Posted by bennardfajardo on February 12, 2014 · 8 Comments
I’m not really an avid reader of poetry and my expertise in the genre is minimal at best. However, I do appreciate well-written poems that I read every now and then. I remember that the first poem that I really liked, that had a profound effect on me, was Allen Ginsberg’s Howl which I read during an … Continue reading →
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 March 31, 2013 · 2 Comments
Here I love you. In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself. The moon glows like phosphorous on the vagrant waters. Days, all one kind, go chasing each other. -Pablo Neruda from “Here I Love You” When I was in high school, a local radio station from … Continue reading →
Posted by bennardfajardo on March 4, 2013 · 8 Comments
So the love themed reading month of February is done with. In the realm of fiction, hearts were broken; dreams were shattered; love was lost then found; and everything in between. In the real world, we move on to other books. But first, a rundown of my reading month that was February: Journey into the … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Alexander Pushkin, Alien Hearts, Angelo R. Lacuesta, David Foster Wallace, Dead Souls, Fourteen Love Stories, Graham Greene, Guy de Maupassant, Jose Dalisay Jr., Journey into the Past, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Gogol, Pablo Neruda, Stefan Zweig, Tales of Belkin, The End of the Affair, The Master and Margarita, The Queue, This is Water, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair, Vladimir Sorokin, We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
Posted by bennardfajardo on February 3, 2013 · 8 Comments
This month’s theme, which is books about love, may be very predictable (owing to the fact that it’s Valentine’s month) but I still wanted to do it. Love is a universal subject and it is something that I like reading about (to be fair, I like reading about anything as long as it is well-written). … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Alien Hearts, Books, Dalisay and Lacuesta, Essential Reading, Fourteen Love Stories, Graham Greene, Guy de Maupassant, Jeffrey Eugenides, Journey into the Past, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro, Pablo Neruda, Stefan Zweig, The End of the Affair, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair
Posted by bennardfajardo on November 23, 2012 · 9 Comments
I present to you, dear reader, my birthday month haul for the year. In The Country of Last Things by Paul Auster – I have been a fan of Paul Auster’s essays, short stories, and his novella, Man in the Dark. Although I have not yet read another full-length work from him since I always feel compelled to … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Blood Meridian, Book Love, Book Lust, Books, Cormac McCarthy, DBC Pierre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, In The Country of Last Things, Jose Saramago, Kazuo Ishiguro, Les Miserables, Michael Chabon, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ned Beauman, Never Let Me Go, No One Writes To The Colonel and Other Stories, Pablo Neruda, Paul Auster, Selected Poems, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Cave, The Teleportation Accident, Vernon God Little, Victor Hugo. The Master and Margarita
The Book Hooligan 