Have any of you read
El Beso de la Mujer Araña ? For a book in Spanish which encima es Argentino, es muy bueno. And since it's mostly dialogue, it's pretty easy Spanish (the "footnote" story is a bit more difficult, but it's good. I think of that story -lots-).
Also, I really enjoy Fontanarrosa, he's from Rosario and his stories are...interesting. Make sure and have a pencil and paper nearby to jot down all the new vocabulario to consult an Argentine later (you won't find them on wordreference). I learned soooo many lunfardo (Rosarino? I don't think they're especially words from Rosario, but maybe) words from that book. I recommend
El Rey de la Milonga, a collection of short stories.
I also enjoyed the Claudia Pineiro book-now-movie
Las Viudas de los Jueves. It's really short but interesting, a somewhat intimate look at the life in a Country (gated community), a bit about why people started moving out there in droves in the first place, the expenses people pay, the pressures to keep up with your neighbors---it was fun. I haven't read her new book, has anyone else? I'll probably pick it up eventually.
For books in English, a few of the books I have read recently and enjoyed:
Ready Player One, I audiobooked this one and I really, really enjoyed it. Unexpected, a lot of fun, really interesting, fun. I also audiobooked
The Paris Wife, the 'memoir' of Ernest Hemingway's first wife and their first years in Paris. Loved that one, it was so interesting, and it reminded me a lot of the expat community here in BA---after WWI artists of all types (namely people who could work from anywhere, which in that day was mostly only artists) moved to France because it was cheap and the US dollar could go further. They created communities and enjoyed a better life than they could have in the US (let's not debate real "quality of life" here, please...). I enjoyed it, and I think it was great as an audiobook, I could imagine the narrator as "Hadley" herself.
I also recently read
The Four Agreements. I really enjoyed it, I found it meaningful. It's not a novel... it's a pamphlet more than a book, and it's available in Spanish as written by the author (he's from Mexico, lives in the US),
Los Cuatro Acuerdos, which you can find here easily.
I'll leave it there for now, but I have lots of favorite books originally written in Spanish and English, I'll try and post as titles comes to me...
