Essential Reading: May 2016

Posted by bennardfajardo on May 20, 2016 · 1 Comment 

This post is incredibly, stupendously late. Oh well. True to TS Eliot’s words, April has been a cruel month. Well, at least it has been cruel to my reading as I have finished less than the average number of books that I usually read on a monthly basis but that’s the cynical view. Of course … Continue reading →

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Essential Reading: May 2015

Posted by bennardfajardo on May 5, 2015 · 2 Comments 

I am in the process of writing a massive post about my book buys from the first four months of 2015 in order to compensate for the lack of BOOKLOVE posts this year and it’s going to be a tough thing to write since I am essentially going to record the book acquisitions of a deranged … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Short Fiction: Short Stories about Love

Posted by bennardfajardo on February 19, 2014 · 3 Comments 

All this Valentine’s shenanigans last Friday have made me sentimental and a bit melancholic on the subject of love and all its subtleties. So, with nothing better to do, I reminisced on all the short stories I’ve read over the course of my life that tackled the complicated subject of love and I thought about … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Short Fiction: Ballard, Barthelme, and Munro

Posted by bennardfajardo on June 1, 2013 · 6 Comments 

It has become apparent lately that I now prefer short stories/fiction over novels. I have read more short fiction titles on the months of April and May than the previous year combined and I am currently reading two short story collections penned by Alice Munro and Donald Barthelme while my copies of Lolita and Atonement, books that I am … Continue reading →

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BookLove: March 2013

Posted by bennardfajardo on April 1, 2013 · 8 Comments 

I just had to change the featured image and the name for this monthly feature since the former is so clunky and messy while the latter is kind of obscene. So, as per the suggestion of Rhena, I changed the look and the name of this feature. Anyway, enough with the idle chitchat and on … Continue reading →

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Top Five Tuesdays: Short Stories

Posted by bennardfajardo on November 14, 2012 · 7 Comments 

Let me just squeak this in this post at the end of Tuesday. I noticed that I have a glaring lack of blog posts these past few weeks and I admit that it is because I am out of my groove lately but let me change that now. On today’s edition of Top Five Tuesdays, … Continue reading →

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