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Who out there loves to read? I think we need to start a book report site where we tell what we just read along with a brief description of the book and if you recommend it, etc.

I will go first:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I just finished this book of fiction that takes place in Barcelona, Spain and the main character starts out as a young boy who is taken to a place called “The Cemetery of Forgotten Books.” He takes one book and is to be responsible for it all his life. The book follows this boy in his quest to find out all he can about the author of the book. It takes him until his young adult years to unravel the author’s story. Most of the book takes place in the post Spanish Civil War years. I would give it an “R” rating due to violence and some sexuality, but the book is well worth reading.

I read a lot of books on audio due to vision problems and this book is particularly good on audio.
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The Lord only knows what I let one of my figners touch! LOL When I so rudely interrupeted myself, I was walking down the Ramblas in Barcelona in my nostalgia. I , as I said once spent four days there and can visualize the area. Is the book a paperback? Where did you buy it - or did you borrow it from the library. Please let me know. Thanks. Also please PM me as I have not been able to send a PM for over a week. I need to see if I can receive one before I contact the moderator. Thanks, again.
Hi Earthmomma, I will pm you, but I wanted others who might be interested in knowing that most of the story takes place in Barcelona with only a small jaunt over to Paris. The author's website has a Barcelona map and you can click on links to see on the map where the main locations of the book take place. The author’s website (in English) ishttp://www.df.lth.se/~jokke/sombra/. Wikipedia has a decent review of the book.

I originally got the book from my library (I don’t live in the Shoals anymore), but the print was too small, so I used one of my credits on www.audible.com and downloaded the book to my Ipod. I try to download as many books as possible from the library, but my library did not have this one on audio. It may be out on CD in the bookstores, too.

The reason I looked for this book and others to read was because we wanted to go to Spain, but with the dollar worth about half of the Euro, we have put that trip off.
Annehr, I loved The Glass Castle. I am a big fan of memoir. You might also enjoy Mary Karr's memoirs, The Liars' Club and Cherry, which are about her crazy childhood in Texas, and Rick's Bragg's All Over But the Shoutin', his memoir of growing up in poverty in Alabama. Another good memoir that I've read recently is If I Am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus. It's about a woman whose sister is involved in an abusive relationship. The author tried to help her sister but was involved in a abusive relationship herself.

Right now I'm reading a young adult novel, Looking for Alaska by John Green. The author attended a boarding school outside of Birmingham and based the novel on his experiences. The dialogue and characters are some of the most realistic I've seen in young adult literature, although some here might find it too racy for their teens.

I've flipped through A Boy Named It, but I haven't read the whole thing. For some reason, that book goes missing from the library more than any other except the GED preparation books.
I think with A Child Called It, one teen will read it and tell all of their friends about it, and then the teens who don't have library cards will just take the book without checking it out. Don't know why they can't just bring it back when they're done. Same with the GED books, a lot of times people who need the book don't have a library card and instead of going through the procedure to get one, they just take the book instead.

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