Vacation Time Again!

[papayahed]

Help me Obi Wans, you're my only hope.

This year I'm going to Spain,specifically Granada, Seville, and Ronda. Any suggestions for reading material?

I'm looking for something fun and easy and/or something about the area or set in the area, No Don Quixote.

[Helga]

Laura and Julio is so good by juan jose millán, a very simple and a good read. a bit more serious but a great book is nada by carmen laforet, mist by unamuno is a bit like nausea by sartre but older and its a fantastic book where the main character visits the author. then of course there is everything by lorca.... I took a course last year about literature in Spain and these were in my opinion the best books I read. Then again you can of course never go wrong with hemingway.

[Whosis]

You can't go wrong with The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. I greatly enjoyed that book, and it's a classic.

[papayahed]

Laura and Julio is so good by juan jose millán, a very simple and a good read. a bit more serious but a great book is nada by carmen laforet, mist by unamuno is a bit like nausea by sartre but older and its a fantastic book where the main character visits the author. then of course there is everything by lorca.... I took a course last year about literature in Spain and these were in my opinion the best books I read. Then again you can of course never go wrong with hemingway.

Thanks! I ordered Nada by Carmen Laforet and Mist by Unamuno.


You can't go wrong with The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. I greatly enjoyed that book, and it's a classic.


I read it last November, and really liked it.

[Helga]

let me know what you think of them.

[Ecurb]

When I was in Spain two years ago, I brought James Michener"s "Iberia" and Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon" with me. They're both excellent.

Both are non-fiction -- "Death" is Hemmingway's non-fiction bullfighting book. "Iberia" has chapters on different Spanish regions. I also read “The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain” by Maria Rosa Menocal, a Yale Professor of the Humanities. Menocal had (she died young a year or two back) a particular interest in medieval literature, and how the romantic literature of the Christian high Middle ages was influenced by Muslim romantic poetry and story telling.

I highly recommend all three books.

[Snowqueen]

How about Catalina by Somerset Maugham?

[Pensive]

Yippie today was my last day at work and once I get my salary should be able to travel around a bit in Europe.
When I had ideas, I had no money.
Now when I will have some money, am lacking on ideas where to go to! :D
About the book recommendation, don't really know. I rather enjoy short stories of all kinds during traveling. Or children books. Or fairytales.

[Paulclem]

Hi Papaya. My son and I are going to Seville on the 4th of August for a week this year if you are about at that time.

[papayahed]

I have Dogs of God, Mist, and Nada.

I've started with Dogs of God which is about Ferdinand and Isabella, the Inquisition, The Moors, and Christopher Columbus.