Posted by bennardfajardo on June 4, 2013 · 5 Comments
I knew it. I just knew it. The moment I reveled in the amazing feeling of reading so many books last April, I conked out in May. I wouldn’t exactly say that I am in a reading rut since I still enjoy reading (or maybe I am just in denial?) but it’s just that I … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Atonement, Books, Essential Reading, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Saunders, Ian McEwan, Lolita, Lorrie Moore, Love in the Time of Cholera, Michael Chabon, Pastoralia, Self-Help, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Vladimir Nabokov
Posted by bennardfajardo on June 4, 2013 · 8 Comments
So going here to the US, in terms of bookishness, has been better than I originally thought it would be. I found books here that I had a hard time looking for in the Philippines. Of course, if this previous post is any proof, majority of my acquisitions are short story collections (50% in fact) … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with Aleksandar Hemon, Annie Dillard, Bad Behavior, Book Love, Books, C, David Remnick, George Saunders, Joan Didion, Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill, Pastoralia, Self-Help, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Teaching a Stone to Talk, The Lazarus Project, Tom McCarthy, Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker