Why don’t you start reading in Spanish?
Rosa
As Monday was Sant Jordi and thousands of books and roses were sold in Barcelona, I thought it could be a good idea to recommend you to read, in Spanish of course!!!, two very good books that are very popular and read in Spain.
In the first place a beautiful book based in Barcelona, La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Based in the Barcelona of 1945, Semper, the owner of a library in the center of the city, takes his son one morning to the “cemetery of the forgotten books” a place where people take old books in order to be preserved from destruction. Daniel, his son, feels attracted to a book called La sombra del viento… Next day many people wants to get this book… I really love this book, once you start reading it, you can not stop because you want to know the end. The way it is written it is so real, that you really feel inside the story and I promise you, the end will surprise you.
Another good book based in Barcelona is La Catedral del Mar by Idelfonso Falcones. 
Based this time on the Barcelona of the XIV century, when the city lived a time of big prosperity. You will experience two parallel stories here, the construction of the cathedral of Santa María del Mar, in the Borne, and the story of Arnau, a peasant that scapes from the countryside to become a free citizen in the city of Barcelona. An exciting life that will take him from misery to richness which will provoke the envy from people taking him to the hands of the Inquisition. A fascinating book that you will really enjoy reading taking you to the Gothic quarters of Barcelona.
I hope you have a try reading in Spanish!!! It will be difficult at the begining, I know at first you will feel a bit frustrated and will want to understand all the words and spend a long time looking in the dictionary. I recommend that you try to keep reading along and after a while you will see how the reading becomes easier and easier..
Enjoy the reading!!!
