The First Book

“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.” 

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.

No one saw us this evening hand in hand

while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window

the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.

Sometimes a piece of sun

burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched

in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?

Who else was there?

Saying what?

Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly

when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight

and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings

toward the twilight erasing statues. 

Pablo Neruda

The place you were always meant to be

“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.”

Every Day by David Levithan

Book of the Week

 I read this book a long time ago. I've always loved Christian mythology, angels and demons. I think these are topics where you can explote a lot and, well treated, you can write really good stories. So, obviously, when I saw this book, I couldn't resist.
It's well written, realistically. When you write about supernatural topics, especially about angels, it's so easy to fall into the ridiculous. You have to be careful. Coherence is essential when you write any story, especiallly supernatural stories. Coherence gives credibility.
You never get the feeling that it's too fanciful or that lacks logic, and that's a big plus with these stories.

“Angel and devil,” he said. “One is but a shade of the other.” 

The story follows a nun in New York who unwittingly reignites an ancient war between Angelologists, a group who study angels, and a race of descendants of angels and humans called the Nephilim. The story blends ancient biblical pericopes, the myth of Orpheus, and the fall of rebel angels.