Reading is not seasonal, although summer is essentially usually the most favorable season. “The summer months are still the best time to read around the world. However, in Spain there was also an increase in reading hours in January, in addition to July and August,” the Rakuten Kobo platform confirms in your 2021 report.
By the sea, at home or in a green space… the places and times to spend time on this essential activity are multiplying. At the same time, our desire to discover new stories and characters is triggered. Stories, poetry, theatre… it’s hard to choose and even more so with the avalanche of new weekly titles. In that sense, the classics are a great retreat. Like a caress in a moment of weakness, they clothe us with the memories they often carry with them.
Did you know? “The 10 best-selling books in Spain in 2021 are mystery stories, noir novels, historical fiction, romantic and erotic novels, although the genre that is most repeated is the noir novel, as seven of the ten best-selling books in our country belongs to this genre,” specifies Rakuten Kobo. Which titles promise to win this year? While waiting for the list of the most wanted books of 2022, we propose you to (re)discover this selection of 8 books that will allow you to travel and isolate yourself from everything. And remember, “There are few good books like good friends. The more select, the more fun.” Word from Louisa May Alcott.
Émilienne is a visual artist and photographer undertaking an ambitious project: photographing the perfect woman. She starts off with her neighbor Julie, but she turns out not to be as ideal as she seemed, so she decides to embark on a journey that will take her from Paris to Venice to follow several women. During the journey, love will also creep into his life. A fun contemporary comedy with feminist undertones.
Aside from being the super-famous actress, Elizabeth Taylor was considered by many to be one of the best British writers of the mid-20th century. This one ensemble novel, dissects relationships and feelings in an English seaside resort after the Second World WarIt is one of his jewels.
Frenchman Pierre Lemaitre, the new king of crime novels, now turns to a conspiracy of terrorism. the stars a young man who, after losing everything and with his mother in prison, spirals into attacks to get his release† A reading as addictive as the author’s previous works.
In the author’s new novel of The grandfather who jumped…† a mobster, a reverend atheist and the receptionist of a crappy hotel team up to set up a lucrative extortion business, taking advantage of the former’s skills. But all is in danger of being lost when he is overcome by a sudden faith in Jesus Christ.
Canada is an area little explored by the police, at least for Spanish readers. This novel is set in snow-covered Quebec, where: the corpse of an archaeologist appears in a historical archive of the city. Inspector Comeau must skip his recovery to get involved in an investigation that will uncover hidden secrets for centuries and that connect to the foundation of the city.
After the successful novel her daughter Milena Busquets dedicated to her, the shadow of Esther Tusquets extends after her death to this book by Eva Blanch, grim account of his relationships with the author and editor (they were sisters-in-law) and with his familya fundamental clan of the Catalan intellectual bourgeoisie.
Irene Handl was a British supporting actress who appeared in over a hundred films and numerous plays. In her sixties, she also wrote two novels about an aristocratic French family. This is one of them: The first portrait of the Benoirs, eccentric and snobs, a tribe so special they call themselves The Sioux, and who are shocked by two incorporations: that of the new husband – British to be exact – of the beautiful and debauched Mimi, and the ailing George, son of a previous marriage of these and heir to a vast fortune. A reading that will amaze fans of historical comedy, with a nice amoral twist.
The Terrible Beauty of Neurosurgeryentitled The New York Times Magazine the account in which Karl Ove Knausgard, a Norwegian writer who became the star of world literature, followed Henry Marsh on his journey to conduct a delicate operation in Albania. That title could perfectly describe what counts First of all don’t hurt, fundamental maxim of medicine and title of this kind of book of professional memoirs of the prestigious British neurosurgeon. The beauty of saving lives or saving human faculties burrowing into an organ as mysterious as the brain, and the fear of operations going wrong, as sometimes happens. An exciting book for all kinds of audience, but especially fans of series like House one of both Knicks†
Source: Marie Claire
