false <![CDATA[Der Schatten des Windes = The Shadow of the Wind]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179651858m/942188.jpg 1232 86 Barcelona, 1945—A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax’s other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book the man has ever written. Soon the boy realizes that The Shadow of the Wind is as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget, for the mystery of its author’s identity holds the key to an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love that someone will go to any lengths to keep secret. 3209783 book 2001 La Sombra del Viento total:19668|5:9030|4:6752|3:2891|2:734|1:261| 19668 82560 27747 4280 5 43 false false Thu Jan 29 15:34:10 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 17 13:18:54 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 29 15:34:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 19 false false Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 11:49:09 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 17:14:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 18 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 20:15:52 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 22:57:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 12 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 12:05:56 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 11:43:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 22 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jan 05 10:06:51 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 10:07:14 -0800 2009
The best thing about...more...]]> 5 12 false false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 19:32:23 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 23:30:27 -0700 2008 1. I was going to love this book.
2. I needed a whole pad of post-its to mark quotes.
3. I wanted to read this in Spanish for the rich poetry the language would add.

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My main complaint is the portrayal of females, especially the supposed 'main characters'. They seem to be the same femme fatale in differen...more...]]> 5 5 false false Fri Oct 05 00:14:04 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 21:11:05 -0700 2007 Blindness. A must read for bibliophiles and a pretty good mystery, if you like that sort of thing. Below is my booktalk for this one, also from library school.

The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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"The time is the 1950s; the place, Barcelona. Daniel Sempere, the son of a widowed bookstore owner, is 10 when he discovers a novel, The Sha...more...]]> 2 8 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 10:38:24 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 06:14:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false false Wed Feb 27 11:40:01 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 04:35:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 14:34:08 -0700 2008 Sat May 02 19:08:23 -0700 2009 1, having to backtrack once when I nodded off during the audio
Wow. A must-read for book lovers, all the way to the Dramatis Personae at the end. Sumptuous prose and melodrama, a full cavalcade of carefully wroug...more...]]> 5 7 false false Sat Jul 05 05:02:20 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 05:02:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 08 06:04:01 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 21 08:28:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Jan 29 15:48:16 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 15:49:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jul 10 13:16:50 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 17:54:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 8 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 09:26:08 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 18:48:21 -0700 2009 The Shadow of the Wind is that it tricked me into believing it was a great book by being so freaking fun. It is only now, after a month or so has passed since my reading, that I realize that No, The Shadow of the Wind was not a great book.

But it was freaking fun.

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