Posted by bennardfajardo on March 7, 2014 · 2 Comments
I absolutely have not one iota of restraint in my body. Again and again, I have said that I shall whittle down my book purchases for propriety’s sake (and because my TBR is already at a point where it’s threatening to bury me). However, good books abound and they are waiting for me to find … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Book Love, Books, Cooking and Stealing: The Tin House Non-Fiction Reader, George Packer, Ignorance, Invitation to a Beheading, Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, The Assassin's Gate, The Book of Imaginary Beings, Tin House, Vladimir Nabokov
Posted by bennardfajardo on December 30, 2013 · 7 Comments
This is probably my last post for this year (unless the blogging gods send their blessings) and my 80th overall. A nice round number would be a nice way to end this year in blogging (although a nice round number + 1 would be arguably better). Anyway, 2013 is almost at an end and sometimes … Continue reading →
Filed under A Year in Reading, Books · Tagged with A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, A Year In Reading, Alexander Pushkin, Alice Munro, Allen Ginsberg, Any Human Heart, Bill Willingham, Books, Chew, Dance of the Happy Shades, Dangerous Laughter, David Foster Wallace, David Mitchell, Elmer, F. Scott, Fables, Fatal Eggs, George Saunders, Gerry Alanguilan, Ghostwritten, Graham Greene, Guy Gavriel Kay, Howl and Other Poems, Hunger, Jason, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jessica Hagedorn, John Layman, John Williams, Jonathan Lethem, Jorge Luis Borges, Journey into the Past, Julian Barnes, Knut Hamsun, Labyrinths, Lolita, Lysley Tenorio, Manila Noir, Max Brooks, May Day, Michael Chabon, Mikhail Bulgakov, Milan Kundera, Monstress, Motherless Brooklyn, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro, Neil Gaiman, Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents The Art of The Short Story, Pablo Neruda, Pastoralia, Paul Auster, Porcupine, Raymond Carver, Sandman, Short Cuts, Stefan Zweig, Steven Millhauser, Stoner, Tales of Belkin, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The End of the Affair, The Master and Margarita, The New York Trilogy, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Virgin Suicides, This is Water, Tigana, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair, Vladimir Nabokov, Who Do You Think You Are?, William Boyd, World War Z, Yiyun Li
Posted by bennardfajardo on July 1, 2013 · 8 Comments
I have been going into a blogging rut lately because of various disturbances in my life (rewatching sitcoms, for example) that I felt that I should at least post a short feature to hopefully restart my article production especially reviews and whatnot. Yes, baby steps first. Anyway, I just remembered that we are already halfway … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Hooliganism · Tagged with Alice Munro, Any Human Heart, Books, Dance of the Happy Shades, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Hooliganism, Hunger, Jeffrey Eugenides, Knut Hamsun, Michael Chabon, Mikhail Bulgakov, Milan Kundera, Pablo Neruda, Paul Auster, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The End of the Affair, The Great Gatsby, The Master and Margarita, The New York Trilogy, The Queue, The Virgin Suicides, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Vladimir Sorokin, William Boyd
Posted by bennardfajardo on May 4, 2013 · 12 Comments
May is here and, okay, I know I haven’t been active in blogging lately but I wouldn’t miss this monthly feature for the world so I will set aside a few minutes of my time to present my reading list for the month of May. But before we proceed, let us not forget the rundown … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Atonement, Books, David Mitchell, Denis Johnson, Donald Barthelme, Elmer, Essential Reading, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gerry Alanguilan, Ghostwritten, Goodreads - The Filipino Group, Hunger, Ian McEwan, James Salter, Javier Marias, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jesus' Son, Knut Hamsun, Last Night, Lolita, Milan Kundera, Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents The Art of The Short Story, Raymond Carver, Shortcuts, Sixty Stories, The Great Gatsby, The Paris Review, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Virgin Suicides, There is a Balm in Gilead: Our Memories of Hope, Vladimir Nabokov, When I Was Mortal
Posted by bennardfajardo on April 5, 2013 · 7 Comments
March was an awesome reading month for me. Mostly because I was itching to try Russian authors for quite some time now and also because all of the books that I finished on March were rated with 4 stars or above. Here are the books that I read (or finished reading) last month: Labyrinths by Jorge … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Books, David Mitchell, Essential Reading, Ghostwritten, Hunger, Jeffrey Eugenides, Knut Hamsun, Milan Kundera, Object Lessons: The Art of the Short Story, The Paris Review, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Virgin Suicides
Posted by bennardfajardo on March 3, 2013 · 4 Comments
January has come and go. With that, I present to you my book acquisitions for the month of January: Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (Tent Bookstore, UP Diliman) – After Rhena got me Forty Stories, which is also by Donald Barthelme, I went back to the Tent Bookstore three days after I received the gift. To my surprise, Sixty … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Book Lust, Books, Donald Barthelme, Jeffrey Eugenides, Lolita, Milan Kundera, Sixty Stories, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Book of Other People, The Virgin Suicides, Vladimir Nabokov, Zadie Smith
Posted by bennardfajardo on January 15, 2013 · 7 Comments
“New year, new books” is now my favorite saying every New Year even if I just made it out of thin air to suit my book hoarding purposes. Anyway, I was doing fine with my new year’s resolution of limiting myself from hoarding books until I visited NBS, Fullybooked, and Booksale. To be fair, some … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Question of Heroes, Alain de Botton, Auggie Wren's Christmas Story, Book Love, Book Lust, Books, David Mitchell, Fairy Tale Fail, Ghostwritten, Hunger, Knut Hamsun, Man Walks Into A Room, Milan Kundera, Mina V. Esguerra, Nick Joaquin, Nicole Krauss, On Love, Paul Auster, Sandra Cisneros, Siri Hustvedt, The Believers, The House on Mango Street, The Summer Without Men, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Zoe Heller
The Book Hooligan 