In truth, the only two challenges + the Spin I do, I adjust them to my reading whim and preferences, and not the other way around. For the 2025 Classics Reading Challenge, I’ve read the January and February suggestions. The March category I thought I’d like to read Giants in the Earth, by Ole Edvart […]| Silvia Cachia
Paraíso, Abdulrazak Gurnah, 3.60, 11,733 ratings, 287 páginas. Nobel Prize in 2021. Recommended by Jan, Café de Mendel, and intrigued, not so much by the Nobel Prize received by its author, as by the fact that it is a novel set in Muslim Africa on the eve of the First World War, when I saw […]| Silvia Cachia
The 40th Classic Club Spin was a lucky one for me. My list had both English and Spanish titles, and #4 was 1001 Arabian Nights, which I owe in Spanish, in this beautiful edition. After the recent passing of my mom, I’ve felt wanting to read more in Spanish, and this book is more than […]| Silvia Cachia
Unbeknownst to me, I own these three books that fit into a dear challenge or reading interesting category for this 2025, as they were published 100 years ago. I read about this challenge at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings | “Vivre le livre!”; it’s a challenge hosted by a hot cup of pleasure, and the tag for […]| Silvia Cachia
The Accompanist, by Nina Berberova, 3.53 avg rating — 1,218 ratings — published 1935 — 50 editions, is along with Desperate Characters by Paula Fox, and Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson, 3 books I’ve chosen to read because I trust the word of others, #4trust –gentle challenge category! I photographed these books in the snow, which […]| Silvia Cachia
It’s been a while since I started hearing Bolaño’s name with mixed up opinions, but it wasn’t until now that I gave him a try and chose The Insufferable Gaucho, 3.83 avg rating — …| Silvia Cachia