The Shadow of the Wind | 
Went to the Lion‘s Club Book Barn today. Used books for sale, open Fri-Sun only, and seasonal: From April to October. Here‘s my fiction haul! The SKs are really for younger son although I‘ll read them someday (maybe). Have all the Dark Towers now except VIII.
Tagged book is an upgrade from my PB copy 😊. Spine really looks like that, meant to look old.
An obvious choice for #Shadow #FallisBooked
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
The Shadow of the Wind has been on my to read list for a while. It seems like it will combine historical fiction with some mysterious happenings within the plot. I'm excited to read it in the future.
#Mysterious #FallIsBooked #TBR #HistoricalFiction #Mystery
@OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Very happily munching Bernstein‘s fresh bagel and schmear while finishing up this mystery for #histfic #book club tomorrow night!
#gothic #pdx #booksandsnacks #sundaymorning
pickThis was beautifully written, but a struggle for me to get through. I can‘t blame the book though, I have been in a reading slump most of this year. The first 2/3 of the book took me forever to get through, but then the last 1/3 got so exciting I couldn‘t stop reading. I wasn‘t thrilled with the ending, but as I said it was so beautifully written that overall it was a satisfying read.
#7days7covers #covercrush Day 5
I can't pick only one #Favoritebooks ❤
#7days7covers #covercrush Day 1
To play along all you have to do is post 7 covers for 7 days, no explanation needed.
You can also nominate others toy think would like to play as well.
Thank you for nominating me @DaveGreen7777 !!📚😘💙
Day 1 of #7days7covers #covercrush
@Naj thanks for the tag! 😊
@BookwormM would you like to play? Post a book cover you love each day for seven days, no explanations needed, and tag a new Litten each day.
pickThis is a Good book about books. Many people go on and on about this novel, and while I did like it, I‘d lose interest at times and have to go back and repeat sections. For the first half, it was difficult to keep the characters straight, but I finally became familiar with most of them. The novel is pretty good, though I probably won‘t continue with the series any time soon. Overall rating: 4.19 stars.
1) Shadow of the Wind
2) Anne of Green Gables
3) Ha! Countless books on my TBR
4) Women Wartime Spies. I actually didn't rate it, but it was fascinating.
5) @Heatherinterrupted @BookAndABrew @RavenclawPrincess913
pickI don't even have the words to describe this book. I am so happy I was able to find it at a used book sale, otherwise I probably never would have read it. Absolutely fantastic read. I'm adding the rest of the series to my tbr list now, as well. I'm happy I own this-- I am, without a doubt, going to re-read it in the future. 5 stars, for sure.
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.” ❤️❤️❤️
Surely hoping this is not sad! I can't read any more sad books this weekend. This has been on my want-to-reads list for ages, so I really hope I'll like it 🤞
Book haul #2
13 books for two dollars! Shadow of the Wind has been on my want-to-reads list for ages 👍😃📚
Just what I needed. ♥️
(That‘s my husband‘s ‘double-double‘, I just need the 🍩 and the book) 💃🏻
#idealsunday #cookingsucks #currentread
I was 40% in, of course The Shiroyasha (white demon) ate it from the bottom 💀The book in the story is hidden to be saved from being destroyed. If only I took a clue...
pickYou will forget everything around and continue reading all night long
1. Tagged, or anything by Jane Austen
2. Aladdin 🧞♂️
3. Cherries!!! 🍒
4. 9 first cousins.. lots of second cousins and can't even count third cousins!!!
5. 🖤🖤🖤
#Friyayintro @howjessreads
Saturday morning reading! Hank is wondering why my attention isn‘t on him!
so-so4 🌟. I'm glad I've read this but probably won't be reading the next book in the series. Thanks @ReadingRuby for sending me this - I should have loved it & be rushing to my Dad's shelves for the next one, but there's something preventing me from giving it 5 stars and I don't know what it is!
The bookmark is a purchase from Majorca!
#readinggifts2019 @Velvetfur
#seriesread @TheSpineView
How can I resist a book with such a wonderful beginning. I anticipate that this will be a joyful read.
Just arrived at my hotel and set up my book stack. Still feel like I should have brought more books with me on my holiday...
#currentlyreading #holiday #melbournevisit
One of the books that has been on my TBR the longest. Finally getting to the book that everyone else has read and so far I‘m really enjoying it.
Reading for the The Great Library prompt and for bookquest which involves reading through my unread shelves #bookjunkietrials #teambard #currentlyreading #bookquest
#JazzyJune The books in the Cemetary of Forgotten Books are #LostAndLonely because "every book, every volume you see here has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down his pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."
@Eggs
pickThe translation from Spanish holds the same mysterious and gripping prose of the original. The book takes you through the story of a family who have books woven through their lives. They must find the one book in “The cemetary of forgotten books” to help solve the mystery of their past. It is an amazing book!
When the books have finally started taking over every nook and cranny of our house. Even above other small bookshelves filled to the brim. Luckily, there are always small orchids and scented candles to keep them in check. 📚📚
Found this gem at the library and so far, I‘m in love!! Definitely going to be purchasing this and the others in the series. Have any of you read this and/or the others?
Easy to fall in love with the universe Zafon created and I'm sure I'm not the only one who wishes to be able to visit the Cemetery of the lost books. The drawing was done by a friend inspired by the book. It all done in ✏️.
#wanderingjune #imaginaryplaces
@Cinfhen @BarbaraBB
pickI LOVED this book when I read the physical copy. I just did a re-read but as an audio this time and didn‘t enjoy it as much. I don‘t think the audio was done very well and it did the one thing that grates on my nerves more than anything - play obnoxiously loud music while the author is narrating and continue for several loooooong minutes. Does that annoy the heck out of anyone else? I‘m here for the story, not obnoxious elevator music!
Today‘s #labsoundtrack is a series I never finished - so I‘m going back to the original to catch up.
No plans? No problem! ✅
pickRe-read for the first time in a decade and it is just as stunning the second time through. Beautiful story about the power of literature, love, and truth in wartime and beyond. Excited to do the walking tour of Barcelona when we visit next month!
pickI love books about books, but this one is epic, with epic being defined as long. It‘s not for the faint of heart with over 565 pages. The story was compelling... https://www.bluestockingreviews.com/blog/the-shadow-of-the-wind
After this, I can go read a fiction book about a fictitious book! 😜
How could I not start off with an incredible series that we have waited so long to complete!
After reading Labyrinth, I had to go back and read them all over again!
#firstpost #cemeteryofforgottenbooks #CarlosRuizZafon #Barcelona #MagicalRealism
‘...a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind...‘
- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafrón
#ShelfLove This is the left hand stack in my #MountTBRStacksOfDoom Yhis one has a few 1st or 2nd books in a series like Red Rising, Nevermoor, Muse Of Nightmares & A Bad Deal For The Whole Galaxy. The two at the bottom that‘s difficult to see are A Is For Arsenic-Kathryn Harkup & That Inevitable Victorian Thing-EK Johnston. Which ones have you 1. Read 2. Currently reading or 3. Plan on reading?🤓
