal and Snow in Autumn, Michael Chabon, Middlesex, Mrs. Dalloway, Philip Roth, Pride and Prejudice, The Autograph Man, The Historian, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith
Posted by bennardfajardo on September 26, 2012 · 10 Comments
“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.” – Calliope/Cal Stephanides A vast family epic that spans three generations that takes place in the slopes of … Continue reading →
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 