wordy1 writes “Heard the Spanish novel _Shadow of the Wind_ by Carlos Ruiz Zafón mentioned as a good Summer read on NPR’s Morning Edition on Monday. Among other places in post WWII Barcelona, the book takes young Daniel, the son of a book dealer, to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. For a full summary of the book, read here“
NPR has been running a few books stories lately, see also Alan Cheuse’s 2004 Summer Reading List, An Independent View of Summer Reading, and the NPR Summer Books 2004 section collects several stories in one place. Now if I can just find my comfy chair.
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