Posted by bennardfajardo on October 14, 2014 · 6 Comments
I’m feeling a little bit book giddy today, generally happy about the state of literature and about the large number of books that I have yet to read so I’ve decided to write, sooner that I would have, about the books that I got last month. September was a bit crazy overall because there was a … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Very Easy Death, Adrian Tomine, Anton Chekhov, Art and Litearture, Art Spiegelman, Bellefleur, Betrayal, Book Love, Books, Brian K. Vaughn, Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas, Christopher Hitchens, Dancing Bear, David Mitchell, Donald Antrim, Ezra Pound, Fiona Staples, Graham Greene, Harold Bloom, Harold Pinter, High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006, Ian McEwan, Italo Calvino, James Crumley, Jeanette Winterson, Joseph Brodsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Less Than One: Selected Essays, Living Thinking Looking, Marcel Proust, Marjane Satrapi, Maus, Mr. Palomar, No One Left to Lie To, Persepolis, Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati, Saga: Volume 1, Saturday, Seven Short Novels, Simone de Beauvoir, Siri Hustvedt, Summer Blonde, The Bone Clocks, The Emerald Light in the Air, The Hundred Brothers, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, The Tenth Man, The Verificationist, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, William H. Gass, Written on the Body
Posted by bennardfajardo on September 2, 2014 · 6 Comments
My mother came into the house one day, a smile on her face and a newspaper in her hand, walked right up to me, opened the paper right in front of me, and shoved the paper into my face. “The 2014 Library of Congress Book Festival” it said and nothing else except the date and … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love · Tagged with A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction, Billy Collins, Book Love, Books, Claire Messud, EL Doctorow, Library of Congress National Book Festival, Paul Auster, Ragtime, Roberto Bolaño, Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World, The Trouble with Poetry, The Woman Upstairs, Valerie Miles, Winter Journal
Posted by bennardfajardo on February 1, 2014 · 6 Comments
The fruitful start to my reading year, January, has now ended and the second month of the year greets us with so much promise. The year, reading-wise, started slowly and I actually feared that I lost interest in reading but, thankfully, the three books that I read (and, in one case, is still reading) at … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Books, Essential Reading, Margaret Atwood, Marivi Soliven, Nikki Alfar, Now Then and Elsewhen, Raymond Carver, Siri Hustvedt, The Blind Assassin, The Mango Bride, The Summer Without Men, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Posted by bennardfajardo on January 15, 2013 · 7 Comments
“New year, new books” is now my favorite saying every New Year even if I just made it out of thin air to suit my book hoarding purposes. Anyway, I was doing fine with my new year’s resolution of limiting myself from hoarding books until I visited NBS, Fullybooked, and Booksale. To be fair, some … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Question of Heroes, Alain de Botton, Auggie Wren's Christmas Story, Book Love, Book Lust, Books, David Mitchell, Fairy Tale Fail, Ghostwritten, Hunger, Knut Hamsun, Man Walks Into A Room, Milan Kundera, Mina V. Esguerra, Nick Joaquin, Nicole Krauss, On Love, Paul Auster, Sandra Cisneros, Siri Hustvedt, The Believers, The House on Mango Street, The Summer Without Men, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Zoe Heller
The Book Hooligan 