Outlaws by Javier Cercas

Gerona Ignacio Canas is sixteen year old and at a loss. He is bullied at school and can't tell his family about it. Enter Zarco and Tere, both from the wrong side of the fence, and take over his life. Soon Canas is involved in purse-snatching, car-jacking, robbery and other petty and not-so-petty crimes. Till …

Throwback Thursday: Remembering Marquez and His Chronicle

Throwback Thursday is a new meme @ Peggy Ann's Post  in which one shares 'old stuff': books, pictures, movies, T.V. shows. Lovely concept, isn't it?I have just heard the news that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is no more and so I thought that it'd be fitting to look  back at the first book that I read …

Review: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I had never heard of the title or the author, but I didn't care. The decision had been taken. I took the book down with great care and leafed through the pages, letting them flutter.What to do when books that are virtually unputdownable finally end on a false note? It happened with Sarah Waters' The …

Tuesday Memes

It's Tuesday Where Are You is a weekly meme hosted by an adventure in reading, where participants tell their location as regards their reading.Well, I am in Barcelona right now in pursuit of a mysterious author, involved in a search that is becoming increasingly sinister.Tuesday Intros is a meme that I've recently discovered. Hosted by …

Death of a Detective: Pablo De Santis’ The Paris Enigma

Books always contain secrets. We leave things between their pages and forget about them: lottery tickets, newspaper clippings, a postcard we've just received. But there are also flowers, leaves that attracted us with their shapes, or insects trapped in a paragraph's snare.Renato Craig, the famous detective of Buenos Aires, and one amongst the elite group …

Spanish Literature Month: July 2012

Last Year, one of the events that I enjoyed immensely was the German Literature Month, hosted by Caroline and Lizzie. This year, even as I wait for that event to be announced, I am signing-up for the Spanish Literature Month, co-hosted by Richard [http://caravanaderecuerdos.blogspot.in/2012/05/spanish-lit-month-july-2012.html] and Stu [http://winstonsdad.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/spanish-language-lit-month-july-2012/] . The idea is to read texts (or even a single text) from the …