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At the very beginning of The Fault in Our Stars, the protagonist, Hazel Grace, makes a metalinguistic comment about her favorite novel: “it’s not a cancer book, because cancer books suck”. John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars indeed is not a book on cancer. It is a romance populated by characters who must face the prospect of death every day. The difference between genres is simple: instead of being dominated by melancholy, the story is primarily touching.
Hazel Grace is a girl with thyroid cancer who during one of her support group meetings encounters a boy who doesn’t hesitate to invite her to watch a movie at his home on the very same day. His name is Augustus [...]
If it is said that a reader lives a thousand lives before they die, how about an author? Telling the life story of Julian Carax, a mysterious writer, and that of Daniel Sempere, the 11 years old boy who picks, from the labyrinthine shelves of a forgotten library exactly the last book written by Carax, The Shadow of the Wind is a book about the art of reading and writing.
When Daniel Sempere is led by his father to an enigmatic place in the historical heart of Barcelona, called “The Cemetery of Forgotten Books”, he has the difficult task of deciding, of the thousands of lost volumes before him, which would be the [...]