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 October 1, 2012 · 10 Comments
For this month of October, my beloved book club will take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and I instantly thought that this would be the perfect moment to read works created by female authors. I do not know why but my list of read books is lacking in works created by women. I do not want … Continue reading →
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