Really, I’m in no hurry – Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
It’s been a while since I last read a book with both caution and urgency. It’s weird, I know, but having experienced the beautiful prose of…
Read articleThis is open to a lot of interpretations – Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett
Really, I do not know what to make out of this. A tragicomedy in two acts, the book cover says. A paradox, if you ask me,…
Read articleTranslating the thoughts about the killings – 2666 Diaries, IV
The Part about the Crimes Yes, this time, I took my time to translate my buddy’s thoughts from Filipino or Taglish to English. Quite an effort…
Read articleSnoopy reads this, one word a day – War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
How can I possibly write something about this ginormous book that stands proud against the motley crew of my random books of mass markets, hardbounds, and…
Read articleAnd then there were two – 2666 Diaries, III
I don’t know what happened to our other buddies, but I’m glad that The Misanthropologist, yes, our still unnamed, elusive, not-so-anonymous friend, is still on. Who,…
Read articleNow Serving – Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Before I set out to read Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, which I postponed for almost half the year, I prepared one of my favorite desserts, strawberries…
Read articleAnd the Oscar goes to…
The awards season is on, and it is only at this time of the year that I really watch movies. Totally irrelevant, I know, since this…
Read articleAt least half of this book is comprehensible – Possession by A. S. Byatt
Unless you have a doctorate in literature or you are a Victorian poet. Maybe some creative writing majors can fully understand the novel, every page of…
Read articleYou have until tomorrow
To what? To submit your entries for the Happy Bloggy Birthday Book and Gift Cheque Giveaway! Lest you misunderstand, there are participants, yes, so this is…
Read articleThe Unlucky Books
Not all of them. But yes, three of them were purchased last January 13. Friday. Friday the 13th. Does that ring a bell? It does! Come and…
Read articleHey guys, where are you? – 2666 Diaries, II
The Part about Amalfitano Whoops! This is a bit delayed for a part that’s not even over a hundred pages. You have to understand though that…
Read articleYou do not memorize the family tree – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
You can, if you want to. Most editions have a family tree, or even all editions, maybe. But it doesn’t matter, or rather there’s no need…
Read articleWill they screw each other? – 2666 Diaries, I
The Part about the Critics Yes. It’s literally a diary. Wait. I’d rather call it a reading journal. It’s one of the things I resolved to…
Read articleThe Last of Last Year, the First of This Year
I was becoming pretty desperate for the past few days because I haven’t been able to buy any book. I am not one of those people…
Read articleHappy Bloggy Birthday
Or Happy Bloggiversary. Or is it Bloggaversary? Either way, it sounds bad, so I’ll stick with Happy Birthday. But really, today is not BR’s birthday. If…
Read articleAngus is a Celtic god, and if I were him, I might want to be Norse – Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Of course, Edith Hamilton did not write the Greek, Roman, and Norse mythologies. It’s appropriate to say that this book is her retelling of these mythologies,…
Read articleThe Noble Nobel Project
The Nobel Prize in Literature is the highest award that a writer may aspire in his lifetime. Unlike the Pulitzers, the Bookers, and others, this is…
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