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Fan + Anarchist = Awful Pun Kristel Autencio is a reader from the Philippines and this blog has her meandering thoughts on reading and literature. She has a soft spot for crime literature, real-life mysteries, and clever ways to dispose of corpses. The subject is partial to Dorothy L. Sayers and Dashiell Hammett, with a side-order of unrepentant puns.

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Fanarchist - Reading Blog · 2M ago

Book 1, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Well, here is the Mt. Everest of my bogus enterprise, the most daunting of all the doorstopper books I’ve planned to read in 2012. I know that I’ve also endeavored to read Tale of Genji and Don Quixote but there’s somehow a unique weight that comes with undertaking a Russian tome. I read the first [

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Fanarchist - Reading Blog · 2M ago

Naermyth by Karen Francisco

It’s a little weird, writing this post months after having read the book and having given my copy away, but my personal need to chronicle my reading life is compelling me, so here we go. Naermyth by Karen Francisco is a take on post-apocalyptic YA that combines the tropes of the genre with uniquely

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Fanarchist - Reading Blog · 2M ago

Literary Blog Hop: March 8-11 – Reading Style, etc.

Today is my birthday so I guess this is as good a time as any to try something new and participate in the Literary Blog Hop over at The Blue Bookcase. I’ve been following this particular Blog Hop for a while now and I’ve always been fascinated by how much individual responses reveal about the [...]

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Fanarchist - Reading Blog · 2M ago

Finishing Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

1st Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children 2nd Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children 3rd Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children I was not prepared for the way this book ends. There has been too much foreshadowing, I thought, too many narrative obstacles hurled at me by Salman Rushdie, for me to be completely floo

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Fanarchist - Reading Blog · 2M ago

End of Part 2 – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

(Credits: The quote is from Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. The poster is by Brett Thurman on Behance. Click for better image resolution) 1st Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children 2nd Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children A series of forced overtimes at work has eaten away at my reading time for the p

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Fanarchist - Reading Blog · 3M ago

300 Pages into Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Photo from Vanity Fair 1st Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children Despite the inclusion of characters who live in slums and wander the streets to make money, Salman Rushdie is chiefly chronicling the lives of the affluent Indians in Midnight’s Children. This is an important thing to note because while Sa

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Fanarchist - Reading Blog · 3M ago

The First 100 Pages – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

I have tried reading Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children three years ago and stopped within the first 200 pages of it. Although I have read The Moor’s Last Sigh beforehand, I still found myself confounded by this noisy, brash, and difficult book. This is exactly the reason why I chose to limit my r

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Fanarchist - Reading Blog · 3M ago

The Nymph of MTV by Angelo Suarez

Angelo Suarez was 19 when The Nymph of MTV first came out, the product of a young poet already comfortable with wordplay and surreality and the enviable assurance that what he has to say will be heard. His debut certainly made a splash, garnering praises from the likes of Ophelia Dimalanta (who wrot

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Fanarchist - Reading Blog · 3M ago

Finishing Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

1st Diary Entry – Wolf Hall 2nd Diary Entry – Wolf Hall There’s a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if [...]

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Fanarchist - Reading Blog · 3M ago

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

My personal assessment of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad changes each time I think back on it. Sometimes I think it’s a trifling thing, made up of airy stories that don’t really have any staying power beyond the act of reading them. Other times certain passages simply haunt me. I change

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