When I can finally submerge my head in reading after teleworking, acting as a Primary teacher, cook-pastry chef and whatever else is needed at home, I always manage to disconnect and escape to other worlds, to other realities, without leaving home. It is as much a rest for me as eating or sleeping. If reading is also essential for you, I'll tell you which novels have helped me make time go by faster, and not think so much about the situation that we have to live …
When I can finally submerge my head in reading after teleworking, acting as a Primary teacher, cook-pastry chef and whatever else is needed at home, I always manage to disconnect and escape to other worlds, to other realities, without leaving home. It is as much a rest for me as eating or sleeping. If reading is also essential for you, I'll tell you which novels have helped me make time go by faster, and not think so much about the situation that we have to live …
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€ 19.95The secrets we keep from Lara Prescott
It's the one I was reading when this started … And I think that thanks to this book by Lara Prescott, the first days of confinement seemed very short because I literally devoured her. It is a novel about a novel, Dr. Zhivago , and how Boris Pasternak's work impacted the cold war. And it does so from both sides of the conflict, from the CIA headquarters and from the USSR, showing the two worlds facing each other through famous people but also unknown people. It is a story of spies, a story of love (of love), a story of resistance, of friendship, of female empowerment … It has it all. I have recommended it to a very reading friend and it lasted the same as me, nothing and less …
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€ 18.90Progeny of Susana Martín Gijón
Camino Vargas is the accidental head of the Seville Homicide Group. Very good police officer, but a complex person who does not always know how to manage her emotions well. That is why, because of her weaknesses, I have "fallen in love" with her and the group of agents she works with. It is like having found a small family there in Seville (which I hope its author, Susana Martín Gijón, will make them live new adventures). Ah, the plot, sorry, I forgot to tell you that Vargas and his team have to investigate what at first looks like a traffic accident, which later turns out to be a murder and this is multiplied by three …
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€ 18.90Docile by Aro Sáinz de la Maza
This writer has created such a solid character that he seems to be alive. It's the third novel I've read starring Milo Malart, and I'm still fascinated by him. He is an intuitive policeman, always afraid of being on the verge of losing his mind, an anarchist in the broadest sense, afraid of weaving deep emotional ties and, at the same time, it is impossible for him not to establish them. But going to the point of this third novel, the case begins when a boy covered in blood shows up at the police station stammering: "They are all dead", only to faint when he finished speaking. When he regains consciousness, he falls into stubborn silence. Who are dead? Has he killed them? Is he the only survivor? Trust us, these questions will torment you as much as Malart and you won't be able to answer them all until the last page …
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€ 18.90The sky of your days by Greta Alonso
Let me tell you that I have mixed feelings about this book by Greta Alonso. I've literally eaten it. Come on, I've turned off the light at night to get to the end but … despite how absorbing the story, how much I liked the relationship between the two protagonists, the end seemed too much movie maker. But I can't stop recommending it because if what you want is a novel that engages, this is a hard drug. It all begins with an envelope with a lock of hair inside that makes the "Alicia case" reopen, the death of a 17-year-old girl … I'm just telling you one thing, nothing and nobody is what they seem.
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€ 17A perfect tale by Elísabet Benavent
Elísabet Benavent always makes me have a good time and with A Perfect Story it has happened again. Although none of her novels exceed levels of addiction in the trilogy of Alba, Hugo and Nico, My Choice, which is my favorite even ahead of Valeria's series, this new novel demonstrates the author's ability to create characters of meat and bone. And to make up love stories. This story begins as Runaway Bride and ends as you want it to end and in between you will suffer, love and dream of Margot and David.
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€ 21.75Everybody Wants Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones
Daisy Jones has never existed, nor has the group The Six, however, it will seem to you that they are more real than the people you greet on the balcony at 8 in the afternoon. And it is that Taylor Jenkins Reid has managed to braid a fascinating novel, written as if it were a false biography of a legendary rock group from the 70s, in which he perfectly recreates the musical environment of the moment, his experiences with drugs, his disagreements … Some say Jenkins Reid was inspired by the actual Fleetwood Mac group for his book, but if you don't know them (I didn't know them), you won't miss it either, because Daisy, Billi, Karen. Camilla, Graham and the others have a life of their own within its pages. A fascinating read and another one of the books that I have recommended the most.
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€ 19.95Calypso by David Sedaris
I had no idea what I was holding, but Raül from Blackie Books told me I couldn't miss it. I only knew that it had been written by a humorist, David Sedaris, of whom, I confess, I had not heard of. It's the one I'm reading right now and I'm loving it. Sedaris has written a kind of messy autobiography based on small anecdotes and experiences, sometimes hilarious and sometimes tremendously emotional. He has the ability to de-dramatize terrible moments in his life or to focus on things so minimal that surely they would not be in the autobiography of any other character. I can only tell you that the use of an activity bracelet will always be linked to Sedaris for me and will always make me smile …
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€ 17.10Katharine McGee's American Royals
I really want to read it. It is one of RBA's great bets this season and Júlia Tardà, from the publisher, has told us so well about it that Laura Pérez Llorca, CLARA's web director, and I myself already have it on the trigger to be our next reading. Katharine McGee, author of the best-selling trilogy The Thousand Floor, takes imagination and describes the United States as a monarchy. The heir to this supposed throne is a woman, Princess Beatriz, who is lurked by betrayal and intrigue … Only this already tempts me to be the first of the pile of books that I have to read, but it is that, also, according to Tardà, if you are a fan of The Crown and / or Gossip Girl,You can't miss it … (And I'm not going to confess which are my favorite series, but I have given you some clue …).
