Posted by bennardfajardo on October 4, 2014 · 4 Comments
It’s a wonder that September flew by without me noticing. At the start of September, I was almost sure that I was going to finish the books that I lined up for September only to end the month with finishing just two, the shortest ones at that. However, I did end up reading two other … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Books, Donald Antrim, Essential Reading, Exercises in Style, Graham Greene, Peter Handke, Raymond Queneau, Sjon, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The Tenth Man, The Verificationist, The Whispering Muse
Posted by bennardfajardo on August 26, 2014 · 4 Comments
How does one start a post like BOOKLOVE when you’ve done it a dozen times? It’s quite hard to begin writing these posts but one must just trudge through it, I suppose. I’ve been hoarding books from New Directions Publishing lately because (1) they publish interesting books and (2) it is quite hard to get … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Streetcar Named Desire, Book Love, Books, Curzio Malaparte, Djuna Barnes, Exercises in Style, Felisberto Hernandez, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nightwood, Raymond Queneau, Sjon, Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, The Skin, The Whispering Muse, Two Crocodiles