this month's book selection

I was intrigued with the description of this book on the back cover, and selected it for my book club this time around. It started out slowly for me, but I ended up enjoying it greatly and rereading parts, as well as listening to the audio version when I commute to work. A different style, quite melodramatic, and set in a different time and place than books I usually read. Check it out if you need something new to read.

from the Chapters Indigo website "Barcelona, 1945. A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called "The Shadow of the Wind," by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax''s other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book the man has ever written. Soon the boy realizes that "The Shadow of the Wind" is as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget, for the mystery of its author''s identity holds the key to an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love that someone will go to any lengths to keep secret".