Where does time go? It feels like yesterday was mid May, and I told my husband that we should sell our home and move -downsize. At school, I was in the final days of the school year, and we were al…| Silvia Cachia
From my 10 titles published in 1952 original list, I started with El piano, by Carmen Laforet, unfortunately not translated, & I also added an 11th title which I read, The Palm Wine Drinkard, by Amos Tutuola, written in English by Tutuola, a Nigerian born author. Carmen Laforet’s most popular book, -this one in English, […]| Silvia Cachia
The Royal Game, Stefan Zweig, 4.27, 152,177 ratings, 12,037 reviews, 96 pages. First published September 1, 1942. This was my first, in this case, story, by Stefan Zweig, it won’t be my last. I will review them independently, and as I read the other stories, I will add them here, to this post, and republish […]| Silvia Cachia
When my dear friend Janakay suggested that we read a 19th century novel together and after contemplating several possibilities of novels we had not yet read, nothing really excited us. Personally, I was after being totally wowed. After our reading of Rachel Cusk’s essay on Wharton, in her essay collection called Coventry, and even though […]| Silvia Cachia
My last three reads have been two audiobooks: Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego, by Mariana Enriquez, 4.05 avg rating – 52,201 ratings – published 2016 – 82 editions, 200 pages, Antes de ser libres, by Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author), Liliana Valenzuela (Goodreads Author) (Translator), 3.90 avg rating – 9,048 ratings – published 2002 […]| Silvia Cachia
Dear fellow readers, I’ve been looking at your Reading Ireland, Reading Wales, the magic writings of Diana Wynne Jones, and more, and I have not been able to join at all due to not being that steep into English written books, and more into Latin-American, European, Spanish, and broader titles when it comes to English. […]| Silvia Cachia
I found this book, Inception, Anna Bates, 5.00, 2 ratings, 0 reviews, at a Thrift Store for only $1.92. It’s beautiful, very inspiring! It doesn’t have a lot of text, though a few of the entries are a few pages long. In average they are a few sentences or a paragraph. Text on one side, […]| Silvia Cachia
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, by David Foster Wallace, 4.14, 51,569 ratings, 4,196 reviews. 353 pages, Paperback, First published January 1, 1996. Looking at the reviews for the full book of essays, granted that I borrowed it from the digital library, I decided to just read the one about […]| Silvia Cachia
After reading The Vegetarian, I received notice that Greek Lessons by Han Kang, was available on my loan and reading system on Kindle, as well as A Girl’s Story by Ernaux, the first in Spanish and the second in English. Being almost the same length, I thought of reading them alternately, 5% of one, 5% […]| Silvia Cachia
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
Despite of owning Voices in the Evening, I decided to choose Family and Borghesia as my first title by the ever present lately in the blogs I read, Natalia Ginzburg. Family and Borghesiaby Natalia Ginzburg, Beryl Stockman (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 793 ratings — published 1977, 120 pages. Very similar to my previously reviewed book, this short book has […]| Silvia Cachia
I have had this book for many years, I bought it after having read my only other book by Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward, a novel with 576 pages, in contrast with the mere 140 of this book, that contains two stories averaging half of the book each. We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novelsby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Paul W. […]| Silvia Cachia
I can safely say that 2025 is my comeback reading year. It’s mid-February and I have read/listened/reviewed these books: I do understand that listening is not the same as reading. Listening to a book and listing it as read, leaves me with a bit of an impostor feel. I wanted to come clean and state […]| Silvia Cachia
The Classics Club hosts a challenge called the classics spin, #ccspin, where we pick 20 unread classic titles from our Classics Club lists, publish them by their deadline, after which they’ll draw a number, and that number on our list it’s the title we will attempt to read by their deadline, where we’ll all present […]| 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
Elena Ferrante’s famous quartet consists of these four books: My Brilliant Friend, 4.05 avg rating — 399,544 ratings — published 2011 — 252 editions The Story of a New Name, 4.45 avg rating — 206,718 ratings — published 2012 — 195 editions Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, 4.35 avg rating — 170,643 ratings […]| 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
It’s so well known, -at least in our neck of the woods, lol-, that The Classics Club in conjunction with many other bloggers, is celebrating #ReadingAusten25, and, because we are insatiable, …| Silvia Cachia
