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
Posted by bennardfajardo on April 3, 2014 · 6 Comments
April is now here which means that the days of summer of reading is finally upon us. I don’t know what it is about the summer but it sure does make reading greater than it already is or maybe it’s just me? Anyway, before I go into the beginnings of my summer reading list, let … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Books, Civilwarland in Bad Decline, Dancing Girls, Day of the Oprichnik, Denis Johnson, Essential Reading, George Saunders, If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino, Like Life, Lorrie Moore, Margaret Atwood, Nobody Move, Vladimir Sorokin
Posted by bennardfajardo on September 25, 2013 · 6 Comments
Okay, I think I have neglected my blog a little bit (maybe a whole darn lot) and it’s gnawing up on me now. I really would want to churn out regular posts about my reading life but life just gets in the way. Of course, I will say that this post will change everything and … Continue reading →
Filed under Book Love, Books · Tagged with A Heart So White, A Schoolboy's Diary, Alfred Yuson, America Is In The Heart, Book Love, Books, Carlos Bulosan, Cave and Shadows, Civilwarland in Bad Decline, Clandestine in Chile, Day of the Oprichnik, F. Sionil Jose, Fatelessness, Francis Wyndham, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Saunders, If a Filipino Writer Reads Don Quijote, Imre Kertesz, Javier Marias, John Cheever, Khavn, Mavis Gallant, Nick Joaquin, Paris Stories, Robert Walser, The Complete Fiction, The Road, The Wapshot Chronicle, Ultraviolins, Vasily Grossman, Vicente G. Goryon, Vladimir Sorokin
Posted by bennardfajardo on July 1, 2013 · 8 Comments
I have been going into a blogging rut lately because of various disturbances in my life (rewatching sitcoms, for example) that I felt that I should at least post a short feature to hopefully restart my article production especially reviews and whatnot. Yes, baby steps first. Anyway, I just remembered that we are already halfway … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Hooliganism · Tagged with Alice Munro, Any Human Heart, Books, Dance of the Happy Shades, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Hooliganism, Hunger, Jeffrey Eugenides, Knut Hamsun, Michael Chabon, Mikhail Bulgakov, Milan Kundera, Pablo Neruda, Paul Auster, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The End of the Affair, The Great Gatsby, The Master and Margarita, The New York Trilogy, The Queue, The Virgin Suicides, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Vladimir Sorokin, William Boyd
Posted by bennardfajardo on March 4, 2013 · 8 Comments
So the love themed reading month of February is done with. In the realm of fiction, hearts were broken; dreams were shattered; love was lost then found; and everything in between. In the real world, we move on to other books. But first, a rundown of my reading month that was February: Journey into the … Continue reading →
Filed under Books, Reading List · Tagged with Alexander Pushkin, Alien Hearts, Angelo R. Lacuesta, David Foster Wallace, Dead Souls, Fourteen Love Stories, Graham Greene, Guy de Maupassant, Jose Dalisay Jr., Journey into the Past, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Gogol, Pablo Neruda, Stefan Zweig, Tales of Belkin, The End of the Affair, The Master and Margarita, The Queue, This is Water, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair, Vladimir Sorokin, We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Book Hooligan 