Posted by bennardfajardo on February 7, 2015 · 1 Comment
Well, that was quick. The first month of the year just flew by fast, fulfilling every cliche that speaks about how there is never enough time for anything. Still, I must disagree because there is always enough time for reading. As proof, here are the books that I’ve read for the month of January: The … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Books, Essential Reading, Ian McEwan, Khirbet Khizeh, La India or The Island of the Disappeared, Muriel Spark, On Chesil Beach, Rosario Cruz-Lucero, S. Yizhar, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Posted by bennardfajardo on May 3, 2014 · 4 Comments
I felt that I neglected my reading for the month of April. First, I was unable to finish If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler, our book club’s pick for April, on time. Second, I was also unable to read Margaret Atwood’s Dancing Girls and Lorrie Moore’s Still Life so my April was male-heavy and that’s something … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Books, Essential Reading, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jose Carlos Somoza, La India or The Island of the Disappeared, Renata Adler, Rosario Cruz-Lucero, Speedboat, The Athenian Murders, The Interpreter of Maladies, To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Posted by bennardfajardo on April 12, 2014 · 4 Comments
Let’s not pretend that I am good at restraining myself when it comes to books, okay? I’m probably the worst book hoarder that I know and, despite being proud about it, being the worst book hoarder that you know is not actually a good thing. For example, being buried alive under a pile of books … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with and Found Items from Around the World, Bibliolepsy, Book Love, Books, Cesare Pavese, Davy Rothbart, Geoff Dyer, Gina Apostol, Gregorio Brillantes, Junot Diaz, Kerima Polotan, La India or The Island of the Disappeared, Nick Joaquin, Requiem for a Paper Bag: Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost, Rosario Cruz-Lucero, Selected Works, Stories, The Distance to Andromeda and Other Stories, The Ice Trilogy, The Woman Who Had Two Navels, This Is How You Lose Her, Tossed, Vladimir Sorokin, Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It
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