Category: Literature
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Shadowing Carlos Ruiz Zafón And His Own, Everlasting Shadow
Read more: Shadowing Carlos Ruiz Zafón And His Own, Everlasting Shadow“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.” This first line of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s novel The Shadow of the Wind still echoes in my mind, haunting my dreams while also reminding me of my own humble beginnings; just as the protagonist’s, Daniel Sempere’s…
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The Dreaded 30
Read more: The Dreaded 30It is impossible to pass through life in a university without hearing someone complain about aging. Almost every time someone announces their birthday it comes with a sigh and a disenchanted remark about the passage of time. Judging by the students’ expressions and words, you would think they had just been at a syndicated American…
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The grimm side of fairytales
Read more: The grimm side of fairytalesWhen hearing the phrase “once upon a time…” most of us already know that we are about to be told a fairytale. I don’t have any statistical facts on this, but I can say with a fair amount of confidence that most children love fairytales. Maybe it’s because of the desire that humans have…
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Warriors: Coming of age through cats
Read more: Warriors: Coming of age through catsI get a variety of reactions when I tell people that the series I read throughout my childhood and early teens was one about cats. What’s so great about cats? How can you read book after book, thousands of pages about cats? What can the writer possibly still write about? I too wondered that…
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The Disappearance of the Hatchet Job
Read more: The Disappearance of the Hatchet JobIn 2012, review aggregator website The Omnivore launched the Hatchet Job of the Year award, given to the “the writer of the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review” of the last year in Britain. The prize was a year’s worth of potted shrimp donated by The Fish Society. By now defunct, the award was only…
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