A few books I've enjoyed

I have family in town, and unlike the stereotypical disaster that proposition holds for some, I love having them here.  This is because they are not only good people and extremely funny, but because they are readers.  A few days ago I was asked what books and authors I've really enjoyed lately.  Here is my response:

Some favorites

Poetry

Songbook by Umberto Saba

Canti by Leopardi

Love poems by Pablo Neruda

Fiction

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante

The Maias by Eça de Quieros

Club of Angels by Luis Fernando Verissimo

Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin

Ways of going home by Alejandro Zambra

My Struggle [vol.1] by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Nada by Carmen Laforet

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 

Piano Stories by Felisberto Hernandez

The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño 

All Souls by Javier Marías

Other:

The consolations of philosophy by Alain de Botton

The architecture of happiness by Alain de Botton

A time of gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Between the woods and the water by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Danube by Claudio Magris

The story of art by E. H. Gombrich

Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano

An intimate history of humanity by Theodore Zeldin

The art of happiness by Epicurus 

Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-exupéry

Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah

The art of travel by Alain de Botton

Back in the saddle.

In the last five months, I have been battling cancer and neglecting this blog.  The cancer remains and I keep fighting, but I think it is time for me to start blogging again.  Out time is finite, and I can think of very few things I would rather do thank be with my family and talk about literature here with friends.

Posts are coming.  Cheers to all.