Restart...

I'm restarting cooking. OK, well I cook every day but I haven't learnt anything new in what seems and age. Same styles, same dishes. So, today I went and got a book on fast, but diverse receipies. I like this book because it provides some good basic ideas which you can take and adapt. I also got a new book to read and came back armed with a bunch of ideas for Fhai's business.....

The Shadow of the Wind

It’s unusual to pickup a book and sense that it’s a classic. Even more so when that book hasn’t been out long, but with this book you do get that feeling.

Zafon has managed to mix suspense with romance, gothic with thriller. He is a great storywriter and has the ability to keep the reader wanting to turn the page with every twist of the plot. The characters are well drawn and all set against the city of Barcelona through which they move and from which some try to escape.

Altogether a very enjoyable read.

The Shadow of the Wind

Times Online - Travel

“In the same way as The Da Vinci Code, Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s complex thriller The Shadow of the Wind has proved a runaway, word-of-mouth success across Europe. In Zafón’s native Barcelona, you are the odd one out if you haven’t read it.”

“The story is about a boy who sets out to discover the truth behind the strange past of an obscure writer. But its success is due partly to the way it evokes the Gothic gloom of post-civil-war Barcelona.”

Sounds a good read, you can get it from Amazon as well.