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Spain and Not Plain

The Queen of the South by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

February 12, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

I’ve been slumping lately due to stress at work and have mostly been hewing to light fiction (see Daisy Darker). I didn’t expect to connect with Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s literary crime novel when cycling through what I wanted to read next but the writing hooked me from page one and away we went. This is an interesting book. It’s good, very good. I’m not sure it’s great but I don’t want to dwell on that. I’ll focus on what I liked: it’s absolutely a retelling in some […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arturo Perez-Reverte, crime, Drug War, mexico, Spain, The Queen of the South

Jake's CBR15 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arturo Perez-Reverte, crime, Drug War, mexico, Spain, The Queen of the South ·
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Amerigo!? Heck no!

The Letters of America Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Amerigo Vespucci

July 3, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Library Book Bingos exist for two reasons: 1. clearing my shelves of books that would have otherwise sat there and 2. challenging myself to learn new things. I don’t really like the second purpose. I prefer to read what I want to read and that is that. But this summer, all of my local libraries are doing Ocean themed bingos (boring!). One of them required a biography of a seafaring explorer. I knew little about Amerigo Vespucci, the man from which the word “America” likely […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: america, Amerigo Vespucci, colonization, europe, explorer, north america, south america, Spain, The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci

Jake's CBR14 Review No:117 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: america, Amerigo Vespucci, colonization, europe, explorer, north america, south america, Spain, The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci ·
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Total Football

The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making -- and Unmaking -- Of the World's Greatest Soccer Club by Simon Kuper

September 9, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR13Bingo: Travel. I’d love to go to Barcelona some day.  My first real exposure to FC Barcelona was the 2009 Champions League Final. At the type, I wasn’t seriously following European soccer. The hype of this match reached my ears. Man U was on its last legs as the nonpareil of England, Cristiano Ronaldo was just entering his prime. Meanwhile, Barca was emerging as the sport’s dominant force with stars such as Girard Pique, Andres Iniesta and the rising Lionel Messi. […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: Barcelona, cbr13bingo, Johann Cruyff, Lionel Messi, Simon Kuper, Soccer, Spain, The Barcelona Complex

Jake's CBR13 Review No:139 · Genres: Sports · Tags: Barcelona, cbr13bingo, Johann Cruyff, Lionel Messi, Simon Kuper, Soccer, Spain, The Barcelona Complex ·
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My high hopes for horror were halted

Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez

June 9, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

I read another one of Enriquez’s collections of short stories, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, earlier this year. I loved that collection so much. In my review, I called it the ‘most effective collection of short stories I [had] ever read’ and a ‘knockout’. I figured that Things We Lost in the Fire would be similar. Unfortunately that is not the case. In Things We Lost in the Fire, we have the same elements in each short story present in the collection of short stories in The Dangers […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: Argentina, body horror, collection of short stories, magical realism, Mariana Enriquez, Spain, Trigger Warnings

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: Argentina, body horror, collection of short stories, magical realism, Mariana Enriquez, Spain, Trigger Warnings ·
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The most effective collection of short stories I have ever read

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez

February 7, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is a collection of short stories by Mariana Enriquez. The stories are a mix of magical realism and outright horror. An Argentine writer, many stories take place in Argentina but a fair few also take place in Barcelona, Spain. Enriquez embues each story with a richness of their environment that make each story feel real and possible, despite the more horrific, fantastical elements. Most collections of shorts stories that I have read in my life are mostly fine. They […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: Argentina, Mariana Enriquez, Spain, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: Argentina, Mariana Enriquez, Spain, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed ·
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If you don’t understand women, don’t make one your main character.

Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

April 4, 2019 by Mrs Smith Reads Leave a Comment

Labyrinth of the Spirits is the fourth and final novel in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. It’s a fitting end to an enjoyable series, and does an admirable job of gathering up all the loose threads of the three previous books. Like The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game and The Prisoner of Heaven, Labyrinth of the Spirits tells a magical mystery story of the dark days of Franco’s Fascist Spain. It does not disappoint in the telling of the story, and I was (mostly) engrossed […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Carlos Ruiz Záfon, Cemetery of Forgotten Books, Fiction, Labyrinth of the Spirits, Spain

Mrs Smith Reads's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Carlos Ruiz Záfon, Cemetery of Forgotten Books, Fiction, Labyrinth of the Spirits, Spain ·
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