Your review made me smile because I had very similar apprehensions of the title. It took me a while to give it a shot because I was expecting something completely trashy. Once I did read it (in 2006 I think), I absolutely loved it and it's actually a book I recommend a lot now, especially to other women who aren't big readers but ask me for tips. It usually gets them hooked :)!
Borgen sounds great! I loved The West Wing, so I have a feeling that I might really like Borgen, especially because I'm European and it just sounds great to have a show set in the European political context. Plus, a female prime minister and a female reporter? Yay for gender equality! Thank you so much for the hint!
Happy Blog Anniversary! I'd pick "Leaving the Atocha Station", I loved your review of it! It sounds fascinating and I don't think I would have ever come across it if it hadn't been for your blog.
I'm so glad you enjoyed this book. It's one of my favourite novels ever and I recommend it all the time. In fact, I think it may be time for a re-read... You're totally right about the good feeling you get at the end. It makes me warm and fuzzy inside every time.
I love reading these Sunday Salon posts, they're always so thoughtful! As for me, I can see where you're coming from when you say you tried to write your reviews from a "scholarly" point of view. I have a degree in Spanish and part of the reason I started my own blog was that after two years out of undergrad and into a PhD on something completely literature-unrelated, I was missing the more in-depth analyses of books I did while studying. I've realised since then that book blogging is considerably different from writing literature papers though - but I love it nevertheless ;) !
That is too cool!! I totally understand you for forgetting your questions though - the same thing would have happened to me I bet! My favourite book of hers is The Handmaid's Tale. I love that book.
I took the opportunity to introduce a whole new feature: My "Swiss Army" Top 10 of book recommendations for the (perhaps not so) bookish - I'd been planning to do this for a while but just hadn't gotten around to it yet. Thanks for providing the occasion :)
That sounds like a tough one! The most difficult one... I'm not sure actually. I definitely found Don Quixote extremely difficult, but to be honest that was mostly a language problem and once I'd gotten used to Golden Age Spanish, I really loved it.
Right now I'm reading "Yo el Supremo" and I'm finding it incredibly complex. It has different narrative strands and I'm sometimes not entirely sure who is talking right now - a dictator slowly going senile or his scribe. Plus, the different narrative strands don't really have a solid structure, they just kind of meander along, so it's hard to understand what is going on and whether they're in the past, present... or wherever really. You see, it's all a bit crazy. I wonder whether I'll ever get through it.
I just checked on imdb.com and it turns out what I saw was the first episode of the TV series - but it's double-episode length and nowhere on the DVD cover did it give away that this was a series. ;)
I read a few of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books and enjoyed them too. They're perfect pleasure reading when you're not looking to think too much. There's also a film based on the first book, I watched it the other day and it was pleasant just the way the books are. It's out on DVD if you're interested.
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